Mr. Chawla joined KKR in 2021 and is Partner and Head of Asia Pacific Growth Equity. He serves on the board of directors of Intapp Inc. Prior to joining KKR, he was managing director, joint head of technology, media & telecom, joint head of North America, and member of investment and management committees at Temasek. Between 2010-2021, he helped build Temasek’s global technology and North America franchises ultimately overseeing more than 30% of their global portfolio value; led 39 technology buyout and growth investments, and served on 11 boards. Earlier in his career, he worked at Warburg Pincus, Cisco Systems and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Chawla holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and a Bachelor’s degree from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani.

Genji is the founder of FLUX, a company providing a digital experience platform.Prior to founding FLUX, Genji worked as a consultant at Bain & Company, where he led the development of strategic initiatives for a telecommunications service provider and due diligence for private equity funds and Japanese trading companies. Genji graduated from Keio University with a B.S. in Law.

After graduating from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Economics, he joined Google Japan and engaged in sales/marketing of Google Ads. After working in Google HQ, planning and executing product marketing in the U.S. market, he co-founded Commmune Inc. and directed product development as CPO. From 2022 he managed Japan business operations as Head of Japan.

Tokeiji joined JPMorgan before moving to Mitsui, where he was involved in energy-related venture investment and new business development in the ICT Business Division. After joining A.L.I. Technologies in 2018, he led the Software Business Department and started the development of the cloud service for GHG emission calculation and visualization. In 2021, he did an MBO of the business and founded Zeroboard Inc. Tokeiji graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in Engineering.

Stephen Lathrope is Global Head of Insurance at ICEYE, responsible for growth in ICEYE’s Insurer business and delivering customer success.Prior to joining ICEYE, Stephen was Group CEO at SSP, a PE backed Insurer, MGA and Broker policy administration, pricing and distribution software business based in the UK, with c. $100m turnover and c. 800 customers globally.  Before joining SSP, Stephen spent 20 years with Accenture, where as a Partner in the firm’s financial services practice he led the insurance industry programme in the UK and had responsibility for sales and delivery for leading UK and international insurers.  He also led the UK Financial Services strategic deal origination team.

Rohit founded CloudNatix in Jan 2019 with his 25+ years of industry experience. Prior to CloudNatix, he was at Google for 11 years in leadership roles managing large teams in core Datacenter infrastructure and Display advertisements organizations. He invented Linux containers and was responsible for Google-wide rollout of it and other core data center optimization technologies. Earlier, he was a Principal Engineer at Intel for over 9 years, responsible for driving Intel platform-related technologies across Linux and Unix ecosystems. Rohit has several patents in computer architecture and virtualization technologies.

Yoichiro has 20 years of experience in Japan's digital / internet space, from the very early stage of "i-mode" (the largest mobile internet platform in the 2000s) and contributed to its growth, including digital content and platform development and international alliances for NTT DoCoMo.At Disney, he led the business development for media division, where he has launched a CS channel and mobile motion picture services .As CEO/COO of several listed digital/media companies, such as Oricon Inc. (largest music media company in Japan), and Zappallas Inc. (one of the largest digital content providers in Japan), Yoichiro was responsible of overall management, especially digital transformation and has launched numerous digital services from music streaming, e-commerce and fortune-telling. Yoichiro has led BCG Digital Ventures (BCGDV) in Asia Pacific since 2021. He also leads the Tokyo Center of BCGDV, which he helped establish in April, 2016. Since then, Yoichiro has been involved in generating new business ideas and new business building including capital investment. He also serves as an outside director for companies which BCGDV invested in.

Ichiro Kaku leads BCG's Principal Investment & Private Equity team in Asia Pacific and a global leadership member of its Corporate Strategy & Finance practice area.His expertise covers corporate growth strategy, M&A, divestiture, PMI, value creation and cash generation strategy for various industries. Also experienced in supporting foreign companies building and operating their business in Japan.He holds a BA in Economics from Keio University. Has 20 years plus experience in Business Consulting at various consulting firms and worked at Sumitomo Corporation prior to joining BCG.