Simon Chong

Simon Chong is a Co-Founder at Georgian, which he co-founded in 2008. In this role, Simon manages investment team and leads research on the firm's thesis areas in areas such as Agentic AI, AI in Defense, Physical AI and Quantum Computing.

As an investor, Simon led Georgian's investments in Xanadu (Nasdaq:XNDU;TSX:XNDU), Chorus.ai (exited), Fiix (exited), eSentire, Glooko and Total Expert, among others.

Having spent his career in marketing, sales management and operations, Simon applies his strong operating background to the companies in which Georgian invests. He is focused on designing and building optimal go-to-market models for cloud and SaaS-based companies.

Prior to Georgian, Simon was Worldwide Director of Sales, Information Solutions within the IBM Software Group, via the acquisition of DWL Inc., in 2005. In that role, Simon significantly increased DWL software revenue—and overall revenue—in the first year and became responsible for the revenue of four acquired enterprise software companies. At DWL, Simon was the Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, where he was responsible for global field operations and achieving revenue leadership in the master data management (MDM) space. He holds an MBA from Henley Business School in the United Kingdom.