Our Team

Eugene Chung is a globally-recognized artist, writer & influencer as well as the founder and CEO of Penrose. Prior to founding Penrose, Chung was Head of Film & Media and Co-Founder of Story Studio at Oculus VR, which was later acquired by Facebook for $2.3 billion. Earlier in his career, Chung was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and a private equity investor at Warburg Pincus. In 2016, Chung was recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the top “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs”, and was named a Young Global Leader & Cultural Leader by the World Economic Forum for its annual meeting in Davos. Chung holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar.