The Yale Talk series is a forum for Yale alumni in Shanghai and university-affiliated visitors to exchange information and share knowledge. The format will be a short 30 - 40 minute talk, followed by discussion. Past Yale Talks have dealt with a variety of subjects.
Upcoming YALE TALK:
Venture Capital in China: Excitement and Challenges
Thursday, April 26th, 2012, 7:00 pm
at OV GALLERY, 50 Moganshan Road, Building 4, Room 207 (Aomen Road intersection)
SUGGESTED DONATION OF 50RMB for wine & snacks
RSVP to: Esther Young at esther.z.young@gmail.com
Three Elis will talk about investing in today's uncertain economy. How do you evaluate the risks? How do you vet the numbers?
MODERATED BY: Michael Qin (Yale SOM '98), Founder, ChildRoad Inc.
ABOUT THE THREE SPEAKERS:
1) Ms. Ellen Hui, Managing Director, VisionChina Capital Management: Ms. Hui is the Managing Partner of VisionChina Capital Management, a local Chinese fund management firm. Before that, she was Partner and Head of Private Equity for both RMB and USD funds at Greenwoods Asset Management Ltd. in Shanghai. Previously, she was a Principal with Prax Capital in Shanghai, and a Vice President with Cathay Capital in Hong Kong. Prior to that, Ms. Hui was an economist with Bank of China (Hong Kong), an analyst with Hamlin RRH Capital Management in New York, and a cofounder and CEO of Shanghai Source Trading Co., Ltd. A native Mandarin speaker, Ms. Hui is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). She graduated with a BA degree from Fudan University in 1995 and with an MBA degree from Yale School of Management in 2003.
2) Mr. Dr. Peter Lu, Venture Partner, Balloch Group: Balloch Group is a Canadian PE firm that manages both dollar and RMB fund. Previously, Dr. Lu was a partner of Infinity Group, an Isreali PE/VC firm and 250 million USD AUM. In his capacity as a co-founder of Infinity RMB fund, Dr. Lu raised 800 million RMB. He also developed Infinity China team and led investment of 600 million RMB with the fund. Before joining Infinity, Dr. Lu served as the China GM of Toucan Capital Corp., a 150 million USD US venture capital firm focusing on life science, new material and new energy. Dr. Lu gained his MD from Beijing University and MBA from Yale SOM.
3) Ms. Ping Ping, Partner & Managing Director, Chengwei Capital: As a managing director of Chengwei Capital, Ping has over ten years of experience in building companies and developing strategies. Before Chengwei Capital, Ping worked for McKinsey & Company as a consultant at its Beijing office. She worked on strategic and operational projects covering state-owned, private and multinational companies in diverse sectors. She was also part of the founding team of an internet company serving business customers with online applications in 2000. Since Ping joined Chengwei Capital in 2003, she was responsible for investment covering diverse sectors including consumer and services, internet and mobile, energy, healthcare and manufacturing. Ping serves as a director on the boards of a number of companies. Ping graduated from Peking University, majored in International Economics and has MBA degree with Yale School of Management.
PAST YALE TALKS:
Contemporary Architecture in China: Lessons for the Future
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012, 7:00 pm
at Mogoo Cafe, No. 77 Fenyang Road
(between Fuxing Road & Yongjia Road)
Happy Hour drinks price will be extended till 9pm
Pay as you order (full menu of drinks/sandwiches/pasta available)
RSVP to: Esther Young at esther.z.young@gmail.com
What's next for Shanghai's skyline? Three Elis will talk about the art of building the world's tallest skyscrapers, and the true meaning of 'urban design.'
SPEAKERS:
Dana Wu ('10) of Neri & Hu Design and Research Office
David Riedel (ARC '08) of Kohn Pederson Fox Associates
Bu Bing, Owner of One Design Inc.
