Hugo Shong, Executive Vice President of International Data Group (IDG), President and CEO of IDG Asia/China, and also Founding General Partner of IDG Capital Partners, has headed IDG's operations in information technology (IT) publishing, market research, events and venture capital investment in Asia.

IDG is the world's leading IT media, research and exposition company with revenue of $3.05 billion (2009) and 13,000 employees worldwide.

In 1993, Mr. Shong assisted Mr. Patrick J. McGovern, founder and chairman of IDG, to launch Pacific Technology Venture Fund in China (now re-named IDG Capital Partners), which now has over $2.5 billion under management in China. IDG Capital Partners’ portfolio companies include Sohu.com, Ctrip.com, China Finance Online, Kingdee Software, Superdata, Tencent etc.

A Winner of 2004 Alumni Award of Boston University, Mr. Shong completed Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program (AMP) in the fall of 1996. He conducted his graduate studies at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy 1987-88 and earned a Master of Science degree from Boston University's College of Communication in 1987. In China, he completed his graduate studies in journalism at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1986 and graduated with a B.A. degree in 1981 from Hunan University.

In 2004, he set up two awards – “Hugo Shong Lifetime Journalism Achievement Award” and “Hugo Shong Journalist of the Year Award for Reporting on Asia” -- at the College of Communication of Boston University.

Hugo Shong is now a trustee of Boston University.