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Advisory Board
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Ted Lee
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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
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Ian Ross
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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
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Raimundo (Ray) Ruga
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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
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David Cohn
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David S. Cohn is a law partner with Troutman Sanders LLP, an 800-attorney law firm
with 15 offices in the United States, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai. He currently
practices in the Firm’s Shanghai office, formerly practiced in its New York City
and Richmond, Virginia, offices, served as chairman of its Real Estate Investments
Practice Group and currently serves as a member of its Lending and Structured Finance
and Project Development and Finance Practice Groups. He is admitted to practice
in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
David’s honors as a lawyer include the following: (i) election in 1984 as a fellow
of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, (ii) listing since 1991 in Best
Lawyers in America in the Real Estate category and for 2010 in both the Structured
Finance and the Real Estate categories, (iii) selection for 2007 and 2009 as a New
York Super Lawyer in the categories of Real Estate Law and Banking Law, respectively,
(iv) selection for each of 2006-2009 as a Virginia Super Lawyer in the category
of Banking Law, (v) selection for 2008 as a Corporate Counsel Edition Super Lawyer
in the category of Banking Law, (vi) selection as one of Virginia’s Legal Elite
for 2003 in the category of Real Estate/Construction Law and for 2006 in the category
of Business Law and (vii) listing in Marquis Who’s Who in America and Marquis Who’s
Who in the World.
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Yan Gao
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Dr. Yan Gao is Assistant Professor of Finance at CEIBS. He was Assistant Professor
at California State University at Los Angeles, and had taught at Baruch College
of City University of New York and Northwestern University. Dr. Gao received his
Ph. D. degree in Finance from Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University.
He holds an MBA from Baruch College of City University of New York and a Master
of Science degree from Michigan State University. His publication has appeared in
various academic and professional journals. His current research is focused on Initial
Public Offerings, Venture Capital, and Corporate Bonds. Before his academic career,
he worked at High Yield Research Department of Merrill Lynch & Company in New York
City, and later worked as an analyst in a China-focused hedge fund. Dr. Gao is also
a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder.
Dr. Gao understands both international capital markets and Chinese investment environment.
He has extensive connection in Chinese industry and government. He has been a consultant
to foreign fianncial firms entering China.
Dr. Gao built his expertise and experience in the area of corporate finance, investment
banking, and venture investing. He is a senior advisor of New Horizon Capital, a
renowned international private equity firm. He is also investment committee member
of Shenzhen Zhongou Investment Management Company, a local RMB PE fund. He is also
an active angel investor in high growth firms.
ygao@sinolatincapital.com
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Wendong Zhang
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Wendong Zhang, a senior banker with nearly twenty years of investment banking and
fund management experience in China, is the founder of Eastern Wisdom Capital Limited,
a boutique financial service and investment advisory firm based in Beijing and Hong
Kong. Eastern Wisdom Capital is involved in a range of business activities including
M&A advisory, restructuring, private placements, asset management, and direct investments.
Leveraging on its core strengths, Eastern Wisdom Capital provides financial advice
and entrepreneurial assistance to a selective group of high quality international
and Chinese clients. Prior to founding Eastern Wisdom Capital, Mr. Zhang was a Managing
Director of Citi Global Capital Markets. Between Jan 2007 and Nov 2008, Mr. Zhang
was Citi’s senior banker responsible for client coverage and deal origination in
China. Relevant industry coverage and experience include over US$2 billion worth
of transactions in sectors such as mining, metals, oil equipment, media, auto, conglomerate,
retail, consumer, healthcare, and education. Prior to Citi, Mr. Zhang was a Managing
Director and Head of China Investment Banking for UBS between Nov 2004 and Oct 2006.
At UBS, Mr. Zhang played an instrumental role in putting together a winning team,
formulating China strategies, establishing internal coordination, and creating processes
to promote cooperation between various industry groups and the China team. He also
made valuable contributions in the establishment of the “UBS Securities” joint venture
in China. Mr. Zhang’s transaction experience includes over US$3 billion worth of
deals for clients in the mining, consumer, alternative energy, and financial sectors,
among others. Previously, Mr. Zhang spent almost 10 years at Morgan Stanley from
1991 to 2000, where he worked in the M&A, corporate finance and private equity divisions
in New York, Hong Kong and China. Between 2000 and 2004, Mr. Zhang co-founded Compass
Venture Limited, a venture capital firm specialized in investing in technology,
media and telecom companies in China, and sponsored by Time Warner and Shanghai
Industrial, a HKSE listed investment conglomerate controlled by the Shanghai government.
Mr. Zhang is originally from Beijing.
He holds a B.A. (with honors) from Dartmouth College with a major in Engineering
and a minor in Economics.
zwendong@sinolatincapital.com
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