Basil is the Founding Partner of AGP. Prior to this, he was an Advisor and Managing Partner at EDBI where he oversaw investments in Healthcare and Emerging Technologies. Basil was a key member of EDBI’s Investment Committee for ~50 investments with 10 exits. On the healthcare front, he was involved in several investments for EDBI, including AI digital healthcare platforms; drug therapy companies; AI driven NGS diagnostic solutions; and a pre-covid investment into mRNA vaccine platform Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA). Basil has a strong interest in regenerative technologies that can restore cellular health and resilience; and in Connected Health which is the convergence of Semiconductors, more-than-Moore, AI, LLM, IOT, 5G, AR/VR, wearables, cloud/ambient computing technologies in healthtech to achieve optimised Connected Care. Additionally, Basil drove early stage deep-tech fund-of-funds investments at EDBI, covering regional healthcare funds, and as a LPAC member in portfolio funds, worked closely in partnership with funds to invest in Singapore and the region. He also spearheaded EDBI’s investments in areas that would have an impact to the future of healthcare and the bioeconomy such as synthetic biology, gene edits, robotics, AI, blockchain, AR and VR. Basil pioneered EDBI's post-investment value creation and communications efforts, ensuring strong support to portfolio companies through market access, talent recruitment, strategic financing, partnership & guidance; and is often a speaker in global technology events and panels.Prior to EDBI, Basil was a McKinsey consultant covering South East Asia, an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Keppel-NUS Corporate Laboratory, the APAC President of a global semiconductor electronic design automation company, an Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore Electrical & Computer Engineering, and a post-doctoral researcher at the Cambridge University Engineering Department. Basil is the inventor of several patents and holds a BA (1st class), MA and PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was awarded a Commonwealth scholarship, a Singapore Government Public Service Commission scholarship, and a Research Fellowship from Trinity College Cambridge.
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