Ben is a cleantech veteran and a leading expert in energy transition markets in the US and Australasia where he has worked in a number of investor, developer, and owner/operator roles.

Ben is a Managing Director of Prometheus, an Audacy venture partner and a cutting edge technology accelerator commercialising energy transition, cleantech, sustainable agribusiness and related opportunities.

Previously, Ben co-founded grid information and control specialists Edge Electrons and held leadership and expertise roles at Shift Energy, Goldman Sachs, InterGen, and CERA. Ben graduated from Harvard University with a degree in East Asian Studies. He is currently based in Sarasota, Florida.

James works closely with the team in Hong Kong to carry out sourcing, due diligence and execution of potential investment opportunities.

 

Prior to joining Audacy Ventures, James began his venture capital career at AngelHub, Hong Kong's first licensed tech venture investment platform. While there he worked on over ten deals, including notable HK startups Animoca Brands and Avant Meats. He also played a key part in helping revamp AngelHub's platform.

 

James graduated from Durham University with a Bachelor's degree in International Relations. He is passionate about finding and working with companies building innovative technologies along the various pathways to decarbonisation, and in food & agriculture.

Email: david@audacyventures.com

David is an experienced venture investor and has been one of the earliest supporters for Audacy Ventures. Day-to-day, David manages a portfolio of real estate in Hong Kong and in the UK.  David has an extensive network of ultra high net worth individuals, business associations, and personal family office relationships, and has been instrumental in the expansion of Audacy Venture’s family office partnerships. 

Philip is an impact investor with a particular interest in renewable energy, energy storage, food and agricultural technologies, as well as economic empowerment in frontier markets.  Previously Philip was CLSA’s Shipping, Transportation and Infrastructure analyst. His works were quoted by newspapers such as Reuters/Lloyd’s List.

Philip holds a Masters of Social Science Degree in Global Political Economy and a Bachelors of Business Administration in Global Business and Finance.

Patrick is currently Co-Head of ClimateTech at Investible, Australia’s leading seed investment Group, backing great founders early in their journey. He has over 22 years of investment banking experience across various sectors including infrastructure and technology. Patrick has been an active early stage startup investor for the last 7 years and has been focused full time on climate tech investments since he left Macquarie. Patrick helped co-found an IoT startup, has served on numerous boards, and is an engaged mentor and participant in the climate tech and early-stage startup communities. 

Patrick works with Audacy on co-investment opportunities particularly those originated from Australia, as well as other Audacy portfolio companies that have an interest to commercialise in Australia.

Francis is a Partner at Audacy Ventures. He has a deep passion for building companies and platforms and here at Audacy he evaluates early-stage investment opportunities with a view to assist founders to grow their businesses. Leveraging off his career in investment banking, he provides corporate advice and business relationships to founders in addition to being an investor in their respective companies. 

His core focus is on sustainability and climate change related investments, in both technologies and real assets, with a side interest in computer vision and big data / AI related applications.

Prior to joining Audacy, Francis was the Chief Investment Officer for a Hong Kong based family office responsible for their real estate, private investment and fund management businesses. Began his career as an Analyst in Macquarie Capital in Sydney before becoming an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan IBD in Hong Kong. He has completed over US$ 35 billion worth of transactions in energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors during his investment banking career.

Graduated from the University of Western Australia with a double degree Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronics, First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Commerce (Finance).

Paul Sandhu has spent his career in the financial industry designing and leading corporate strategies, managing investment portfolios, and organising businesses to achieve the financial goals of the stakeholders. He has worked as an executive team member in asset management/banking/venture capital companies to optimise businesses in their respective local markets and internationally.  He has extensive experience in successfully leading technical teams from the development and innovation stage through to the commercialisation stage. Paul’s solid scientific background coupled with his years of experience in financial management and capital market strategy uniquely positions him to realise the goals of private companies in the energy transition and technology space.

Being a veteran speaker, he is regularly featured on Bloomberg, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Asian Investor, and other news media for his perspective on capital markets and thematic investing.

Until October 2021, Paul was an investment head at BNP Paribas Asset Management where he led a team of technical consultants, portfolio managers, and quantitative analysts responsible for business development, solution/product design and implementation of investment portfolios. Prior to joining BNP Paribas AM, Paul spent 15 years leading asset management companies in their global expansion including start-ups in Asia.

Paul graduated from the University of British Columbia with a specialisation in Theoretical Physics. Paul focused his research on the space-time dynamics around black holes, creating and analysing simulations of stellar evolution by solving Einstein’s equations using numerical techniques. He is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries.

Leo has over 7 years of experience in sustainability, renewable energy and climate tech venture investments, having completed over US$ 700 million worth of transactions in these sectors across the U.S. and Asia Pacific.

Prior to joining Audacy Ventures, Leo began his investment career in New York City at an investment platform capitalised by The Blackstone Group’s energy and flagship funds to develop North American renewable energy projects. He then worked at a renewables-focused private equity fund in Hong Kong.

Graduated from Columbia University with a Master's degree in Energy Policy and Finance, Leo is passionate about finding, funding and growing companies that create breakthrough solutions to the net-zero challenge.

Calvin provides deal sourcing and execution capabilities in Japan for Audacy Ventures, and is the CEO and founder of 1/3 Group as well as the CEO of Artra Corp (6029.JP). Calvin is a real estate veteran in Tokyo and Hakuba specialising in the re-development and refurbishment of alternative real estate products. He founded 1/3 Group as one of the earliest guest house operators in Tokyo, and has since grown into a full-blown hospitality platform of 130+ guest houses, gyms, health foods, co-working and event space. Calvin successfully developed projects for major groups such as Eslite, Tsutaya, and Technogym. Calvin is fluent in Japanese, English and Mandarin. Calvin graduated from the University of Melbourne and Waseda University in Tokyo.

Li Hua Tan co-founded Audacy Ventures in 2017 to bring high impact, highly sustainable investments across multiple cutting-edge sectors to like-minded investors.  As a general partner of the firm, her vision was to build a talented team with deep vertical expertise in Decarbonisation, Digitisation, Artificial Intelligence & Deep Tech, and Food & AgriTech, and to partner with top-tier entrepreneurs in transforming their respective industries.  

Li brings 17 years of investment experience to Audacy Ventures.  She began her career as a Financial Analyst in the Consumer and Healthcare team at Citigroup in New York City and Los Angeles.  Two years later, she moved to Malaysia, where she managed a real estate corporation with gross development value of US$ 450 million. Simultaneously, she managed her own family office assets, which included a diversified public equity portfolio as well as higher octane private investments in alternative assets across America, Europe, and Pan-Asia.

Li also co-founded the Platinum Whisky Investment Fund in 2014.  At the time, it was the world’s first private equity fund investing in vintage and rare single malt whiskies. The fund raised US$ 12 million and exited 7 years later at over US$ 26 million, delivering a gross 17% IRR to investors. In 2019, the team continued its whisky ventures by acquiring Glenor Cask Company, which held a portfolio of over 1,000 whisky casks in Scotland. In 2021, she acquired significant stakes in the companies Whisky Hammer and Still Spirit in order to gain footholds in the whisky online auction and e-commerce space.  

Originally from Malaysia, Li graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science in Corporate Finance and Business Administration.  She is passionate about empowering other women in family business and entrepreneurship, and enjoys exploring other cultures through travel and reading.

Toby’s 17-year investment and corporate finance career has spanned infrastructure, energy, renewables, cleantech and venture capital. Prior to co-founding Audacy, Toby advised on over US$ 15 billion in transactions whilst at Macquarie Capital and he was also a founding team member of Kerogen Capital, a private equity fund manager specialising in international energy with over US$ 2 billion in AUM.

He has been a venture capitalist since 2011 and co-founded Audacy to pursue sustainable investment opportunities at scale, working with other like-minded investors to fill a financing gap and support companies on the cusp of commercialisation in the energy transition and other deep tech sectors. Toby specialises in building out Audacy's hydrogen and distributed renewables portfolio, as well as cultivating partnerships with other specialist firms to generate additional deal flow.

Toby holds a combined degree from the University of New South Wales in Commerce (Finance) and Laws (L.L.B).

He is passionate about solutions to combat climate change and educating investors that sustainable investments no longer represent charity, and in fact are some of the most attractive in the current investment landscape.

Tim is a 14-year private equity veteran and an expert in renewable energy and sustainable investments across the APAC region. Tim has managed over US$ 1 billion of assets in sustainable investments; including sustainable real estate, renewable energy power generation, energy storage, water treatment, recycling, and waste-to-energy. 

Prior to co-founding Audacy, Tim was an Investment Director at Morrison & Co, an infrastructure asset manager headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand. Tim also held investments roles with Macquarie Capital and Olympus Capital, an Asian PE fund focused on environmental themed investments. Tim graduated from the University of Melbourne with degrees in Commerce (Finance) and Law (LLB). He is currently based in Singapore.