AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum 2023
Asia's premier private equity & venture event for the last 36 years
LIVE Broadcast & In Person
Four Seasons Hotel, Hong Kong & Online
14
Nov
Global mindset: From Asia to the world
- What does being global from day one mean in different geographies?
- Are cross-border strategies only applicable to business-facing start-ups?
- What obstacles do Asian SaaS companies face when targeting new markets?
- Which is the best Asia-to-global bet: artificial intelligence, crypto, or climate tech?
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SpeakersJie Zhang Partner COOLEY LLP
Emre Hidekazu Yuasa General Partner GLOBIS CAPITAL PARTNERS
JP Gan Founding Partner INCE CAPITAL
Conrad Tsang Founder and Chairman STRATEGIC YEAR HOLDINGS LIMITED
Eddie Thai Co-founder & General Partner AVV
Wei Zhou Founding Managing Partner CCV
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Jie Zhang is based in Cooley’s Hong Kong office. Her practice focuses on advising corporate clients and investment banks on capital markets transactions, such as initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, and convertible bond offerings. She also advises corporate and private equity clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity financings and privatizations. In addition, Jie represents clients listed in the U.S. and Hong Kong on general corporate and securities regulatory compliance matters.
Jie holds an LLM from Columbia University Law School, as well as both an LLM and an LLB from the University of International Business and Economics. She is admitted to practice in New York and Hong Kong.
Emre is General Partner at Globis Capital Partners, leading investments in IT startups targeting digital transformation of various industries. His portfolio includes Photosynth (TSE 4379), GLM (electric vehicle startup, acquired), Sensyn Robotics (drone software), MFS (mortgage technology platform), New Standard (digital media agency), Global Mobility Service (auto loan, IoT), Shippio (digital freight forwarder), CADDi (procurement platform for manufacturing parts), Matsuri Technologies (vacation rental operator), Estie (commercial real estate database), Leaner Technologies procurement and spend management SaaS）, Ascend (vertical SaaS for trucking companies), and Facilo (vertical SaaS for real estate brokers).
Prior to joining Globis Capital Partners, Emre worked for Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting (Tokyo) and KPMG Management Consulting (Tokyo), where he specialized in overseas expansion and Post Merger Integration.
He teaches at Globis University Graduate School of Management (MBA). Emre graduated from Harvard Business School (MBA) and Ohio State University.
JP Gan is a Founding Partner of INCE Capital. With over 20 years of experience in venture capital, Mr. Gan has been ranked a top venture capitalist worldwide by the Forbes Midas List for five consecutive years and was No.5 on the global list in 2019. He has been named a top venture capitalist in Asia and China by multiple media and institutions including CB Insights / New York Times, Fortune Magazine, AVCJ, Zero2IPO, ChinaVenture, and 36Kr.
Focusing on Internet consumer and intelligent technologies sectors, Mr. Gan’s successful investments include Trip.com Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: TCOM, an independent director since 2002), Bilibili Inc. (NASDAQ: BILI, an independent director since 2015), Dianping.com (merged with Meituan, HKEX: 03690), Musical.ly (acquired by ByteDance and became TikTok), Meitu Inc. (HKEX: 01357), Jiayuan.com, PPS Inc and ATL.
Prior to founding INCE Capital, Mr. Gan had been a Managing Partner and member of the investment committee of Qiming Venture Partners for 13 years. He started his venture capital career at the Carlyle Group in 2000 and was a Director and founding member of its Asian venture fund. He has also worked at KongZhong Corporation, Merrill Lynch, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Mr. Gan holds a BBA from the University of Iowa and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is a member of the University of Chicago Booth Council and Polsky Center Council.
Mr Tsang has been in the private equity and venture capital industry for 20 years. Mr Tsang’s industry experience includes: education and professional services, TMT, retail and consumer products, real estate, natural resources/mining, advanced manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, logistics, environmental products/services, energy and alternative energy, financial services etc. The companies he has been involved with include Noah Education Holdings Limited, Minsheng Education Group (1569.HK), Galloping Horse Media Group Limited, Kangda International Environmental Protection Holding Limited (6136.HK), Pansoft Group Limited, Ambow Education, Hidili Industry International Development Limited (1393.HK), Launch Tech Co Ltd (2488.HK), Great Wall Auto (2333.HK, 601633.CN), Nord Anglia Education, Kasca Education, China Mini-Storage, Teky Holdings, Carsome. Prior to founding Strategic Year Holdings Limited, he spent 13 years at Baring Private Equity Asia (“Baring Asia”), where his last position was Managing Director. He was the Founding Partner of Baring Asia’s Beijing office. Prior to that, he was with Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific doing equity research, focusing on media and retail sectors. In the 1990s, Mr Tsang began his career at Peregrine Investment Holdings, where he was involved with Asian fixed income sales and marketing.
