Hillhouse Hires Pepsi APAC Chief to Expand Consumer Investments

Asset manager Hillhouse Investment has hired PepsiCo Inc.’s Asia-Pacific Chief Executive Officer Wern-Yuen Tan in a push to expand consumer investments in the region.

Tan will start in March to lead Hillhouse’s global consumer investment practice, with a focus on Japan, according to a spokesperson for the company. He has lived in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese, the spokesperson said.

Tan grew up in Singapore and Tokyo, according to his LinkedIn profile. Having started his career as a police officer, he rose to become Walmart Inc.’s China president and CEO, before being named PepsiCo’s APAC CEO and global ...