A pioneer in China’s venture capital community, Mr. Zhu, Linan founded Legend Capital in 2001 when there were few venture capital firms in China. He is responsible for the overall strategy of Legend Capital and its execution. He is a member on the Investment Committee and sits on the board of directors of portfolio companies. He also serves as executive vice president of Legend Holdings and as non-executive director of Lenovo Group.

Mr. Zhu has over 18 years of experience in the IT industry, including 4 years of entrepreneurship. Prior to Legend Capital, Mr. Zhu worked with Legend Group, the predecessor of Lenovo Group, since 1989. He set up and served as General Manager of Shenzhen Legend Computer Ltd. – the company's first production base.

In 1993, Mr. Zhu left Legend Group to start his own business, which was engaged in IT product sales and system integrations and provided IT products and software development services to electric power companies.

He rejoined Legend Group in 1997 and served in succession as General Manager of Business Planning, Vice President and Senior Vice President of the group. He was responsible for business development of the headquarters, execution of overall strategies and major business plans, and back-office management. He has rich experience in general management and has established a wide range of contacts across the IT and VC industries.

Mr. Zhu served on the Boards of Directors of many Legend Capital portfolio companies including Chongqing Broadband(acquired by China NetCom), Joyo.com (acquired by Amazon), Shanghai Huahong Semiconductor (acquired by Huahong Group), etc. He currently sits on the Boards of Solarfun (Nasdaq: SOLF), CDIM, ST&SAT and Zhaopin.com.

Mr. Zhu was named Top 10 Venture Capitalist of the year by Forbes and China Venture respectively in 2006, and by Zero2ipo for 5 years.

Mr. Zhu holds a Master's degree in E.E. from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and is a senior engineer. He is among China’s experts enjoying an honorary allowance granted by the State Council.