Joe Gagnon, Partner at Hillhouse Investment and Co-Head of Rava Partners
Joe is the Co-Head of Rava Partners, the real assets investment platform of Hillhouse Investment. Prior to Rava Partners, he was a Managing Director and Partner at Warburg Pincus from 2005 to 2020, leading its real assets business in Asia as Co-Head from 2008 to 2012 and Sole Head from 2012 to 2020. Prior to Warburg Pincus, Joe worked at General Electric Capital, where he served as a manager of business development with GE Real Estate in Tokyo. Joe graduated from Wake Forest University with a B.S. in Mathematical Economics.
Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Singapore, Rava Partners (“Rava”) is Hillhouse’s dedicated real assets strategy, investing in real assets that build the physical infrastructure underpinning Asia Pacific’s growth.
Unlike peers that adopt an opportunistic “buy-fix-sell” approach focused on individual assets, Rava pursues a platform investment strategy that seeks to partner with high-quality founders and management teams at the forefront of Asia’s new economy, applying a private equity toolkit to build businesses that address structural supply imbalances.
Rava focuses on new economy real assets, including digital and energy infrastructure, living and hospitality, logistics / industrial, social infrastructure, life sciences, healthcare, and adjacent sectors.
Since inception, Rava has invested over US$3.6 billion, on behalf of funds managed by Rava and Hillhouse, investing in more than 20 real assets companies across the region. The firm leverages on-the-ground teams in eight key APAC markets, including Singapore, Mumbai, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, and UAE.
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