Keynote Speakers

Wang Shi is currently Chairman of China Vanke Co. Ltd, a Chinese corporation with sales revenue of RMB21.23 billion and net profits that have steadily increased for each of the last 15 years. China Vanke currently employs approximately 14,000 employees located throughout 28 locations in China. Mr. Wang originally formed China Vanke in 1988 as a shareholding company and served as Chairman and General Manager until stepping down from the latter role 11 years later. He had formed Vanke’s corporate predecessor four years earlier. Under Mr. Wang’s leadership, China Vanke has also become the first Chinese real estate development company listed on a Chinese stock exchange. The company was named twice as one of the “International Best Small Companies” by Forbes, and received the IR Magazine (UK) “Best Corporate Governance Award” for the last three consecutive years. Its staff composed 5 of the 20 winners of the "Zhan Tianyou outstanding residential quarters Gold Award," the highest honor in the field of China civil engineering, and won the "Zhan Tianyou Civil Engineering Award” for the second consecutive year.

Wang Shi enjoys the challenges of mountaineering and reached the peak of Mount Everest in 2003. He holds the distinction of being the oldest PRC mountaineer to have ever reached that peak. In addition, Mr. Wang has climbed to the peaks of the 7 highest mountains on 7 continents, only one of four native Chinese citizens to have accomplished that feat. He has climbed in Antarctica and led two expeditions to the Arctic in 2004 and 2005.

Wang Shi graduated from Lanzhou Railway College in 1978 and worked for the Guangzhou Railway Bureau and a Shenzhen special economic zone development company before forming Vanke’s corporate predecessor. He joined the military in 1968. He was born in 1951.

Born in Zhejiang Dongyang in 1967, Mr. Guo Guangchang obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at Fudan University in 1989 and earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the School of Management at the same institution in 1999. Currently serving as the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Fosun International Limited, Fosun High Technology (Group) Limited and Forte Land Limited, he proudly holds the professional title of Senior Engineer and is a member of the China Democratic League.

Mr Guo’s active social involvement is evident through the extensive range of social roles that he plays and responsibilities undertaken. These include being a representative of the Eleventh National People’s Congress, a committee member of both Ninth Executive Committee of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and the Tenth Executive Committee of the All-China Youth Federation, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce, Vice Chairman of the Eighth Shanghai Youth Federation as well as the President of the Shanghai Zhejiang Province Chamber of Commerce and so forth.

Frank Gong, Managing director, Head of Research Division, as well as China’s Chief Economist with J.P. Morgan Securities Inc in Hong Kong. Currently, he is in charge of China’s credit interest market, securities, as well as the broad research work. Mr. Gong has a doctor degree in financial economics at Wharton Business School, master degree in Physics at Temple University in Philadelphia, and two degrees in Peking University (one master degree in logistics and economics, and one bachelor degree in physics)

Laigui Xiu
CEO, China-Xiu Zheng Group

Mr. Laigui Xiu is the CEO of China-Xiu Zheng Pharmaceutical Group. China-Xiu Zheng is one of the largest Pharmaceutical Companies in China, boasting 4.2 Billion Yuan (almost 700 Million Dollars) in asset and over 30,000 employees across China.

Mr. Xiu founded China-Xiu Zheng Pharmaceutical group in 1995 and received a great number of awards over the past years. The awards include “Top 10 CCOs in China”, “Top 10 entrepreneurs in China”. In building the China-Xiu Zheng Group and Xiu Zheng brand, Mr. Xiu also successfully established the Xiu Zheng culture, which is widely recognized by the business society in China.

Wang Ping
Chief Founder and Director of the Board, China Social Entrepreneur Foundation

Ms. Wang is the chief founder of the China Social Entrepreneur Foundation (Youcheng), as well as its Director of the Board. She received a Bachelor's degree in Law from the People's University of China, a Master’s in Political Science from the University of Maryland, and has been a visiting scholar at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland and at the Agriculture Department of the European Union. She has worked at the Research Office of the External Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the Beijing representative office of the city of Brussels, the BNP Paribas Securities Corporation, the Beijing office of the Cha and Cha (U.S.A.) law firm, and the Beijing Timewise Investment Advisory Co., Ltd.

Chinese Enterprise Panel

Lan Chen
Executive Editor, Forbes China

Lydia Chen Graduated from the College of Economics of Xiamen University with a Master Degree of Economics in 2000. Adopted by Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Sino-US Culture and Economics Exchange in 1998. Worked as financial reporter in Finance Channel and News Channel of Xiamen TV Station since 2000. Joined in Forbes China as Associate Editor and Features Writer in 2003. Awarded “Shi meilun Schorlarship” by Financial News Center of Beijing University in January, 2004. Invited by CASS(Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) to The 1st Urban competitiveness International Forum in August of the same year.

A reputable pioneer in the financial services industrials in China with over 25 years of experiences in finance, banking, securities and private equity and venture capital investments.

Formerly the president of China Southern securities, ShenZhen Venture Capital Co., Ltd (the largest venture capital group in China), Shanghai Shenyin Securities Co.,Ltd. (Named Shenyin Wanguo securities Co., Ltd. afterwards). 
Deputy General Manager of the Trust and Investment Company of ICBC Shanghai Branch.

Formerly the Chairman of Shenzhen Venture Capital Association, the chairman of Shanghai Securities Industry Association, the director of Shenzhen Stock Exchange Institute and standing

Hao Li
President, China Talent Group

LI Hao is the President and CEO of China Talent Group (CTG), also known as Yi Cai in Chinese. CTG is the leading independent Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO) service provider in China. Li Hao graduated from the Beijing Institute of Technology in 2000 with the Bachelor degree, and was awarded one of the Outstanding Youth Persons of Beijing City. Currently, he is enrolled in EMBA of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).

Li Hao started his entrepreneurial program as earlier as in the school. He tried couple of campus related programs. Then, he moved on as the major account manager and marketing sales manager of Joyo.com (now Amazon.cn, an Amazon company in China). Later on he was the assistant to CEO of Zhaopin.com. Li Hao established CTG in 2003 and started the first independent private HRO company in China.

