Summary
Zhen Chen is an executive chairman and founder with a decade of hands-on software engineering experience, currently leading Zen Capital to support companies building healthier, more sustainable businesses. He combines product development expertise from roles at Verizon Connect—where he shipped workforce dispatch and routing features, maintained services and deployments, and led QA automation—with a strong academic foundation in computer science from the University of Auckland. Known as a devoted and persistent programmer, Zhen pairs a trader’s discipline ("trade what you see, not what you think") with engineering rigor to drive pragmatic, data-informed decisions. Based in Canterbury, New Zealand, he brings both startup leadership and deep product engineering experience to strategic and technical challenges, with a penchant for turning complex operational problems into streamlined, user-focused solutions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Information Systems, 8.8/9.0, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Information Systems, 8.8/9.0 at University of Auckland
IEEE, IEEE at Shanghai Jiao Tong University