Bio

Ms. Jenny Hsui is a founder of ChinaVest Limited, the first Venture Capital company established in China in the early 1980s. Prior to being a co-founder of ChinaVest, she ran one of the largest Sporting Goods equipment companies in China, for shipment to the USA, Europe, and Canada. She has been a pioneer in light manufacturing products which are commonly used in Western nations today. She also led the sale of the Nanhai Number V, a state-of the-art semi-submersible drilling rig, to Nanhai West Corporation, a subsidiary of CNOOC, the national offshore oil corporation of China. Of note too was her work with the UNHCR in Hong Kong in the resettlement of Vietnamese refugees in the mid to late1970s responsible for the resettlement of more than 70,000 people. As a venture capitalist, she is one of the most experienced private equity investors in China. With more than 20 years of hands-on business experience in Greater China, Ms. Hsui has seen the development of modern China from its early days in the late seventies to today. She has overseen and exited more than 25 ChinaVest investments and played an integral role in the organization and success of ChinaVest’s M&A advisory business. Ms. Hsui served on several corporate and non-profit boards in and outside of China. She has advised Asia Info, as advisor and major investor, the first technology company listed on Nasdaq, and the company which built the internet backbone of China. Her other interests are in logistics, having served as advisor to Santa Fe Transport during its sale to East Asiatic, and Chairman and Board member of Global Silverhawk, an international logistics company which owned the original state of the art distribution center based in Beijing. She also served as Chairman and Board member of Chic Logistics, a third party logistics company based in Shanghai, and merging it with Ryder Corporation, after 5 years. She is fiercely a believer that modern logistics is one of the keys to the rapid expansion and growth of China. In her professional capacity, she has also been a lead advisor to Heinz Corporation, Honeywell Corporation, Rockwell Automation, Wells Fargo Corporation, Red Bull Corporation, Chubb Insurance, 3M, Sanpower corporation. In 2013, Ms. Hsui was awarded the highest honor of Central Government as one of China’s top 100 Entrepreneurial Innovators for lifetime achievement in financial services in China. Among other positions on various boards around the world, she was also was an active board member of Catholic Charities of San Francisco, a not-for-profit organization. Ms. Hsui is a graduate of the University of Singapore and has a postgraduate degree from l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.