Name
Xiao-Xiao Zhu
Job Title
Digital Operating Partner
Company
KKR
Speaker Bio
Xiao-Xiao J. Zhu currently serves as an Operating Partner at KKR focused on tech & digital value creation with tech-native portfolio companies, and co-leads KKR’s Digital Assets & Web3 related strategy and efforts. Prior to that, he was General Manager at BCG Digital Ventures in London and Beijing where he founded, launched and scaled new digital companies together with Fortune 500 companies, e.g. heycar UK, a leading digital used cars marketplace in partnership with Volkswagen and Daimler, or Tracr, a Blockchain-based diamond asset tracking platform in partnership with DeBeers. Xiao-Xiao started his business career as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in London. In an earlier life, he performed as a professional concert pianist on concert stages and at music festivals around the world, and played for the likes of George Bush Sr, Helmut Kohl or Mikhail Gorbachev.

He holds a MSc in Managerial Economics & Strategy from the London School of Economics, a BA in Philosophy & Economics from the Humboldt University Berlin, and a Diplom in Concert Piano from the Berlin University of Arts.