Matilda Tan
Managing Director and Founding Partner
Ms. Tan is a banking executive with over 30 years of experience spanning corporate finance, capital markets, venture capital, and asset management. She has held senior banking positions with leading international institutions, including Nikko Merchant Bank (Singapore), Salomon Brothers (Hong Kong), and N M Rothschild & Sons (Jakarta and Singapore).
As Founding Partner of Genesis Strategic Capital Pte. Ltd., she provides strategic leadership across the firm’s business development, governance, and long-term growth. She has been instrumental in establishing and growing the firm’s investment platform, fostering institutional partnerships, and expanding its fund management capabilities.
She was also a founding director of Aventures 1 Pte. Ltd., an early-stage venture capital fund backed by TIF Ventures, the venture investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), and ASEAN Finance Corporation (AFC Merchant Bank). The fund successfully invested in the growth of emerging companies in China and the region.
In addition, Ms. Tan served on the Investment Committee of a healthcare-focused private equity fund backed by Shanghai-listed Jiuzhou Pharmaceutical, contributing to the evaluation and oversight of investment opportunities. Throughout her career, she has built extensive expertise advising corporations, financial institutions, and investors across Asia on capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, investment management, and strategic business development.
Ms. Tan holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of San Francisco, USA, and an MBA from IMD Business School, Lausanne, Switzerland.
