Finian Tan  Finian Tan is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and the founder and current chairman of Vickers Venture Partners, an international venture capital firm with a presence in Singapore, Shanghai, New York, Hong Kong, San Diego, San Francisco and Kuala Lumpur. Before he started Vickers, Dr. Tan was Managing Director and head of the Credit Suisse First Boston (“CSFB”) group of banks in Singapore and Malaysia, a role he took on after leaving his position as the Founding Partner and Managing Director of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet for Asia, where he made an early and probably his most famous investment in Chinese tech giant Baidu. Prior to this, in 1997, Dr. Tan served as Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Trade and Industry for the Singapore Government. Some of Tan's other notable investments include out-of-home media company Focus Media, the Asian Food Channel, Kongzhong Corporation, TWG Tea, SunFun Info Co., gaming software company RTG Asia, and life science company Samumed. Tan received his Doctor of Philosophy from Cambridge University on the Shell/Cambridge Scholarship. The Shell Scholarship is awarded competitively to the top 3 candidates from 11 commonwealth countries, and he was the first Singaporean recipient of the award. Tan was also concurrently on the Christ College Scholarship, an award given to the best college entrants of the year. He was also President of the Cambridge University Malayan and Singapore Society and represented Christ College, Cambridge in Squash. Additionally, Dr. Tan also worked full-time as the Assistant Director of Research in the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University. He received his B.Sc. Degree in Engineering from the University of Glasgow, where he also won all the academic awards available for the examinations, including an award for being the top student for his course, as well as the most distinguished graduate award. In the early part of his career, Dr. Tan worked with Shell Eastern Petroleum Ltd in Singapore and was later posted to Shell Japan Ltd, where he was promoted to Chief Trader. He then spent 3 years at Goldman Sachs as Vice President at J.Aron and Co (Singapore), before becoming the Regional Director and Head of J.Aron and Co. (Singapore) in charge of the Asia-Pacific Region. In 1997, he returned to Singapore and was asked to serve as Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Trade and Industry for the Singapore Government, with the aim of making Singapore a leading Asian country in innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship.