Zhang Lei

Founder&CEO, Hillhouse Capital Group Business Circle

Lei Zhang, is the founder, chair, and CEO of Hillhouse Capital Management Group. Founded by Zhang in 2005, Hillhouse Capital focuses on long-term equity investing. The firm invests in the consumer, technology, business services and health care sectors. Based in Asia, Hillhouse Capital and its group members manage over US$40 billion in assets on behalf of institutional clients such as university endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices.

Zhang is a Trustee of Yale University. In addition, he is the co-Chairman of the Yale Asia Development Council. Before attending Yale, where he earned an M.B.A and an M.A. in international relations in 2002, Zhang received his B.A. in economics in 1994 from Renmin University of China, where he is vice chairman and Trustee of the board.

Zhang is a governing board member of the China-United States Exchange Foundation and serves on the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council as well as the Steering Group on Financial Technologies. He served as a co-Chair of the B20 China Employment Taskforce in 2016 and the co-Chair of the B20 Germany Employment and Education Taskforce in 2017.