“Young scientists are not only the future of science, but also the builders of the future home of mankind. It is hoped that this home built by scientists will bring peace, solidity, stability and harmony to mankind today and in the future. ”
Eric Chen
Founding Donor
Chairman of BaseBit Technologies; Co-CEO of ARM China Independent director of Applied Materials
Eric Chen, Ph. D., is a Managing Partner, Softbank Vision Fund, the world’s largest technology investment fund which has backers including Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Apple, and Qualcomm. The Fund has sizable investments in companies such as WeWork, Apple and Qualcomm. He is the co-founder of BaseBit Technologies, a venture backed company focused on data science for healthcare, operating in the United States and China.
Previously, Dr. Chen was a Managing Director at Silver Lake Partners since 2008. He was one of two partners who founded Silver Lake’s Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai offices, and its Asia investment and management teams. Silver Lake is the world’s largest private equity firm exclusively focused on investing in technology and technology-enabled industries, having led many large scale and influential investment cases such as Dell, Seagate, Skype, Avago, Alibaba, etc.