MEET THE TEAM

As Group Chief Corporate Officer, Loh Niap Juan (Niap) is responsible for developing and executing Tsao Pao Chee’s (TPC) corporate, business, investment and organisational strategies, and steering the evolution of its business model to serve the rise of the well-being economy.

Since joining TPC in 2019, Niap has accelerated its transformation by adding value to and positively impacting the Group’s businesses and investment portfolios. He has also played a pivotal role in enhancing TPC’s governance and performance frameworks, and building its organisational culture.

Niap has over 25 years of experience as a finance and investment professional, including more than a decade as a C-suite executive in government-linked companies, privately-owned family businesses and multinational companies.

Prior to joining TPC, Niap was Executive Vice President and Head of Finance at Fullerton Financial Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek. He started his career at Deloitte & Touche in the Audit department in London.

Niap serves on the boards of numerous TPC portfolio companies, including several publicly listed entities, and is Chairman of OCTAVE Capital.

He graduated with a First Class honours degree in Accountancy from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, and is a qualified Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW).

Hareesh Nair is the Chief Investment Officer of TPC, overseeing the group’s financial resources towards building an investment management business enabling the well-being mandate established by Chairman Chavalit Frederick Tsao.

Hareesh has over 20 years of experience in both investment management and operations leadership, developed across Asia and the United States within large multinationals, family businesses, investment conglomerates and private equity.

As an investor, Hareesh expanded Fosun International’s Healthcare Holdings across Asia, and prior was on the founding team of Quadria Capital, a leading Asian healthcare private equity group originally anchored by TPC and Medtronic. Hareesh started his investment career at Medtronic’s Corporate Development team, responsible for both M&A and growth stage investments. As a business operator, Hareesh served the board of SOHO Global Health, a prominent Indonesian family-owned, private-equity backed pharmaceutical group, leading to its IPO on JKSE. As COO of Engine Biosciences, Hareesh led the biotech’s expansion within the US, and started his career at Becton Dickinson and Gilead in engineering and finance roles, respectively.

Hareesh earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an MBA from The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.

As Chief, People & Organisation, Sherin Goh is responsible for driving the organisation’s Management Model in alignment with the Well-being Mandate over TPC’s diverse portfolio of businesses covering shipping & logistics, shipyards, ports, resources, real estate, investment management and lifestyle industries across the globe. This includes designing, developing and implementing policies, projects, programmes and initiatives to transform culture and develop stewards within the organisation. At the same time, she works closely with all business leaders to ensure HR-related governance. In her secondary role as Senior Consultant and Coach, she collaborates with the OCTAVE Institute business arm to serve the Organisational Development needs for TPC.

Prior to joining TPC, Sherin was the Regional HR Director for Asia at International SOS, where she owned and drove all HR programmes, processes and requirements for the region. She was also a member of the Asia Region Executive Committee. Under her leadership, the Asia-region HR teams won 10 external HR Awards and was also lauded for instituting best practices in talent management within the organisation.

Sherin has been with TPC since 2004. During this time, she held both human resource management and development roles, and was responsible for driving HR programmes aimed at attracting, engaging, developing and retaining talents to enable the delivery of business strategy and growth.

Sherin graduated with an honours degree in Law from the National University of Singapore and started her career as a practising lawyer before joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore as a Foreign Service Officer. She holds a Masters in Consulting and Coaching for Change from INSEAD, a post-graduate diploma in HRM from SIM, and is also certified to administer and provide feedback on MBTI, Firo-B, DISC, Enneagram, Emergenetics, Bar-on EQ-I and WAVE.

As Chief Strategy Officer of Tsao Pao Chee (TPC), James oversees strategy, M&A, and investments for the Group. His responsibilities include managing TPC’s real estate portfolio, which spans industrial, commercial, and hospitality assets in Asia; leading IMC Ventures, the corporate venture arm of IMC Industrial Group; and spearheading the OCTAVE Well-being Economy Fund, OCTAVE Group’s impact-focused investment arm.

Prior to joining TPC, James was with YCH Group, where he helmed YCH’s joint ventures and M&As across the group. He also managed its 15 logistic assets across 7 countries. James was furthermore the Founding Partner of Supply Chain Angels, YCH’s Corporate Venture Capital vehicle which partners with SG Innovate and National Research Foundation.

James has over 23 years of experience across various fields, including private banking, private equity, and investment banking in institutions like DBS Bank, OCBC Bank, Oppenheimer Investments, and Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services.

While at Oppenheimer Investments, James was the Head of Asia for 5 years and was instrumental in starting and growing the business for the group in Asia. He has successfully closed Project Finance deals in excess of USD500 million across various industries like infrastructure, consumer goods, and real estate. In addition, James also ran a family office which invested in healthcare, consumer goods, aged care, engineering, renewable energy, and childcare.

James graduated with a master’s in Business Administration from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and holds a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Accounting and Corporate Finance, from the University of Western Australia.

James is a Certified Public Accountant (Australia). He also sits on the Board of Management of SPD (formally known as Society for the Physically Disabled) and has served as an independent director of a listed entity.

Bruno Lorenzon is the Head of Group Business Planning and Review at Tsao Pao Chee (TPC). Reporting to the Chief Stewardship and Well-being Governance Officer, Bruno is responsible for driving the organisation’s strategic planning, business models and performance evaluations. He also plays a pivotal role in driving growth and innovation for TPC by advising on capital allocation and investment decisions.

Bruno has over two decades of experience in investments, strategy, and finance across diverse industries such as natural resources, funds management, industrial supply chain, real estate, and wellness. He joined TPC in 2008 as a senior investment manager for Heritas Capital Management in Australia, before going on to a number of senior investment and finance roles across the Group, and has worked closely with TPC’s senior leadership since his arrival. He sits on multiple boards across TPC’s portfolio companies, including publicly listed entities.

Prior to TPC, Bruno worked for Vale in Brazil, and subsequently Rio Tinto in Australia. In these roles, he was instrumental in shaping strategy, orchestrating investments, and driving mergers and acquisitions.

A Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder, Bruno holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Espírito Santo, and a Master of Science degree in Business Administration from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

Tai Sook Yee (Sook Yee) has held various senior positions in TPC (Tsao Pao Chee, previously IMCPAA Group) since 2007. She was the Head of Chairman’s Office and Head of Group Strategies & Investments. In these capacities, she oversaw the alignment of strategies and investments, as well as governance, finance, treasury and IMC’s liquid and direct investments portfolio. Sook Yee was also the Group Managing Director of IMC Industrial Group, and spearheaded the key organizational strategy of translating the mission of building TPC as a sustainable business. She is now an Advisory Council member of OCTAVE Institute and has designed learning pathways for business leadership.

Sook Yee has more than 35 years of experience in corporate and business leadership, including serving as director on Australian-listed entities. Prior to TPC, Sook Yee held various senior management positions in the heavy building materials industry. She is also well-versed in the areas of governance and investments. Currently, she serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director on listed entities.