Aglaia Family Office

Aglaia Family Office

Aglaia Family Office was co-founded by Heinrich Jessen, Gavin Tan, and Stephen Hunt, with part of its underlying wealth originating from the Jebsen & Jessen Family Enterprise. Heinrich Jessen also serves as Chairman of Jebsen & Jessen South East Asia, the diversified industrial group that provides the family office with its foundational network and deal flow across the region. The firm operates from a single base in Singapore. The firm's investment posture spans a mix of direct real assets and research-driven alternative exposures. It directly owns a portfolio of Asian gateway city mixed-use properties and an industrial book concentrated in Southeast Asian logistics and data centers. Alongside hard assets, the family office maintains active research mandates in blockchain and digital assets, supplements its book with commodity exposures, and manages a specialist allocation to classic car collections—an esoteric asset class that doubles as a passion investment for the principals. Aglaia's operational backbone consists of its three co-founders and Purnima Gandhi, who leads strategic investments and family office advisory. While the total team size and AUM remain undisclosed, the firm's professional network signals deep institutional ties. Heinrich Jessen is a past chairman of the YPO Intercontinental Chapter and served as President of the Family Business Network Asia. The firm itself is a charter member of the Family Office Club. These affiliations amplify a sourcing funnel that blends industrial heritage with peer-family co-investment dialogue. Philanthropically, the office supports the Magic Bus India Foundation. Aglaia's architecture combines a single-family capital base with a partnership model that draws on a multi-generational industrial conglomerate for pipeline. This hybrid posture—an owner-operator mentality applied to mixed-use real estate, specialty alternatives, and passion assets—distinguishes it from pure allocator family offices. The leadership's deep governance roles within the originating industrial group create a structural alignment where deal sourcing and operational expertise flow from the same network that generated the wealth.