Hitoshi Funahashi is the founder of ICMG Co., Ltd and has led the top management of Japanese big companies such as Hitachi, Yamato, Tokyo Electric Power Company etc. His experience involves leading the creation of a business incubation division at Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. Hitoshi holds a MBA and Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Economics, Waseda University. He is also a member of the Subcommittee on Management and Intellectual Assets, New Growth Policy Committee, Industrial Structure Council, METI, and, Vice-Chairman (2009) and Secretary (2010) for Middle Market Business Revitalization Committee, Japan Association of Corporate Executives.

Clarence Tan is currently the founder and CEO of Origgin Pte Ltd and Enlop Pte Ltd., which helps to aid and fund the venture co-creation of deep tech innovation by facilitating joint development with large companies. He is also currently a director of STT Connect Pte. Ltd, a private cloud service provider and a joint venture between STT GDC Pte. Ltd. (wholly-owned by Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte. Ltd.) and Origgin Pte Ltd. His experience involves successfully launching a number of technology start-ups, such as GlobalRoam Group Ltd, Perfect Innovation Pte Ltd, and Pinnz Pte Ltd. A graduate of the University of Southern Queensland, he pursued an MBA at National University of Singapore (NUS).

Gen Funahashi has led cross-border M&A at Deloitte and launched aircraft parts financing fund as well as managed medical device financing fund at SG based private equity fund, ACA Investments. He is currently leading ICMG Partners as a director with successfully launching joint ventures, Greenway Grid Global Pte Ltd and CleanGrid Partners Pte Ltd, investing, building and operating renewable energies and power grid infrastructures with Tokyo Electric Power Company and Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. As one of the directors at CleanGrid Partners Pte Ltd, he provides electricity by renewable energies to rural areas and islands in South East Asia with 60MMUSD funded by Tokyo Electric Power Company.

Isao Segawa joined ICMG since 2012 as CFO, managing various M&A and alliance projects. His experience involves 8 years of international trade and business investment in a general trading company, Sojitsu Corporation, overseas. He later went on to be a Board Member (and later as a Representative Director) of a business investment firm named Staff Service Investment Co., Ltd (later known as OG Investment Co., Ltd.) for a major temp agency and was involved in funding technology ventures and business revitalization of restaurants, resort hotels, golf courses, and Japanese sake manufacturers.

At ICMG, Qi Quan started off advising TEPCO i-Frontier on new Innovation Ventures in Singapore. He later moved on to work closely with Greenway Grid Global on new business ventures in the Private Equity and Venture Industry. He consecutively executed two key collaboration namely, between TEPCO i-Frontiers and Electrify (Energy P2P platform), and a new Project acquisition into one of GGG’s key focus markets. His current role at ICMG Partners covers Deal Sourcing, Deal Execution, Deal Monitoring, Project Management and New Business Creation. He graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS), Economics.

Shen Yang’s experience consists of providing new business intelligence solutions for public clients in Accenture and tax advisory work at Grant Thornton for global companies. At ICMG Partners, Shen Yang is working as an Associate to work on new corporate strategies and assist in on-going investment projects. His role consists of assisting senior staff members with research for new market development. He graduated from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) with a Bachelor of Accountancy.