Satish Selvanathan

Satish was appointed Executive Director of Goodhope Asia Holdings Ltd in 2018 and has since been steering their businesses in Malaysia and Indonesia towards building their competitive strength in the palm oil industry through investments in sustainability.

Before his appointment in Goodhope Asia Holdings, Satish was a Director at Creador, a South-East Asian Private Equity fund where he led the business turnaround of Asiamet Education Group Bhd. a higher education business in Malaysia. He also led the business diligence on Creador’s buyout of the D’Apotic pharmacy chain in Malaysia.

Previously, he was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in New York, where he specialized in developing and implementing turnaround strategies for clients in the financial services, consumer, and healthcare space. Early in his career, he worked on the Structured Credit desks at Barclays Capital and BNP Paribas in London, where he traded Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Securities.

Satish is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and has an undergraduate degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University. He holds an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School.