The company provided investment services and educational consulting.

When after-school programs in his hometown of Holmdel, N.J. were threat ened, Chen offered his company’s services to support them.

Despite the time he gave to running BizTech and managing his personal portfolio, Chen played an active role in Harvard Model Congress while at Harvard.

He joined the organization during his first year and rose through the ranks, running committees and eventually holding the position of expert witness and senior staffer, said Amy Chen.

Chen also tutored for the Chinatown after-school program through the Phillips Brooks House and was a member of the Chinese Students Association.

He represented Kirkland House in tennis, volleyball basketball intramural competitions, Marshall said.

Brian C. Sze ’03, who was three years behind Chen at Holmdel High School, remembered getting trounced by him at tennis during competitions three times a week one summer.

“He beat me every single time. I would maybe beat him in one set every 20 or 30 matches,” said Sze, who viewed Chen as a “older brother” figure.

Chen is survived by his father, who works at Lucent Technologies, his mother and a younger brother Jeffrey, who is a senior at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Memorial services were held at his high school on March 29, which were attended by more than 100 people, according to Sze.

—Staff writer Ella A. Hoffman can be reached at ehoffman@fas.harvard.edu.