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Claire Ngo, Managing Director, Private Equity Fund Investments and Temasek Americas, is responsible for the deployment of the firm’s private equity fund investments as well as their syndicated co-investment opportunities focused in the Tech, Life Sciences, and Consumer sectors in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Temasek in 2016, Claire was the founder and CEO of an advisory firm focused on building multinational companies reach in Asia through strategic platform building and partnerships, inputs on key hiring, and knowledge of potential expansion challenges. Leveraging relationships, Claire successfully launched innovative partnerships between traditional industry players and the disrupter economy, beginning in Singapore and expanding to the Asia Pacific region. Prior to that, Claire spent 13 years with Goldman Sachs, where she served in a number of leadership positions including MD, Head of Pan Asian Equities in New York and serving on the Board of Goldman Sachs (Singapore). Claire began her career in the Investment Banking Division, Media and Telecom, as well as Equity Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch, New York.
Claire has over 30 years of experience leading and managing teams in in the U.S., Brazil and Asia navigating cross border teams and foreign investment regimes. From her time at both GS and Temasek, Claire has built a strong network of global asset owners spanning private equity large buyout managers, middle market managers, pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds and institutional asset managers.
Claire has served on a number of boards including the University of Virginia College Foundation Board, Executive Committee for United Nations Women (Singapore), Harvard Business School Alumni Board, Singapore Executive Committee for BoardAgender, Board member for the California Academy of Sciences, and Goldman Sachs Singapore. Committee experience includes Finance & Audit, Compensation and HR, and Nominating and Membership.
She is a frequent panel speaker and is a member of the Private Equity Women Investor Network, Institutional Investors Roundtable of leading global asset owners, Fiduciary Investors Roundtable for Collaboration & Partnerships, and World Economic Forum participant on “The Future of Value Creation in Private Equity”. Claire is a 2012 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Claire holds a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia. She is a classical pianist and enjoys hiking, travel, and performing in Off off Broadway.
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