Date: March 28, 2013 Time: 8:30AM to 5PM
Place: CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Concourse Level, Manhattan
Rohit Arora, CEO and Co-Founder of Biz2Credit, is one of the country’s leading experts in small business finance. Since its founding in 2007, Biz2Credit has arranged $800M in small business loans and has helped literally thousands of entrepreneurs. For his efforts to help others and his pioneering business model, Rohit Arora was named Crain’s NY Business “Entrepreneur of the Year 2011.”
Rohit is an often quoted expert on small business lending for major news media, including: New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, American Banker, CNNMoney, MSNBC, Inc., and Washington Post. A frequently sought guest speaker; he was a panelist at the 2012 New York Times Small Business Summit, National Association of Federal Credit Unions (NAFCU)’s Small Business Lending Conference;” the American Asian/Asian Research Institute’s panel on small business growth; and the Harlem Business Alliance’s 9th Annual Harlem Business Economic Summit.
Rohit oversees the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index, a widely reported monthly snapshot of small business loan approvals. Its findings are reviewed by Federal Reserve and SBA officials, as well as the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. He has written columns on SMB finance for FOX Small Business Center, SmallBizTrends, Franchise Handbook, NewJerseyNewsroom, New York Enterprise Report, and others.
Kanya Balakrishna is the Co-Founder and President of The Future Project, an emerging creative social enterprise out to revolutionize education by transforming schools from the inside out. Launched in 2011, The Future Project dispatches Dream Directors into high schools across three cities and charges them with mobilizing a coalition of hundreds of students and staff who channel their passions to build Future Projects that change their schools and world. A Draper Richards Kaplan entrepreneur, her own passion for education and the next generation emerged from a decade of coaching students in Memphis and seeing the difference schools can make when supported and fueled by the energy of extraordinary people. Previously, after graduating from Yale, where she studied anthropology and served as managing editor of the Yale Daily News, Kanya worked as the chief speechwriter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg.
Suzette C. Bather is director for the NY-Manhattan MBDA Business Center (NYCMBC). Funded in part by the US Department of Commerce. The NYCMBC is a business development consulting agency committed to developing high-earning minority business enterprises. During her short time as director, the NYMBC has exceeded performance goals of $84.1 million in contracts and capital awarded to diverse businesses.
Prior to taking on the director role in May 2011, Ms. Bather spent 8 years at JP Morgan Chase across multiple roles. In Global Procurement Supplier Diversity, she developed statistical reports to track diverse business activities and helped develop a virtual trade show to match procurement officers with suppliers, helping the firm surpass its diversity spend goals. In Small Business Finance, she created sales tactics and trained national sales force on execution techniques and developed and implemented an expense management tool which resulted in $22 million savings. In Treasury Security Services, Ms. Bather designed models utilizing applications to automate reports of actual revenue versus plan, utilized by senior management for decision making purposes, and created and implemented a global product hierarchy for the cash concentration functionality.
Ms. Bather holds a BA in Psychology from Binghamton University, an MBA in Finance and Strategy from Pace University, and an Executive Management Certification from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
John A. Blaho is Director for Industrial-Academic Research at the CUNY Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. He has been responsible for creating/maintaining productive Sponsored Research Projects between Industrial entities and CUNY research faculty and is currently working to increase the amount of faculty entrepreneurial activities.
Dr. Blaho has worked closely with CUNY’s traditional entrepreneurial center, the CUNY Center for Advanced Technology (CUNY CAT) serving as Director for University-Industry Collaborations and continues to function as its Liaison to CUNY for Entrepreneurship and serves Ex Officio on the CUNY CAT Executive Committee; he assisted in rebranding the CUNY CAT and increasing its industry sponsored research activities over 5X since 2009.
