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Ted Lee

Ted Lee founded T Plus Capital to provide strategic, financial and business development advisory services to accounting, financial valuation services and human capital firms in China and assist Chinese enterprises to raise equity capital from private equity and venture capital funds. Ted has a long history of providing advice on cross border investments, mergers and acquisitions, and has extensive experience in providing audit and accounting services to international and multinational companies in China and the United States. Ted is also a senior advisor to Duff & Phelps, a global financial valuation firm, and most recently has also served as Executive Director at Prax Capital, which is a private equity firm specializing in China-focused investments with over US$300 million of assets under management.

Prior to affiliating with Duff & Phelps and Prax, Ted was a senior partner at Deloitte, where he spent 31 years in both Asia and the United States. Ted pioneered Deloitte’s China initiative and opened its first office in Shanghai in 1992. Before moving to Shanghai, he was the office managing partner of Deloitte China’s Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Beijing offices. Prior to his working in China, he practiced in Deloitte’s Taipei and Los Angeles offices. He also led the Manufacturing - Automotive Industry Group of Deloitte China’s national practice. Ted’s professional accounting experience included managing local statutory audits, consolidating audits for international clients, audits for companies seeking listings, supervising due diligence reviews for acquisitions, and assisting in joint venture negotiations in connection with international clients’ cross-border investments in China. Clients in China and Taiwan served by Ted included General Motors, Delphi, Dongfeng Citroen Automotive, Dow Chemical, BASF, International Paper, Meiya, Tyco and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation.

Ted holds a MBA in finance and accounting from University of Southern California and a B.S. in accounting from California State University, Fresno. Ted is a U.S. certified public accountant. He is also a member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, California Society of Certified Public Accountants, Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, American Chamber of Commerce (a founding member of its Financial Services Committee) and is Chairman of USC Alumni Club of Shanghai.

tlee@sinolatincapital.com
 
 
Ian Ross
Mr. Ross is a Senior Vice President of CRT Capital, a boutique financial firm focused on sales and trading of High Yield, Distressed, Convertible and Emerging Market Debt as well as Equities. Mr. Ross' specific focus is executing cross border transactions with a specific focus on Emerging Markets. Prior to joining CRT in 2006, Mr. Ross was a founding partner of Loughlan Group, advising clients in the private equity and merchant banking sectors on strategic investments and acquisitions. Prior to forming Loughlan, Mr. Ross was a Latin America-focused investment banker at Morgan Stanley and an Emerging Markets banker at CSFB. For over a 15 year period Mr. Ross was responsible for activities that included fixed income sales and trading, new product development, capital markets origination, relationship management, merger advisory and fund formation. Mr. Ross received a BA from the University of Western Ontario. Mr. Ross speaks fluent Spanish and resides in New York with his family.

iross@sinolatincapital.com
 
 
Raimundo (Ray) Ruga
Mr. Ruga is a principal of the CVOX Group, LLC, a global strategy and communications firm. The firm has represented a diverse set of clients, including MasterCard, Coeur Mining, Darby Overseas and Bulltick Captal Markets among others. Ray has over 17 years of diversified and specialized international political, governmental and corporate experience. He has worked for three presidential campaigns, The White House, The Pentagon, a U.S. development agency and two Fortune 10 companies.

From 2004 through April 2007, Ray was Vice President and Director of Government Affairs for Citigroup Latin America while simultaneously managing the regional public affairs portfolio for the Citigroup Global Wealth Management division. During his tenure, Ray also served as Communications and Business Research Manager for the Citigroup Private Bank in Latin America as well as directing media relations for all of Citigroup in the region. From 2000- 2003, Ray served an Assistant Vice President in the Political Risk Insurance division of the American International Group (AIG) in New York City. Prior to that, Ray served as an Investment Insurance Officer at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) in Washington, D.C., specializing in political risk insurance transactions for Central America and East Africa. Starting in 1993, Ray was appointed by President William J. Clinton to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he served as the Desk Officer for Argentina, Cuba and Central America. In August 1994 he was named as the Director of the Cuba Task Force by the Secretary of Defense to oversee the department's efforts in managing a crisis that put 30,000 Cuban migrants at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. From 1993 through 1994, Ray traveled both domestically and internationally as an advance staff member for President Clinton. Ray also served on both of President Clinton's campaigns, working on the advance team in 1992 and then as the Midwest Press Director in 1996 as well as on the Kerry-Edwards 2004 Presidential campaign as the Deputy Director for Florida Hispanic Outreach.

Ray received both his Bachelor's degree in International Business and his MBA in Finance from George Washington University. He speaks fluent Spanish and resides in Miami with his family.

rruga@sinolatincapital.com