Tressage Managing Team
“In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.” – Montesquieu
Anson Kwan, Managing Director
Anson is a Managing Director at Tressage Partners. Anson has over 20 years of investment banking, private equity, and software technology experience with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and growth equity.
Anson is a technologist and has deep tech experience in various SaaS businesses. His expertise spans multiple industries, including Education, Healthcare, HR, DevOps, and Cybersecurity. His strategic guidance with core tech businesses have created strategic outcomes for entrepreneurs and has facilitated transformative M&A deals for growth companies.
Notable transactions in his portfolio include selling businesses to prominent companies such as Unity, Splunk, Rapid7, 8x8, and Everbridge. Anson is a registered representative of BA Securities, LLC member FINRA / SIPC. Anson has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” – Confucius
Andrina Tan, Managing Director
Andrina is a Managing Director at Tressage Partners. Andrina is a proven leader with corporate finance and strategy. She has over 25 years of experience with direct investments and funds of funds.
Prior to Tressage, Andrina was the Chief Financial Officer at DivcoWest Silicon Valley Investments overseeing $2B of investments. She developed the financial and accounting strategy to maximize LP shareholder value.
Andrina served as the executive vice president for Chartres, a hospitality investment company, where she directed the finance efforts for asset management and company acquisitions. She served as VP for the semiconductor equipment business unit for Babcock & Brown, an investment firm headquartered in Australia. Earlier in her career, Andrina spent 9 years at GIC, the investment arm of the Singapore sovereign wealth fund. Andrina started her career with PricewaterhouseCoopers. She holds a CPA and graduated from NTU Singapore with a Bachelor of Accountancy.
Notable Transactions
Ubaid Dhiyan, Managing Director
Ubaid is a Managing Director at Tressage Partners. He has over 20 years of experience across technology and investment banking with prior stints at J.P. Morgan, Jefferies and Union Square Advisors.
At Tressage, Ubaid covers Infrastructure Software with a special focus on the Data Ecosystem, DevOps/DevSecOps, Identity, and Cloud Infrastructure. Ubaid has a track record of helping clients navigate complex M&A situations to achieve premium outcomes. He has provided significant value to clients on transactions across the capital stack including late-stage growth, sell-side, and debt.
Ubaid’s prior transactions include the sale of Centric Software to Dassault, the sale of Xnor to Apple, growth equity raise by AuthenticID, sale of Electric Cloud to Cloudbees, sale of Veracode to CA, IPO of Twilio, sale of Yahoo! to Verizon, and the take-private of SolarWinds by SilverLake and Thoma Bravo. Ubaid has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napoleon Hill