Dr. Blaho was instrumental in creating the NSF IUCRC for Metamaterials in 2011 in which CUNY is the Lead and establishing the NSF IUCRC for Sustainably, Integrated Buildings and Sites in 2012. Since Fall 2011, he has organized 6 I-Corps Teams approved for funding by the NSF. He served as Industrial Mentor for I-Corps Teams at Stanford in spring 2012 and Michigan in summer 2012. He is currently the IM for one of the two CUNY I-Corps teams in the January 2013 cohort in Arlington, VA. In Fall 2012, he led the NSF I-Corps submission, and served as coPI, of the NYC Regional Innovation Node (NYCRIN) approved for funding in February 2013.
Dr. Blaho serves on the Advisory Boards of CUNY’s two new entrepreneurship endeavors, the Zahn Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship (opened January 2013) that assists students and the CUNY Hub for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (opening Spring 2013) providing services to faculty and student start-up companies.
Debra Brochardt is a Market Analyst for the Street.com. Prior to joining TheStreet, Debra spent 15 years at Bear Stearns as a vice president working in fixed income, foreign exchange and clearing operations. She has also worked for the American Capital Family of Funds and at Merrill Lynch, receiving her securities license in 1987. Debra recently completed her master’s degree in business and economic reporting at New York University and also has a B.A. from the University of Houston.
Mark Caron has spent his career playing a leading role in bringing mobile services to the mass-market; starting with digital wireless services in the 1990s, text messaging in the early 2000s, and the mobile internet in the late 2000s. He is now advising startups and companies working on next generation mobile apps, services and technologies. His last company Snac, Inc. developed a fundamentally faster, more compelling way for mobile phone users to access their favorite web services and content, winning the “Top Ten Mobile App of 2009” and the “Best Mobile Innovator of 2009”. Prior to founding Snac, Mark was Founder/CEO of MobileSpring/Ztango (now part of Real Networks). Under his leadership, the company developed and deployed in 2001, the first inter-carrier text messaging network, enabling messages to travel cross-network and kicking off the explosion in text messaging. After merging with Ztango, Mark as CEO led the company in offering a range of messaging and mobile content services to nearly all tier 1 and tier 2 US carriers. Before MobileSpring/Ztango, Mark was a co-founder and lead marketing executive at Omnipoint Communications, the first GSM carrier in the Northeast (now part of T-Mobile). Mark started his wireless career at Ericsson as a Product Manager, after working in information systems and telecommunications at GE. He has an AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Albert Wai-Kit Chan is a partner of the Law Offices of Albert Wai-Kit Chan, PLLC. He is a former research scientist who forged his legal career by combining his training as a molecular biologist with the emerging legal needs of the biotechnology industry in the late 1980s. A former partner at a New York intellectual property firm in New York City, Dr. Chan handles all areas of intellectual property law (including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets), and his specialty is biotechnology patents. He is well-versed in all aspects of prosecution and litigation and is experienced in licensing, technology transfer and the evaluation of intellectual property portfolios in preparation for initial public offerings. Dr. Chan works extensively with both U.S. and international companies. He has helped scores of scientists and inventors obtain the intellectual property protection they need to be competitive in their fields. His clients include prestigious research institutes as well as individual inventors.
Dr. Chan teaches at The City University of New York School of Law. His classes include intellectual property law, patent law, technology transfer, Internet and the law, food and drug law, and international business law. Active in a number of legal organizations, Dr. Chan is past president of the United States-China Lawyers Society, which aims to promote the free exchange of legal ideas between professionals in the United States and China.
Dr. Chan received his J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law in New York. He was awarded his Ph.D. in virology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and he completed his postdoctoral training at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York as an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Chan is a graduate of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and he was born and raised in Hong Kong.
Julia Cheng is the Founding Principal of CyberLawStudio and attorney with over 13 years of experience specializing in general corporate, business, new media, internet, and intellectual property matters. Julia has worked extensively with foreign and domestic clients ranging from individuals to established or startup businesses in industries including software, Internet, wireless, branding, fashion, entertainment, music, health & fitness, food, and non-profit organizations in their dealings with companies which includes Fortune 500 companies, government institutions and sophisticated investors such as Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Zynga, Getty Images, MTV, NBC, BMG, East Timor government, Copyright Office of Liberia and former Apple executives. Prior to starting CyberlawStudio in 2004, Julia served as the general counsel of a wireless entertainment startup and practiced corporate law at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the nation’s oldest law firm.
