Prior to joining Silverhorn, Kwan led more than $3.5 billion of transactions in Asia and led entry into new Asian private equity markets for several organisations, Silverhorn said in a statement. 

Kwan has sat on over a dozen public and private company boards and led deals in Southeast Asia and China, including early-stage investments in Momo (2015) and Tiki (2018), both of which are now among Vietnam’s largest and most valuable tech-enabled franchises. Previously, Kwan was a managing director at Northstar Group, the head of Southeast Asia for Standard Chartered Private Equity, and a principal at Lehman Brothers Private Equity Asia. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Princeton University.

Founded in 2010, Silverhorn is an owner-operated investment firm overseeing $1.85 billion of assets under management. It has a team of more than 50 people across Hong Kong, Singapore, India, and Switzerland. It is licensed and regulated by the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong and by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.