My parents came to America from Hong Kong in the late 1960s after the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which ended de facto discrimination against immigrants from Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia. My father became a professor of astrophysics at UMass-Amherst, which is where I grew up. My mother and her two sisters became computer programmers after college in the 1970s, and my mother worked as a programmer for over 30 years. Her appreciation for tech is what led me to study computer science at Stanford.

I started my career on Wall Street just as the Internet we know today was taking shape. A few years later, I had the opportunity to join Morgan Stanley’s Menlo Park office, where I thrived for 22 years, including six years running the bank’s global internet and software business and six years leading the West Coast team. That continuity became a great asset because it took time to learn the craft of advising companies on their most important strategic and financial objectives. It also allowed me to see firsthand what world-class tech companies do to create enduring value, whether it was strategic, financial, operational, or cultural.

At GC, I lead the Global Resilience team, which focuses on modernizing our most critical societal systems, including defense and intelligence, industrial, and energy sectors. I look for mission-driven, software-enabled companies that are category-defining in their own unique way. I’ve led investments in Anduril, Helsing, Vannevar Labs, Samsara, Charm Industrial, Re:Build, AwardCo, Neko Health, and Rakuten Medical.

I’m an adjunct lecturer at Stanford and, for many years, I taught a class at the Haas School of Business on tech IPOs and M&A. My wife and I are supporters of pioneering neuropsychiatric research at Stanford University's Pasca Lab to better understand autism, psychiatric disorders, and orphan genetic diseases like 22q11. I also serve as vice chair of the Lucille Packard Foundation for Children's Health.