{"id":1162,"date":"2019-07-18T09:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T01:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:http:\/\/www.centurium.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2019-07-18T09:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T01:36:28","slug":"michael-chen-joins-centurium-capital-as-managing-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/en\/press-en\/michael-chen-joins-centurium-capital-as-managing-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Chen Joins Centurium Capital as Managing Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1403\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:http:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20190718091515.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20190718091515.jpg 1403w, https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20190718091515-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20190718091515-768x241.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20190718091515-1024x321.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1403px) 100vw, 1403px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Beijing, China, July 17, 2019 &#8211;<\/strong>&#8211; Centurium Capital, a leading private equity firm in China, today announced that Michael Chen had joined the firm as Managing Director. In this new role, Mr. Chen will work closely with Mr. David Li, Chairman and CEO of Centurium Capital, in managing investment activities of the firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Chen\nhas a proven track record as an experienced and successful private equity investor.\nBefore joining Centurium, Mr. Chen was a Managing Director of Warburg Pincus leading\nits consumer investments in China. During his tenure at Warburg Pincus since\n2011, he led a number of investments into leading Chinese companies in transportation\nand mobility, retail, logistics and education industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Chen commented, \u201cChina has come into a new era of real\neconomy and capital market , with both opportunies and challenges. Chinese\nhome-grown private equity firms are well equipped to provide tailor-made\nsolutions for Chinese companies in this new era. With an experienced team, as\nwell as deep sector insights and operational capabilities, Centurium Capital is\nwell postioned to ride this wave and create value for both our portfolio companies\nand our investors. I\u2019m very excited to join the team and look forward to helping\nbuild Centurium into one of the top private equity firms in China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. David Li, Chairman and CEO of Centurium Capital,\ncommented, \u201cMichael brings a wealth of expertise and resources through his many\nyears of experience in investment. As the macro trends of consumption upgrade,\nindustry consolidation and technology-driven business innovation continue, Centurium\nis committed to investing into transformational opportunities to drive portfolio\ngrowth. With Michael on board, our investment team is further enhanced, and he\nwill bring tremendous value in our efforts in investment, fundraising and\noperational suppport to our portfolio companies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to\njoining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Chen was a vice president at Crescent Point, a\nPan-Asia growth capital fund. Before Crescent Point, Mr. Chen worked in the\ninvestment banking division of Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong and Accenture in\nChina. He received a B.A. of Economics from Fudan University and an M.B.A. from\nINSEAD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Centurium Capital is a leading private equity firm in China. With deep domain knowledge and sector resources, Centurium Capital primarily focuses on investing into the China consumer and healthcare sectors. Since its inception, Centurium Capital has received strong support from world-wide leading institutional investors including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, corporates and FOFs. The firm seeks to invest in control or significant minority private equity stakes with a particular focus on in-depth engagement to improve operational efficiency and solve structural deficiencies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, China, July 17, 2019 &#8211;&#8211; Centurium  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centurium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}