Carrie Burke

Carrie Burke is a seasoned finance professional with nearly two decades of experience in banking and asset management. She has held senior leadership roles at Deutsche Bank and Barclays and most recently co-founded one of Singapore’s top Asia macro hedge funds, serving as Chief Risk Officer and Head of Investor Relations. Originally from China, she studied in the U.S. before making Singapore her home. A strong believer in the transformative power of education, Carrie is passionate about empowering underprivileged  young women through university scholarships and is thrilled to serve on the global and Singapore boards of U-GO.

Tim Caflisch

Tim is a Partner of Finepoint Capital, a Boston based value-focused investment firm, where he runs the firm's equity business, with a core focus on Japan. Prior to joining Finepoint in 2015, Tim was a Principal at KKR & Co., where he worked in the company's Special Situations business in London and San Francisco from 2008-2015.

Tim graduated with a BA in Economics from Stanford University.

On joining U-GO:

“Education is the key to unlocking every young person’s potential. By giving young women the financial help to attend university, we give them a chance to chase their dreams and realize that potential. That opportunity is the best gift we can give to these young bright minds.”

Patricia Horgan

Patricia Horgan is a founding member of U-GO’s Global Board of Directors and serves as a member of U-GO’s Swiss Board. She is a lifelong banker who currently serves on the Goldman Sachs AG board as an independent Director. Patricia previously had led major business units at UBS, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, and was the founding Chairperson of Room to Read’s Switzerland Development Board.

A native of New Jersey, Patricia holds both U.S. and Swiss citizenship and has resided in Zurich since the mid-1980s.

Martina Lauchengo

Martina spent 30 years as a marketing and product leader. She started her career working on market-defining software, Microsoft Office and Netscape Navigator. She teaches what she’s learned with SVPG and is a lecturer at UC Berkeley's graduate school of engineering. As a partner at Costanoa Ventures, she sits on multiple boards and coaches startups. She is the author of LOVED: How to Rethink Marketing Tech Products, a #1 Amazon Best Seller. Martina holds a B.A. in Political Science and M.A. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University. She's a native Californian, mother of two, and proud wife to Chris.

Nicholas Nash

Nicholas Nash is the Managing Partner and a co-founder of Asia Partners and brings decades of experience in finance and strategy to the role.  

Nick served as the Group President of Sea, Greater Southeast Asia’s leading internet company with an over $150 billion market cap, from 2014 to 2018. Among his achievements, Nick led Sea’s landmark initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, which raised approximately $1 billion of primary capital and which was the largest ever U.S. IPO of a company from Southeast Asia. Nick joined Sea after more than a decade with General Atlantic, most recently as the co-founder and head of GA’s Southeast Asia business. Three of Mr. Nash’s successful investments while with GA are now multibillion dollar NYSE publicly traded companies.

Prior to GA, Mr. Nash was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York. He was a member of the World Economic Forum’s ASEAN Regional Strategy Group from 2017-2018, is a member of the global Kauffman Society for leadership in venture capital, is a member of the Young Presidents Organization, and is a board member of Endeavor Indonesia. Nick received an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in Chemistry and Physics, magna cum laude.

On joining U-Go:

“We don’t know where Asia’s next unicorn might come from, I like to think that it might come from budding entrepreneurs that we haven’t even started out yet. Let’s support young ambitious talents who have the potential to shape and contribute back to their nation and communities, leaving lasting impact.”

Mariana Zobel

Mariana Zobel de Ayala is Senior Vice President at Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) Consumer Bank overseeing Consumer Bank Marketing and Digital Platforms. Ms. Zobel de Ayala also serves as a board director and/or advisory committee member for a number of Ayala Group companies, across Ayala Land, AC Health, Ayala Group’s ACTIVE Fund and BPI’s Asset Management and Trust Company. She also serves as advisor on the board of Asia Partners.

Before this role, Mariana was Deputy Head of Ayala Malls, a subsidiary of Ayala Land responsible for just under two million square meters in leasable retail space around the country. In addition to directly overseeing Leasing Strategy & Development across the malls, Mariana was responsible for the build-out of Ayala Malls Labs / Digital & Data -- a new unit focused on commercializing synergistic opportunities leveraging technology and data.

Prior to this, she worked in Project Development for Alveo Land, and as a Corporate Strategy and Business Development Associate with Ayala Corporation, where she supported portfolio review across the conglomerate and business development interest in the healthcare sector. Mariana started her career at J.P. Morgan in New York City. She graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Social Studies (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics), and an MBA from INSEAD in 2020.