Mr. Fang Fenglei, Born in Hunan Province in 1952, Mr. Fang graduated from Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University in 1982 and attended advanced business executive training program at Harvard Business School.

 

Mr. Fang currently is Chairman of HOPU Investment and Chairman of Goldman Sachs Gao Hua Securities Company Limited.

 

 

Mr.Fang previously served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of China International Capital Corporation (“CICC”), Chief Executive Officer of CICC Hong Kong, Chief Executive Officer of BOC International Holdings Ltd., and Chief Executive Officer of ICEA Finance Holdings Limited. Mr. Fang also held office in Ministry of Foreign Economy and Trade and Henan Provincial Commission of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade. He was Chief Manager of Henan Cereals, Oil and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation, Chief Manager of Central China Trading Corporation, Deputy Chief Manager of Central China (Group) Corporation, President of Yintime Holding Corporation. Mr. Fang participated in the formation of China’s first future exchange center – Zhengzhou Agricultural Products Future Exchange Center, and he was also an architect of China’s first real estate securitized product – Sanya Real Estate Investment Bond.

 

 

Mr. Fang led and participated in many capital market mega deals, such as China Telecom’s acquisition of Hong Kong Telecommunication, and the PCCW acquisition; as well as restructuring and IPO of many state-owned enterprises such as China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, PetroChina, Sinopec, China National Offshore Oil and Bao Steel Corporation and so on. Mr. Fang was recognized as one of the “Top Ten Influential Leaders of China’s Capital Market” by Financial Asia and he was also awarded a prize by Euromoney in 2008 for his “ Outstanding  contribution to the development of Financial Services in Asia” .

 

While he was in office of Investment Bank,Mr.Fang had already set foot in the field of Private Equity . He once held a concurrent post as the chairman of Direct Investment Committee of CICC. Led completed a number of investment projects.

 

In March 2008, Mr. Fang joined by Dominic HO, former KPMG China-Hong Kong Chairman, and Richard Ong, former Goldman Sachs partner, founded HOPU Investment, with the first fund under management at US$2.5 billion , the major investors include Temasek, Goldman Sachs, PSA and other world-renowned institutions.