Nigel Jones | Managing Director
Nigel has a 35-year investment banking record with close to 30 years in Asia. He was trained in London but has spent half of his career in Asia with assignments in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. As the former head of Morgan Stanley’s South Asia M&A and advisory group, he was responsible for building one of the region’s most successful advisory teams. Prior to this, Nigel was the head of Schroders M&A team in Japan. He has advised on many regional acquisitions, sales and joint ventures, as well as a significant portion of the major deals and privatisations in Singapore. Nigel has completed a number of capital markets and cross border M&A and listed company transactions in most countries across Asia.
E: njones@alphaadvisory.com
Linda Wu | Senior Manager
Linda was the former M&A Manager at Cognita, the global education group backed by private equity. Her 8 years at Cognita gave her a wide range of experience in executing the full deal cycle of strategic acquisitions, expansion of projects including leading the due diligence process and formulating business plans. In addition to this, she developed an in-depth understanding of working with the private equity investors. Prior to this, she gained experience in the alternative investment sector from her time with Hermes GPE and Liberum Capital. Linda is a CFA charter-holder and has a Master’s Degree in Accounting and Finance from London School of Economics, UK. She is fluent in English and speaks native Mandarin.
E: lwu@alphaadvisory.com
Paul Sempere | Senior Adviser
Paul was the former director and regional head of infrastructure finance (Asia), global markets division, Deutsche Bank, Singapore. He spearheaded projects and leveraged finance assignments throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Previously, Paul was with the project and structured finance group of ANZ Investment Bank, London and Singapore, where he headed a team of project finance professionals focused on similar sectors in Asia. Prior to this, he was the vice president and head of infrastructure finance at Kidder Peabody London and the corporate finance division and leveraged finance group of County NatWest London. Paul holds an MBA in banking and finance from the Lubin Graduate School of Business, Pace University in New York.
David Lewnes | Senior Adviser
As the healthcare director, David is intimately involved with all healthcare related clients; he adds value through the application of knowledge and experience gained from over 27 years in the healthcare industry, 21 of which were in Asia. He was previously the president of Publicis Healthcare Communications Group, with responsibility throughout the Asia-Pacific region for Medicus, Saatchi & Saatchi Healthcare and Discovery Medical Education. David has worked with most of the world’s top 20 pharmaceutical companies and major manufacturers of medical equipment and devices.
Ong Kian Min | Senior Adviser
Kian Min is an advocate and solicitor practising as a consultant with Drew & Napier LLC. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1988 and to the Singapore Bar the following year. In the course of his 18 years practice, his main areas of practice have been corporate and commercial law, such as, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, IPOs, divestments, restructuring and corporate finance. He is also an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of several public companies listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. He was awarded the President’s Scholarship and Singapore Police Force Scholarship in 1979 and holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) external degree from the University of London and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree from the Imperial College of Science & Technology in England. Kian Min also served as an elected member of parliament of Singapore for the period 1997 - 2011.