Ming Chow is a Partner at Ajax Strategies, overseeing the management of the entire Ajax team and portfolio including numerous board seats.  A Wall Street investor turned startup operator and advisor, Ming brings financial, operational, board governance and public readiness expertise to both Ajax and its portfolio companies.

Before joining Ajax, Ming led Strategic Finance and Operations at Lime Micromobility, with a focus on preparing Lime to go public.  Some of Ming’s other responsibilities included capital markets relationships, implementing financial discipline in a high growth environment, building out Lime’s Procurement team and Lime’s acquisition of Uber’s Jump assets.  Additionally, as a part of Lime’s 2025 commitment to be carbon negative, Ming set the strategy to globally transform Lime’s local operations to rely only on zero-emission vehicles and cargo bikes, phasing out all gas vans.

Prior to Lime, Ming spent 5 years at Bocage Capital, a $1.2Bn natural resources hedge fund investing in energy, agriculture and metals equities and commodities as well as 2 years at Sensato Investors, a $2.2Bn Asia focused quantitative hedge fund where she launched the commodity trading strategy. 

Ming also spent 10 years at BlackRock, where she was responsible for implementing large scale structural portfolio shifts for a wide platform of institutional clients including large public pensions, family offices and sovereign wealth funds.

Ming started her career in equity derivatives as one of very few female traders at Lehman Brothers and then at Banc of America Securities. Ming received a B.S. in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.