FANG Fenglei biographical notes

Fang Fenglei is the founder and chairman of Hopu Investments and former Chairman of Goldman Sachs Gaohua Securities. Previously, he served as deputy chief executive of China International Capital Corporation (CICC), Chief Executive Officer of BOC International Holdings Ltd and Chief Executive Officer of ICEA Finance Holdings Limited.

Mr. Fang has served in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation as well as several regional companies. In the past two decades he has had extensive experience sourcing and structuring transactions such as China Telecom’s acquisition of equity stakes in Hong Kong Telecom; the initial public listings of China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, China Netcom, PetroChina and SinoPec; and overseeing mergers and acquisitions such as Pacific Century Cyber Works’ acquisition of Hong Kong Telecom and China National Offshore Oil Corporation’s acquisition of a major oilfield in Nigeria.

Mr. Fang was recognized as one of the “Top Ten Influential Leaders of China’s Capital Market” by Financial Asia and was awarded “Asian Financial Service Development Outstanding Achievement” by Euromoney. He is also the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Teach for China, China Advisory Board Member for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and International Committee Member for the Kennedy Center for the Arts. Mr Fang is also the founder of the Duancun School in Hebei and the Fuxi School in Gansu. Mr. Fang graduated from Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University with a B.A. in Chinese and Economics. He also received a Harvard Business School Executive Education certificate from the Advanced Management Program.