Justin Choi is a serial entrepreneur who founded three fast-growing businesses with more than 100 employees. To his credit are Cie Studios, (www.ciestudios.com) an award-winning digital agency that specializes in creating custom web, social, and mobile apps for top brands; and Cie Games, a venture-funded spinoff that builds mobile and social games including Car Town, one of the top games on Facebook and the Apple App Store with over 50 million players worldwide and featured partnerships and in-game integrations with more than 50 major companies and brands. Justin Choi is currently CEO of his third venture, PostRelease (www.postrelease.com), a patent-pendingadvertising platform that enables publishers to easily activate, deploy and manage native ad placements across their media properties. PostRelease is a leading technology provider in one of the fastest growing segments of digital advertising.
Jack Chung, Esq. is an attorney with a practice focused on international commercial litigation, tax assessments, and business transactions between New York and China. Mr. Chung is a business advisor certified by the New York State Small Business Development Center program; as a former advisor, he advised more than 300 small business clients.
Mr. Chung co-teaches “Internet and the Law” and “Laws on Intellectual Property,” at the City University School of Law.
He is a director of the US-China Lawyers Society (USCLS), a member of the New York County Lawyers Association (NYCLA) and the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA). Mr. Chung has been active in the Chinese-American community, volunteering as a pro bono attorney at the offices of Renaissance Economic Development Corporation, a subsidiary of Asian Americans For Equality (AAFE) where he advises small business owners on legal matters.
Mr. Chung was the Media Chair of Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan’s campaign in 2002, as well as various other election campaigns in New York City. Mr. Chung is fluent in two Chinese dialects: Cantonese and Mandarin. He graduated from Brooklyn College, cum laude, and received his JD from CUNY School of Law, and is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Alejandro Juarez Crawford is a consultant and lecturer with Acceleration Group and an architect of its methodology. He is also a leading provider of strategic insight to innovators, entrepreneurs and growth-oriented managers. A frequent speaker on topics of entrepreneurship, enterprise growth, and digital age branding and marketing, he co-founded integrated marketing boutique Nolej Base and teaches at NYU Poly, the New School and the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch. Mr. Crawford earned his MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and his Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.
Yangbo Du is a social entrepreneur and social business architect, connecting people across communities to enable and impel positive social impact. A StartingBloc Social Innovation Fellow and former academic turned startup founder, he is a de facto curator of content on social innovation, global development, sustainability. Having conducted research in energy and environment over six years at University of Illinois-Chicago, University of Chicago, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yangbo co-founded social business strategy firm MediaWire, currently his fourth venture, in June 2012 and also serves as social strategist at iCastNews, the sole live and direct broadcaster from the United Nations.
Noah Fenn is an Account Director at AOL and the Huffington Post Media Group, acting as the main point of contact for East Coast agencies and client-direct accounts. With over a decade of experience in sales, advertising and marketing – including a significant amount of time living and working in China – Noah brings a unique, global and holistic approach to the digital space. Prior to AOL, Noah served as the Director of Marketing for a multinational company in the supply chain of Nike, Reebok and New Balance. Noah is also a member of the Board of Directors of the US Pan Asian Chamber of Commerce, NE Chapter.
Ramon Gil is marketing business coach and the managing and creative director of Fresh Concentrate, a multicultural graphic design company in Manhattan’s Turtle Bay. Prior to launching Fresh Concentrate, Ramon was creative director at the Earth Pledge Foundation, a non-profit organization on the cutting edge of environmental technology. He is an active community organizer and has been featured in the Artists’ and Graphic Designer’s Market, the Society of Illustrators West Annual, Stephen Romaniello’s The Perfect Digital Portfolio, Crain’s New York Business, PBS’ Asian America, Créme Magazine and Altra Magazine and most recently in Liz Lynch’s Smart Networking. He has written articles for Business Matters, Entrepreneur Magazine and Dayon. He has taught Graphic Design at the Parsons School of Design and FIT and Multicultural Marketing at Columbia and New York University. Ramon is a membership ambassador for the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, serves on the board of directors for National Minority Business Council.
Brian Gurski is a consultant and lecturer for Acceleration Group and an architect of its methodology. Most recently, Brian was Regional Director of a New York State Small Business Development Center in New York City and was instrumental in the design and launch of the national pilot of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative, created to provide education, technical assistance and capital to high-growth businesses. He has completed graduate work at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, an advanced certification in emerging markets analysis from Fordham University, studies on value innovation at the Wharton School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree from Lewis & Clark College.
Steven Kuyan serves as the Assistant Director to the Incubator Initiatives at NYU-Poly. In this role he is responsible for strategic initiatives to accelerate innovation at the University through student involvement as well as sustaining and supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem in New York City. The Incubator Initiatives consists of 3 incubators (Varick Street, NYC ACRE and DUMBO) out of locations in downtown Manhattan and DUMBO in Brooklyn. Steven is also the founder and advisor to the NYU-Poly Entrepreneurship and Innovation Association, a student organization that is bridging the gap between academia and entrepreneurship to streamline student ventures.
Anneke Jong is on the founding team and is Vice President of Business Development for Bread, a tech startup creating the simplest monetization platform for social media, desktop, and mobile publishers. She is also a tech columnist and journalist – her work has been featured in publications like Forbes, The Daily Muse, Huffington Post, Business Insider, CBS.com, and Women 2.0, and at events like TED, the Future of Media Conference, and SF Music Tech. In 2011, Femmeonomics named her one of the Top 50 Women to Watch in Tech. Additionally, she delights audiences as a performance storyteller and has performed at The Moth, TEDx, the National Storytelling Conference, and on the NPR show “Snap Judgment”. Prior to Bread, she was a strategy consultant for Roll Global and Deloitte Consulting. She has an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Claremont McKenna College. You can find her on her blog: www.annekejong.com.
Mo Krochmal is executive founding editor of Social TV Daily and a digital and social-media pioneer. Krochmal was the first professor of digital journalism at Hofstra University and has been a adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University as well as an invited lecturer at Columbia’s Teacher’s College. He was a founding producer at NYTimes.com and has covered emerging technology and the commerce of innovation for over a decade. He is an innovator, an integrator and early adopter of digital technology, producing the first social media enabled newscast in 2008. He is a New York resident and a long-time member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists as well as an active public speaker.
Sang Lee is the founder and CEO of Return on Change (www.returnonchange.com), the next generation’s investment crowdfunding platform aiming to connect investors with innovative and socially conscious startups. As a board member of CFIRA (Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates) and CfPA (Crowdfunding Professionals Association), Sang strives to educate innovative entrepreneurs about investment crowdfunding’s immense potential to provide high-impact startups with critical early stage capital as well as everyday investors with the opportunity to become involved in the most disruptive companies. Under his leadership, Return on Change has established itself as a thought leader within crowdfunding discourse, having been featured in numerous financial publications such as BetaBeat, Reuters, Ecopreneurist, Crains, among many others. Sang is also a contributor to Forbes, New York Enterprise Report, and Under30CEO.
Sang is a recipient of the Under30CEO Award in New York, a nationwide campaign to search for the most promising young entrepreneurs, big innovators, leaders, and world changers.
John C. Liu serves as the 43rd Comptroller of the City of New York, responsible for ensuring the City’s financial health. Comptroller Liu is charged with auditing the finances and performance of City agencies, reviewing City contracts, reporting on the state of the City’s budget and economy, marketing municipal bonds, and serving as custodian and trustee of the New York City Pension Funds.
Comptroller Liu served on the New York City Council from 2001 to 2009, representing District 20 in Queens, and headed the Council’s Transportation Committee. His accomplishments as a legislator included exposing financial irregularities at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), shepherding bills through the Transportation committee designed to enhance administrative efficiency, and enacting legislation ensuring equal access to City services regardless of language ability. Before joining the Council, he managed a team of actuaries at Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
Comptroller Liu is honored to be the first Asian-American elected to citywide office in New York. Comptroller Liu earned his bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton in mathematical physics.
