Before joining Enlight Growth Partners, Perry Chui built an unusually technical and operational background, moving through engineering management, telecom strategy, product marketing, and corporate development at companies like Lucent, AT&T Wireless, and Microsoft before shifting into venture investing at Rho and Steamboat, where he focused specifically on digital media, online advertising, and mobile technology. His time at Disney-affiliated Steamboat in Shanghai gave him a distinctive mix of strategic media experience and hands-on venture judgment, shaped further by a technical education path spanning computer science and an MBA, which lines up with his long-standing focus on advertising, analytics, and infrastructure-heavy tech companies in China.