SanFrancisco版 - Tsinghua seminar on 1/15: Raymond Yang, Founding Partner, WestSummit Capital Management |
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h***r 发帖数: 12 | 1 Life In Industry seminar presents on 1/15, Saturday
“From Entrepreneur to Investor: The Turning Points”
By : Raymond Yang, Founding Partner, WestSummit Capital
Management
When : January 15, Saturday, 3pm
Where : Escondido Village Center, Stanford University
859 Comstock Circle, Stanford, CA 94305
Free admission. Please register here. <http://bit.ly/b8caSA>
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About the Speaker:
Mr. Yang is the founding partner and Managing Director of WestSummit
Capital Management, which focuses on the global technology PE investment
with China Angle.
Prior to WestSummit Capital, he was the Managing Partner of Navi Capital
Partner, a fund dedicated to growth stage companies in China in TMT,
health care, clean tech, etc. areas. Mr. Yang is also the founding
partner of Taishan Angel Invest fund, one of most successful
institutional angel funds in China. .
Before that Mr. Yang was a venture partner at Northern Light Venture
Capital, and was managing a US$120 million venture fund. He has made
investment of a number of deals in Internet, wireless value-added
service, IT media and consumer products sectors.
Mr. Yang has built reputable leadership and in-depth industry knowledge
over the past sixteen years in the Internet, wireless, IT, new media and
telecommunication sectors in China. He joined Linktone (NASDAQ:LTON) in
March 2003 as CEO to handle a turn-around situation, eleven months later
he turned the company into a high profitable and high growth business
and took the company to the IPO on NASDAQ, and created the first
“Chinese wireless entertainment company on NASDAQ”. Linktone has given
its investors over twenty folds return. Linktone has also, under the
leadership of Mr. Yang, worked with China Hunan Satellite TV Station to
create famous Chinese Super Girl Show.
Before joining Linktone, he had followed a career as a senior executive
and entrepreneur at several high-technology companies in Silicon Valley
U.S. and China. He was the founder and CEO of RivalWatch, Inc., a
California-based startup providing competitive intelligence for
retailers and manufacturers; Founder and CEO of Saratoga Technology
International, a China-based voicemail and short messaging services
(SMS) company, a strategic partner of Boston Technology Corporation;
general manager of INFA Telecom, a subsidiary of Hong Kong New World
Telephone; a senior technical member of a special development team for
next-generation telecommunications products at Centigram Communication;
and Asea Brown Boveri (ABB). Mr. Yang holds a BS from Tsinghua
University and a MS from the Graduate School of China Electrical Power
Research Institute (EPRI).
Mr. Yang has received many industry awards, including, "China Top 10
CEOs", "China Top 10 IT Leaders", and "2005 Most influential people to
New Economy “, etc. and Linktone was awarded as “2005 China’s Best
Employer in China”. He was also awarded as 2007 Best Angel Investor in
China. Mr. Yang is the 2007 chairman of Tsinghua (University)
Entrepreneur & Executive Club (TEEC). TEEC, considered as one of the
most elite CEO/founder business club in China.
Brought to you by
SVTN - Sillicon Valley Tsinghua Network
PKUAANC - Peking Univerisity Alumni Association of Northern California
SCEA - Silicon Valley Chinese Engineers Association
ACSSS - Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Stanford |
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