Office
Greenwich
Hometown
Lansing, KS
Residence
New York, NY
Shawn Jung
Partner
“Growing up as an immigrant, I wanted to chart my own American dream, help pave the path for future immigrants and work in a field where I could have significant impact in shaping the world. To take risks. To grow. To build.”
Office
Greenwich
Hometown
Lansing,
KS
Residence
New York,
NY
Shawn began his journey when his family moved to Kansas at age 14. After the initial period of adapting and surviving in a brand-new world, he is now an investor and a former operator with 12+ years of experience. Today, Shawn supports entrepreneurs, helping to grow early-stage startups to category-defining businesses by drawing from his struggles that he overcame as an immigrant, his investing experience and his time walking the entrepreneur’s journey.
Education
MBA
Stanford Graduate School of Business
BS Finance
The University of Kansas
Relevant Experiences
TPG Sixth Street Partners
Vice President
2 years
Experience supporting and working with growth businesses with superior unit economics and defensive characteristics; help entrepreneurs think through and evaluate complex capital structure alternatives as they scale their businesses.
Responsibilities
Part of a team of 10 investment professionals managing $2.0bn+ of capital with a focus on preferred equity, debt and special situations investments in technology/software, HCIT and fintech businesses. Responsible for diligence, execution and portfolio management.
About TPG Sixth Street Partners
Sixth Street is a global investment firm with $50 billion in assets under management.
Amaze VR
Head of Product and Business Devleopment
2 years
Understand the entrepreneur’s journey and challenges that come with it; built product and established partnerships.
Responsibilities
Shawn joined the founding team as the first hire (employee #5) to build the product, manage the platform and grow the business; Sourced and structured 10+ content partnerships with total media reach of 25mn+ with key partners such as Rolling Stone; Developed and manage key metrics to quantify quality of user experience to enhance the platform’s recommendation algorithm and increase retention.
About Amaze VR
AmazeVR is an immersive technologies company creating Amaze Immersive Concerts, a full-service virtual concert solution. Amaze’s end-to-end solution features proprietary technology and services such as custom-built 8K+ stereoscopic cameras and hardware, live-action video editing software, in-house production/post-production teams, and VFX pipeline and social interaction capabilities.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
Associate
2 years
Partnered with market-leading companies in business services, consumer, and healthcare services and evaluated their go-to-market and business strategies.
Responsibilities
Evaluate investment opportunities and strategic initiatives.
About Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
Founded in 1978, CD&R is one of the oldest private equity firms in the world and has managed the investment of more than $30 billion in approximately 90 businesses.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Analyst
2 years
Completed 10+ transactions across a broad spectrum of products and industries; performed the group's first concurrent LBO, carve-out and merger transaction of two ERP software companies.
Responsibilities
Provide strategic mergers & acquisitions (M&A) advice, execute leveraged buyout (LBO) transactions, and underwrite debt and equity (IPOs / secondary) capital for late-stage businesses.
About Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), is an American multinational investment banking division of Bank of America. It provides services in mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. It was formed through the combination of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch & Co. in January 2009.