Jill Lee

Jill Lee is a board member of 65 Equity Partners, and a member of the Investment Committees.


Jill is a Non-executive Director of Schneider Electric SE and PSA International Pte Ltd, and a board member of JTC Corporation. From 2018 to 2022, she was the Group Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of Sulzer Ltd, headquartered in Switzerland.


Jill’s executive career began in Singapore in 1986 with AT&T, Tyco Electronics and Siemens. She went on to build an international career where she spent several years heading CFO functions in China, followed by global strategic positions in Germany and Switzerland. During her two-decade long service in Siemens, Jill’s leadership roles included Group Chief Diversity Officer at its German headquarters, North-east Asia Region CFO based out of China, as well as Country CFO in Singapore. In 2010, Jill joined Neptune Orient Lines in Singapore as the Senior Vice-President, Finance, Strategy and Investments. From 2015 to 2018, she held office at ABB’s Swiss headquarters as its Group Senior Vice-President responsible for the program management of its global transformation initiatives. This was preceded by her role as North-Asia Region CFO of ABB from 2012 to 2014, based out of China.


Jill possesses broad experience as a Non-executive Director on global listed companies. Prior to her current board mandate at Schneider Electric SE where she is the Chair-person of the Audit Committee, Jill was previously a Director and Chair-person of the audit committees of Swiss-listed companies, Sulzer Ltd and medmix Ltd, and Dutch-listed Signify NV.


Jill holds a Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration from National University of Singapore and an MBA from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is an advisory board member of Nanyang Business School and a foundation board member of IMD Business School in Switzerland.

Katherine Lin

Katherine is an Associate at 65 Equity Partners, based in Singapore.


She joined 65 Equity Partners from HSBC Hong Kong, where she was an Investment Banking Analyst in the Leveraged and Acquisition Finance team. There, she advised and worked with sponsor clients on Leveraged Buyout transactions across Asia Pacific.


Katherine holds a Master in Financial Analysis from London Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Corporate Finance) (Highest Distinction) from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Karan Saraf

Karan joined 65 Equity Partners from CPP Investments in Hong Kong, with sector focus in technology, services, manufacturing, consumer, financials, and healthcare. Having completed close to 25 private and public investments with a key focus on cross-border transactions, Karan has 20 years of financial services experience having started his career at Credit Suisse in New York before spending several years in the private equity team at KKR.


Karan led 65 Equity Partners’ investments in Tuya, TD Connex and AvePoint. He is also currently or has previously been engaged at the boards of TD Connex, Novo Tellus, Tower Capital Asia, Acko Insurance, Virtusa, Atria Convergence Technologies, Dalmia Cement, amongst others. 


Karan holds a Bachelor of Science from Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Hui Shan Tan

Hui Shan is an Assistant Finance Manager at 65 Equity Partners, based in Singapore.


She joined 65 Equity Partners from Tenzing Group as Group Fund Accountant, responsible for the family office’s finance and operations. Hui Shan started her career as an Audit Associate and had worked for UPS and Fragrance Group Limited previously.


Hui Shan holds a Bachelor of Science from University of London.