Mr. Vincent Chan

Vincent 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.

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Vincent was the Founding CEO for 8 years and currently is the Non-Executive Chairman 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. Vincent 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, Vincent was a private equity investor with Suez Asia and HSBC Private Equity (Asia) based in Hong Kong. Vincent commenced his professional career in Standard Chartered’s corporate finance division there.

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Vincent received a B.A. from the University of Hong Kong and an MBA from the Manchester Business School, and also obtained a CFA charter. He is currently the Co-President of the Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (Chairman 2005/06), a Board Member of the Hong Kong Foundation for the University of Manchester, a Member of the University of Hong Kong Investments Sub-Committee managing the endowment funds, a Board Member of the HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education and a panel member of the Resolvability Review Tribunal. Vincent was a member of the Main Board and GEM Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (2007-12), a member of the Public Shareholders Group of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (2005-11), members of Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee (2006-10) and Information & Communication Technology Services Advisory Committee (2005-08) of the HK Trade Development Council, a Director of the Manchester Business School Leadership Board (2010-19) and a member of the Disciplinary Panel of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (2006-13).

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In the China context, Vincent 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. He received the award as the 2011 Outstanding Alumni of the University of Manchester.