Headquartered in Hong Kong, Summer Capital manages private equity and venture capital funds. The firm administers three funds that primarily target biotech companies in China. In blockchain and fintech, Summer Capital has ranked among the earliest licensed funds investing in the crypto space in Hong Kong since 2018.

The buyout funds hold significant shares in several global companies, including one of Switzerland’s two crypto digital banks and a Boston biotech firm. Since its inception, Datuk Chee has played a crucial role in several early investments for Summer Capital, including the privatisation of CWT from the SGX for SGD 1.3 billion, the acquisition of Swiss Education Group for CHF 630 million, and the incubation of SEBA Bank AG (over CHF 600 million).

Additionally, he has made minority private equity investments in notable companies such as XPeng, one of the top three EV companies in China, ARM China, Giant Biogene, Animoca, Hashkey, JD Logistics, and JD Digits.

In 2018, Datuk Chee significantly contributed to Summer Capital’s investment in GDS, a global leader in high-performance data centre development and operations. Datuk Chee also chairs the Swiss Education Group and serves as vice chairman of SEBA Bank AG (now AMINA Group), the first Swiss-licensed digital asset bank catering to traditional finance and crypto communities.

Datuk Chee began his career with the UBS Asia mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance group team in 2000 after working at Citigroup and Salomon Smith Barney in New York. In 2003, he transitioned to the Capital Markets Group and managed China’s equity capital markets in 2004/2005. His move to Beijing in 2006 established UBS Securities’ franchise in China, now recognised as the best foreign joint venture in the domestic market.

In 2010, he oversaw the Asia Global Capital Markets Group, and in 2015, he led the Asia Investment Banking business. Under his leadership, UBS Asia Pacific maintained a dominant position in various IPO and capital markets league tables, consistently earning prestigious awards such as ‘Bank of the Year’ and ‘Equity House of the Year’ from reputable institutions like IFR, Finance Asia, The Asset, and Asia Money.

His extensive banking career in the Asia Pacific included building a vast network across corporations, financial institutions, and regulatory bodies. Throughout his career, Datuk Chee has completed over 150 IPOs and more than 300 equity, equity-linked, and debt transactions for issuers, raising over US$250 billion in capital.

His involvement in landmark merger and acquisition transactions includes the merger of 12 banks to form the Bank of China Hong Kong, the merger of China CNR and CSR Corporations, Charoen Pokphand Group’s acquisition of PingAn and a CITIC stake, Xinhu’s acquisition of a CITIC Bank stake, and the merger of China Cosco and China Shipping. He also contributed to China HNA’s US$10 billion acquisition of the CIT Group plane-leasing business.

Datuk Chee also led pre-IPO investments in Cinda Asset Management (US$500 million), China Postal Bank (US$2 billion), Didi Kuadi, and Flipkart.

Datuk Chee holds a doctorate from a joint program between Tsinghua University and the University of Geneva. He earned an executive MBA from Tsinghua University People’s Bank of China School of Finance, an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.