Andrea Louie is Executive Director of the Asian American Arts Alliance (a4), providing strategic direction for a4 as it approaches its 30th year of supporting Asian American artists and arts/cultural groups, and building the pan-ethnic, multidisciplinary arts community in New York City. Andrea most recently served on the management team at Religions for Peace, the world’s largest and most representative multi-faith coalition. She is the author of a novel, Moon Cakes (Ballantine Books) and coeditor of an anthology, Topography of War: Asian American Essays (The Asian American Writers’ Workshop). Andrea is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, the Hannah S. and Samuel A. Cohn Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a Ludwig Volgelstein Foundation grant and was short-listed for the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She served as a review panelist in literature for the New York State Council on the Arts and was a writer-in-residence for the National Book Foundation. Andrea has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi, Hedgebrook and the Fundacíon Valparáiso in Spain. She serves on the steering committees of the Cultural Data Project, the New York City Arts Coalition, and the International Rescue Committee’s Generation R; she also serves on the multicultural advisory committee of WNYC. In addition, she is a member of the Asian American Writers Workshop and the Asian American Journalists Association.
Joyce Moy is the Executive Director of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute. She was the first Asian American director of a NYS Small Business Development Center where she helped to secure $25 million in funding for small business. Her area of expertise is entrepreneurship and economic development. She has taught business law and taxation at Queens College, the CUNY School of Law, and at Cornell University School of Law. She is a former practicing attorney. Recently she developed a 45 hour curriculum to train financial counselors embedded in CBO’s which has been adopted as a national model for replication nationwide by Cities for Financial Empowerment.
Vikram Rajan is the founder of Practice Marketing, Inc. and its Internet word-of-mouth referral marketing service, phoneBlogger.net. Vik serves as a Practice Marketing Advisor™ for CPAs, attorneys, and related professionals. He helps to develop and implement Marketing Action Plans (MAPs) within his clients’ codes of ethics and compliance obligations.
Vikram and his partner were the Opening Panelists for the New York City Bar Association’s Small Law Firm Symposium in November 2012. His book, “365 Marketing Thumb-rules: Daily Reminders for Rainmakers,” has received praise from over 15 organization leaders within the legal, accounting, financial services, and real estate professions.
Vikram’s marketing column premiered in the largest publication for accountants in Fall 2009 (the AICPA’s CPA Insider), was the most popular column in July 2011, and has been republished by the Journal of Accountancy (AICPA). His marketing columns have also appeared in the New York Real Estate Journal, Financial Advisor magazine, Long Island Business News, Dominican Times magazine, Times-Ledger newspapers, Personal Branding magazine, and more. Vik has taught classes for the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Mathew Thomas is CEO & Founder of Event Tech Labs. The company has developed the first mobile audience engagement and analytics platform for live events called ConcertPassTM. Thomas was the CEO & Founder of iv Management, an artist management and marketing company within the entertainment industry for the past 13 years. He consulted and raised funding for consumer electronics company Lydstrom Inc.; the first music media management server. Prior to this Thomas acquired Soundwave Acoustics, a preeminent audiophile speaker company based in Rochester, NY. Soundwave speakers won several CES Best of show awards including innovation of the year. While attending Pennsylvania State University, he co-founded Innovative Ventures, a national concert promotions firm. Thomas and his companies have been featured in both national and international publications such Fortune Magazine, Fortune Small Business, The New York Times, The Week, MSNBC, Stereo Review, Audio, Sillcon Alley Daily, Kapital (France). Thomas is a member of the Music Managers Forum -US and a member of the Recording Academy (Grammys).
Liqiang Derek Tou, MD, Ph.D., MBA has over 8 years drug R&D experience at Novartis and Takeda-Millennium Pharmaceuticals. In both companies, he has been as a key scientist responsible for generating a variety of cancer animal models and executing efficacy studies for various compounds and antibodies. His expertise in cancer disease models has helped both companies to develop efficacious and novel drug entities.
