Team

Mr. Kuo has over 20 years of experience in technology investing and tech banking, both in Silicon Valley as well as globally. Mr. Kuo is a co-founding partner of Canyon Bridge, a $1 billion private equity firm focused on technology transactions. Prior to co-founding Canyon Bridge, Mr. Kuo was a managing director at Lazard and Cowen. He began his investment career at Pacific Venture Group, an Asia-based VC firm and also practiced law at Davis Polk & Wardwell, and during his career has advised leading multinational tech companies.

A Fulbright Scholar, Mr. Kuo holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BS in foreign service from Georgetown.

Dr. Zhang is a technology expert with over 30 years of hard tech experience as an engineer, executive, entrepreneur, CEO, Chairman and investor. Dr. Zhang is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Kleiner Perkins, a position he has held since 2018 and also the Executive Chairman of Crossbar Inc., a Kleiner Perkins portfolio company that develops innovative memory technology. Dr. Zhang also advises Intel Capital and serves on the board of several of its portfolio companies. Prior to this, he was Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s CDMA product and development group. Dr. Zhang was the CEO of VIA Telecom from 2002 until it was acquired by Intel in 2015.

Dr. Zhang earned his M.S. in physics from the University of Massachusetts and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He holds 3 US patents.

Mr. Tsai has over 15 years of experience in technology investing, tech banking and operationally building tech-focused businesses primarily in Silicon Valley. He was previously a Partner at Left Coast Ventures, Chief Investment Officer at ONEHOPE Inc. and on the founding team of Leeo, Inc. Prior to that, he was a Principal at Hercules Capital. He began his investment career at Macquarie Capital and also was an investment banker at Deutsche Bank.

Mr. Tsai attended Columbia Business School and Princeton University.

Mr. Mehra has over 18 years of experience in technology investing and technology investment banking. During his career, Sumeet has been involved in more than $75 billion in transactions in the technology industry and specializes in complex, cross-border situations. Before joining PTK, he was a Managing Director at Canyon Bridge, a technology focused private equity firm with $1bn assets under management. Prior to that, he was a technology investment banker at Lazard. He started his career in the M&A group at Morgan Stanley in New York.

Mr. Mehra holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and Bachelor in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Mr. Dong has over 13 years of experience in technology investing, tech banking and management consulting in Asia. During his career, he has been involved in more than $10 billion in transactions in the technology industry. He was previously an Executive Director at XJ Capital, a private equity firm anchored by CITIC Group, and an Executive Director at China Securities International. Prior to that, he was a TMT investment banker at Lazard and CITIC Securities. In early career, he was a management consultant at Accenture.

Mr. Dong holds an MBA from New York University, a Master in computer science from National University of Singapore, and a Bachelor in information systems from Wuhan University.