Date/Time
Date(s) - Friday, April 10 2015
12:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location
Ramada Plaza Shanghai
Category(ies)
Shanghai’s Tech Start-Up Edge
Gary Wang, Max Weng, Leon Zhang, Sam Lawn, Hui Yu
The Shanghai FCC will hold a special lunch in the Shanghai Caohejing Hi-Tech Park and hear from distinguished denizens about Shanghai’s competitive advantages in launching tech businesses, especially in the Innovation Center there, and tech industry trends.
Friday, April 10, 2015
12:00-2:00 p.m.
Doors open 12:00 pm, event starts 12:30pm
Venue details: Ramada Plaza Shanghai
(10 minutes on foot from the Caohejing Hi-Tech Park Station on Line 9),
509 Caobao Road, Xuhui District.
Tel: 5464-9999
Admission: SFCC members:100rmb; Non-members: 150 rmb.
RSVP required at www.sfcc.org or fcc.sfcc@gmail.com
About the Speakers:
Howard Wang, Caohejing Innovation Center. Howard will provide an overview of the center. The Caohejing Innovation Center operates under Chaohejing Development Corp., a state-owned business that manages office parks with a focus on the tech sector.
Gary Wang, senior investment director, Shanda Capital. Before joining Shanda, Gary was investor manager at Greenwoods Asset Management. He holds a MBA from CEIBS.
Leon Zhang, CEO of Xieche, a O2O platform for car care that allows owners to bypass expensive 4S stores. Xieche on March 31 received 10 million RMB of investment from Shenzhen-listed Daoming Optics & Chemicals. Leon is a former auto magazine editor, and graduated from Tsinghua University with a major in automobile manufacturing.
Max Weng, CEO of LeParking (letingche.cn) is a serial entrepreneur. LeParking is a mobile app that helps drivers find parking space in big cities. Max holds a master’s degree from NYU in interactive electronic communication and worked for ABC News in the U.S. for a few years before he decided to start his business in China.
Sam Lawn — Sam is the CFO at New York Stock Exchange-listed Taomee, a children’s content website. He was previously an executive at RenRen, Oppenheimer, Lucky Dragon Group and Accenture, among other companies. He holds a degree from Santa Clara University.
Hui Yu — Hui Yu, the CEO of Tangxinli, is a graduate of Waseda who worked at KPMG Tokyo for five years. She runs an online menta
Note:
The Caohejing Innovation Center holds an “Open Day” on the second Friday of every month, and attendees at the FCC lunch are invited to stay for a separate presentation by Gary Wang that will be delivered in Mandarin starting at 2pm. The FCC event will be in English.
Bookings
Bookings are closed for this event.