People Moves

Venture Capital House Adds To China Team

Tom Burroughes Group Editor 4 August 2016

Venture Capital House Adds To China Team

This publication brings latest news of moves and appointments in the Asia-Pacific wealth management sector.

Eight Roads Ventures, formerly known as Fidelity Growth Partners, has appointed Joe Chang as a partner in its China ventures team. The team focuses on enterprise technology, consumer IT, fintech and services investments. 

Chang will be based in the Shanghai office and starts with immediate effect, the firm said yesterday.

Previously, Chang worked at SoftBank China Venture Capital, where he was a partner. Before that, Chang was head of corporate development at Cisco Greater China. Before this, he held various senior sales and general management roles at Microsoft China, having spent the first 10 years of his career in consulting in China and the US, first with Coopers & Lybrand then McKinsey & Co.

Originally from the US, Chang graduated with an MBA from Kellogg School of Management.

In earlier appointments at the firm, Michael Treskow from Accel and Rohit Krishnan from McKinsey & Co joined the European ventures team in London as partner and vice president respectively.

Eight Roads is the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International and backs technology entrepreneurs.

 

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