In 4 years, CTG has grown into a group of companies covering the whole China market, providing the comprehensive HRO services including payroll processing, compensation and benefits, recruitment, PEO (Professional Employee Organization). CTG also leaps forward to bring out the new HR-BPO services, to combine the traditional HRO service with the business process in different industry sectors to help companies lower its labor and talent management cost, and concentrate on their own core business to grow. By now, CTG has expanded the service network coverage in China with about 100 subsidiary offices and representative offices, with annual revenue growth exceeding over 300%.

Under Li Hao’s leadership, CTG finished the second round investment with 12 million USD and is becoming the leading HRO service provider in China with the largest service network coverage. Li Hao is expecting CTG’s successful IPO in 2010.

Laigui Xiu
CEO, China-Xiu Zheng Group

Mr. Laigui Xiu is the CEO of China-Xiu Zheng Pharmaceutical Group. China-Xiu Zheng is one of the largest Pharmaceutical Companies in China, boasting 4.2 Billion Yuan (almost 700 Million Dollars) in asset and over 30,000 employees across China.

Mr. Xiu founded China-Xiu Zheng Pharmaceutical group in 1995 and received a great number of awards over the past years. The awards include “Top 10 CCOs in China”, “Top 10 entrepreneurs in China”. In building the China-Xiu Zheng Group and Xiu Zheng brand, Mr. Xiu also successfully established the Xiu Zheng culture, which is widely recognized by the business society in China.

Mr. Ke Yang has been President of China Minsheng Banking Corp., Ltd. (“CMBC”) Credit Card Center since 2004. Before this position, Mr. Yang carried on various responsibilities at CMBC, including the head of the retail banking at its head office, the general manager and Vice Chairman of Henan Providence Funds Planning Head Office, and the general manager of Henan Providence Financial Institutions. Mr. Yang obtained his MBA from West Virginia University and is a visiting professor of Henan University of China. Mr. Yang is also a senior economist and has over 20 years of experience in retail finance and 12 years of experience in commercial banking management.

Education Panel

Educated in both China and the United States, Shawn Chen’s career has embraced education, business, and entrepreneurism in both countries. His business ventures include the hospitality industry and a steel door manufacturing business that sells its products in both China and the United States. He has served as President of The Sias Group, Inc. since 1991. In 1998, with the approval of the Minister of Education and the State Degree Office in China, Chen founded Sias International University, an innovative educational institution through which students, leaders, and scholars from both East and West can meet and profit from an exchange of ideas expressed in both Chinese and English. Located in Henan Province near the City of Zhengzhou in Central China, Sias International University now has a student population of over 16,000 and has graduated almost 9,000 seniors. Chen’s future plans for the University, a campus of 46 new buildings, now include a 250-acre park, an Olympic-size swimming pool, an indoor gymnasium that seats 5,000 and a campus golf course. As Founder / Chairman of the University, Chen is solely responsible for financing, planning, implementation and assessment of the university’s overall operations.

Shawn Chen has received many awards from both educational institutions and the governments of China and the United States. Recent recognition includes Resolutions and Commendations from the City of Zhengzhou, the provincial government of Henan Province, the Governor of Kansas, the Mayor and City Council of Los Angeles, the Missouri State Legislature, and the Arizona State Legislature. He is regularly selected by both provincial and national government officials in China to lead cultural and trade delegations throughout the United States. He has also led League of California Cities elected officials and Mayoral associations on trade missions throughout China.

Huhua OUYANG is presently Director of English Education Research Center and professor of English and PhD supervisor in Faculty of English and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, where he has been teaching English and doing teacher development for the last twenty years, and he is also currently a research fellow in the National Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research, as well as a local PhD supervisor for Cambridge University. Prof Ouyang has published extensively on anthropology and eudcation, Chinese socio-psychology, contrastive rhetoric, and teacher education. His work has been published in prestigious journals such as ‘Anthropology & Education Quarterly’ (USA), and ‘Education and Society’ (France). He has given guest lectures in over thirty universities such as Georgetown University, Lancaster University, University of Leeds, Cambridge University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Adelaide, and China Academy of Sciences, and given keynote speeches in many inter/national conferences including ‘Responding to needs of the Chinese Learners: Internationalizing the University’, Portsmouth, 2006, and ‘International Students, Academic Writing, and Plagiarism’ in Lancaster Management School, 2007.

Nancy Remington
Executive Director, International Programs Emory University, Goizueta Business School

Nancy Roth Remington is an international program consultant working with institutions on program assessment, new program development, organizational restructuring, and fundraising.  Since the mid-1970s she established and directed a wide variety of international programs and was a fundraising consultant for firms based in Atlanta and New York.  She currently works with Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. 

Healthcare Panel

John Cai, Ph.D. is Professor of Economics and Chair of Department of Public Economics at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Dr. Cai has been a Senior Health Policy Analyst at the State Government of Massachusetts in the U.S., Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Division of Health Care Finance and Policy since 1999. The major areas of his research interests and publications cover health economics, health policy, social security, and public finance in both the U.S. and China.

He received Ph.D. in public policy from Brandeis University, Florence Heller School for Advanced Studies in Social Policy and Management in 1996. Dr. Cai has studied and worked at university, consulting firm and government in the U.S. for nearly twenty years. He received MA in economics at Fudan University in 1984 and BA in economics at East China Normal University (Shanghai) in 1982. He was faculty member at Fudan University and one of the founders and director of the Institute of Economic Development at East China University of Science and Technology (Shanghai) before he came to the U.S in 1991.

Dr. Cai’s paper on hidden unemployment issue was awarded 1990 Sun Yiefang National Economic Science Prizes, the highest national academic prize for economics research in China. His study on Medicaid was awarded the Most Outstanding Abstract by the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy in the U.S. in 2002.

Dr. Cai is an adjunct professor at Brandeis University; and Committee Member of Academic Senate, Gerontological Economic Research Organization, Switzerland. He is also a Senior Research Associate at China Research Center for Public Policy in Beijing; and a member of Advisory Committee for Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Health.

Dr. Chen Mingzhe is the Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), supervisor for Ph. D. candidates, honor Head of Vascular Medicine Institute of Peking University Third Hospital and Director of Laser Medicine Institute of Peking University.

