Senior Fellow

Prem Samtani

Over the past 30 years, Prem has held a diverse range of positions at leading financial services firms, specializing in Asian capital markets including Richardson Greenshields (acquired by RBC), Crosby Securities (acquired by Societe Generale), Sofaer Capital / FrontPoint Partners, and Morgan Stanley.

More recently, from 2012 to 2018, he served as the Senior Portfolio Manager (SPM) at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (www.cppib.com) in Hong Kong developing and overseeing the fund’s investment program in Japanese public markets.

An active angel investor, Prem currently serves as a “hands-on stakeholder-advisor” to a portfolio of promising firms in the region with a focus on food-tech, fintech, health & wellness, and digital media services.

A long term resident of Japan, Prem obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree specializing in Finance at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) and holds an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainbleau, France).