Biography

Peng is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a leading early-stage tech venture capital firm in Southeast Asia. Peng is an industry veteran with over 25 years of industry experience as an entrepreneur, founder, and investor in Silicon Valley and in Asia.

Prior to Monk’s Hill Ventures, he was a Venture Partner at GSR Ventures in China. The firm is known for its successful investments in companies like Didi Chuxing, Eleme, and Qunar. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded a series of successful companies including Match.com, Interwoven and Encentuate, whose products  today combined generate over USD$1 billion in revenues annually.

Peng was awarded Singapore's Public Service Medal, P.B.M. (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) in 2012. He formerly held statutory board directorships in: ACE, IIPL, SUTD, NRF, IE Singapore, IMDA. SingTel and YY, amongst others, were commercial boards he also served on. Peng is currently the Chair of SolveEducation! and serves as a member of the International Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin.

He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. Peng was inducted to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, College of Engineering's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2016.