Dr. Chen is a famous specialist in brand area of clinical and basal cardiology, such as coronary heart disease (angina pectoris, myocardial infarction), atherosclerosis, heart failure and hypertension. He is one of the foremost pioneers in the use of laser in the treatment of heart disease in China. He is also a pioneer in Interventional Cardiology, . including thrombolytic therapy for acute MI, PTCA/stenting, DCA and also the treatment for restenosis. Dr. Chen has greatly contributed to the improvement of the interventional diagnosis/treatment for coronary heart disease in China.

Tsung-Mei Cheng is an expert on comparative health systems with an emphasis on Asian countries. she is also Co-Founder of the Princeton Conference, an annual national conference on health policy that brings together the U.S. Congress, government, and the research community on issues affecting healthcare in the United States. Cheng was an adviser in 2003 to the Strategic Review Board of the Science and Technology Advisory Group (STAG), a body charged with advising the Office of the Premier of Taiwan, the Republic of China on the development of science and technology. She lectures widely internationally on topics ranging from single payer systems, health care quality, financing, pay for performance focusing on East Asian health systems, to the impact of the WTO and GATS on national health policy. Currently she is working on cross-national comparisons of health systems in East Asia focusing on health reforms in China and Taiwan. Cheng is also the Host and Executive Editor of the International Forum, a Princeton University television program on international affairs focusing on economic, social, political and security issues.

Sheldon I. Dorenfest, C.P.A., M.B.A. is President of the Dorenfest Group, a healthcare investment and consulting firm. He is one of the world’s foremost experts in healthcare systems improvement and has consulted with the governments of the USA, France, England, Australia, Canada and China on health care issues. From 1976 to 2004, Mr. Dorenfest personally directed the research involved in compiling The Dorenfest Integrated Healthcare Delivery System+ (IHDS+) Database™ and its predecessor The Dorenfest 3000+ Database™ until its sale to HIMSS Analytics in 2004. He recently created, in conjunction with the HIMSS Foundation, The Dorenfest Institute for Health Information Technology Research and Education to provide free data to universities, students, and government agencies around the world. Mr. Dorenfest has personally consulted with over 300 hospitals on a worldwide basis to help them implement improved information systems. He has also worked with over 200 Healthcare Information Technology suppliers to help them shape new product strategies and better serve their customers. The Dorenfest China Healthcare Group, based in Shanghai, provides a variety of improvement services to the China healthcare system. Its clients in greater China include the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, Shenzhen Health Bureau, Chongqing Health Bureau, and several public hospitals located throughout China.

Uwe E. Reinhardt, a native of Germany, has taught at Princeton University since 1968, rising through the ranks from assistant professor of economics to his current positions. He has taught courses in both micro- and macro-economic theory and policy, accounting for commercial, private non-profit and governmental enterprises, financial management for commercial and non-profit enterprises, and health economics and policy.

Although Professor Reinhardt research interests since that time have centered mainly on economics and policy, his work has also included topics in corporation finance, including benefit-cost analyses of the Lockheed L-1011 Tri Star and the Space Shuttle.

Professor Reinhardt has served on a number of government committees and commissions, among them the National Council on Health care technology of the then U.S. Department of Health and Welfare (1979-82) and the Special Medical Advisory Group of the then Veterans Administration (1981-85). From 1986-1995, he served three consecutive three-year terms as a Commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC), established in 1986 by the Congress to advise it on issues related to the payment of physicians. Professor Reinhardt has been a consultant to various legislators in the United States Congress and the World Bank. He was or is a member of numerous editorial boards, among them The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Journal of Health Economics, the Milbank Quarterly, and Health Affairs.

Investment Panel

Dr. DeWoskin serves as Deloitte China’s senior advisor, focusing on M&A strategy and planning. He is a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (China) Ltd. and subsequently has served as advisor to a number of large corporations and organizations with China interests, serves on corporate boards, and currently holds a position at The Conference Board. Prior to his consulting career, he was a professor of International Business and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, former Chair of his department and Associate Director of the Center for Chinese Studies.

Dr. DeWoskin is a co-founder the Wharton International Forum in Shanghai and has taught in several executive education programs for Michigan, Singapore Management University and Wharton. He appears regularly in press interviews, with the New York Times, Financial Times, Economist, CNBC, Business Week, Fortune, Asian Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Far Eastern Economic Review, BBC World Services, and major wire services. He has presented on China business issues across the US and throughout Asia and Europe, in the World Economic Forum, Chambers of Commerce, Economist Conference Unit, US China Business Council, China Britain Business Council, in the Chinese print and broadcast media, and for numerous corporate clients and business interest groups. He regularly publishes in the Far Eastern Economic Review and writes a column for the China Economic Review. Dr. DeWoskin has lived and worked in both China and Japan for over 40 years. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has also studied at National Taiwan University and Kyoto University, and is a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.

Harry Edelson, CFA, CDP, CCP, has been Chairman and CEO of China Opportunity Acquisition Corp since inception. Since 1984 he has managed a series of five venture capital technology funds for ten multinational corporations (AT&T, Viacom, 3M, Ford Motor, Cincinnati Bell, Colgate-Palmolive, Reed Elsevier, Imation, Asea Brown Boveri and UPS) and two large pension funds. Venture capital investments have been made in virtually all areas of technology and throughout the world. Notable investments in China include Chinadotcom, it’s majority owned subsidiary HongKong.Com and eChinaCash. Before his career in venture capital, Harry Edelson was a technology securities analyst for three leading investment banking firms; Merrill Lynch, Drexel Burnham and First Boston. He has been the featured speaker at numerous conferences throughout the world, including China and Hong Kong. He is former President of the Analyst Club, the oldest club on Wall Street founded in 1925 and is a founding member of the China Investment Group. He has been a member of the Juilliard Council since 1999. Juilliard is one of the world’s leading schools in the fields of music, dance and acting. Mr. Edelson was honored in the Knesset by receiving the Israel 50th Anniversary Award from the Premier of Israel. Previous experience includes transmission engineer at AT&T, computer engineer at Univac and head of marketing and sales at a data terminal company serving the nascent development of the internet, then called Darpanet. Mr. Edelson has a B.S. in Physics from Brooklyn College and an MBA in Management from New York University. While at AT&T he completed a special telecommunications program at the Cornell Graduate School of Electrical Engineering.

