Nicholas A. Nash

Nicholas A. Nash is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Asia Partners.

Prior to Asia Partners, Mr. Nash was the Group President of Sea, Greater Southeast Asia’s leading internet company, from 2014 to 2018. As of February 2023, Sea is a US$30Bn market cap company and the largest internet company by market capitalization across Southeast Asia.  Mr. Nash led Sea’s landmark initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SE), which raised $989M of primary capital and which was the largest ever U.S. IPO of a technology company from Southeast Asia.

Mr. Nash joined Sea after more than a decade with General Atlantic (‘’GA’’), most recently as the co-founder and head of GA’s Southeast Asia business. Three of Mr. Nash’s successful investments while with GA, namely Genpact (NYSE: G), QTS (NYSE: QTS), and Sea (NYSE: SE), became multi-billion dollar publicly traded companies. Prior to GA, Mr. Nash was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York.

Mr. Nash was a member of the World Economic Forum’s ASEAN Regional Strategy Group from 2017-2018. Mr. Nash was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2013-2018. He is a member of the global Kauffman Society for leadership in venture capital, a member of the Young Presidents Organization in Singapore, a board member of Endeavor Indonesia, and a board member of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore. He has also served as a board member of A*Cellerate, the ‘deep-tech’ commercialization effort of Singapore’s government research institutes.