2025 SBAI & IMAS Masterclass: A Private Market Due Diligence Deep Dive

Gita Advani

Senior ODD Analyst , Albourne Partners

Gita Advani is an Operational Due Diligence (ODD) Senior Analyst in Albourne Partners Singapore. She conducts ODD reviews on alternative asset managers across APAC. She started her career 12 years ago in audit in the Big 4.

She graduated from the University of Southern California and is a CPA and a CAIA designation holder.

Jason Garelli

Head of Operational Due Diligence, AIA Group

Mr Garelli is the Head of the Operational Due Diligence (ODD) program at AIA. He is responsible for reviewing and analyzing the organization & governance, fund structures, core business processes and risk & compliance controls of Investment Managers and their Vehicles. Investing across all Asset Classes including Public Equity, Public Fixed Income, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Private Credit, Real Estate and Opportunistic.

Tuck Meng Yee

Partner, JRT Partners

Tuck Meng Yee has over 25 years’ experience in the financial markets in Asia and Australia in derivatives, funds and investment project portfolio management, development, research and marketing with global investment banks (JPMorgan, UBS) and private banks (ABN Amro and Citibank) as well as funds services (Moore Management, Allfunds) and family office (JRT Partners) giving him a keen sense of what investments suit which types of investors, and the support they typically need.

He is currently with JRT Partners, a family office which he set up for a Malaysian family and currently leads for both operations and investments.

Tuck speaks English and Mandarin, and holds degrees in Accounting, Computer Science, and Finance (Masters) from the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales.

JRT Partners is a Singapore based Family Office that invests across real estate, equities, debt and agriculture, directly and through funds including hedge funds, venture capital, and private equity funds. On occasion, the family office works with other family offices in investing, as well as advising them on family office setup, management and administration, as well as investment due diligence process.

Thomas Deinet

Executive Director, SBAI

Thomas Deinet was appointed Executive Director of the SBAI (previously known as the HFSB) in 2008. In 2007, Thomas joined the working group to project manage the development of practice standards proposed by 14 leading international alternative investment managers that led to the establishment of the SBAI.

Prior to joining the SBAI, he was a senior manager at Oliver Wyman, where he extensively worked with major financial institutions in Europe covering asset management as well as corporate and investment banking. Thomas also worked as an analyst in energy trading for a major commodities trading firm.

Thomas is a graduate of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, with a major in industrial engineering and holds an MSc from Purdue University, USA. Thomas is a CFA charterholder.