Frank Gong, Managing director, Head of Research Division, as well as China’s Chief Economist with J.P. Morgan Securities Inc in Hong Kong. Currently, he is in charge of China’s credit interest market, securities, as well as the broad research work. Mr. Gong has a doctor degree in financial economics at Wharton Business School, master degree in Physics at Temple University in Philadelphia, and two degrees in Peking University (one master degree in logistics and economics, and one bachelor degree in physics)

Charles H. Wang is the Co-director of research and senior portfolio manager at Acadian Asset Management, a leading institutional global equity manager with over $70 billion asset under management headquartered in Boston. Acadian manages a broad range of global equity funds, including long-short products and emerging markets strategy.

Before joining Acadian Charles was a vice president at Putnam Investments in the global asset allocation team. Charles has over ten years' investment experience. He has spoken extensively at industry and academic conferences, been interviewed by major U.S. media and published in leading U.S. and Chinese investment journals. His article "Global Asset Allocation: Philosophy, Process and Performance" was published in the Journal of Investing and won Institutional Investors' best paper award. Charles has translated "Pioneering Portfolio Management" by Yale Endowment CIO David Swensen into Chinese.

Charles holds a B.S. in mathematics from Peking University, a M.S. from University of Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in finance from Yale School of Management. Charles is a member of the Q Group, Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) and Boston Committee on Foreign Relations. Charles is the ex-president of the Chinese Finance Association (www.china-finance.org) and is involved in a few other charity organizations. Charles is also a visiting professor of Central South University in China.

Ruifen Xu is heading Global Real Estate Investment in the Private & Alternative Investments group of Dow Portfolio Investment (The Dow Chemical Company Corporate Pension Plan). In this role, she will manage investments on behalf of the Dow Employees’ Pension Plan and the Union Carbide Employees’ Pension Plan. Ruifen’s responsibilities include managing the existing real estate portfolio and building the international and emerging markets real estate and real asset investments. Ruifen has 10 years real estate and finance experience in the markets of Asia, United States and Germany. She started her career at China Shanghai Real Estate Management Bureau in the real estate joint project with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. She has a Master’s in Real Estate and Master in Science from Columbia University, a MBA in Real Estate from Hongkong University and Fudan University Joint Program, and Bachelor degree in Municipal Civil Engineering from Shanghai Tongji University.

1987-1991, Shandong University, Bachelor;

1991-1994, Renming University of China, MA;

1999-2007, Beijing University, PHD;

2007-present, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, MPA candidate

1994-2001, China Securities Regulatory Commission, Division Chief;

2001-Present, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Assistant President

Law Panel

David Blumenfeld
Partner
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

David Blumenfeld is the partner in charge of the firm's Shanghai Real Estate Practice. Mr. Blumenfeld focuses his practice on real estate matters, particularly on the acquisition, disposition, financing, development, construction and leasing of significant office, hospitality and other commercial projects for institutional and major corporate clients.

Mr. Blumenfeld represents private equity funds, investment banks and other capital markets clients in China real estate acquisition, joint venture and financing transactions, including the acquisition by public auction of real estate assets and real estate companies. He also represents equity investors in hotel transactions ranging from joint development platforms to individual repositioning transactions.

Paul D. Downs is a partner at Heller Ehrman’s New York office with over 20 years of experience in international corporate law. From 2004 to 2006, he served as the Firmwide Managing Director International.

Mr. Downs regularly represents U.S. and multinational businesses and financial institutions in complex cross-border transactions between the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America, with a particular focus on China. He also advises on regulatory compliance and on the extraterritorial impact of U.S. regulation, including FCPA, the USA PATRIOT Act and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Mr. Downs recently advised Banco Delta Asia under the administration of the Government of Macau S.A.R. in opposing the proposed U.S. Treasury rule under the USA PATRIOT Act.

Mr. Downs is a frequent speaker on related topics. Recent speaking engagements included: M&A in China; D&O Liability for International Subsidiaries; The Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. Laws and FCPA; and Sarbanes-Oxley and Its Impact on International Listings.

Mr. Downs is a member of the American Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the International Bar Association, where he served as a member of the Foreign Comparative Law Committee. He is on the boards of: the American Foreign Law Association, where he also served as Vice President; the Council for the United State and Italy; and International House, NewYork.

Mr. Downs holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Princeton University.

Bart Friedman is a senior advisor to leading financial institutions and global corporations, boards of directors, audit committees and officers and directors of publicly-held companies in significant corporate transactions and compliance and enforcement challenges. He has practiced at the Wall Street law firm Cahill Gordon Reindel LLP for more than thirty years.

Bart advises clients in matters affecting corporate policy and strategy such as directors’ duties and responsibilities and other aspects of corporate governance, including those arising under Sarbanes-Oxley. Recently, Bart has been advising directors of Hedge Fund complexes which have newly gone public in the United States as well as directors (that are US citizens) who have agreed to serve on the boards and board committees of large Chinese financial institutions.

He has been an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served on the Council on Foreign Relation’s Independent Task Force on Resources for Foreign Assistance, the Independent Task Force on Non-Lethal Technology and the Independent Task Force on Post-Conflict Iraq. He serves on the Meetings Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee of the Council.

Bart serves on the Board of Allied World Assurance Holdings (NYSE: AWH) in the role of Deputy Chair and Lead Director and on the Boards of the Sanford C. Bernstein Mutual Funds. He also serves on civic and philanthropic Boards, including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Brookings Institution, and the Institute for International Education.

Earlier in his career, Bart worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission as Special Counsel and then as Assistant Director, where he handled trading practices issues, legislative initiatives and served as a liaison with other parts of government, including the Federal Reserve and the staffs of certain congressional committees.

Bart earned his J.D. at Harvard Law School in 1969.

Feng Xue is one of the most experienced China FDI, private equity and M&A lawyers. Mr. Xue focuses his practice on complex foreign direct investments projects, PE/VC investments, cross border M&A transactions and securities offerings between the US and China. Mr. Xue is resident in the firm’s Chicago Office but works extensively in the firm’s China Offices. Before joining the firm, Mr. Xue worked for many years with several other major international law firms’ Shanghai and Beijing offices.

