Introduction
James served as one of the earliest Managing Directors of Millennium Management LLC, a New York headquartered hedge fund, founded in 1989. James is a highly experienced investor in equities, fixed income, futures and other derivatives in the global financial markets. He built an excellent track record with an average annual trading volume over $10 billion during his Wall Street days.

At the invitation of the Chinese Government, James returned to China in 2000 and was appointed Executive Vice President of Shanghai Stock Exchange (“SSE”) and subsequently as the number two executive a the SSE. James was awarded one of the fifteen "Influential Players on the World Business Stage" by the Asia Wall Street Journal in 2001.

During his ten-year term at the SSE, James was involved with, and instrumental in every major reform and innovation in the Chinese financial markets. These market reforms and innovations helped the Chinese equity markets to grow substantially, and by the time James left the SSE, it was one of the largest equity exchanges in the world. As a result of his role, James also built extensive relationships with every aspect of the Chinese financial markets, including government and regulatory bodies, broker dealers, major financial institutions, listed public companies and leading investors.

In 2011, James left the Shanghai Stock Exchange to help establish Sailing Capital Management Company. As a result of his experience and reputation in the Chinese financial markets, James was able to raise RMB 9 billion successfully from major Chinese conglomerates and financial institutions, within only six months. He also worked with the government regulators and the PBOC, to authorize Sailing Capital as the only fund permitted at the time to move capital freely in and out of China. Since the founding of Sailing Capital in 2012, James has led every effort in building the company, including recruiting the team, implementing an institutional-quality investment process and building the investment portfolio. Under his leadership, Sailing Capital has earned a solid reputation as a successful and disciplined international institutional investor.

Education
James studied overseas in early 80’s and holds a PhD degree.

James is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Introduction
Prior to joining Sailing Capital, Liang was a managing director and general counsel for PAG, one of Asia’s largest and most reputable alternative investment management firms.  As one of the core management team members of PAG, Liang helped to grow PAG’s funds under management from approximately US$1 billion to about US$10 billion.  Prior to that, Liang was the managing partner of the Asian office for a prestigious Wall Street law firm, and has over 20 years of experience representing world-class PE firms and multi-national organizations in private equity transactions, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings in China, Hong Kong and the US.  Since joining Sailing Capital in 2013, Liang has established the firm’s world-class investment process and led the execution of the firm’s investments.

Education
Liang holds a Juris Doctor’s degree from J. Reuben Clark Law School and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Brigham Young University.

Liang is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Introduction
Before joining Sailing Capital, Robert was a partner and CEO of several family investment offices which he established and managed in London. Each of these family offices had active direct private equity investment programs in the TMT sector. Prior to this, Robert was a partner and head of direct co-investments with Atlantic-Pacific Capital in London. Before this, Robert spent 15 years in investment banking roles with Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and UBS in China, Europe and the U.S. Robert has over 28 years of experience in private equity and investment banking. He began his career in leveraged finance with Bank of America in New York. Robert speaks French and German and has significant transaction experience in the TMT, pharmaceutical, real estate, energy, general industrial, consumer products, financial services and transportation industries.

Education
Robert holds a BA from Trinity College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Robert speaks English, French and German.

Introduction
Bosun has 15 years of healthcare and finance experience, primarily as a healthcare and TMT investor in both private and publicly-listed companies in the US, EU and China. Prior to joining Sailing Capital, Bosun was a Partner at MVM Life Science Partners in Boston and London. He also has experience at JP Morgan in New York, McKinsey & Company in Singapore, Eli Lilly & Company and S.R. One, GlaxoSmithKline’s Corporate Venture Group. Bosun is or has been a Board Director or Observer for several leading public and private biotechnology, medical technology, specialty pharmaceutical and food technology companies. 

Education
Bosun holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a Masters of Biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University. He also is a triple-bachelor degree recipient from the University of Arizona. Bosun serves on the Board of Overseers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard University Medical School.

Introduction
Mr. Lamarche is Managing Director of Sailing Capital (Hong Kong) with a B.Sc. in Mathematical Economics, a B.A. in Philosophy, and a M.Sc. in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics from Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium) as well as a LL.B. in Commercial Law from Universite Paris I (Pantheon Sorbonne University, Paris) and a MBA from Cornell University with a concentration in finance and entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Sailing Capital, Didier worked for 25 years as a Private Equity investor, management consultant, financial analyst and entrepreneur on three different continents. During the last decade, he was the Founder and CEO of Adam Smith Capital, a Private Equity firm created in New York and relocated to Hong Kong. Previously, he worked as a Strategy Consultant for Bain & Co. and a Project Leader for The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) based out of their New York office. Prior to this advisory experience, Didier was a financial analyst and started his career as an entrepreneur by launching and growing two start-ups in Europe.

