Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia Team

H. Chin Chou is the Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia and a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, based in Hong Kong. Mr. Chou also serves on the Firm’s Asia-Pacific Executive Committee, which is comprised of the Firm’s senior business leaders within the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Chou joined Morgan Stanley in 1987 in New York and has spent over 33 years at Morgan Stanley, with the past 29 years in Asia. Mr. Chou has led MSPE Asia’s five regional private equity funds to date: the $330 million MSGEM Fund (1999), the $525 million Asia Fund II (2005), the $1.5 billion Asia Fund III (2007), the $1.7 billion Asia Fund IV (2013), and the current Asia Fund V. Mr Chou also oversees the Firm’s China RMB private equity business and Thailand private equity business. Mr. Chou was also part of Morgan Stanley’s Private Equity Group in New York in the late 1980s. He was previously a Director of CTCI, eAccess, ECVision, HTL, Rotem, Itest, Landmark, SsangYong and YesAsia. Mr. Chou holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. with Distinction from Harvard Business School.