Chandler Chen is Partner and General Manager of International Business at VCBeat Health, based in Hong Kong — dedicated to bridging Chinese health innovation with the global ecosystem and advancing the global health through cross border collaboration.
For more than 15 years, Chandler has worked at the intersection of health innovation, capital, and international partnerships. He has built partnerships with startups, investors, governments, universities, and hospitals across China, the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Most recently, he spent nearly seven years at AstraZeneca as Executive Director of International Business Development and Innovation, where he led international ecosystem partnerships and incubation investment, and built and ran the company's iCampus open innovation platform and incubation fund in China. Before that, he was a partner at an innovative healthcare provider, an investor at a healthcare fund, and a strategy consultant at IMS Health and Deloitte.
He holds an MBA from CEIBS and a bachelor's degree from China Foreign Affairs University.