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The marketplace for unlisted companies, private capital investors, service providers and business enablers.

Our mission is to create a digital marketplace where all participants can find new business partners, customers, suppliers, investors to grow their business more successfully.

Goldilocks Suit Pty. Ltd.

Dec 12, 2024
The Goldilocks app gives you personalised insights and alerts to help optimise your well-being.

Veracity Trust Network (VTN)

Nov 18, 2024
Providing cyber security and enhancing ad spend by eliminating the bots.

NanoSwab & testing for HPV in males

Aug 1, 2024
We are speaking with Dr. Francois Fong, who is the Founder and CEO of the Neo-Health Group (NHG) in Hong Kong, a holistic health provider and also a world leading specialist in the area of sexually transmitted diseases.

Understanding Financial Markets Operations

Jul 4, 2024
Banking and payments; What is a security? Some key concepts; What is the trade life cycle? Front, middle & back offices; Other key players in the industry; Fintechs & one-stop shopping; Regulation, oversight, compliance and enforcement; The wild, wild world of Crypto

Hong Kong HealthTech Session 2

Jun 27, 2024
Public versus private healthcare systems.

Overview & recent history of financial markets

Jun 20, 2024
Finance – the universal industry; The four pillars of industry structure; Customer segments; Regulation and globalization; Technology and recent history; New pillars: private capital & wealth management; Money vs. crypto currencies; Expansion, cycles and consolidation

HK HealthTech S1 - What Makes the Healthcare Market Different?

Jun 13, 2024
Are you a Founder or involved in a Healthtech start-up or a SaaS start-up targeting the healthcare industry? If ‘yes’, consider watching the videos of our 2024 cohort HealthTech sessions run by the Hong Kong ASEAN chapter. 

Jacey Paik talks about Family Offices

May 14, 2024
Founders of early-stage companies are generally aware about Venture Capital firms and Angel investors. However, the family office segment is less known but still plays an important role in funding start-ups. Jacey is Executive Vice Chairman of the Association of Family Offices in Asia and gives us her insights about Family Offices and their investment strategies.

Pitch Your Ideas to Asian Investors and Experts – Ilya Mikin, Founder of Wall ID

May 14, 2024
On Tuesday 14 May at 19.00 Hong Kong time, we had three early-stage companies that are actually in the process of raising funds and pitching to our Judges for feedback. There is no one ‘right way’ to pitch, all judges are different. But experience in pitching is invaluable for any Founder that needs to raise capital.

Pitch Your Ideas to Asian Investors and Experts – Peter Greshnov, Board Member of RIDY

May 14, 2024
On Tuesday 14 May at 19.00 Hong Kong time, we had three early-stage companies that are actually in the process of raising funds and pitching to our Judges for feedback. There is no one ‘right way’ to pitch, all judges are different. But experience in pitching is invaluable for any Founder that needs to raise capital.

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If you have thought of operating a business in Asia, or already have one, then do not hesitate to contact us to see how we might be able to help you set up, raise private capital, and manage your company’s local administration.

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Benny Cao, CFA

Manager, Investment Management

benny.cao@seiml.com
  • MSc International Securities, Investment & Banking (MSc ISIB), University of Reading
  • Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics, Meiji University
  • Chartered Financial Analysis (CFA)

Benny has worked in the financial markets of China with an emphasis on fixed income, currency and asset-liability management.  He is currently Vice President of Longly Capital, a medium-sized, Ningbo-based private fund management company. The firm’s strategies include various types of fixed income portfolio management and convertible bond portfolio management. In addition, Benny offers financial investment services to professional investors such as Fund of Funds (FoF) of securities companies, enterprise investors and high net worth (HNW) individuals.

Benny has also been active on the commercial side of the securities business managing client business development strategies, marketing programmes and roadshows and developing and delivering financial markets training programmes for small and medium-sized banks and other financial institutions.

Benny is fluent in Mandarin, English and Japanese.

Jina Zhu, CFA Institute, Investment Foundations

Manager, Corporate Relations

jina.zhu@seiml.com
  • Auvergne University, France | Master of Economy
  • University of Lyon 2, France | Bachelor, French Language
  • Zhejiang Science & Technology University | Bachelor, International Trade and Economy
  • CFA Institute, Investment Foundations

Since returning from graduate studies in France to China in spring of 2014, Jina has been continually working in the field of e-commerce and its applications to the financial, entertainment and automotive industries. She is a multi-functional talent and fluent in Mandarin, English and French.

Jina is SEIML’s key relationship manager between foreign clients and the Chinese administrative authorities and has held many responsibilities dealing with international companies and executives operating in China.  As a result, she manages all of the company’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) activities with clients

With her graduate degree in economics and completion of the Investment Foundations certificate from CFA Institute, she has the knowledge to assist foreign companies in China market research, including reviews of potential customers, suppliers or other third parties.  She is also quite savvy in the use of Chinese social media.

Jina is fluent in Mandarin, English and French.

John D. Evans, CFA

Founder & Director

john.evans@seiml.com
  • Master of International Public Policy (MIPP), School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
  • Master of Business Administration (MBA), Dean’s List, University of Toronto
  • Honours BA, University of Toronto
  • Chartered Financial Analyst, (CFA)
  • Fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers (FICB)
  • Canadian Securities Officers and Directors Exam

John spent the first 24 years of his career in investment banking, first in Toronto, briefly in New York and then London.  He was involved in DCM, ECM and strategic investment advisory to large funds in EMEA.

In 2004 he moved into academia and designed and ran MSc programs in investment management at universities in the UK and China. He also created and managed one of the larger financial professional training organizations in Europe while at the UK university (that was a JV partner in the training firm).

In 2016, John returned to industry to work with start-ups and various platforms and eco systems to support these early and middle stage companies. Initially he pursued this venture in the Shanghai region but then moved to Hong Kong in 2024 to build SEIML’s footprint in Southeast Asia. John is also a Director of the Hong Kong Founder Institute (FI) eco system and Program Director for the FI ASEAN Fintech accelerator.