The China Investment Summit USA Conference - Speaker list

John W. Allen is Chairman & CEO of Greater China Corporation. He has been actively involved in Asia and China for over 30 years. He is also a Trustee of the Chinese Cultural Foundation and Member of the China Investment Group LLC. He assisted in founding AIESEC in...

David heads the cleantech and banking practice at Oracle Capital LLC, which serves as an investment bank to cleantech companies (energy storage, energy efficiency, renewable energy and environmental remediation). Collectively, the firm’s banking team has over $1.5...

Richard Barkham has a degree in Economics and Geography and a PhD in Economics. He is also a Chartered Surveyor. He specializes in using the tools and techniques of financial, macro and urban economics to analyze property market processes. Richard has been...

Brian joined the Wolfson Group in March of 2011. Wolfson Group is a single family office with roughly 200 hedge fund and private equity fund investments. Prior to joining Wolfson Group Brian was head of hedge fund research for the Jackson Family Office, a single...

Jim was a founding partner of Focus Ventures in 1997. While at Focus, he has led successful investments in Cosine Communications, PA Semi (Apple), Pure Digital (Cisco), Starent Networks (Cisco), Telera (Alcatel), Teknovus (Broadcom) and Netscaler (Citrix). He is...

Frank Brochin, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Brochin was most recently a managing director of Warburg Pincus, where he was responsible for investments in the information technology and communications sectors. Prior to Warburg Pincus, Mr. Brochin...

Kevin T. Carter is a Co-founder, the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Investment Committee of Baochuan Capital Management (”BaoCap”). Prior to BaoCap he held similar positions at its predecessor firm, AlphaShares. He was the Founder, Chairman and Chief...

Marc Chandler joined Brown Brothers Harriman in October 2005 as the global head of currency strategy. Previously he was the chief currency strategist for HSBC Bank USA and Mellon Bank. Marc is a prolific writer and speaker. In addition to being frequently called up...

With over 18 years of private equity, consulting, and technical experience, Paul oversees venture capital investments and the management of WI Harper's information technology and clean technology sectors in the U.S. Prior to joining WI Harper, Paul served as Vice...

Mark leads the Information Technology, Communication and Media related deals at Infinity. In addition, he manages the Fund's strategic relationships with institutions in the US and Europe. Mr. Chess has been with Infinity since 2001. During his tenure, he has played an ...

Dr. Choy is the founder of the Asia Pacific Medical Group (APMG). It is a leading medical service provider founded by 35 United States physicians and surgeons in 1992. Dr. Choy has served as chairman and CEO since its incorporation. In addition, Dr. Choy is also...

Hampton Hoerter is Asia’s pre-eminent healthcare investment bank. As Managing Partner of Hampton/Hoerter, Mr. Cole has considerable experience with both the real estate and operating components to successful projects having placed over USD$1 billion in capital for...

John Espinosa is a director and a member of the Global Public Markets Investment Research team for the TIAA-CREF organization. Mr. Espinosa is a credit research analyst covering emerging markets in Asia and the Middle East. Previously he was an associate portfolio...

Mr. Fanger co-founded Shoreline Capital Management, Ltd. in 2004 to invest in distressed assets and special situations in China. The firm currently manages over US$200 million, with principal balances on its distressed debt holdings totaling over US$2...

Michael Felman is President and CEO of MSF Capital Advisors, a global financial advisory firm. His firm represents institutional investors such as family offices, venture capital, private equity, fund of funds, hedge funds and a select group of high net worth...

Dr. Fogassa manages the Hedgefort Brazil Fund, which has substantially outperformed a benchmark index of Brazilian hedge funds since inception. Hedgefort utilizes a proprietary quantitative approach for net long/short exposure coupled with a fundamentally-based...

Ivy Lindstrom Fredericks is Founder, President & CEO of Transnational Capital Corp., an investment bank and FINRA member firm specializing in emerging growth companies worldwide. TCC advises companies on public and private debt and equity offerings, mergers and...

Helena T. Fredericks is a results-driven strategy and operations specialist who focuses on creating customer and shareholder value for publicly traded and privately held companies worldwide. She has significant expertise in leading client teams, creating...

Gerd is a Partner at Siemens Venture Capital, based in Silicon Valley, CA. He specializes in investments in energy, communications and industrial solutions. He manages SVC’s investments in BPL Global, Coulomb...

Phil Groves has worked in the investment and accounting industries since 1992. He is the Founding Partner of DAC Management, LLC, chairs DAC’s Investment Committee and leads the Firm’s overall strategy and risk control. DAC has focused on the Asian distressed market ...

