BIOGRAPHY
Golden Rock Capital (www.gr-capital.com) manages the Myanmar Growth Fund, which is primarily focused on investments in the consumer, logistics, and financial sectors in Myanmar. Prior to establishing Golden Rock Capital, Yeo had been operating in the Asian frontier markets for the past 10 years, first with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) from 2004 to 2008, where he was responsible for syndications as well as for advising governments and private-sector sponsors on financing solutions, and then with Frontier Investment & Development Partners (FIDP; www.fidp-asia.com), which he founded in 2008 to focus on direct investment opportunities in the Asian frontier markets. Aside from the Myanmar Growth Fund, FIDP also helped conceive, structure, and raise the Mongolia Opportunities Fund in 2011 and is active in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, and more recently Timor-Leste. Before joining the ADB, Yeoworked with Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank in London, Hong Kong, and Singapore, where he specialized in equity-linked origination, syndications, and derivatives structuring. Over the course of his career, Yeo has also taught postgraduate finance at the University of the Philippines and has been an F&B entrepreneur in Singapore and an industrial engineer in Australia. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, a BEng (honors) from Monash University, and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He is also an avid sportsman with a keen interest in the humanities.
Golden Rock Capital
Golden Rock Capital is an independent private equity fund management company that focuses on strategic investments in growth companies in Southeast Asia. Its main focus is on opportunities in Myanmar where it seeks to capitalize on it son-the-ground presence, deep insight, and experience. At the same time, and through its presence in Singapore,Golden Rock Capital seeks to leverage strategic linkages to and from Myanmar in other Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.