# Lionel de Saint Exupery

> Lionel de Saint Exupery is a startup investor at CDIB Capital. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [CDIB Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdib-capital)
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Lionel de Saint Exupery is a startup investor at CDIB Capital. Lionel de Saint-Exupery heads up Origo’s Remuneration Committee. Lionel is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CDIB Capital International Corporation which he co-founded in 2006. Prior to CDIB Capital, Lionel was as a senior banker in the investment banking division of Lehman Brothers based in New York and London. During his investmentbanking career, Lionel worked on more than US$45 billion of public and private transactions in M&A as well as Equity and Debt Capital Markets. His experience spans across a broad range of industries such as Financial Services, Industrial, Consumer, Media, Technology and Business Services throughout North America, Europe and Asia. During those years, he advised leading private equity firms across a variety of leveraged buyout, trade sale and IPO transactions. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Lionel was a member of the Global M&A practice of Booz-Allen & Hamilton in Europe.Lionel is a Director of TouchMedia International, Talkin2MeMedia, Inc., Ecofin Fund Management Limited, Cube Capital and SE Properties Limited. He also serves on the advisory boards of a number of funds including the Asian Infrastructure Fund, Carlyle Asia Partners, Tenaya Capital, CX Partners and Riverwood Capital.Lionel holds an MBA with Distinctions from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a BS in Finance & Entrepreneurship from France’s HEC School of Management.

## About CDIB Capital

VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong

CDIB Capital International Corporation (“CDIB Capital”) operates as the overseas investment arm of China Development Financial (“CDF” or

5 contacts available at CDIB Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Ying | Head of Buyout | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-ying |
| Angelo J.Y. Koo | Chairman and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelo-j-y-koo |
| Grant Lin | Senior Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grant-lin-2 |
| Hamilton Tang | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hamilton-tang |
| Lionel de Saint Exupery | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lionel-de-saint-exupery |

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