Discussion Agenda

•  Asia – the “New Majority”
•  Reassessing Asia portfolio construction
•  Asia secondary market opportunity
•  Macro and Investment Perspectives by Country
  •  China | India | Japan | Korea | Australia | Southeast Asia

 Discussion Focus

•  Macro outlook for China, Japan, Korea, and India
•  How geopolitical and regulatory shifts are shaping cross-border investment flows
•  Market-specific risks and opportunities, including secondaries and liquidity options for LPs 

Speakers

Melissa J. Ma

 Melissa J. Ma is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Asia Alternatives. She splits her time between Asia Alternatives' Hong Kong and San Francisco offices. Ms. Ma is on the Firm’s Investment Committee and co-leads Asia Alternatives' investments in secondaries, buyouts and direct co-investments. In addition, she oversees investor relations, asset allocation and investment strategy and process.

 Prior to launching Asia Alternatives, Ms. Ma was a Director at H&F, a San Francisco-based private equity firm. She was involved with sourcing and monitoring H&F's investments in financial and professional services. She helped manage H&F's relationships with its investors and had a leading role in its fundraising activities.

 Previously, Ms. Ma worked at McKinsey & Co., Inc. in the Hong Kong and San Francisco offices. From 1995-2000, she worked in the Hong Kong office of McKinsey in the Corporate Finance Practice and the Financial Institutions Practice. Ms. Ma was also a Financial Analyst in the Financial Institutions Group in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 Ms. Ma received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and holds an A.B. in Economics and East Asian Studies, magna cum laude, from Harvard College. She is proficient in Mandarin Chinese.

 Ms. Ma currently sits on a number of Advisory Boards for several of Asia Alternatives' private equity and special situations funds. In addition, she serves on the Boards of the East-West Center (appointed by US Secretary of State), Asia Society (Northern California), One Sky (formerly Half the Sky), San Francisco Zoo, and the Harvard College Fund Executive Committee. She is also a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) Gold, the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on United States-China Relations.

 About Asia Alternatives Management LLC

 Asia Alternatives, founded in 2005, is a solution platform dedicated to helping institutional investors make investments in private equity across Asia. The Firm currently manages approximately $14 billion across Asia Alternatives Capital Partners, LP (“AACP I”) ($515 million), AACP II ($950 million), AACP III ($908 million), AACP IV ($1 billion), AACP V ($1.515 billion) and AACP VI ($1.1 billion) , Asia-focused private equity Funds-of-Funds (FoF), plus other related fund vehicles. Asia Alternatives invests with top performing private equity fund managers across Asia, primarily in Greater China (Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong), Japan, Korea, South East Asia, India and Australia, and is diversified across buyout, growth and expansion, venture capital and special situations funds. The Firm currently has over 60 professionals and offices across Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and San Francisco. For more information, go to www.asiaalternatives.com. 

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Date and Time: Wednesday, July 22, 2026 from 12:00PM – 1:00PM

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