Networking Night: HBS & U Penn in Beijing

HBS Beijing Club, U Penn Beijing Club and HBS Asian American Alumni Association are proud to co-host a networking night, featuring distinctive alum from each school sharing his/her life story.

When: Wednesday, Oct 17th, 2018 19:00 to 21:30

Where: Penn Wharton China Center， World Financial Center West Building, 16F, No. 1 East Third Ring Middle Road， Chaoyang District， Beijing, 100020, China

Dressing Code: Business Casual

Important: NO Walk-In will be honored. Please purchase your ticket online beforehand. Tickets Non-Refundable

Language: The alum sharing will be in Chinese. Interpretation will not be available due to venue limitation

Agenda:

19:00-19:30 Registration

19:30-20:30 Sharing by distinctive alum from HBS & U Penn

20:30-21:30 Wrap-up & Networking

The Speakers:

Benjamin Zhai, Founder & CEO, CAiPITAL Group (本瓴)

Ben Zhai is the founder and CEO of CAiPITAL Group, an "human capital investment" firm. CAiPITAL Group invests in leading Chinese companies and startup companies with leadership and talent resources, and supports and co-invests with leading private equity and venture capital firms . He is also the founder of Yuting Action, a not-for-profit organization aiming to provide positive and inspirational "experience and exposure" to underprivileged children for their balanced and healthy personal growth. 

Prior to these roles, he had several leadership responsibilities including leading the Global Offshore China Center at Russell Reynolds Associates from its New York office as Managing Director, where he built a global practice to serve Chinese companies with global ambition; leading Egon Zehnder's Industrial Practice as its Managing Partner Asia Pacific. He was Head of A. T. Kearney Beijing office, and worked in Sydney and Shanghai offices. He also worked with EDS Managing Consulting Services in Canberra, Australia. His earlier career started with a Chinese industrial company and a technology startup company. 

Ben graduated from Wuhan University of Science and Technology in Computer Science, and from Australia National University with an M.B.A. He is also a GMP graduate of Harvard Business School. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the China Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Alfred Jin, Managing Director, Aplus Capital (洪泰基金)

Alfred Jin is the Managing Director of Aplus Capital and Managing Partner of Aplus Capital Culture & Entertainment Fund. Aplus Capital is a leading venture capital founded by Mr. Michael Minhong Yu (俞敏洪), a well-known entrepreneur, and Mr. Teger Xitai Sheng (盛希泰), a senior investment banker. Prior to that, Alfred was the Investment Director of Evolution Media Capital of CAA and a Vice President at IDG Capital Partners. Mr. Jin also used to work for Reuters as a journalist and the photo editor-in-chief of China. 

Alfred was renowned as "40 under 40 top investors" by Entrepreneur magazine in 2018, "top 10 investors with discovery power in culture and entertainment industry" by 36Kr in 2017, "annual top 10 investors" by Sansheng Media and Entertainment Capital in 2017. Alfred graduated from Tsinghua University with both Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree, and later earned his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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