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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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