Mentors in Singapore
Sui Ling Cheah
Operating Partner
Wavemaker Partners
Ms Cheah is an Operating Partner with Wavemaker Partners, a venture capital firm based in Singapore
and Los Angeles that focuses on technology company investments. She also serves as Executive Board
Chair of privately held ESG startup ecoSPIRITS. In addition, she holds board directorships at
ParkwayLife REIT, CDL Hospitality REIT and Pathology Asia Holdings. She is Chair of Audit Committee
at ParkwayLife REIT and Pathology Asia Holdings.
Ms Cheah has over 20 years of international investment banking and corporate experience. Most of her
career was spent across Singapore, Paris, Hong Kong, London and New York, focusing on capital raising
transactions and cross border mergers and acquisitions for corporate clients. Between 2010 to 2013, she
was Co-Head of Corporate Finance for South East Asia at BNP Paribas. Prior to that, she was a senior
coverage banker for Singapore in the investment banking division of JP Morgan. She started out her
career at Merrill Lynch Investment Banking.
Ms Cheah graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and French from Wellesley
College, Massachusetts in the US.
Current Directorships in Other Listed Companies
M&C REIT Management Limited (as the manager of CDL Hospitality Real Estate Investment Trust)
M&C Business Trust Management Limited (as the trustee-manager of CDL Hospitality Business Trust)
Parkway Trust Management Limited (as the manager of ParkwayLife REIT)
Current Principal Commitments
Pathology Asia Holdings (Independent Director & Chair of Audit Committee)
ecoSPIRITS (Executive Board Chair)
Wavemaker Partners (Operating Partner)
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