Jean is an Operating Partner at Impact Venture based in Menlo Park, California. She works closely with seed-stage companies in the enterprise software and consumer sectors. Her investments including Spera Security (acquired by Okta), Arnica, GoSchoolBox, Uplift.ai, Tatcha (acquired by Unilever), Antelope Pets, Bubble Beauty, Cuzen Matcha, etc.

Jean has held various operating roles for more than thirteen years. She started her career at GE Healthcare, first in the technical leadership program, then as a product manager for Computer Tomography. Jean joined the Technology Group at Goldman Sachs in 1997 upon receiving her MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. She relocated to the bay area in 1999, and co-founded ePlanetCare, a digital platform for patients self-managing chronic diseases like diabetes. Later, Jean ran strategic investments at NetApp, focusing on investments (series B+) in the enterprise software and networking sectors.

From 2010 to present, Jean has been an active angel investor. She joined Impact Venture in 2020 focusing on the enterprise software sector.

Jean grew up in Shanghai, China. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She is a member of the Council on Chicago Booth, and an advisory board member of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.