Varun Bery

Mr. Varun Bery started his career in 1981 as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York. He then worked in investment banking with CS First Boston in New York before moving to Hong Kong in 1995 to join the Asian Infrastructure Fund, a private equity fund with close to US$1 billion under management. Mr. Bery subsequently co-founded TVG Capital Partners in 1998 to invest in media and telecom assets throughout Asia, with over US$700m under management.

During a portion of his tenure at TVG, Mr. Bery concurrently ran the regionwide Private Capital Asia business for JP Morgan out of Hong Kong. Since 2016, has been a Senior Advisor to StormHarbour Securities in Hong Kong and serves on the Boards of both the Hong Kong Venture Capital Association and the Harvard Business School Association of Hong Kong, such as on the Board and Finance Committee of Integrated Board Education Limited (IBEL), an educational charity serving children from ethnic minority communities in Hong Kong. At Yale, Mr. Bery serves on the Inaugural Advisory Board of the Jackson School of Global Affairs.

He holds a BA degree (summa cum laude) in Economics and Mathematics from Yale University where he also played on the varsity squash team. He also received an MBA degree with High Distinction from Harvard Business School where he was named a Baker Scholar.