James Hahn is Founder and Managing Partner of JC Asia Alpha Private Equity, a family office and direct investment fund founded in 2002, with offices in Seoul, Korea and Shanghai, China. JC Asia Alpha is one of the earliest investors in private Chinese growth...

Edmund Harriss has managed Asian Funds for over 17 years both from London and from Hong Kong, From July 1993 to April 2003, Edmund was employed by Guinness Flight (which ultimately merged with Investec in 1998). He served as a member of the investment team managing ...

Hartmut Heine has formed his own company Heine Enterprises Ltd., based in Hong Kong and Beijing with a representative office. Prior to that, he was Chief – Representative of Georgsmarienhuette Holding Group GmbH for China and Hong Kong, as well as managing director of...

Mark Jensen is the co-founder and Portfolio Manager at T Squared Partners LLC and Third Set Capital LLC, each a fundamentally-oriented private investment firm focused on deep value public and private companies based in North America and Asia. Mr. Jensen utilizes a...

Mr. Jinsi joined IFC in 2003 and heads IFC’s clean technology investment efforts, as part of its Climate Change Business Group. He combines over 20 years of experience in various industry sectors, having worked and lived in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the...

Kelly Jones is Head of Investment Promotion at Invest Hong Kong’s New York office, a position he has held since December, 2007. His office is in charge of Hong Kong’s international promotion activities for the Eastern US. He began his career at the General Motors...

Richard Kang is the Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research at Emerging Global Advisors LLC, a New York based fund manager and research advisory firm specializing on emerging markets. Their emerging market ETFs are the first globally to provide unique sector ...

Dr. Keyoung has more than 15 years of healthcare and life science experience through his role as scientist, surgeon, consultant and investor. At Burrill & Company, Dr. Keyoung is Managing Director of its Venture Capital group, Portfolio manager of Burrill’s US, Asia...

David S. Kopp is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of New York Pacific Capital Ltd. (NYPC, 卡贝基金) a leading private equity firm based in Beijing and Suzhou, PRC. Since 2002, NYPC has partnered with various leading municipal governments and Mr. Kopp pioneered one of the...

Dave Ladouceur, Managing Director of ProVantage Capital Partners, is an operating executive technologist. He is currently founder and CEO of GreenFly America and has been involved in the successful commercialization and delivery of high technology, innovative concepts...

David has more than 15 years of private equity, technology, and investment banking experience in software, services and clean technology. Prior to WestSummit, David was the Managing Director and Head of US operations for WI Harper, a leading China focused technology...

Prior to joining the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Shu-Pui was the Head of Asia Technology Risk Management of Chase Manhattan Bank, and the Regional Information Risk Management Officer of JPMorgan Chase in Asia. His major responsibilities included the formulation and...

Sherry Lin is a Director & Chief Representative at Mousse Partners, a New York based private investment firm controlled by the family affiliated with Chanel Inc, the luxury goods company. She heads the China office of Mousse Partners, established in Beijing in late...

Based in New York, Ms. Liu is responsible for promoting Standard Chartered’s Greater China business with Financial Institution clients in the Americas. She has championed Standard Chartered’s RMB marketing campaign since 2009, through various client seminars and...

Gene Ma is director of China economics and strategy at Tudor Investment. Prior to Tudor, Gene was a senior economist at ISI Group, CEBM and Citic Securities. He has taught at George Washington University and University of Illinois. Gene graduated from Peking University ...

His primary responsibilities are the development of the company on behalf of the Fund Managers working with Investors, the Funds as clients, Regulators, Banks and Prime Brokers. The LLP, founded in August 2000, is an FSA authorised and regulated investment manager...

Andy Mantel is Founder & CEO of Pacific Sun Advisors. He has lived in Asia since 1990 and has more than 20 years experience investing in the Greater China region. Mr. Mantel was the founding portfolio manager of China’s first ever fund manager Shanghai International...

Kirt Mayland is the In-House counsel of Barron Partners. He was recently In-House counsel and an energy attorney at Penn Energy Trust and Penn Energy Renewables, Pennsylvania-based renewable energy developers of wind and solar, respectively. While at Penn, Mr. Mayland ...

Daniel Mintz is Founding Managing Director of Olympus Capital Holdings Asia ("Olympus Capital"), a leading regional middle market private equity firm with more than a decade of experience successfully investing in fast-growing industries across Asia. Together with his...

Owen Nee focuses on foreign investment transactions in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). He has created more than 100 joint ventures in China and established more than 150 subsidiaries for foreign investors. Owen’s career is a series of “firsts” in...

William Nobrega is managing partner and founder with The Conrad Group, a global professional-services firm that provides emerging market investment and strategic advisory services. Mr. Nobrega, who sets the vision for his team of seasoned investment and strategic...

