Team

Secured Direct Lending is a People Business.

Longstanding Track Record

Seasoned professionals delivering over $6 billion in bespoke capital solutions.

Highly specialized investment team with exceptional local knowledge of key markets.

Over the past decade we have built a team of seasoned professionals from across the region with a diverse but complimentary set of skills including banking, complex structuring, capital markets, workouts, legal and operations.

Since 2004 our team has completed Secured Direct Lending investments totaling over $6 billion. At the core of our business is our desire to work with borrowers to understand their businesses and their specific needs and to provide dynamic, bespoke lending solutions that meet those requirements.

29

Years of industry experience on average.

26

Years in Asia on average.

18

Years with OCP Asia team on average.

Senior Leadership Team

Deep localized experience in investing in the Asia-Pacific region.

The wider OCP Asia team

Significant presence across Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong.

Ernest Lee

Partner

Ernest joined OCP Asia in August 2016 as a Senior Portfolio Manager, was named Principal in 2020 and made a Partner of the Firm in 2023. He sits on the Firm’s Investment, Risk and Executive Committees, and is actively involved in the origination and risk management of the firm’s investment strategy and development in Southeast Asia.

Prior to OCP Asia, Ernest was Head of Principal Finance for Asia ex-Japan at Nomura for four years and also a member of the Board of Directors of Nomura Special Investments Singapore, the primary investment and lending entity for Nomura in Asia. Before that Ernest held various senior roles at Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse in their private financing and emerging markets financing business, respectively. He has had a career in finance since 1999, originally starting in corporate finance and M&A division, then moving to credit investments in 2004.

Ernest holds a Master of Science (Applied Statistics) from the University of Oxford (1998) and a Bachelor of Science (Actuarial Science) from the London School of Economics (1st Class Honors, 1997).

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Dan Simmons

Founding Partner

Dan Simmons is a Founding Partner of OCP Asia with 21 years of experience investing in credit and Asian markets. He is actively involved in the firm’s investment strategy and leads the Asia Pacific investment team. Dan sits on the Firm’s Investment, Risk, and Executive Committees and approves capital commitments made by OCP Asia and has directed the firm’s development since its founding in 2009.

Prior to the establishment of OCP Asia, Dan was responsible for structuring and origination of private credit transactions at Stark Investments in Asia, which he joined in 2007.

Prior to this, Dan was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch (HK) where he was responsible for the origination and structuring of nearly $1.5 billion of private credit and private convertibles throughout the region. Dan joined Merrill Lynch in 2005 from the Equity-Linked and Derivative Capital Markets Group at JPMorgan (HK) where he was involved in the structuring of a number of high profile CB, GDR and exchangeable transactions from 2002 to 2005.

Dan holds a combined Bachelor of Laws (1st Class Honors) and Bachelor of Business with Distinction (Finance Major) from the University of Technology, Sydney (2001).

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Stu Wilson

Founding Partner

Stu Wilson is a Founding Partner of OCP Asia with 30 years of experience investing in Asian markets. He is actively involved in the firm’s investment strategy, liquidity management and macro positioning of OCP Asia’s funds. Stu sits on the Firm’s Investment, Risk, and Executive Committees and approves all capital commitments made by OCP Asia and has directed the firm’s development since its founding in 2009.

Prior to establishing OCP Asia, Stu was a Principal and Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for the Asia Pacific business of Stark Investments where he joined in 1997 and became a Principal in 1999. During this time, he was responsible for restructuring and overseeing the firm’s global IT platform and the formation of the firm’s Risk Group and served on the Global Compensation Committee and Global Portfolio Allocation Committees.

Prior to this, Stu was at Citadel Investments Group, where he traded Asian markets since 1993.

Stu holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business (1997) and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University (1993).

Get in Touch

Australia

Suite 1 Level 44 Australia Square
264 George Street Sydney
2000 Australia

+612 8096 5328

Singapore

#21-08/09/10 Shaw House
350 Orchard Road
Singapore 238868

+65 6403 9880

Hong Kong

1601, 16/F Ruttonjee House,
Ruttonjee Centre 3-11 Duddell Street
Central Hong Kong

+852 2236 0557

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Secured Direct Lending is a People Business.

Seasoned professionals delivering over $6 billion in bespoke capital solutions.

Highly specialized investment team with exceptional local knowledge of key markets.

29

26

18

Deep localized experience in investing in the Asia-Pacific region.

Teall Edds

Chairman

Stu Wilson

Founding Partner

Dan Simmons

Founding Partner

Ernest Lee

Partner

Nick Cusack

Principal

Colin Smith

Principal

Ben Harris

Principal

Significant presence across Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong.

Il-Yong Jung

Michael Lau

Sam de Meyrick

Serene Seah

Geoffrey Sim

Han Kim

Andrew Cao

Raymond Guyandi

Michael Kwon

Portfolio Analyst

Dolynn Yap

June Chun

Jonathan Zipfinger

Nathania Hendarta

John Wood

Joyce Chia

George Leung

Bobby Tan

Sze Shin Lee

Mandeep Tahim

Lisa Ong

Bryan Koh

Ming Zhi Lam

William Tan

Jonathan Lo

Mee Geok Yeo