Increasingly, Mr. Xue’s practice consists of representing large Chinese companies in their acquisition and expansion efforts overseas. Mr. Xue sits on the boards of several Chinese companies and serves as general counsel to dozens of private equity funds and technology companies doing business in China.

Also a seasoned practitioner of corporate law in the United States, Mr. Xue focuses his U.S. corporate practice on merger and acquisition transactions, securities offerings, middle market buyout fund acquisitions, and venture capital investments.

Mr. Xue has spoken and written extensively on issues related to foreign investors’ investment in China and Chinese companies’ expansions and private/public financings in the US.

Prior to attending law school and private practice in the US, Mr. Xue worked as a senior legislative officer for the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Chinese National People’s Congress, where he participated in the drafting of numerous Chinese national legislations. He is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese.

Winston Zhao is Partner-in-Charge of Jones Day’s Shanghai practice. He has more than 17 years of experience in international corporate and commercial practice, with significant experience in China matters. From 1988 to 1991 he was based in New York, where his practice focused mainly on U.S. corporate, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, and security matters. Since 1991 he has been based in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Winston has extensive experience representing multinational corporate clients, as well as other foreign companies, in their investment projects and trade activities in China. These matters have covered a wide range of areas, including cross-border M&A, China inward investment, corporate restructuring, corporate finance, intellectual property and other commercial transactions. He represented a major European client in the restructuring of their more than a dozen enterprises in China and subsequently converted the same into a share holding company, constituting one of the largest foreign invested enterprises restructuring in China to date. He also acted as lead international counsel for Dong Feng's US$2 billion joint venture with Nissan, which is one of the largest direct investment projects in the auto industry in China to date.

Winston has published many articles on Chinese legal and regulatory issues in publications. Winston also frequently speaks on China-related topics. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the New Jersey State Bar Association. He is also appointed as an arbitrator of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission of China.

Xiaohua (Sarah) Zhao's international commercial transaction practice focuses primarily on China. Ms. Zhao advises both western companies doing business in China and Chinese companies doing business in the United States and other foreign countries.

Ms. Zhao has represented major U.S., Chinese companies and the companies from other countries in the areas of project financing, foreign investment, M&A, private placement and public listing, corporate and securities matters in the projects in China, the United States, and other Asian countries, including but not limited to, a satellite cable television transmission system, a satellite interactive distance learning system, a coal thermal power plant, a pumped-water power plant and a light-rail transit system, a nation wide wireless system, two oil fields acquisition, two airport projects, a agricultural production project and a great number of joint ventures in various industries. Ms. Zhao has also assisted numerous Chinese companies with their securities, public listing, merger and acquisition, project financing and corporate matters in the United States. In addition, she has done substantial regulatory work related to foreign investment and financing issues and has worked with U.S. major corporations, U.S. and Chinese trade associations, and the U.S. and Chinese governments to make China a friendlier environment for foreign companies, in accordance with WTO principles. As a direct result of these efforts, several Chinese rules have been amended and changed.

Ms. Zhao has written numerous articles and spoken regularly on foreign investment laws and the development of telecommunications regulations in China. In addition to being a lawyer, she was an accomplished journalist. Before coming to the United States, she worked at China's Ministry of Broadcasting, Film and Television and the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.

Renewable Energy Panel

Zhizhong Chen
Chairman and CEO Sichuan Basicpower Co., Ltd.

Mr. Zhizhong Chen is the Chairman and CEO of Sichuan Basicpower Co., Ltd., one of the largest hydropower company in west China with a portfolio of thirteen hydropower plants and ten subsidiaries and affiliated operating companies.

Mr. Chen started his career in the hydropower industry as early as 1995.  Being inspired by the promising prospect of hydropower industry, in 2001 he founded Sichuan Qingyi River Electricity Co., Ltd. and then, in 2006 acquired Basicpower.  With over 12 years’ hydropower experience, Mr. Chen has extensive knowledge and expertise in the industry. 

Christopher Flavin is President of the Worldwatch Institute and a leading voice on the potential for new energy options and strategies to replace fossil fuels—increasing energy security and avoiding dangerous climate change. He is co-author of three books on energy, including Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution, which anticipated many of the changes now underway in world energy markets. Flavin is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and serves as a Board Member of the Climate Institute and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Japan. He is on the Advisory Boards of the American Council on Renewable Energy and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute. He is also a member of the Greentech Innovation Network, an initiative of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and serves on the Advisory Board of the Cumulus Climate Fund in London.

Trevor Houser
Visiting Fellow
Peterson Institute for International Economics

Trevor Houser, visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, is also a partner at China Strategic Advisory, a specialized practice helping decision makers in the public and private sectors analyze and understand economic and policy trends in Greater China, and an adjunct professor at the City College of New York. His areas of research include energy markets, climate change, and the role emerging Asian countries play in both. His recent publications include China's Energy Evolution: The Consequences of Powering Growth at Home and Abroad (Peterson Institute, 2008 - forthcoming); Leveling the Carbon Playing Field: International Competition and US Climate Policy Design (Peterson Institute/World Resources Institute, 2008); The Roots of Chinese Oil Investment Abroad (Asia Policy, January 2008); and China Energy: A Guide for the Perplexed (Peterson Institute/CSIS China Balance Sheet Project, May 2007).

Dr. Lawrence Neuman, President, has over twenty-five years of experience in the energy field focusing on renewable sources of energy. As President of China Power Development Corporation, Dr. Neuman is currently developing wind farms in the Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia that will exceed 750 megawatts. He is a co-author of Wind Energy Resources in Inner Mongolia with Zhimei Niu, Assistant Executive Director, Xilingol League Development & Reform Commission, Inner Mongolia at the American Wind Energy Association annual conference in 2007. He has also developed renewable energy projects in the United States and internationally and has consulted on wind, solar and ocean energy to financial institutions and government agencies.

Prior to entering the private sector, Dr. Neuman was a senior officer in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, where he formulated the UN program on ocean energy and renewable energy for islands and coastal states.  He was developed the UN program on coastal area development. Dr. Neuman has an AB degree from Columbia College and a Ph.D. in marine geophysics from the Lamont Doherty Earth Institute of Columbia University.

