Paul Tu

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.