Nick Nash

Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Asia Partners

Nicholas A. Nash is the Managing Partner and a co-founder of Asia Partners. 

Prior to Asia Partners, Mr. Nash was the Group President of Sea, Greater Southeast Asia’s leading internet company with a ~50Bn market cap, from 2014 to 2018. Mr. Nash led Sea’s landmark initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SE), which raised approximately $1 billion of primary capital and which was the largest ever U.S. IPO of a company from Southeast Asia.

Mr. Nash joined Sea after more than a decade with General Atlantic (GA), most recently as the co-founder and head of GA’s Southeast Asia business. Three of Mr. Nash’s successful investments while with General Atlantic are now multi-billion dollar NYSE publicly traded companies. Prior to GA, Mr. Nash was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York.

Mr. Nash was a member of the World Economic Forum’s ASEAN Regional Strategy Group from 2017-2018, is a member of the global Kauffman Society for leadership in venture capital, is a member of the Young Presidents Organization, and is a board member of Endeavor Indonesia. 

He received an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 2007, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in Chemistry and Physics, magna cum laude, in 2000.

Rovik Robert

Manager, Singapore EDB

Rovik is a storyteller, technologist and community builder who works at the EDB to share Singapore's story with the world, especially for companies in the digital and green economies. His background in entrepreneurship, with ventures such as The Hidden Good and SGExplained, equips him with the lens to engage business and thought leaders on the narratives underpinning their success.

Rovik also is a member of the core team at better.sg, a tech for good collective, and a Board/Committee Member for a number of non-profit associations including Assisi Hospice and SGExams.

Rovik obtained his BS Computer Science from Northwestern University and his MSc in Management of Information Systems and Digital Innovation from the London School of Economics and Political Science.