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Eugene Chung

Managing Director, TechStars

Eugene Chung is a Managing Director for TechStars, based in New York City. Formerly, he was with New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where he focused on venture capital investments in technology companies. Prior to NEA, Eugene worked in film production at Pixar Animation Studios. Earlier in his career, Eugene was a private equity investor at Warburg Pincus and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.

Eugene has written for The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, and he has been involved with a number of social enterprises and non-profits. He worked in the rural Philippines with Unitus, a global microfinance accelerator, and he is the director and executive producer of a documentary called Divided Families, an independent film chronicling the stories of families that were forcibly divided by the Korean War. He earned his BS degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.