Starting from Scratch: Tales and Travails of Start-Up Entrepreneurship
Wednesday, December 7th 2011, 7:00 pm
at Mogoo Cafe, No. 77 Fenyang Road
(between Fuxing Road & Yongjia Road)
Happy Hour drinks price will be extended till 9pm
Pay as you order (full menu of drinks/sandwiches/pasta available)
RSVP to: Esther Young at esther.z.young@gmail.com
What does it take to start a business in China? Let experience speak for itself, as three Elis talk about their business, their challenges, their triumphs, and what makes the China market so unique to their entrepreneurship.
ABOUT THE THREE SPEAKERS:
1) Michael (Feng) Qin, Yale SOM (1998)
Michael (Feng) Qin is the co-founder of Childroad Inc., a child education and book online publishing company. Michael has extensive experience in general management, business/IT strategy development and execution, IT outsourcing and BPO, solution/product management, sourcing and supply chain strategy planning and execution, business process improvement, ERP and B2B eCommerce implementation. He previous worked at Unisys Corporation, Shanghai, and Andersen Business Consulting in New York. Michael Qin's current business, ChildRoad Inc., creates a digital library for children around the world, providing a Netflix model for unlimited reading and listening of fresh and popular children books which we license from publishers in multiple languages. ChildRoad launched in 2011 its phase one service with 1,500 Chinese story titles in 500 digital books.
2) E. David Kennan, Yale College (December 1984)
David has done high-tech work in the software development tool industry and Internet/telecommunications, in Israel. From 1996-2011, he was R&D manager and Chief Technical Officer for Logical Design Solutions, a management consulting and Internet design company, based in Florham Park, NJ. He has spoken on Web 2.0 at several Internet business conferences. He is also a founding board member of Moving Traditions, an avid surfer (the ocean sport), fluent in English and Hebrew and is studying Mandarin. David's current business, Increpreneur, will enable people to become low-risk entrepreneurs via an Internet platform that supports "micro-innovation". In this platform, engaged users join with technologists to enhance and extend existing services, then share in rewards for their contributions.Read David's blog at www.increpreneur.com
3) Michael Jay Yuann, Yale College (May 2004)
Michael graduated with an MBA from UCLA Anderson in International and Entrepreneurship. His previous work experience includes being Associate Director of Technology at Trigger, a marketing agency that builds websites and casual games for Hollywood blockbusters, Senior Operations Manager at The9 Interactive, a Operations Manager and Employee #1 at THQ*ICE, a joint venture focusing on Free-to-Play MMOs in North America. He has founded several enterprises, including BrightPC Corporation, a New York-based Internet consultancy. Michael Yuann's current business, Game Concourse, is a recently formed game development studio focusing on the mobile and social games. Our initial games blend fun, casual gameplay with eco-friendly concepts. Our long term vision is to provide the world with game content that increases awareness about the world's current issues.
Current Perspectives on US-China Relations
Friday April 29th 2011 6:30 PM, Speaker: Mr. Kenneth Jarrett
RSVP (mandatory) to: esther.z.young@gmail.com 50 (fifty) RMB Location: Main Garden, James Cohan Gallery, Lane 170, Yueyang Road, No. 1, Xuhui District, Shanghai
The US-China relationship is often described is the most important bilateral relationship of this century. It is a relationship characterized by both cooperation and competition. Kenneth Jarrett will offer his views on some of the political and economic issues that feature prominently in US-China ties as the two governments prepare for the May meeting of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Kenneth Jarrett, Chairman for Greater China of APCO Worldwide, was Consul General of the United States in Shanghai from July 2005 to August 2008. Previously he served as Deputy Consul General in Hong Kong, and as Director of Asian Affairs in the National Security Council, The White House, Washington, DC. During his twenty-six year career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Mr. Jarrett also served as vice consul at the U.S. embassy in Manila; political officer at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York; political officer in the State Department’s office of Chinese and Mongolian affairs; consul at the U.S. Consulate General in Chengdu; chief of the political unit at the U.S. embassy in Singapore; political officer in the State Department’s office of Israeli affairs, and; deputy political counselor at the U.S. embassy in Beijing. Mr. Jarrett is a 1975 graduate of Cornell University and holds MA’s from Yale University and the National War College. He also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center at Nanjing University in 1989, Chinese University in Hong Kong and the Taipei Language Institute. Prior to working for the U.S. government, he was an English teacher at the Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute from 1979-1981. Mr. Jarrett is a native of New York. He is married to Ms. Ann Yen and has two daughters.
