Weijian Shan is chairman and CEO of PAG, a private equity firm which currently has $38 billion in capital under management. Prior to PAG, he was a partner at TPG, a private equity firm based in San Francisco, and co-managing partner at TPG Asia (formerly known as Newbridge Capital).He led a number of landmark transactions, including the acquisitions of two Asian banks, both of which made his investors billions of dollars in profits and were made into case studies by Harvard Business School. Previously, Shan was a managing director at JP Morgan, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a farm laborer in China’s Gobi Desert.
He holds an MA and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. Shan’s first book Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America hit the LA Times bestseller list and was one of the FT’s 2019 top ten Best Books of the Year. Now, Shan, who Fortune calls “China’s private equity champion,” writes an insider account of one of the most successful and dramatic PE deals in history: MONEY GAMES: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank.