Hareesh Nair

Chief Investment Officer

Tsao Pao Chee Group

Mr. Hareesh Nair is the Chief Investment Officer, Tsao Pao Chee Group, serves on the Group Investment Committee and oversees the Group’s financial resources towards building businesses and investments enabling the well-being mandate established by its Chairman Chavalit Frederick Tsao. Hareesh brings over 20 years of experience in both investment management and operations leadership, developed across Asia and the United States within large multinationals, family businesses, investment conglomerates and private equity.
As an investor, Hareesh expanded Fosun International’s Healthcare Holdings across Asia, and prior was on the founding team of Quadria Capital, a leading Asian healthcare private equity group originally anchored by TPC and Medtronic. Hareesh started his investment career at Medtronic’s Corporate Development team.
As a business operator, Hareesh served in an executive role on the board of SOHO Global Health, a prominent Indonesian family-owned, private-equity backed pharmaceutical and logistics group, leading to its IPO on JKSE. As COO of Engine Biosciences, Hareesh led the biotech’s expansion within the US. He started his career at global healthcare multinationals Becton Dickinson and Gilead.
Hareesh earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an MBA from The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.

Speaker Session

10:55–11:45

Inside the mind of an Impact CIO

Bridging conviction with reality — that is the central challenge facing impact investment leaders today. As markets reset and volatility lingers, CIOs are reassessing risk, liquidity and long-term return expectations across their portfolios. This candid conversation gets inside the decision-making room: how do you balance idealism with fiduciary responsibility when headwinds mount? Where are leaders leaning in or pulling back, and what gives them the conviction to back emerging managers, new geographies or innovative structures at a time of uncertainty?
Panellists will share how they build internal buy-in, the trade-offs they actually make, and what it really takes to turn impact commitments into capital deployment — with rigour and accountability.