There is no business like a family-owned business. Fueled by a distinct passion that can be both a strength and a challenge. While the commitment and multigenerational vision of family businesses offer unparalleled competitive advantages and personal fulfillment, the journey can often feel isolating, with complexities that few outsiders truly grasp.
At FBN Asia, we’re dedicated to integrating age-old wisdom, practical skills, and innovative knowledge to cultivate a thriving, sustainable community for family businesses. Join us as we navigate these unique dynamics and unlock the full potential of your enterprise.
NICOLE TAN
Community Co-Chair
FBN Asia Next Generation
KOH SHIHAO
Community Co-Chair
FBN Asia Next Generation
The Next Generation (NxG) Community provides young family business members, aged between 18 to 40, a safe space to learn from, share with and inspire each other. FBN NxG has over 8,000 young business family members from 65 countries, all belonging to the same intimate and dynamic community.
The mission is to maintain, support and energize Next Generation members of families in business, who experience similar challenges, in a trusted environment.
TOM WOLF
Community Chair
FBN Asia Family Office
The Family Office Community brings together business families who are exploring, establishing, or have already set up family offices. This community provides a platform for these families to learn from and exchange ideas with their peers, addressing both the family and business aspects of a family office.
On the family side, key topics include succession planning, Next Generation education, family cohesion, entrepreneurial mindset, family compensation, philanthropy, and concierge services.
On the business side, the focus areas cover wealth planning and management, diversification, active investing, attracting non-family talent, and impact investing.
POMAN LO
Community Chair
FBN Asia Impact
FBN Impact empowers business families to create lasting, positive impact by embedding sustainability and social responsibility into their core business models. The program is focused on catalyzing systemic change through responsible transformation across generations.
PERLIN CHAN
Community Chair
FBN Asia Compass
The FBN Compass Community supports members through life’s key transitions. Compass, FBN Asia’s signature group coaching and mentoring program, brings together diverse members to discuss personal, life-stage, and business changes in a confidential, safe environment. This exclusive program connects members with expertise and experience to navigate challenges close to their hearts.
Join the largest global network of family-owning businesses. Immerse yourself in transformational experiential learnings and have privileged access to family business experiences that cannot be gained elsewhere.
Leveraging our deep connections with leading family businesses and sustainability-focused institutions, FBN Asia integrates age-old wisdom, practical skills, and cutting-edge knowledge to empower our community. Through collaborative discussions and capacity-building initiatives, we equip family enterprises with the tools and strategies needed to navigate complex challenges and build continued lasting success.
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NICOLE TAN
DIRECTOR
ROOFTOP VENTURES
Nicole is a third generation of the IGB Corporation Bhd family. IGB Bhd is a Malaysian property company that develops and manages malls, hotels, residential and commercial properties. She has a keen interest in entrepreneurship and technology, and co-founded an Insurtech startup in 2018, before joining her family business full-time. She is currently based in Singapore as the Director of Rooftop Ventures, her immediate family’s private investment company, as well as Rooftop RE (Japan), a property development company that will open its first luxury ski resort in Japan, Niseko Kyo, in Winter 2023.
As FBN Asia’s NxGen Chair, Nicole loves meeting new people, learning about other family businesses, and building safe spaces to share and grow for the NxGen community.
Nicole graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a BSc Degree in Business Mathematics and Statistics. In her free time, she pursues her passion in health and wellness, and holds several certifications in personal training, nutrition and sports massage.
KOH SHIHAO
Founding Managing Partner
NxtGen Capital
Shihao is a member of NxtGen’s management and investment committee, overseeing the firm’s operations in strategy, investments, and investor relations.
Prior to founding NxtGen, he built a strong business foundation as a Brand Director at Procter & Gamble, honed his LP investing expertise in venture capital by founding and managing Menlo Pacific Capital — a Singapore-based single-family office – and gained investor management experience as Vice President of Investor Relations at iGlobe Partners.
Shihao grew up in California, completed his primary and secondary education in Singapore and served as a bomb disposal officer while in the Singapore Armed Forces. He later returned to the U.S. to study Chemical Engineering at Cornell University.
Outside of his professional endeavours, Shihao serves as co-chair of the Next Gen committee of FBN Asia, a non-profit network supporting family businesses.
He is married with three wonderful children and enjoys playing tennis and skiing in his free time.
Tom Wolf
Founder & Chairman of TWO Family Office
Founder & Chairman of Metawolf AG
Tom Wolf is a German tech entrepreneur, innovator and investor. He built a successful multi-billion construction-tech company, RIB Software, with over 2000 employees across 25 countries worldwide. RIB Software was acquired by Schneider Electric in 2021.
He is the founder and Chairman of TWO Family Office. It manages public and private investments with assets under management of $500 million. The portfolio includes Meta Wolf AG (listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchange), xTWO Store, DayOne Technology and Lumenaza GmbH.
TWO Family Office is focusing on strategic investments in building material ecommerce and the energy sector. The focus is on investing in the future of living through new-age technologies such as blockchain, AI, Web3 and cybersecurity. We are actively looking at companies that have a strong management team, innovative technology, and a solid business case.
Mr. Wolf‘s 40-year career has been dedicated to promoting digital transformation in order to create a better future for the next generation. He has worked tirelessly to move the construction industry from desktop to cloud, from traditional to digital. He is now focusing on building a Web3 based E-commerce business that caters to the building material industry globally and smart energy technology, in order to create a more efficient, secure, and sustainable future of living. He has lived and worked in Asia for over 20 years and is a strong advocate for diversity and giving back to the community.
Poman Lo
Vice Chairman of Century City International Holdings Limited
Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Regal Hotels Group
Poman is the Founding Managing Partner of AlphaTrio Capital, an Asia-focused sustainable technology fund empowering the next wave of green tech unicorns to provide disruptive solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
Poman serves as an Adjunct Professor teaching sustainable business management and impact investing at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and The University of Hong Kong. She founded the non-profit Institute of Sustainability and Technology with a mission to nurture the next generation of ESG talent through executive education and advance the sustainability agenda through interdisciplinary research and international conferences. Poman Lo founded the One Earth Summit and One Earth Alliance to unite the most influential leaders in connecting capital to sustainable innovations and kickstarting the global impact revolution. To foster holistic well-being and positive values in children and youths, Poman established Bodhi Love Foundation to provide mindfulness-based training to educators and parents through its SEED (social emotional ethical development) program.
Poman has been officially appointed as Member of Chief Executive’s Policy Unit Expert Group, Member of the Green Technology and Finance Development Committee, Council Member of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Foundation Member of Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, Member of the Advisory Board of the Hong Kong Academy for Wealth Legacy, Member of the Curriculum Development Council Standing Committee on Values Education, and also serves as the Honorary President of Hong Kong Federation of Women. As a global champion of sustainable development, Poman takes an active leadership role at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). She was appointed Co-Chair of the ESBN Finance Task Force and member of the Executive Committee of ESBN, and serves as Chair of the Asia Pacific Business Forum Organizing Committee and Chair of Asia Pacific Green Deal for Business Committee.
Poman was awarded the Angier B. Duke Scholarship at 15 and graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Psychology from Duke University at 19. She is the only person in Hong Kong history to receive both the “Outstanding Young Person of the World Award” and the “Hong Kong Outstanding Students Award”. She is also the first and only female Asian recipient of the “Oslo Business for Peace Award” by the Business for Peace Foundation in Norway, selected by an independent committee of Nobel Prize Laureates in Peace and Economics. In 2023, she was awarded the “Business Person of the Year Award” at the DHL/SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards.
Perlin Chan
CEO
Berlitz Marine & Offshore Group
Perlin is the Chief Executive of Berlitz Marine & Offshore of her family business (2nd Gen). With 15 years of experience building businesses across Middle East and Asia in the maritime, hotels, waste water management, and energy renewables space, she brings along a set of proven and practical execution tactics which has enabled companies to grow from start-up stage to medium enterprises and public listed levels.
In addition to her role as CEO of her family business, she is an advisory board member of Algaewheel, an award winning, patented, net zero carbon waste water treatment technology, and a board member with Mecapan, an Indonesian-based beauty ecosystem that connects women of all ages to their right beauty service provider.
She is a passionate about driving business transformation, growth execution, marketplace strategies, female leadership, culture-building, start-ups investments and mentoring.
