Kerry Chen is a Chinese entrepreneur and founder of

ATRenew ATRenew (formerly AiHuiShou) is a Chinese company established in 2011 and headquartered in Shanghai, founded by Kerry Xuefeng Chen. ATRenew operates two main business segments: a second-hand product trade and service system, and an urban green ...

(previously known as AiHuiShou), a company focused on

recycling Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. This concept often includes the recovery of energy from waste materials. The recyclability of a material depends on its ability to reacquire the propert ...

secondhand Used goods, also known as secondhand goods, are any item of personal property that have been previously owned by someone else and are offered for sale not as new, including metals in any form except coins that are legal tender. Used goods may ...

mobile phones headquartered in

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

. He was listed in the Fortune China 40 Under 40 in 2018 and received the Green China Person of the Year 2020-2021 nomination.

Early life

Chen was born in 1980 in

Huangshi Huangshi ( zh, s= , t= , p=Huángshí), alternatively romanized as Hwangshih, is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Its population was 2,469,079 inhabitants at the 2020 census; 1,567,108 of whom ...

, a city in the Chinese province of

Hubei Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...

. Chen earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from

Tongji University Tongji University is a public university located in Shanghai, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. Tongji is one of the ...

and a master's degree in computer science from

Fudan University Fudan University (FDU) is a public university, national public university in Yangpu, Shanghai, Yangpu, Shanghai, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education and is co-funded with the Shanghai Municipal ...

in 2006.

Career

Chen began his career as a product manager at SYKES China in 2006 and remained in the position until June 2010 when he resigned. In 2011, he founded AiHuiShou – an online based company specialized in recycling secondhand mobile phones in Changhai. In 2017, Chen began to be noticed as his company grew and was recognized in the second edition of “Top 10 Internet Entrepreneurs in Shanghai" alongside

Colin Huang Colin Huang Zheng (, born 1 January 1980) is a Chinese businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and former CEO of the e-commerce company Pinduoduo, which is now the largest agriculture platform in China. Huang is also the o ...

, founder of e-commerce platform

Pinduoduo Pinduoduo () is a Chinese online retailer, with a focus on the traditional agriculture industry. The business is the largest product of PDD Holdings, a company currently headquarted in Ireland that also owns the online marketplace Temu. Histor ...

and the co-founder of online food delivery Ele.me, Zhang Xuhao (Mark Zhang). Chen appeared in the 2018 Fortune China 40 Under 40 and was nominated for the Green China Person of the Year 2021. In September 2022, Chen rebranded AiHuiShou to ATRenew which is an acronym for All Things Renew. ATRenew serves as a parent company overseeing several subsidiaries including PJT Marketplace, AHS Recycle, Paipai Marketplace and its foreign based AHS Device.

Awards and honors

Chen was listed in the

Time Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ...

100 most influential climate leaders in business 2024.

Personal life

Chen is married. He is an avid mountaineer. In 2021, he took over 30 executives from his company on an ascent of

Mount Siguniang Mount Siguniang (), or Mount Skubla (, 'Mountain of the tutelary deity') is the highest mountain of Qionglai Mountains in Western China. It is located in the bordering area of Siguniangshan Town, Xiaojin County and Wenchuan County in Ngawa T ...

References

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