Mr Tsang is currently President, Co-Chairman of PRC Committee and Co-Chairman of Real Assets Committee of the Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (HKVCA). Previously, he was Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association’s Chairman of the Board (2013-2015). Mr Tsang is a Member of the Mainland Business Advisory Committee of Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC). He is also the Co-Chairman of the Financial Services Committee of Hong Kong China Chamber of Commerce (HKCHCC). Prior to founding Strategic Year Holdings Limited, he was Senior Advisor, Asia with Apollo Education Group.
Mr Tsang obtained a Master’s Degree in Management Studies at University of Oxford, United Kingdom; and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (First Class Honors) at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, United Kingdom.
Personal Awards:
CBN Weekly, “2011-2012 Most Valuable Partners 50 in China”
Forbes China Magazine, “2008,2009, The 50 Best Venture Capitalists in China”
Top Capital Magazine, “2008 The Best PE Investor of The Year”
China Most Valuable Venture Enterprises Awards, “2008 The Best PE Investor”
Zero2IPO Group, “2007, 2009, Top 10 PE Capitalists in China”
World Eminence Chinesebusiness Association, “Top 100 Most Visionary Chinese Investors (2007, 2008)”
China Venture Group, “2008 The Top 30 PE Investors of The Year”
Eddie Thai is a co-founder & general partner of AVV, an early-stage VC firm with a mission to help exceptional teams in Vietnam and elsewhere in building iconic companies. He is particularly on the lookout for breakthrough approaches in fintech, edtech, and enterprise SaaS. Eddie also continues to steward the Vietnam-focused fund of 500 Global, the early-stage VC firm and ecosystem builder headquartered in Silicon Valley. As a co-founder & general partner of 500VN he led more than 30 investments, including pre-seed / seed round investments in Axie Infinity (a16z-backed NFT gaming unicorn), ApplyBoard (Fidelity-backed edtech unicorn), Trusting Social (Sequoia-backed fintech centaur), and Base.vn (enterprise SaaS; acquired). He received degrees from Harvard University and Yale University. He also volunteers in advisory board roles with the World Bank (Vietnam 2045 project), UNICEF Vietnam, and the UNDP (business integrity project).
Wei Zhou is the founding partner of CCV Capital. He has 11 years of successful entrepreneurship experience and 17 years of venture investment experience.
In 2007, Wei joined KPCB as a founding member of KPCB China. He then served as a Managing Partner of KPCB and led the technology investment team in Greater China. In 2017, Wei founded CCV Capital where he adheres to a visionary investment strategy. CCV Capital focuses on early-stage investments in artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving, and green tech. He has maintained a unicorn rate of 35% in the first ten years of operations and continues to yield at least one unicorn each year.
The companies he invested in include: JD.com (NASDAQ:JD), VenusTech (002439), CreditEase (NYSE:YRD), Rong360 (NYSE:JT),ChineseAll(300364), Arrail Dental (HKSE:06639), Perfect Corp(NYSE:PERF), KJY water (301372), Ximalaya FM, Shukun Technology, MetaApp, Cowa Robot, Transsnet Financial, IceKredit, Quicktron, PPIO, U POWER Technology, etc.
Wei is a pioneer in China's fintech payment industry. Prior to CCV Capital, Wei had more than ten years of startup experience as founding member/founder before his Venture Capital career.
Wei has been named among China's Top 30 Venture Capitalists by Forbes China for five consecutive years and included in the Top 30 Most Influential Investors of the Year by Fortune, China's Top 10 Venture Capitalist by CV Awards, China's Top 10 Influential Investors by China Renaissance, and awarded Best Investor of the Year by Zero2IPO and China Venture.
Wei also serves as the treasurer of China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association ("CVCA"), the oldest and longest-running trade group representing the venture capital and private equity industry in Greater China.
Wei holds an M.B.A. degree from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor's degree in Physics and Electronics Science from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He is a long-term entrepreneurship mentor at Wharton Business School, Tsinghua PBC School of Finance, and Zero2IPO Sandhill College.