After receiving his MBA from Babson College, Dr. Tou started his own Mandarin teaching service company MandarinArk (www.mandarinark.com). Dr. Tou’s startup has already expanded to more than 10 schools within one year. He is also a managing director of Haiti Ventures (www.haitiventures.com), focusing on opportunity entrepreneurship and a new economic model in Haiti. Dr. Tou currently served as President of SAPA-NE (www.sapa-neweb.org) and is very active in conference organization, fund raising and building a bridge between China and the US for technology transfer in both the educational and pharmaceutical areas.
Dr. Tou obtained his MD from Zhejiang University, Ph.D. from Peking University. He conducted his postdoctoral training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School (1999-2004). Dr. Tou is an author or co-author of 15 publications in peer-reviewed journals and an invited speaker for international conferences.
Jennifer Tsai is Co-Founder of Violet Health, Inc., a social enterprise startup that aims to break the destructive, global cycle of anemia among pregnant women and their children through culturally appropriate iron-fortified products. Before Violet Health, Jennifer spent five years in Washington, DC, developing and supporting national public health programs and policies. She worked at the US Department of Health and Human Services, focused on growing and managing national programs that ranged from building the healthcare workforce in underserved areas to emergency preparedness. She was a Senior Associate at AcademyHealth, providing consulting services in knowledge transfer strategies for healthcare practice and policy with an expertise in addressing health disparities. She also has public health and academic clinical research experience. Jennifer graduated from Duke University with a BS in psychology and a minor in chemistry, holds an MPH from the University of California at Los Angeles’ School of Public Health, and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.
Ricky Wong is Senior Product Manager for Mobility and Unified Communications at ShoreTel Sky (www.shoretelsky.com), ShoreTel’s Cloud Division. He joined M5 Networks (acquired by ShoreTel) in 2001 as its 9th employee and led efforts for many of M5 Networks’ most recognizable products, including the development of the core platform, M5 Call Conductor. He managed M5 Network’s most successful products, launching more than 25 products and features including M5 Sales Engine, M5 Scribe, On-demand Conferencing, M5 Replay and M5 Intelligence – creating much of the user experience.
Edlyn Yuen is a Senior Associate at StarVest Parners. She joined StarVest as an Associate in July 2011. Prior to joining StarVest, Ms. Yuen worked in the investment banking division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she focused on M&A advisory and debt and equity issuances for industrial companies. She has also worked for Kiva.org in San Francisco. Ms. Yuen holds a B.A. degree in Political Science and Classical Civilizations from Wellesley College.
Ning Zhang is an experienced development executive and has worked with companies such JetBlue, Ogilvy and Mather, and various non-profits to implement organization development programs to structure for growth. He specializes in business analysis and associated training programs to help companies reach sustained operation and profit.
Tristan Zhang is a seasoned Wall Street investment professional possessing extensive coverage and experience of the Asian markets. Mr. Zhang currently serves as Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Helix Capital Partners, Inc. and Director of Brill Securities, a New York based investment bank, broker/dealer firm founded in 1987. Helix Capital Partners is a specialized Private Equity / Venture Capital styled investment firm based out of New York focusing on cross border Mergers and Acquisitions and advisory services for foreign Non-US clients, as well as domestic US clients on capital market transactions. Under Helix, Mr. Zhang has advised investment strategies for three high-net worth clients totaling assets of over $200 Million.
Mr. Zhang has also advised on various private Small Medium Enterprise businesses with investments and capital financing structures, including a recent $50 Million E-Commerce project. Prior to Co-Founding Helix Capital Partners, Mr. Zhang served as the Vice President of Tripoint Global Equities, a boutique investment bank based on Wall Street serving mezzanine tiered companies on investments and IPO transactions.
Mr. Zhang was formerly an international investments and asset manager at Merrill Lynch & Co.‘s global headquarter office and was part of a group of portfolio managers whom managed $6.3B of funds. Mr. Zhang is fluent in Mandarin and conversational in German. Mr. Zhang graduated with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).
