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Our Team

Stephen Hunt

Co-Founder, CEO and Board Director

Gavin Tan

Co-Founder, Board Director

Heinrich Jessen

Co-Founder

the aglaia team

A team to achieve success

At Aglaia, we understand the importance of having a talented and experienced team to achieve success in the competitive investment industry. Our investment team consists of 12 professionals who have previously worked at renowned financial institutions such as GIC, UOB, DBS, Goldman Sachs, Temasek, Eastspring, CLSA, and Nomura. Their diverse experiences and backgrounds bring unique insights and expertise to our investment strategies.

Our General Counsel and Junior Counsel manage client corporate and legal affairs, as well as perform due diligence on investment structures and agreements.

Our investment team is supported by 6 back office professionals and 5 assistant relationship managers. The back office team ensure that our operations, trading and reporting run smoothly and efficiently, while our assistant relationship managers assist in maintaining strong relationships with our clients.

Stephen Hunt

Co-Founder, CEO and Board Director

Stephen Hunt, is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Aglaia Family Office. Aglaia Family Office advises a collection of 35 families in a bespoke manner. He has more than 30 years of experience in global markets.

Stephen chairs the investment committee and manages the client facing functions for the business. Prior to founding the company, Steve ran local, regional and global equity teams for the Asian businesses at Credit Lyonnais Securities, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and Nomura Securities and on the buy side as an investment analyst at the Equitable Life Assurance Society where he became a charter member of the Association of Investment Management and Research (now CFA).

Gavin Tan

Co-Founder, Board Director

Gavin Tan, Co-Founder, is Partner and Chief Operating Officer. He was part of the founding team in 2006 and has more than 25 years of experience in institutional sales and research in Asian ex-Japan equities. Gavin runs the day-to- day operations of Aglaia and advises families on structuring and legal issues. Prior to founding the company, Gavin developed institutional equities product and distribution for Peregrine Securities, Credit Lyonnais Securities and Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. He then headed the Singapore and Malaysian institutional sales team at Nomura Securities for 7 years.

Gavin holds a Bachelor of Laws from Bristol University.

Heinrich Jessen

Co-Founder

Heinrich Jessen started his career as a tropical biologist before joining the family enterprise in 1995. In Jebsen & Jessen, he has worked as group director – environment, health & safety, general manager of two of the group’s packaging companies and regional managing director of its material handling joint-venture MHE-Demag. He has been chairman of Jebsen & Jessen’s executive board since 2010. He is also partner and director in the four other independent business groups that together make up the Jebsen & Jessen Family Enterprise.

Heinrich is a member of the Eastern Asia Review Commission of Air Liquide International and an Advisor to the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. He is also a member of the Yale University President’s Council on International Activities and a member of both the Steering Committee and the Dean’s Leadership Council of the Yale School of the Environment. He is Past Chairman of the Young President’s Organization Intercontinental Chapter and has previously served on the boards of the Singapore National Employers Federation, the United World College of South East Asia, the Parkinson’s Disease Society of Singapore and the Singapore Environment Council. He was awarded Singapore Businessman of the Year in 2016.

Mr Jessen earned a B.Sc. from George Washington University and an M.E.M. from Yale University.