Chen Jian

Chen Jian is Chairman and General Manager of Paratera, China’s first listed professional computing-power service provider. Born in 1977, he received his PhD in fluid mechanics from Tsinghua University, where he studied from 1993 to 2002 and spent a year as a visiting scholar at Delft University of Technology. He worked at Lenovo’s high-performance server division and then at Intel China as an HPC architect before founding Paratera in 2007. He is Vice Chairman of the CCF (China Computer Federation) and previously chaired CCF YOCSEF (2019-2020). Under his leadership, Paratera built a nationwide compute scheduling network and listed on the Beijing Stock Exchange in November 2023.