Yvonne Voon
Co-Founder, Beta

Yvonne is the co-Founder of Singapore’s Built Environment Technology Association. She was most recently the APAC Partner at Fifth Wall, the world’s largest VC focused on Built World Technologies. Prior to that, Yvonne was heading up capital raising efforts at a leading APAC logistics platform, LOGOS Property.

Yvonne also spent almost 15 years at Credit Suisse, where she was Head of Southeast Asia Real Estate within the Investment Banking and Capital Markets division, as well as various roles in the Equities division in Singapore, London and Malaysia offices.

Zak Ungerman
Managing Director, Emergent Capital Partners 

Industrial real estate professional with 20 years’ experience in property development and acquisition, fund management, operations, and finance. Broad international exposure having had management responsibilities on three continents and across multiple regions. Excellent communication and project management skills with long-standing expertise coordinating multinational teams and transactions. 

Zak is a managing director at Emergent Capital Partners, a private capital fund manager focused on building market-leading industrial real estate platforms in Southeast Asia. Zak is responsible for fund management and capital deployment. Previously, he was a portfolio manager for Prologis, an industrial REIT, where he was responsible for three China logistics ventures with $2.6B in committed capital. In his prior role as vice president of strategic planning and operations, he managed teams from Europe, Japan and China. Prior to that, Zak was vice president, treasury, and negotiated and closed over $1.5B in secured portfolio financings and $1.8B in unsecured term and revolving credit facilities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Before joining Prologis, Zak practiced corporate and securities law in Toronto for a law firm affiliated with Ernst & Young. Zak is a CFA charterholder, a Canadian-qualified lawyer and Chair of the ANREV Technology and Innovation Committee.

Alice Chen
Co-founder & General Counsel, InvestaX & IX Swap

Alice Chen is the Co-founder and General Counsel of InvestaX and IX Swap. InvestaX is a MAS-licensed platform offering end-to-end solutions and a tokenization SaaS provider for the primary issuance and secondary trading of private market securities. IX Swap is the DeFi liquidity pool solution for digital securities.

Alice spent more than 10 years in private practice with firms such as Skadden Arps and DLA Piper across multiple jurisdictions prior to her entrepreneurial journey in 2015. Alice is actively engaged in the startup communities in Singapore and beyond, regularly speaking, presenting and mentoring in the areas of Fintech, blockchain and entrepreneurship. Pioneering a new industry requires her to constantly engage with regulators, policymakers and multilateral agencies across markets.

She is a regular guest lecturer for Singapore Management University’s Graduate Certificate in Digital Assets and Blockchain and also teaches an IBF accredited course in Blockchain and Digital Securities. Alice served as the Director of Special Projects at ACCESS and is currently the Chair of the Singapore Fintech Association Digital Financing Subcommittee. Alice is a Charter Member of TechGC, and a mentor for Tezos APAC EGG Web3 Incubator to play her part in empowering the next-gen of Web3 founders.