Lionel de Saint-Exupery
Lionel is the President and Co-Founder of CDIB Capital. Prior to CDIB Capital, Lionel was a senior banker in the investment banking division of Lehman Brothers based in New York and London. During his investment banking career, Lionel worked on more than US$45 billion of M&A and Capital Markets transactions. His experience spans across a broad range of industries such as Financial Services, Industrial, Consumer, Media, Technology and Business Services throughout North America, Europe and Asia. During those years, he advised leading private equity firms across a variety of leveraged buyout, trade sale and IPO transactions. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Lionel was a member of the Global Mergers & Acquisitions practice of Booz-Allen & Hamilton.
Lionel is a Director of Touch Media International, Tikona Digital Networks (Observer), Cube Capital, Ecofin Fund Management Limited and SE Properties Limited. He also serves on the advisory boards of a number of private equity funds including the Asian Infrastructure Fund, Carlyle Asia Partners, Tenaya Capital, CX Partners and Riverwood Capital.
Lionel holds an MBA with Distinctions from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a BS in Finance & Entrepreneurship from France’s HEC School of Management.
Nan Zheng
Nan is a Senior Vice President at CDIB Capital's San Francisco office. Prior to CDIB Capital, Nan was a senior member of the Private Equity team at the Special Situations Group of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York, where she focused on the technology, media, and consumer retail verticals. Prior to Goldman Sachs, she was a Principal at Invesco Private Capital, where she led late stage venture capital deals. Nan also worked as an Analyst within Goldman Sachs’ fixed income derivatives division.
Nan holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and BA degrees in Economics and Statistics from Harvard College.
Kenneth Huang
Ken is an Associate at CDIB Capital’s San Francisco office. Prior to CDIB Capital, Ken worked in the investment banking division of Barclays Capital focusing on financial services, where he worked on numerous debt, equity and M&A transactions in the depository, insurance and specialty finance sectors. Ken’s deal experience includes the $13.9 billion sale of IndyMac Federal Bank and the initial public offering of First Interstate Bancsystem. Prior to Barclays Capital, Ken was an Analyst in the investment banking division of Lehman Brothers.
Ken holds a BA in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a minor in Accounting.
Beverly Lum
Beverly is the Office Manager of CDIB Capital’s San Francisco office, where she oversees the daily office operations and administration. Prior to joining CDIB Capital, Beverly directed general operations for various law firms including Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP and Krieg, Keller, Sloan, Reilley & Roman LLP. Prior to these roles, Beverly served as manager of administration at McKinsey & Company where she defined and implemented the administrative infrastructure, and managed budgets and fiscal records.
Beverly attended San Francisco City College and State University majoring in Business Administration.