Gavin Tan

Gavin Tan is a founding director and CEO of the CellResearch Corporation Group of Companies. Gavin is a serial entrepreneur having founded a series of Biotech Start-Ups as well as one of Singapore's most successful multi-family offices. In the early 2000s as Singapore shifted its focus away from manufacturing and towards creating a vibrant life sciences ecosystem Gavin co-founded CellResearch Corporation. Under his leadership, CellResearch has become one of Singapore's most promising Biotech platforms. He has been instrumental in charting the strategy and growth of CellResearch Corporation and its subsidiaries, making the early decision to leverage CellResearch's platform technology across multiple business sectors. Gavin has now stewarded the creation of a strong crop of subsidiary businesses covering drug development, Cosmeceuticals and Cord banking.

Before co-founding his biotechnology and family office businesses, Gavin worked for over 22 years in Asian financial markets. For seven years before assuming his current role at CellResearch Corporation, he was Head of Institutional Sales at Nomura Securities Singapore Pte Ltd where he was responsible for directing and developing the firm’s institutional equity business in Singapore and Malaysia. He has extensive experience in developing and marketing equities products as well as growing an international business.

Gavin holds executive directorships and non-executive directorships in several companies including Aglaia Family Office Pte Ltd, an Asian-based diversified asset management company and multi-family office.