Seth Tan

Chinese Version

陈庆辉在基础设施投资，项目和并购咨询与融资及客户对口有超过 22 年的经验。他基础设施领域 涵盖广泛，其中包括石油和天然气，火电和可再生能源，公用事业， 采矿，铁路和商业房地产基 础设施。而这些项目遍布东南亚，中国，印度，澳大利亚，非洲，欧洲和拉丁美洲地区。在担任 亚洲基础设施办公室执行董事之前，他曾在星展银行，法国巴黎银行，标准银行和伯克布朗出任 领导职务，并曾常驻中国，澳大利亚和香港。

Summary Biography

Seth is the Executive Director of Infrastructure Asia, which is a project facilitation office under the Singapore government. Set up by Enterprise Singapore and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the office aims to harness the network and collective capabilities of public sector agencies and private sector firms, and partner stakeholders across the region to meet Asia’s infrastructure needs. Prior to his role as head of the Infrastructure Asia office, he has helmed leadership roles in DBS Bank, BNP Paribas, Standard Bank, and Babcock & Brown, and was based overseas in China, Australia, Hong Kong. Over his 23 years involvement in the infrastructure sector, he has worked on various opportunities across various infrastructure sub-segments.

Full Biography

TAN Keng Hwee Seth is head of Infrastructure Asia, which mission is to enable good-fit solutions from Singaporebased companies in addressable infrastructure sub-segments in Asia. He is a seasoned infrastructure professional with over 22 years of experience in infrastructure investments, project and M&A advisory & financing and client coverage. His experience spans across a broad spectrum of infrastructure and over a large geographical coverage.

He started out in 1996 with Paribas, and worked in 3 locations at BNP Paribas (Singapore 1996-2003, Australia 2003-2007 & China 2011-2016).

With BNP Paribas Singapore, he led several transactions in the oil & gas sector (upstream, midstream and downstream in Thailand, Indonesia), power sector (Thailand, Laos) and also water sector (India, China, Philippines, Singapore), including leading the team that advised the winning bidder for the 1st seawater desalination project in Singapore. In the aftermath of the Asian crisis, he also sat on the debt steering committee for a downstream oil & gas case (Thailand).

With BNP Paribas Australia, he initiated the practice of lending to utilities and led some first-of-its-kind cases, including the first non-recourse wind power project financing in Australia.

With BNP Paribas China, he led his team to focus on project & project finance advisory, including advisories of railway projects in Mongolia and Indonesia, and advising on cross-border M&A in the waste-to-energy subsegment (Europe).

With Babcock & Brown in Hong Kong (2007-2009), Seth was part of the team that helped set up an Asian Infrastructure Fund, and helped with capital raising and also led a team to develop and invest in renewable energy projects in Asia.

With Standard Bank in China (2009-2011), Seth led a team to advise clients on connecting to emerging economies’ governments and structuring cases in emerging economies. It is during this season that he facilitated cases with the demand side mostly being government counterparties. The team he led focused mostly on natural resource cases, including mining cases in Siberia and Mongolia, and also mine commodity trading cases from Africa (e.g. Zambia).

Prior to joining Infrastructure Asia, Seth was with DBS China (2016-2018), where he led sector teams in Infrastructure (Energy, Chemical & Infrastructure team), Healthcare and Real Estate. As a foreign bank in a very large and rapidly transforming economy, he led the teams to focus on certain addressable sub-segments so results can be repeatable and scalable. His team focused on addressing the business pain points of sub-segment champions in utilities, renewable energy (waste-to-energy, solar power, hydropower, wind power), healthcare and commercial real estate (particularly modern logistics properties and retail malls) and facilitated onshore and crossborder financing solutions that fit the clients’ requirements. Some fund-raising solutions from Singapore were also facilitated, including 2 REIT cases on the Singapore stock exchange.

Seth graduated from the National University of Singapore, with B. Soc. Sci (Hons) in Economics.