Mr. Clifford K. Chiu is a corporate director and private investment firm senior advisor, as well as a board or committee appointee to government bodies and non-governmental organizations in financial services, enterprise software, data and technology-enabled solutions, healthcare, education, social welfare and the arts located in the United States and Hong Kong.

A retired partner in 2014 at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) who founded and led the capital raising and investor relations for the Asia Pacific region, Mr. Chiu is currently a director of Acquia, Allvue Systems, Critical Start, Finastra, LogicMonitor, Securonix and TRG Screen. Since 2015, he has served as a senior advisor to Vista Equity Partners and now to its executive committee. Mr. Chiu is a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, including participation in its U.S.-China Track II Dialogue on the Digital Economy. On July 15, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intent to appoint Mr. Chiu to serve as a member of the Commission on Presidential Scholars. Committed to government and public service, Mr. Chiu was appointed to the Policy Research Committee. Then the Market Development Committee of the HK Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) from its inception in 2013 until its January 2019 incorporation, as well as the Investment Committee of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority from 2013 until his final term expired in December 2020 and the Advisory Panel of Cyberport.hk. from July 2017 to January 2022.

With a career spanning more than four decades, Mr. Chiu previously served as a managing director & head of Asian institutional business at JP Morgan Asset Management and as managing director and head of Hong Kong investment banking and before then co-head of Japan investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup and its predecessors based in New York, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. He was a senior advisor to Neuberger Berman Group (and a member of NSBH) in Hong Kong for eight years through 2022. He is a former director and audit committee member of Hsin Chong Construction Group (Hang Seng: 0404. HK), Cambium Learning Group (Nasdaq: ABCD), where he chaired the special independent committee associated with its December 2018 acquisition, the Regulatory Data Corp. until its sale to Moody’s Corp. In January 2020, Infoblox, Inc. until its investment by Warburg Pincus in December 2020, Ping Identity, Inc. (NYSE: PING) through two terms ending, in May 2021, TIBCO Software until its combination with Citrix Systems in September 2022, Fusion Risk Management until its majority investment from Great Hill Partners in May 2023 and Apptio, Inc. until its acquisition by IBM Corp. in August 2023, as well as of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority’s United Christian Hospital and Tseung Kwan O Hospital for over a decade and the New York City Mission Society where he was treasurer.

Now residing in Austin, Texas, and Hong Kong, Mr. Chiu is a director or trustee of the Seton Fund, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM), St. James Settlement, and the Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce. A lifelong champion of education and healthcare, Mr. Chiu has served on the global advisory boards of the Weingarten Learning Resources Center at the University of Pennsylvania and of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where in 2015 he was appointed the first “distinguished executive-in-residence” at its Hong Kong campus. Through the Clinton Global Initiative, Mr. Chiu launched a 2015 commitment to action, “K-12 Learning Through Global Connectivity” in language arts and STEM skills. The Chiu family has endowed annual scholarships for the underrepresented at his alma maters Chicago Booth and the University of Pennsylvania as well as the Hong Kong University Medical School, Pomona College, and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, for which collectively Mr. Chiu is credited for mentoring hundreds of students and alumni. In 2019, he established the Chiu Endowment for Excellence in Mental Health to expand the capacity for uninsured students to attend the outpatient therapy program founded by Ascension Seton Hospital and the University of Texas at Austin. In 2020, Mr. Chiu’s first-ever OpEd entitled “We Must Denounce Hate Against Asian-Americans” was published in the Austin American-Statesman, which inspired the City of Austin, Texas Proclamation of October 1st as Asian American/Pacific Islander Community Day. He and his wife Leigh made two Gifts of Health Equity by providing cost-free COVID-19 testing for the uninsured and underinsured in Austin throughout 2021 and by seeding a food insecurity program in 2022 to help address a root cause of high maternal morbidity rates among Black and Brown mothers in Austin at Dell Seton and Ascension Seton Medical Centers. In January 2022, Mr. Chiu proudly underwrote Stop AAPI Hate’s first-ever Impact Report (“Turning a Moment into a Movement”), then, in May 2024, the national media storytelling project, “Spread AAPI Love”, as part of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

                                                  October 2024