Po Chi Wu

Co-founder, Dragon Bridge Capital

Dr. Po Chi Wu is a highly experienced and successful international venture capitalist who has turned his attention to high growth opportunities offered by China’s emergence as a global economic power. He focuses on fast-growing companies in information technologies and life sciences, where his unique insights and hands-on approach add significant value. His specialty is “Intellectual Capital Formation”, which includes development of exceptional human resources, and superior business strategies.

Dr. Wu is a co-founder and one of the Managing Directors of DragonBridge Capital, a merchant bank serving Chinese and US technology companies, helping them become global citizens. He is also a co-founder and former Managing Director of Alameda Capital. Before this, he was co-founder and President of Allegro Capital, which managed Strategic Value I, L.P., a fund which returned almost four times the invested capital, and almost double the original paid-in capital within three years to its investors.

His work experience as a venture capitalist began in late 1985, when he was invited to co-found a venture capital subsidiary of China Development Corporation (now China Development Industrial Bank), a publicly traded investment and development bank in Taiwan. After that, he was a partner with one of the world's largest international venture capital firms, Advent International Corporation, where he opened and headed the California office and was responsible for some of the firm's investment activities in Asia and in the US.

Dr. Wu is currently a Visiting Professor at the Mundell International University of Entrepreneurship (Beijing), an International Finance Advisor to the City of Guangzhou and serves on the Advisory Council of the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California at Berkeley, his alma mater. He has been involved with several non-profit organizations as: a Director and former President of the Chinese Software Professionals Association (Silicon Valley), a Trustee of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Foundation and Chair of the Technology Committee and a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Genetic Medicine at the University of Southern California.

Dr Wu’s dedication to education and the cultural history of China can be traced back through several generations of illustrious scholars in his family. His great grand-father was a Hanlin Scholar in the Ching Dynasty, perhaps one of the last to be selected by the demanding traditional examination procedure. On receiving one of the highest grades, this Hanlin Scholar was awarded a very high government position. Dr. Wu’s father, Professor Wu, Ta-You, was a highly respected theoretical physicist who retired in 1995 from the Presidency of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan at the age of 88. Until 1998, Professor Wu still taught one class a week because that kept him young. Professor Wu died in March 2000.

Po Chi Wu's educational background includes a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and B. A. degrees in Mathematics and Music from the University of California at Berkeley (1966).