Paulo Soares
Chief Executive Officer Suzlon China

Paulo Fernando Soares has joined Suzlon Energy Ltd in Jul 2005.

Previously to Suzlon, Paulo has worked for 15 years in the Hydro Power business, in Brazil and China, where he has developed extensive experience in the areas of Manufacturing, Project Management, Engineering, Cost estimate, Project Cost Control and others. He was an employee from Siemens Hydro in Brazil from 1988 to 2000 and from Voith Siemens Hydro in China from 2000 to 2005.

Paulo has 5 years experience in the Hydro-Power Business industry in China, dealing with all the five power group companies, and was responsible for the execution of major projects. At Suzlon, Paulo has taken the responsibility to establish the Beijing Office and, together with his team, has successfully negotiated the first ever Suzlon contracts in China.

In the last 2 years Suzlon has grown into a major player in China, with about 600 employees and a factory with capacity to manufacture 600 MW/year, established in Tianjin.

Sino-Europe Relations Panel

Dr. DeWoskin serves as Deloitte China’s senior advisor, focusing on M&A strategy and planning. He is a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (China) Ltd. and subsequently has served as advisor to a number of large corporations and organizations with China interests, serves on corporate boards, and currently holds a position at The Conference Board. Prior to his consulting career, he was a professor of International Business and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, former Chair of his department and Associate Director of the Center for Chinese Studies.

Dr. DeWoskin is a co-founder the Wharton International Forum in Shanghai and has taught in several executive education programs for Michigan, Singapore Management University and Wharton. He appears regularly in press interviews, with the New York Times, Financial Times, Economist, CNBC, Business Week, Fortune, Asian Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Far Eastern Economic Review, BBC World Services, and major wire services. He has presented on China business issues across the US and throughout Asia and Europe, in the World Economic Forum, Chambers of Commerce, Economist Conference Unit, US China Business Council, China Britain Business Council, in the Chinese print and broadcast media, and for numerous corporate clients and business interest groups. He regularly publishes in the Far Eastern Economic Review and writes a column for the China Economic Review. Dr. DeWoskin has lived and worked in both China and Japan for over 40 years. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has also studied at National Taiwan University and Kyoto University, and is a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.

Li Jin is an associate professor in the finance area at the Harvard Business School. He currently teaches the required finance course in the first year MBA program. His primary research interest is in empirical corporate finance and asset pricing. His current researches study trading patterns of institutional investors such as hedge funds, mutual funds and pension. He has also studied compensations of corporate managers and the comparison of securities markets across countries.

Professor Jin received his Ph.D. in finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2001, and a bachelor's degree in economics from Fudan University in 1992. Before entering graduate school, he was a full time faculty member at Fudan University, and has worked as a part time consultant in the Investment Banking Division of Shanghai International Securities Co. Ltd.

Professor Kotz is Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank responsible for the Information Technology Department and the Markets Department. Born in Röhl (Eifel), he studied economics at the universities of Mainz and Cologne. In 1982 he became Research assistant at the Monopolies Commission in Cologne. He then joined the conomics and Information Department of Deutsche Girozentrale in Frankfurt and from 1984 was Head of Department and Chief Economist.Professor Kotz was President of the Land Central Bank of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt between 1999 and 2002. Since 1 May 2002 he joined the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Prof. Kotz is Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Behavioural Sciences at Freiburg University; Member of the Board at the “Constance Seminar on Monetary Theory”, Konstanzer Verein, Bonn; Member of the Panel of Financial Experts, European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs; and Member of the Advisory Board, Blekinge Institute for Technology, Ronneby (Sweden). He is affiliated with the Program Council, Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt; Centre Saint-Gobain pour la Recherche en Économie, Paris; and Conseil d’Orientation, Revue d’Economie Financière, Paris.

Peng Hong Lee is the President of Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (Government Agency of the Macao Special Administrative Region China) - a position held since September 1999 during which he boosted trade and economic co-operation ties between Macao and Mainland China, the European Union, Portuguese-Speaking Countries and other regions. Dr. Lee concurrently held the positions of President of Audit Committee of the Institute of European Studies of Macao (1999-2006), Chairman of the Board of Directors (1999-2001) and President of the Supervisory Committee (2001-2003) of the Macao Public Administration Association. In 2005, Dr. Lee was invited by the Shanxi Provincial Government (China) to be its senior international consultant on economic affairs.

Dr. Lee obtained his Ph. D. from the Institute of Economics, Tsinghua University and a Master Degree in Public Administration from the University of Macao (joint program with the Portuguese National Institute for Public Administration). He published the book “Strategy for Developing the Macao Platform: Research on Macao’s Role as a Service Platform for the Economic Co-operation between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries” in 2006. Dr. Lee currently serves as an Asia Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Gerd Schwarz is a Visiting Fellow at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He taught classes at Harvard both for graduate students and in executive education programs. Mr. Schwarz co-edited and co-authored “Outsourcing”, a book that reached the top-5 of the Financial Times list for German business books and published numerous articles in journals and business magazines.

Before coming to Harvard, Mr. Schwarz worked in the consulting department of Deloitte, holding various positions, ultimately as the Service Line Leader Performance Management. In this capacity he advised numerous multinational and Chinese companies on strategy and organizational issues. Previously, Mr. Schwarz was as a Financial Controller for Bertelsmann, one of the largest European media companies, and an affiliate of Wienerberger, one of the leading Austrian manufacturing corporations, where he worked as an expatriate in Central Europe. Mr. Schwarz holds graduate degrees from Harvard University, Northwestern University, the University of St. Gallen, and the University of Graz. He was named a 21st Century Fellow, a leader below the age of 40 who will shape this century, by Oxford’s 21st Century Trust.

Dr. Jin Xu is a lecturer at the School of Economics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a former President at Shanghai Jiner, Inc. He is now doing research as an Asia Programs Fellow in the Center of Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research areas include venture capital investment in greater China, reform of local government, and future trends of the new China.

Dr. Xu's research at the Kennedy School is focused on three distinct areas of interest. The first involves the reform modes of economic and political relations in China. The second attempts to establish the exact or basic meaning of Intellectual Property Rights, so as to explain the mechanism by which developed countries push the protection of these rights. The third is to rethink the core language of traditional Chinese political culture, create and redefine several terms, and make them popular to the western society. He has a Ph.D. in enterprise management, and a master’s degree in mathematics.

