A top-ranking graduate of Stanford University’s School of Engineering, Christopher Hsu serves as the CEO and Managing Partner of Kilometre Capital in Hong Kong. With Kilometer Capital, Christopher has applied extensive cross-border expertise to drive among Asia’s most significant cross-border investment private equity and buyout deals.
Chris Hsu has spearheaded landmark transactions including Tsinghua University’s historical acquisition of a controlling stake in Hewlett Packard China and H3C. One of the most important joint ventures in U.S.-China history, the transaction, valued at approximately $4.6 billion, received the blessing of one of the most important regulatory approvals in US-China cross-border history via CFIUS. CFIUS is an inter-agency committee of the United States Government that reviews the national security implications of foreign investments in U.S. companies or operations.
H-P and Tsinghua University announced that Tsinghua Holdings, which is affiliated with the prestigious Tsinghua University, will buy 51% of a newly created entity housing the U.S. company’s H3C Technologies Co. networking operation together with its China-based server, data-storage and technology-services businesses. H-P maintained a portfolio of businesses that are less technologically sensitive.
“HP is making a bold move to win in today’s China,” said CEO Meg Whitman in a statement. “Partnering with Tsinghua, one of China’s most respected institutions, the new H3C will be able to drive even greater innovation for China, in China.” H3C will become a subsidiary of Unisplendour, which is the publicly traded unit of Tsinghua Holdings.
Meanwhile, HP, an acronym for the legendary Hewlett-Packard, the California company, which is one of the world’s largest makers of computers, said it would still fully own its existing China-based enterprise services through HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprises), PC business and other operations in China. At the time of the deal, HP’s H3C had an estimated 8,000 employees with more than $3 billion in yearly revenue, according to HP and Tsinghua.
The former CEO and Founder of Abax Capital, a private equity fund and hedge fund with offices in Hong Kong and Asia, Chris Hsu also led Abax’s minority equity partnership with Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
The Stanford University graduate Christopher Hsu was promoted to be the youngest Managing Director at hedge fund Citadel Investment Group, where he launched and managed the Asian Special Situations and private investment business for Citadel, encompassing investment responsibility in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Greater China and Asia at large.
Christopher Hsu was an early investor in the leading online music service Spotify and SpaceX, Elon Musk’s revolutionary space exploration and space launch business. Christopher ran his first of many 42.2 kilometre marathons at age 11.
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