65 Equity Partners

Trang Nguyen

Trang Nguyen is a Vice President at 65 Equity Partners, focused on investment and enterprise risk management.

Prior to joining 65 Equity Partners, she spent six years at Heliconia Capital Management, where she was most recently a Senior Associate Director. She has experience across private equity investments in Southeast Asia, with a focus on healthcare, education, consumer and industrial sectors. Earlier in her career, she was an M&A Analyst at Equiteq Asia Pacific and an Assurance Associate at PwC Vietnam.

Trang holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Banking from Foreign Trade University (Hanoi, Vietnam), and a Master’s degree in Finance from ESSEC Business School.

Eric Kwok

Eric Kwok is a Legal Associate at 65 Equity Partners, based in Singapore.

He joined 65 Equity Partners from Heliconia Capital Management Pte Ltd, where he focused on mergers & acquisitions, private equity, funds and general corporate matters. Prior to that, he worked at Withers KhattarWong LLP and Shook Lin & Bok LLP.

Eric holds a Bachelor of Law (Honours, Class I) from University of Birmingham and a Bachelor of Business (Accounting/Banking & Finance) from Monash University.

Ethan Chase

Ethan is an Associate at 65 Equity Partners, based in New York.

He joined 65 Equity Partners from AEA Investors where he focused on private equity transactions across the consumer, industrial and services sectors. Prior to AEA Investors, Ethan was an Investment Banking Analyst within BlackArch Partners.

Ethan holds a Bachelor of Science in Commerce, with a concentration in Finance from the University of Virginia.

Sean Murphy

Sean is Co-Head of US and a Partner at 65 Equity Partners, based in New York.

Sean has over two decades of investment experience in private equity and structured equity. Most recently, he served as a Partner and Co-Head of the Harvest Partners Structured Capital Fund, a strategy that focuses on making non-control investments in private equity and founder owned businesses. While at Harvest Partners, Sean led transactions in the consumer, business and industrial services and healthcare sectors and was a member of the Investment and Operating Committees for the Structured Capital Fund. Throughout his investing career, Sean has served as a Board member or observer on over twenty companies.

Earlier in his career, Sean was a Managing Director with Angelo, Gordon & Co., where he spent approximately ten years focused on private equity investments across the consumer / retail, business services and financial services industries. Prior to that, he was with Bear Growth Capital Partners, an affiliate of Bear Stearns Merchant Banking.

Sean holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University.