Melissa Kang

CEO at Enyorra

Speaker

Melissa is the Founder and Managing Partner of JI Capital Partners, a licensed private equity fund management company headquartered in Singapore, that focuses primarily on sustainability and impact investing in Southeast Asia. JI Capital Partners’ core impact thesis emphasizes on supporting entrepreneurs who are driving for climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as improvement in resource efficiency. Notably JI Capital Partners has been qualified as a 2X investor under the Global 2X Challenge initiative. Previously, Melissa was a founding member and portfolio manager of Integro, a global impact fund at Morgan Stanley. Before that, Melissa was principal investment officer and regional lead at IFC, where she was responsible for new investment and oversaw US$1 billion of portfolio with 50 partnerships in 15 countries across east Asia Pacific. In addition, Melissa was the global lead for gender investment at IFC Global Funds team. Melissa had also held senior investment roles at ING and 3i. Melissa graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree (major in Economics and Political Science) from the National University of Singapore and a Master of Applied Finance from the University of Adelaide, Australia. Melissa was also a participant at Insead YMP 2000. Melissa enjoys reading, cooking, investing, entrepreneurship and spending time with her beloved family.