Our Team

Jacques is the founder and a Managing Director of Pickering Pacific. He is a French national.

Prior to founding Pickering Pacific, Jacques started his career in 1991 as an M&A lawyer for Clifford Chance in Paris before being transferred to London. From 2000 to 2003, Jacques worked in senior M&A and financial roles for the H.J. Heinz Company. He first worked at Heinz World Headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (U.S.) as General Manager in charge of Portfolio Planning and Analysis, and then in Melbourne (Australia) as Director, Planning & Business Development for Heinz Australasia.

Jacques has more than 25 years of experience in M&A projects, covering various sectors on all continents. Jacques has extensive knowledge of East Asia culture and practices. He has lived in Singapore since 2003 and spent five years in the Philippines and Thailand as a child. He is married to a Chinese lady.

Jacques holds an MBA from IMD in Lausanne (Switzerland), and an LL.M. in Business Law and an LL.M. in English and North American Comparative Law from University Paris I – Sorbonne.

Jacques has contributed articles on M&A-related topics to various publications and is a frequent speaker at regional conferences.

Erwan is a Managing Director at Pickering Pacific. He is a French national.

Prior to joining Pickering Pacific in 2014, Erwan worked for seven years in the mid-market M&A team of UBS in Paris.

Erwan has more than 10 years of M&A experience servicing a number of clients in many different sectors including energy, TMT, consumer goods, business services, etc. Since 2014, Erwan has already completed several East Asian transactions at Pickering Pacific, such as: acquisition of healthcare business of Jebsen & Jessen in Thailand and Malaysia by Getz Healthcare, sale of the communication service division by Jebsen & Jessen, the acquisition of QB Foods by Johnsonville, deal sourcing and execution projects in the animal feed sector in Thailand and Indonesia, deal sourcing and execution projects in the plastics sector in Greater China, etc.

Erwan holds a Master’s degree of corporate finance from EM Lyon business school (France) during which time he completed an M&A internship at ABN Amro in Kuala Lumpur.

Jansen is a Director at Pickering Pacific. He is a Singaporean national, originally from Indonesia.

Jansen initially joined Pickering Pacific as an intern analyst in 2012. He subsequently joined Pickering Pacific as a full-time M&A professional in 2013.

Jansen has worked on various M&A projects in Southeast Asia with Pickering Pacific, such as: Johnsonville’s acquisition of QB Food (food distribution sector in Singapore), Imerys’ acquisition of Kinta Powdertec (industrial mineral sector in Malaysia), deal sourcing and execution projects in the retail food sector in Indonesia, M&A execution project in the engineering service sector in Thailand, etc.

Jansen graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering with Honours in 2013, where he studied under Sembcorp full scholarship for academic excellence and outstanding co-curricular activities records. During his university studies, in addition to doing an M&A internship at Pickering Pacific, Jansen also did internships at AIG (Actuarial Science), Bloomberg (Analytics & Sales) and Emerson Process Management (Engineering).

From December 2013 to June 2015, Jansen completed all three levels of the CFA Program.

Yan is a Vice President at Pickering Pacific. She is a Singaporean national, originally from China.

Yan joined Pickering Pacific as a full-time M&A professional in 2016.

Yan completed her Masters of Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also holds a Bachelor of Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University.

Lissa is a Vice President at Pickering Pacific. She is a Singaporean national.

Lissa initially joined Pickering Pacific as an intern analyst in 2014. She subsequently joined Pickering Pacific as a full-time M&A professional in 2016.

Lissa has worked on various M&A projects in Southeast Asia with Pickering Pacific, such as: deal sourcing in the retail food sector in Indonesia and Johnsonville’s acquisition of QB Food (food distribution sector in Singapore).

Lissa graduated from Singapore Management University with a Bachelor of Business Management with Honours in 2016. During her university studies, in addition to doing an M&A internship at Pickering Pacific, Lissa also did internships at KPMG (M&A Advisory), United Overseas Bank (Personal Financial Services) and Singapore Exchange (Listings).

Lissa completed level 1 of the CFA Program.

Thomas is an Associate at Pickering Pacific. He is a Vietnamese national.

Thomas joined Pickering Pacific as a full-time M&A professional in 2019.

Thomas graduated from Nanyang Technological University from Singapore with a degree in Bachelor of Accountancy (second class upper honours) in 2017.

Thomas completed level 2 of the CFA Program.

Shirley is an office administrator/ researcher at Pickering Pacific. She is a Singaporean national.

Shirley joined Pickering Pacific as a full-time since 2011 and completed her Bachelor degree in Business Administration from University of Buckingham.