Mitch Nussbaum focuses on corporate and securities law, with particular emphasis on representation of U.S. and foreign public corporations, investment and commercial banks, and private emerging growth companies in public and private financings (equity and debt), and...

Jim is President of Oberweis Asset Management and oversees all investment research at Oberweis. He is co-manager and founder of the Oberweis China Opportunities Fund. He has spent his entire career managing portfolios of high growth, small cap companies. Jim earned...

Mr. Oden is a Principal of AllianceBernstein L.P., which he joined in 1992. Mr. Oden works with a broad spectrum of the firm’s clients to develop and implement investment strategies. In addition to his responsibilities within the U.S., he has taken an active role in...

Judith Posnikoff, PhD is a Managing Director and a Founding Partner of Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, LLC (PAAMCO), a leading provider of hedge fund portfolios to sophisticated global institutional investors. As chair of PAAMCO’s Investment Oversight...

Vidak Radonjic is the Founder and the CEO of The Beryl Consulting Group LLC. He has over sixteen years of experience in alternative investments and capital markets. Mr. Radonjic is responsible for managing all aspects of the Firm’s hedge fund advisory practice. That...

Andrew Rice is SVP International at The Jordan Company (“TJC”), a leading global middle-market private equity firm with $6 billion in assets under management. Since 1990, he has done over 45 acquisitions, joint ventures and wholly-owned start-up operations worldwide...

Johannes Schoeter is a Founding Partner of China New Enterprise Investment (CNEI), a China focused growth capital fund. CNEI is a pioneer in successfully operating a foreign invested, onshore registered private equity fund in China. Mr. Schoeter has been making private ...

Andrew Seaman has 20 years of investment experience, including 15 years as a fund manager first at Guinness Flight and then at Investec. Mr. Seaman was awarded The Wall Street Journal’s European Fixed Interest Manager of the Year in 1993 whilst his two other funds...

Don is Chairman of Agecroft Partners, a global consulting and third party marketing firm for hedge funds. Agecroft is considered one of the top hedge fund consulting/marketing firms in the world and has won industry awards 4 years in a row. Agecroft is in contact with...

Mr. Stucke is a Senior Managing Director of Guggenheim Partners, the head of external manager research across Guggenheim entities and the Chief Investment Officer of Guggenheim Investment Advisors, a global multi-family office and investment advisory practice. Prior to ...

Derek Sulger is a Founding Partner of Lunar Capital Management, a China-focused private equity fund providing growth capital to Chinese companies positioned for inward and inland development. At Lunar Capital, Derek has guided the growth of the firm to 24 professionals ...

Dr. Sullivan has long-term experience in both academia and in executive management. From 1977 to 2000, he acted as an adjunct faculty member at St. Cloud State University and the University of St. Thomas (UST). During this same period, he held various executive...

Jade Invest launched the first China dedicated private equity fund investment program in 2006. With the largest fund-of-funds team dedicated to China, currently Jade Invest is in Fund II investment period that focuses on strong risk-adjusted returns through careful...

Dr. Aaron Tong is a Managing Director of TCL Capital. Prior to TCL Capital, he served as GM of TCL strategy and investment management center, VP of TTE North America profit center, VP of TTE and GM of strategy planning center of TTE. He also held senior positions in...

Tim Wang is a senior vice president and senior investment strategist at Clarion Partners (formerly ING Real Estate Investment Management). He joined the firm in 2006, and assists in managing $22 billion in private equity real estate investment. He is responsible for...

Dan Weiskopf is the co-portfolio manager at Forefront, focusing on ETF research and strategy. Mr. Weiskopf has had a long and distinguished career as a hedge fund manager at MH CApital Partners L.P. from 1995 to 2003. In 2003 he joined UBS Financial Services...

John Wong is the President of Oberweis Asset Management (Asia) Ltd. He is co-manager of the Oberweis China Opportunities Fund. Prior to joining Oberweis Asset Management in September 2007, John was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco. ...

Eddie Wong is the partner-in-charge of the Asian-American Business Group at Friedman LLP. He specializes in working with entrepreneurial Asian-American business owners in the United States, as well as servicing emerging businesses with Asian parent companies. Eddie...

Dr. Hao Wu is a Co-Founder and Partner of Sino-Century China Private Equity Partners, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth private companies in China, with office in Shanghai, Beijing, and New York. Prior to Sino-Century, Dr. Wu worked at a number of...

Xiaoyang Yu is a Founding Partner of China New Enterprise Investment (CNEI), a China focused growth capital fund. CNEI is a pioneer in successfully operating a foreign invested, onshore registered private equity fund in China. Before founding CNEI, Ms. Yu co-founded...