What does China Want? Consumer Research in the World’s Most Dynamic Market
Thursday, 17 March 2011, 7:00 PM, Speaker: Mr. P.T. Black
Understanding the Chinese consumer is one of the greatest challenges businesses face today. The combination of rapid change and cultural dynamics has created a China-unique consumer mindset. So how can brands succeed? It all starts with a researcher.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
PT Black has done extensive consumer profiling for A-list clients ranging from Chanel to Coca Cola while he was at Jigsaw International. Mr. Black will talk about the fine art of consumer research and why understanding the consumer is a crucial foundation for market success.
PT Black graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies. While he was a partner at Jigsaw International, a consumer research firm in Shanghai, Mr. Black grew the company into one of the leading research groups in China. In January of this year, Mr. Black joined Thoughtful Media, a Los Angeles-based company generating media content. In his role as the company's Senior Creative Director, Mr. Black is responsible for overseeing media licenses, character development and online programming for the company’s Greater China operation.
Returnees, Incentives & Impact on China's High-Tech Innovation
Saturday, 22 January 2011, 6:00 PM , Speaker: Mr. Ty Hu
Special Guests: Ms. Dale Binglei Chen of Zhangjiang High-Tech Park in Shanghai, Mr. Ronghui Gao of Taizhou High-tech Park, Jiangsu Province
In the 1980s, China was facing a severe brain-drain with the best and the brightest leaving the country in droves. Now, the situation has reversed, with many of the top talents returning to work and invest in the world's most dynamic economy.
As China takes on the rest of the world in high-tech innovation, what are the special incentives it offers to the returnees (Chinese educated abroad) and how have the incentives changed in the last few years?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Ty Hu is the founder and CEO of InnoMed, a medical company that designs and manufactures interventional cardiovascular devices in China. Mr. Hu is also the founder and Managing Director of Gateway Medical Innovation Center in Shanghai, the first large animal model GLP preclinical facility in China compliant with the global regulatory requirement.
A graduate of Yale School of Public Health ( MPH), Mr. Hu received his medical education from China Medical University in Shenyang and finished his post-doctoral training in medical oncology at the Yale Medical School. Before moving back to Shanghai in 2005, he was the R&D director at Cordis Corp in Miami Lakes, Florida and the program manager for Guidant Corporation (now Abbota Vascular) in Santa Clara, California.
Trick or Treat: How to Achieve Justice by Clean Hands (or Extra Techniques) in Mainland China
Thursday 02 December 2010, 7:30 PM, Speaker: Mr. Dr. Nanping Liu
Unlike its Western counterpart, the Mainland judicial system is often mistrusted because of its lack of independence and reported corruption. However, this does not mean that justice cannot be achieved by clean hands. Dr. Nanping Liu will talk about the different steps necessary to make sure one gets a fair hearing in China. Among some of the issues addressed will be: some tell tale signs of possible interference; dealing with non-transparency; and knowing the difference between executable decision and final judgment.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Nanping Liu is the founder of the law firm Liu & Wang, with offices in Shenzhen, Guanzhou and Shanghai. A graduate of Yale Law School (JSD, LLM) and Wuhan University, Dr. Liu has taught at Hong Kong University as a Faculty of Law and has published articles about the legal system in China. A qualified PRC lawyer since 1987, Dr. Liu specializes in cases involving international trade, anti-dumping, and cross-border issues.
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