Mr. Amour joined AIF Capital in 1998, became Chief Operating Officer in 2002 and has led the executive team since 2003. A Hong Kong resident since 1985, he has over 20 years of private equity investment, finance and industry experience in Asia. Mr. Amour started his legal career in 1982 and joined Baker & McKenzie in Shanghai in 1984 and subsequently in Hong Kong where he was focused on banking and project finance, in particular property, construction and aircraft finance. In 1987, he joined Standard Chartered Asia where he acted as corporate advisor to and led numerous equity raisings and M&A transactions for mid-sized to large corporations. Mr. Amour went on to join the Charoen Pokphand Group, one of Asia’s largest Overseas Chinese family owned business groups, as Vice President, Finance in 1990. In that capacity for 9 years, he led or was a key team member in over 150 transactions in the food & beverage, agricultural, telecoms, power, toll-road, industrial manufacturing, multi-purpose resorts as well as logistics & distribution sectors. In addition, he was also directly responsible for planning, negotiating and implementing all major debt and equity financing requirements of the Group’s Hong Kong listed entities which included the successful completion of over US$1.8bn in debt and equity capital market transactions. Mr. Amour left the Charoen Pokphand Group to co-found Axia Capital Partners Limited (ACP) in 1998. Among its notable mandates, ACP was appointed investment adviser to the US$100m Hong Kong-listed Shanghai International Shanghai Growth Fund that was sponsored by Temasek Holdings, Shanghai City government and Kwang Hua Securities of Taiwan. From 1998 to 2000, ACP also acted as adviser to the pension fund of a major US corporation on a US$100m private equity investment fund targeted at Hong Kong, China and Thailand. Mr. Amour holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting and Finance and Bachelor of Law from the University of New South Wales as well as a Master of Law from the University of Melbourne in Australia. He is admitted as a solicitor in England, Australia and Hong Kong. Mr. Amour studied the Chinese language at Fudan University in Shanghai between 1984-85, and speaks and reads Mandarin.

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