Eastern promise
Duncan TK Chui, chairman of venture capital fund Sino Katalytics Investment Corporation (SKIC), is a 38-year-old, Cornell-educated former consultant now running a fund from his office in Hong Kong’s raucous Wan Chai district. Although the office sits above a Lexus showroom, his claim that it is "not flashy" is accurate enough: there’s a down-to-earth sensibility on display as Euromoney is led through to his glass-walled office, and when friend and fellow fund manager Hanson Cheah pops in from the adjoining office to join the interview, he’s dressed in jeans, slippers and lime-green shirt.
"We’ve not felt the effects of the global market slowdown much," says Chui, "because we don’t do market deals. Most of the time we’re working with people we already know, looking for opportunities in TMT...
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