Po-Wen Huang, Beijing, China

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Po-Wen Huang is a U.S. citizen and a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University, with master’s and doctorate degrees also from Yale. Having lived in the United States, Hong Kong, and China each for many years, he is familiar with both sides of the Pacific Ocean and understands both China and the West well. Dr. Huang has served as a Loan Officer in the East Asia and Pacific Department of the World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) in Washington, D.C.

He also worked at The First Boston Corporation and later Merrill Lynch in New York, and subsequently was chief representative of Merrill Lynch investment banking in Asia and Executive Director of Trident International Finance, a joint venture merchant bank, involving Barclays Bank, Nomura Securities, and Merrill Lynch, based in Hong Kong. He has had extensive experience as well in consulting, executive search, and industrial operations and has been involved in the operations of a number of multinational companies in the Asia-Pacific region and China, and is a director of several corporations.

Throughout his career Dr. Huang has served as investment banker or financial adviser to numerous corporations and governmental bodies, and successfully implemented many financial and investment transactions in the world’s public and private capital markets. In the People’s Republic of China, he has organized joint venture projects for several major American and European conglomerates, and worked closely with many prominent Chinese governmental entities and companies. Dr. Huang is the founder and Co-Chairman of Tiger Sports, an international sports and entertainment company, and serves as senior adviser to several RMB and foreign currency-denominated venture capital and private equity funds operating in China.

Dr. Huang is the author of the book Diplomacy and Development in Asia: The Formation of the Asian Development Bank. He is listed in Who’s Who of Taishan Capital Corporation Page 11 Strictly Private and Confidential Finance and Industry, Who’s Who of the Asia Pacific Rim, and Who’s Who of the World. A keen sportsman, Dr. Huang is active in tennis tournaments and coaching, mountain trekking and other outdoor pursuits. He was the founder and President of the Yale Clubs of Hong Kong and Beijing, serves on the latter’s Advisory Board, and is a devotee of music, films, and the arts. Married, with two sons, Dr. Huang resides in Beijing.