Mr. Chan is a Senior Managing Director and Head of Asia for Samena Capital Hong Kong Limited. Samena Capital is a principal investment group, which invests across multiple asset classes including private equity and corporate credit within the Subcontinent, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (the SAMENA region). It has over US$1 billion of assets under management, committed by a unique shareholder and investor network consisting of prominent business families and entrepreneurs across the SAMENA region.
Mr. Chan was Founding CEO for 8 years of Spring Capital, an independent private equity firm that invests exclusively in China. He has 28 years of Asia experience in private equity and has made over 45 investments in growth companies in China. He was previously a Managing Director and an Investment Committee Member of JAFCO Asia, serving as the Co-Head of the Asian private equity funds for 7 years.
Prior to JAFCO Asia, Mr. Chan was a private equity investor with Suez Asia and HSBC Private Equity (Asia) based in Hong Kong. Mr. Chan commenced his professional career in Standard Chartered’s corporate finance division.
In the China context, Mr. Chan is a Member of Chengdu Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He was named a Top 10 Venture Capitalist in China by Zero2IPO in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2006. He was also selected as one of "the 10 Most Influential Venture Capitalists in China” by Top Capital in 2005 and was ranked Number 9th as China Best Venture Capitalists by Forbes Magazine in December 2015. Mr. Chan built up a China private equity manager, Spring Capital, from scratch in 2008, which had operations from Shanghai, Suzhou, to Hong Kong.
