Profile
Mr. Paul Tu is Venture Partner at Oxford Bioscience Partners.
Most recently, he co-founded BGI Americas Corporation and brought BGI, a Chinese genomics sequencing service provider, into the US market.
As President of BGI Americas, he built a full staff and achieved positive returns within the first year of operations, and collaborated with leading pharmaceutical companies, including Merck, Pfizer, Novartis and Eli Lilly, etc..
Prior to BGI Americas, Mr. Tu was a Principal at MassVentures, a Boston-based venture capital firm.
Over his 10 years at MassVentures, he was involved in all aspects of investing and managing investments in privately held companies, including serving on their boards of directors and working closely with their executives to develop strategies, recruit senior management and secure follow-on financing.
His previous investments included uTest, the world's largest marketplace for software testing services; Inceptor Inc., a search engine marketing software company acquired by SuperMedia; and Profile Systems, a supply chain management software and service provider acquired by Comergent Technologies Inc. and subsequently acquired by Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc.
Before MassVentures, Mr. Tu was Vice President at Eastern Bank Commercial Lending Group and Assistant Vice President at Bank of America Business Banking Group.
He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.S.
from Boston University.
Former positions of Paul Tu
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
MassVentures
 MassVentures Investment ManagersFinance MassVentures (MassVentures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1978 by Charles Hipwood. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | Private Equity Investor | 2009-05-14 |
CenterStone Software, Inc.
 CenterStone Software, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services CenterStone Software, Inc. provides software solutions to corporate real estate and management services. It helps many organizations to manage their space, facilities, personnel, assets, leases and workplace operations more efficiently, strengthen executive planning and decision-making, optimize portfolio utilization and save millions of dollars in occupancy costs every year. The company has its offices in Hayward, CA, Seattle, WA, Washington, DC and Chicago, IL. The company was founded in 1999 by Matthew Meyer and is headquartered in Hopkinton, MA. | Director/Board Member | 2009-03-24 |
| MERRILL LYNCH PREFERRED CAPITAL TRUST I | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Eastern Bank Corp.
 Eastern Bank Corp. Regional BanksFinance Eastern Bank Corp. provides banking, investment, and insurance services. It offers personal, commercial, and business banking products, including checking and savings accounts, investments and credit cards. The company was founded in 1818 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Profile Systems, Inc.
 Profile Systems, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Profile Systems, Inc., ia a developer of product information (PIM) and inventory management solutions for business-to-business e-business | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Training of Paul Tu
| Boston University | Undergraduate Degree |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Masters Business Admin |
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| MERRILL LYNCH PREFERRED CAPITAL TRUST I | Finance |
| Private companies | 8 |
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MassVentures
MassVentures Investment ManagersFinance MassVentures (MassVentures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1978 by Charles Hipwood. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | Finance |
CenterStone Software, Inc.
CenterStone Software, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services CenterStone Software, Inc. provides software solutions to corporate real estate and management services. It helps many organizations to manage their space, facilities, personnel, assets, leases and workplace operations more efficiently, strengthen executive planning and decision-making, optimize portfolio utilization and save millions of dollars in occupancy costs every year. The company has its offices in Hayward, CA, Seattle, WA, Washington, DC and Chicago, IL. The company was founded in 1999 by Matthew Meyer and is headquartered in Hopkinton, MA. | Technology Services |
Oxford Bioscience Partners
 Oxford Bioscience Partners Investment ManagersFinance Oxford Bioscience Partners is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1992 by Edmund Martin Olivier, Alan G. Walton and Cornelius T. Ryan. The firm is headquartered in Boston. | Finance |
BGI Americas Corp.
 BGI Americas Corp. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services BGI Americas Corp., the largest genomics center in the world, provides comprehensive sequencing and bioinformatics services for medical, agricultural and environmental applications. They help their customers achieve their research goals by delivering rapid, high-quality results using a broad array of cost-effective, cutting-edge technologies. Their customers also benefit from their scientific expertise and research experience that have generated over 250 publications in top-tier journals such as Nature and Science. BGI is recognized globally as an innovator for conducting international collaborative projects with leading research institutions to better mankind and their world. | Commercial Services |
Applause APP Quality, Inc.
 Applause APP Quality, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Applause APP Quality, Inc. provides software testing services. It utilizes a roster of testers from various countries and territories to provide testing of web, desktop and mobile applications in development. The company was founded by Doron Reuveni and Roy Solomon in 2007 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA. | Technology Services |
Inceptor, Inc.
 Inceptor, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Inceptor, Inc. provides online customer acquisition technology and services. Its services include enterprise search engine marketing, conversion analysis, campaign testing and optimization to maximize return on marketing expenditure. It serves customers including HSN, Thomas Register, Lawyers.com, Vermont Country Store and Progress Software. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Maynard, MA. | Technology Services |
Profile Systems, Inc.
Profile Systems, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Profile Systems, Inc., ia a developer of product information (PIM) and inventory management solutions for business-to-business e-business | Technology Services |
Eastern Bank Corp.
Eastern Bank Corp. Regional BanksFinance Eastern Bank Corp. provides banking, investment, and insurance services. It offers personal, commercial, and business banking products, including checking and savings accounts, investments and credit cards. The company was founded in 1818 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Finance |
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