Sports Panel

Stephen A. Greyser is Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, Harvard Business School, where he specializes in brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, the business of sports, and nonprofit management. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, he has been active in research and teaching at HBS since 1958. He was also an editor at the Harvard Business Review and later its Editorial Board Secretary and Board Chairman. He is responsible for 16 books, numerous journal articles, and over 300 published HBS case studies; recent publications are Revealing the Corporation and articles on “Monarchies as Corporate Brands,” “Heritage Brands” and “Brands in Crisis.” He created and teaches Harvard’s Business of Sports course, has served on the Selection Committee for the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame, and has authored numerous Business of Sports cases and articles, including “Winners and Losers in the Olympics” (2006). He is past executive director of the Marketing Science Institute and the charter member of its Hall of Fame, and also a Fellow of the American Academy of Advertising for career contributions to the field. He is a past national vice chairman of PBS and an overseer at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and WGBH. He served as Alumni Association president of Boston Latin School, America’s oldest school (1635) and received its Distinguished Graduate Award (2005); previous honorees include Leonard Bernstein, Sumner Redstone, and Theodore White. Known as "the Cal Ripken of HBS," in almost forty years of teaching, he has never missed a class.

Yuanpu Jin, professor and doctoral supervisor in School of Literary Studies, Renmin University of China, is the director of Cultural Creative Industry Research Institute of the university and executive director of Beijing Humanistic Olympic Games Research Base. He has also been the chairman of Beijing Science and Technology Association of Aesthetics and general secretary of International Creative Industry Conference in China. He is the key expert in working group of Cultural Restructuring Blueprint and China Culture Development Compendium leaded by Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee. He was the principal expert in Beijing Cultural Creative Industry Research Task Force supported by Propaganda Department of Beijing Municipal Committee, consultant on cultural industry development in Beijing, Yunan, Shenzhen, Liaoning, Henan，Shanxi and Sichuan Province. Chairman and standing general secretary of Sino-foreign Literary Theory Committee, editor of Humanistic Olympic Games website, Cultural Research website and Cultural Industry website. Ever since 1980s, he has published more than 180 papers on China Social Science, Art Research and many other magazines, including Cultural Productivity and Creative Industry, Challenges and Cultural transformation of Literature and Art. He also published more than 10 books including Elaborating Worries to China: Cultural interpretation of transition in China. He has also compiled many reports, including Current Cultural Industry, Cultural reform of tran-century: Cultural Studies in China. He has also directed many projects, like Explore and Development of Cultural industry in China in the new Century, which is one of National Philosophical Social Science 10th Five-year Projects, and Cultural Industry Development and Soft-competitivity in Core Cities in China, which is one of key projects supported by National Social Science Fund.

Gordon Smeaton
Vice President, International, National Football League

A 47-year-old native of Toronto, Gordon has worked in marketing capacities with major packaged goods companies and sports organizations for his entire career.

After graduating with a BA from Queen’s University (Kingston, ON) he joined the Canadian team in the 1983 America’s Cup held off Newport, Rhode Island. In addition to co-hosting a nightly radio show on CFRB, Gordon developed the communication and corporate partnership strategy for the team. He joined Labatt Breweries of Canada in late 1983 and worked in increasingly senior sales and marketing positions through 1990.

In late 1990, Gordon moved to New York to oversee the National Football League’s (NFL) retail licensing and sponsorship development in Canada and Mexico. In 1993, he was appointed Director, International Marketing to develop the NFL’s consumer products and sponsorship business on a global basis. From 1995, as Senior Director of NFL International, Gordon managed the day-to-day business and administrative operations for the NFL in Canada, Japan and Australasia and opened offices in Toronto, Tokyo and Beijing. He also led the planning for the American Bowl series of international pre-season games in these cities.

At present, as Vice President of NFL International, Gordon oversees the NFL’s business in Canada and Asia focusing on executing a multimedia strategy. Gordon also spearheaded the NFL’s first ever international regular season game in Mexico City in 2005 that set a league attendance record.

On a personal basis, he is a visiting professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan and has served as a Board member with ProCaps GP based in Montreal and the Yorkville Youth Association in New York City.

Gordon is married with two children and resides in Manhattan.

Venture Capital/Entrepreneurship Panel

Janet Carmosky
CEO, China Business Network

Janet is a career China business specialist who completed a BA Chinese Studies, (University of Pennsylvania 1985), then resided in China – Xi’an, Hong Kong, Shanghai – from 1985-2003, with sabbaticals in USA: Washington, D.C. 1988-1990, Berkeley, CA 1999. In her first decade working in and with China she managed import-export, sourcing, and buying agency programs. Since 1993, she has worked in senior management of consulting and operations, with posts including: Director of Burson-Marsteller PR (Shanghai 2001-2003):  Director of Operations for Web Connection/chinadotcom, (Shanghai 2000-2001); General Manager, Richina Fashion Retail, (Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong 1997-1999); Asst Vice President Richina Capital, (Shanghai, 1994-1997); Senior Manager, Coopers & Lybrand Strategy Consulting, (Shanghai 1993-1994); Senior Account Executive, William E. Connor & Associates, (Hong Kong and Xian 1990-1993); and Sales Manager, Beijing Trade Exchange, (Washington, DC and Beijing 1986-1990). Her past and current clients for China strategy and implementation include: Office Depot, Wella AG, Bacardi, Marriott, Continental Airlines, Wal*Mart, Corning, Waste Management, Sony, Citroen, Alcatel, PR Newswire, Ethicon Endosurgery, Briggs & Stratton, Unilever, Alpharma, Givenchy, Yue Sai Kan. She also works on USA commercial and communications strategy for the Ministry of Science and Technology of the PRC and other Chinese agencies.

Janet Carmosky’s publications include Alcatel in China: Business as an Adventure (2003) a case for MBA students at Switzerland's IMD, also published as an article in Harvard Business Review (Chinese edition) as well as numerous essays and chapters in various Economist publications, (1991-2003). As President of her consulting firm China Prospects (2005-2007) she performed strategy and training projects, and frequently speaks publicly in both English and Chinese. She was married to a native of Xi’an, China for 18 years. Janet speaks Mandarin and Cantonese fluently, reads and writes Chinese, and is completing her first book, Cracking the Code: A Guide to Bridging the Cultural Gap that Separates Americans and Chinese.

