Christopher Hsu: A Leading Private Equity Investor and Advisor

Christopher Hsu, who is a top-ranking graduate of Stanford University’s School of Engineering, serves as the CEO and Managing Partner of Kilometer Capital, Hong Kong. Christopher has applied extensive cross-border expertise with Kilometer Capital to drive among Asia’s most significant cross-border investment private equity and buyout deals. 

Landmark transactions, including Tsinghua University’s historic acquisition of a controlling stake in Hewlett Packard China and H3C, were spearheaded by Chris Hsu. This transaction was one of the most important joint ventures in U.S.-China history, valued at approximately $4.6 billion, and it received the blessing of the most important regulatory approvals in US-China cross-border history via CFIUS. CFIUS in the United States is an inter-agency committee of 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 operations along with its China-based servers, data-storage and technology-service businesses. A portfolio of less technologically sensitive businesses is maintained by H-P.

As per CEO Meg Whitman’s statement, “HP is making a bold move to win in today’s China” “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 Tsinghua Holding’s publicly traded unit, Unisplendour.

Meanwhile, HP, an acronym for the legendary Hewlett-Packard, a company in California who is one of the world’s largest makers of computers, said that they would still fully own the PC business, existing China-based enterprise services through HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprises) and other operations in China. According to HP and Tsinghua, HP’s H3C had an estimated 8,000 employees with more than $3 billion in yearly revenue at the time of the deal.

Chris Hsu, who was the former CEO and Founder of Abax Capital which is a private equity fund and hedge fund having offices in Hong Kong and Asia, has also led the minority equity partnership of Abax with Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

Christopher Hsu, the Stanford University graduate, 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, and he was also promoted to be the youngest Managing Director at hedge fund Citadel Investment Group.

In the world’s leading digital music streaming platform, Spotify and SpaceX, which is Elon Musk’s revolutionary space exploration and space launch business. Mr Hsu was an early-stage investor. Mr Chris Hsu ran his first marathon of 42.2 km at eleven years of age.