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Shawn Lim

Founder of Artichoke Capital

Singapore

Overview

Work Experience

  • Founder & Partner

    2021 - Current

    https://www.artichoke.capital Investing in the web3 and digital assets ecosystem, supporting founders building infrastructure and applications that will drive greater consumer adoption of web3 tech over the next decade.

  • Director

    2020 - 2022

    Growth PE focusing on consumer food and foodtech. Proterra Investment Partners spun out of Cargill's Black River Asset Management division in 2016 and is a US-headquartered asset management firm with >$3B AUM.

  • Senior Director & Division General Manager, North Asia-Pacific

    2017 - 2020

    Division General Manager with P&L responsibility for the Burger King North Asia business unit, which included Mainland China, South Korea and Japan, generating >$1.3B annual system sales. Member of the Restaurant Brands International Asia Pacific Senior Leadership Team. Also held previous role as global development lead in Miami reporting to the Burger King CFO. Burger King Corporation is owned by Restaurant Brands International (NYSE:QSR / https://www.rbi.com), a leading consumer restaurant group closely affiliated with 3G Capital (https://www.3g-capital.com).

  • M&A/Private Equity Lawyer

    2014 - 2017

    Former member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Leveraged Finance practice groups at Debevoise. Over my time at the firm, I represented private equity sponsors, public companies and private companies in mergers, acquisitions, financings and other corporate transactions with aggregate deal value of >$15B. Clients included Amazon.com, The Hertz Corporation, Allergan, Time Inc., Mitsui, Clayton Dubilier & Rice, KKR, AXA, Guardian Life.

  • Managing Editor, Columbia FDI Perspectives

    2013 - 2014

    The Columbia FDI Perspectives is an occasional series of published perspectives on important and topical foreign direct investment issues.

  • Fellow

    2012 - 2014

    My research activities with the CCSI (formerly the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment) lie in the field of foreign direct investment and public policy, with a particular focus on home country measures that support outward investment by private enterprises. In connection with my research at CCSI, I was a panelist at the Academy of International Business 2014 Annual Meeting — "Policies and Instruments to Support Outward FDI: What are the Challenges?" For more information, see http://ccsi.columbia.edu/.

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