Professor Chau has over 30-year extensive experience in venture development and investment in the Asian Pacific region.  Currently he is the Founding Chairman of PAVD, a non-profit platform with over 80 active angels, super-angels, venture capitalists, private equity and sovereign investors. PAVD cooperates with postgraduate programs of several universities to provide entrepreneurship training in technological venture development and fundraising (http://pavd.info).  In addition, Prof. Chau is a Vice Chairman of the HK Biotechnology Organisation; and was the Founding Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Business Angel Network. In addition, he is in the boards of China Three Gorges International (one of the world’s major clean energy companies), InnoHK MagIC, (one of the six inno-centres under The Chinese University of Hong Kong (“CUHK”)), several technology ventures and listed companies.

In the academic sector, he is an adjunct professor in the Department of Strategy & Policy - NUS Business School; Shenzhen Finance Institute; and the Department of Finance - the CUHK Business School, teaching mainly postgraduate courses in the areas of technology commercialization, entrepreneurship, venture capital, angel investments, technological innovation, creative & cultural entrepreneurship, cleantech and sustainability.