Innovative Organizational Structure

Mr. Li currently serves as a Senior Advisor to Blue Pool Capital. Since 2015, he has been a Partner of the family office, responsible for managing its global private equity investments. An experienced investor with over 25 years of global investment expertise across venture capital, growth equity, and buyout transactions, Mr. Li also manages the VCA Capital Fund I, which supports individuals and family offices in building and managing diversified private equity portfolios worldwide through both fund and direct investments.

Prior to that, he was a Managing Director at Bain Capital and a Vice President at Investor AB, the largest industrial holding company in Northern Europe. Mr. Li began his career in investment banking at Lehman Brothers in New York. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Columbia University and is a CFA charterholder.

Mr. Li is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and serves as Chairman of the Seed Foundation, a youth education NGO sponsored by the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund. He also serves on committees of the Financial Services Development Council, and as an advisor to the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Our Hong Kong Foundation. In addition, he is a founding patron of the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

Ms. Chen previously served as Chief Investment Officer at Jiachen Asset Management (Hong Kong), where she managed a diversified portfolio of nearly USD 2 billion across equities, private equity, and fixed income. With over 20 years of experience spanning Wall Street and Hong Kong, she has participated in investments totaling more than USD 10 billion. She also founded Qianting Capital, providing strategic development and overseas asset allocation solutions for Asian family enterprises.

Earlier in her career, she was a fund manager at Hua’an Investment, a subsidiary of China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange, managing a sovereign wealth portfolio exceeding USD 10 billion. She also worked in the Structured Bonds Division at Morgan Stanley’s New York headquarters, where she helped issue several landmark multi-billion-dollar bond products, and later joined AIG’s Strategic Investments Division, leading target screening for mergers and acquisitions.

Ms. Chen holds an MBA with highest honors from Yale University, where she studied under the legendary investor David Swensen and absorbed his philosophy of long-term value investing. She currently serves as a member of the Yale University Greater China Advisory Board and as a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong. In these roles, she continues to foster the next generation of family enterprise leaders while promoting the deep integration of academic research and business practice.

Mr. Zhu is currently Managing Director at Aurex Capital. He previously led real estate and asset management for two family offices—one belonging to a Chinese real estate entrepreneur and the other to a biotechnology entrepreneur. With over 20 years of experience in the real estate industry, he possesses deep expertise across residential, hospitality, and commercial sectors in Mainland China, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States. His work spans acquisitions, development, operations, and disposals, with a track record that includes acquiring and managing over USD 1.5 billion in hotel and residential assets across three continents.

Mr. Zhu began his career with Hyatt International, where he conducted extensive market research across more than 25 cities in China and successfully facilitated the acquisition of 14 hotels for the Starwood group.

He holds a degree from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, where he currently serves as Chair of the Cornell Hotel Society for the North Asia region and as a member of Cornell University’s Board of Trustees. In addition, he owns a dermatology clinic in Macau and serves as Vice President of the Macau Taiwan Chamber of Commerce.