Mr. Weijian Shan

Chairman and CEO of PAG Group

Mr. Weijian Shan is Chairman and CEO of PAG Group, a private equity & alternative asset management firm with more than $12 billion in capital under management across private equity, absolute return, and real estate investments. He is also managing partner of PAG Asia Capital, a buyout fund under PAG Group. Prior to PAG, Mr. Shan spent 12 years as a partner at TPG and co-managing partner of TPG Asia (formerly known as Newbridge Capital before 2007). He led a number of landmark transactions for TPG/Newbridge in Asia including the acquisition of control and sale of Korea First Bank and Shenzhen Development Bank in China. Prior to TPG, Mr. Shan was a Managing Director of JP Morgan, concurrently serving as China Chief Representative for 5 years. Before then, he was an assistant professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for 6 years. His other former employers include the World Bank and Graham & James Law Firm in San Francisco. He was a hard laborer in the Gobi Desert of China for six years in his youth. Mr. Shan received an MA and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and an MBA from University of San Francisco. He graduated from Beijing University of International Business and Economics.