Leon Meng

Board member
since October 2022

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Ascendent Capital Partners (Asia) Ltd

Mr. Meng is the Chairman and CEO of Ascendent Capital Partners, a private equity firm managing capital for globally renowned institutional investors since 2011. Prior to Ascendent, Mr. Meng was a Managing Director of D. E. Shaw & Co., where he was a global partner and the leader of the firm's Asian investment office. He also founded and was the CEO of its private equity business in Greater China. Previously, Mr. Meng was Managing Director and Co-Head of China Investment Banking at JPMorgan, in charge of its Asia M&A and China investment banking activities. Mr. Meng began his career in 1997 as an M&A specialist at Credit Suisse First Boston based in New York. Mr. Meng received his M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management, where he is a Donaldson Fellow, the Co-Chairman of the school’s Greater China Advisory Board and a member of the Yale Center Beijing Global Advisory Committee. Mr. Meng is also an Advisory Board member of the Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center, and a founding Council Member of the Future Forum in China.

Leon is a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee and Program Committee.