Bill invests in both new and existing technology businesses. His current startup projects include BzzAgent, CCP Games, Going, Hubspot, and Tudou.

Prior to joining General Catalyst, Bill was at Mission Ventures, where he focused on web, wireless and software investments. Bill sourced, led and was actively involved with several of the companies within the Mission portfolio, including: Greenplum, Networks In Motion, MaxLinear, MedicineNet (HLTH), Mochila, Verimatrix and Zyray (BRCM).

Earlier, Bill was with Venturehouse, where he focused on Cibernet (MACH), Internet Photonics (CIEN), Matrics (SBL), XM Satellite Radio (XMSR), and was a director of Thought Equity. Prior to Venturehouse, Bill was a management consultant at McKinsey and Company.

Bill is a co-founder and serves as a director of Young Venture Capital (YVC). Additionally, he is on the selection committee for the National Science Foundation SBIC Grants.

Bill graduated summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering with a B.S. and from the Wharton School of Business with a B.S. Bill received his MS Computation from Oxford University in applied machine learning.

Christine Lu
Chairman, China Business Network

Christine Lu's Taiwan-born parents paved the way for Christine's career when they started China's first maternity clothing business. As an undergraduate at Boston University, she added an East Asian Studies focus to her International Relations major, signed up for an intensive Chinese studies program at Fudan University, and interned at the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. While in Shanghai, she designed two lines of women's ready to wear clothing. She also founded, with partner Janet Carmosky, a women's clothing dot-com. That concept was funded by China-based TV Shopping Network (TVSN), Duty Free Shoppers, and Home Shopping Network, so Christine joined TVSN, working for five years as Marketing Director for its internet/multi-channel retail concept.

In 2004 Christine returned to the USA and is currently based in San Diego where she lives with her husband and son. She developed a role for herself as Executive Producer and Host of The China Business Show in March 2007 then expanded the concept to include offline and additional online elements to meet the demand of the large and thriving US-China business community.

Sonny manages the GSR China office, and focuses on investment in semiconductor/new material and wireless/Internet space.

Shawn Chen has received many awards from both educational institutions and the governments of China and the United States. Recent recognition includes Resolutions and Commendations from the City of Zhengzhou, the provincial government of Henan Province, the Governor of Kansas, the Mayor and City Council of Los Angeles, the Missouri State Legislature, and the Arizona State Legislature. He is regularly selected by both provincial and national government officials in China to lead cultural and trade delegations throughout the United States. He has also led League of California Cities elected officials and Mayoral associations on trade missions throughout China.

Sonny currently sits on the board of LatticePower, Power Layer Microsystems, SMiT, and SportsGG. Prior to GSR, Sonny was the co-founder of Asia Wireless Technology Corp. He previously held key executive positions at Nortel Networks, lead the investment in ASMC (HKEX: 3355) and many joint ventures in China. Sonny was the Managing Director for GuangDong Nortel Telecommunication Corp. and Shanghai Nortel Semiconductors Corp.; He started his professional career at Nortel/Bell Northern Research in Ottawa.

Sonny grew up in China, and attended University of British Columbia, Canada (Engineering Physics), University of California, Berkeley (Visiting Scholar in Physics/EECS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan Fellow).

Founder and Managing Partner of Dragonrise Capital Group, a boutique investment advisory firm based in Shanghai and Hong Kong, which provides seed investments to Chinese startups and specializes in China deal origination, structuring and private placements

With fifteen years of experience in venture capital investment, investment banking and fund management in New York, Hong Kong and China, Shirley is an active investor and advisor in the Chinese VC/PE community, and has been instrumental in the the financing of a number of high profile and successful Chinese startups and high growth companies, including the Series A round investment in Tencent Technologies (HKSE: 700), the largest IM service provider and internet media company in China with USD11 billion in market cap, and advising on Series B private placement for Focus Media Holdings (Nasdaq: FMCN), the largest outdoor media company in China with a market cap of USD5.6 billion

Before relocating to Shanghai in 2003, Shirley was Director of Venture Investments with PCCW Ventures based in Hong Kong, responsible for Chinese venture investments and M&A activities, working closely with Executive Chairman and CEO

Prior to joining PCCW Ventures team, Shirley was a VP at JP Morgan (Hong Kong office) at the Equity Capital Markets Group and participated in the overseas listing of China mobile and CNOOC etc; she previously worked as Investment Manager of International Equity with Nynex Asset Management Company in New York, directing portfolio investments of USD3.5 billion in over 120 world equity markets for the Nynex Pension Fund.

Shirley received an MBA in Finance from Yale University and a BA from Beijing University of Foreign Studies; she had a brief stint as a diplomat at Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Department of Law and Treaties. She is a certified United Nations Simultaneous Interpreter.

Joe Zhou is a founding managing partner at KPCB China. Joe is one of the most active VCs in China. He began his venture capital career in late 1999 with Softbank China Venture Capital as Head of Beijing Office. He joined Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF) in 2001. He was a Partner at SAIF when SAIF II was raised. He was named Top Ten Venture Capitalists by CVCF in 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2007. He was named VC of the Year in 2005 by TopCapital.

Joe focuses on identifying market opportunities in technology, cleantech, media, and consumer sectors. He currently serves on 7 boards for KPCB China. Prior to this, he had significant involvement in many of SAIF’s investments such as Shanda (NASDAQ “SNDA”), Acorn (NYSE “ATV”), ATA (NASDAQ “ATAI”), and Alchip. Joe currently serves on the board of Acorn as an independent director.

Joe returned to China from the US in 1995 as Vice President of UTStarcom China. He was responsible for managing investments for UTStarcom and its major shareholder Softbank. Prior to that, he spent six years in New Jersey working at AT&T Bell Labs and at Lepton Inc., a Bell Labs Spinoff. From 1982 to 1987, he spent 5 years teaching at Beijing University of Technology.

Joe holds a MSEE from New Jersey Institute of Technology and a BSEE from Beijing University of Technology.