Introduction
Prior to joining Sailing Capital, Ray was Managing Director of the propriety investment department of Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific).  Prior to that, he was the Head of Acquisitions at Goldman Sachs CCL which invests Goldman’s own capital in private equity deals in China.  In the 1990’s, as Head of China Equity Capital, he participated in the first batch of Chinese overseas listed companies’ restructurings and financings, and carried out M&A advisory work in the early China A share market.  Ray has 25 years of work experience in private equity investment and investment banking, with a strong interest in technology and a solid track record.

Education
Ray graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University with a bachelor's degree in applied physics in 1985. He graduated from Stanford University with a MBA degree in 1990 and was one of the first Chinese students to obtain this degree.

Ray is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Introduction
Thomas brings 16 years of Private Equity and M&A experience to Sailing Capital with previous positions held as Managing Director/Partner at Geneva Private Equity, Switzerland/Hong Kong as well as Head/Director of Private Equity with Bahrain-based investment company CAPIVEST B.S.C. (now IBDAR Bank).
Thomas was also a Senior Director M&A Lead Advisory with Ernst & Young Corporate Finance and Arthur Andersen Corporate Finance in Germany. He started his business career with KPMG and DG Bank Corporate Finance in Frankfurt.

Education
Thomas received his MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain (which included a residential module at China Europe International Business School / CEIBS in Shanghai, China). He also received a Bachelor’s dual degree in Business Studies and Economics from London Guildhall University.

Introduction
Prior to joining Sailing Capital, Catherine held positions at Pacific Asset Management (with AUM of US$120 billion) and McKinsey & Company, and had been engaged in global mergers and acquisitions, equity investment and asset management in New York. Catherine has over 15 years’ experience in the investment and finance industry. She has a solid track record in investments related to technology, new economy, consumer and financial services, and has lead the investments of Mobileye (“The Award of China M&A, 2014”), DiDi, Qihoo360, Rong360 (“The Best Private Equity Investments of 2015, China Venture”), Sensetime, etc.

Education
Catherine holds an MBA degree from Cornell University and a bachelor's degree from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

Catherine is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Introduction
Prior to joining Sailing Capital, Darren was Head of Power, Utility and Infrastructure investment banking for Credit Suisse (Asia Pacific). He completed over $30 billion in transactions with selected experience including: the $3.5 billion acquisition of 21.35% of EDP by China Three Gorges, the $5.3 billion electrical retail rights and privatization of development land of the Government of New South Wales and the $3.2 billion acquisition of Mirant Corporation by Tokyo Electric Power. Darren is a Board Director of Brookstone Holdings and Soneva Holdings.

Education
Darren holds a BSFS from Georgetown University in International Economics and is a CFA Charter Holder.

Introduction
Prior to joining Sailing Capital in 2012, Edgar worked in a variety of industries, most recently Shanghai International Group. As a founding member of Sailing Capital International, Edgar participated in the formation of the fund, including but not limited to designing the ultimate fund structure, communicating with the key Chinese regulatory agencies, drafting the fund's organizational documents and raising the fund's initial round of capital.

Education
Edgar holds a Master's degree from Fudan University and a Bachelor's degree from Beijing Normal University.

Edgar is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Introduction
Prior to joining Sailing, David spent almost 20 years at Intel Corporation where he was a Vice President and Managing Director at Intel Capital, one of the largest technology investors in the world. David has been directly responsible for hundreds of investment transactions in a wide range of sectors. He has served as a board observer, advisor or director at numerous technology companies. David's work experience also includes: Founder & CEO of a technology company in the public safety sector, corporate finance analyst at The Hewlett-Packard Company, CFO and institutional money manager.

Education
David has degrees from St. Bonaventure University and Simon Business School at the University of Rochester.

David is fluent in English and Portuguese.

Introduction
Carla Cico has served as Non-executive Director and Consultant at Alcatel-Lucent before joining Sailing. Having served as Senior Manager at Brasil Telecom and Telecom Italia, Carla Cico has many years’ experience in acquisitions, financings and investments. Carla holds an MBA from London Business School and Master of Science of Strategy from the University of London.

Education
Carla holds an MBA from London Business School and Master of Science of Strategy from the University of London.

Introduction
With more than 30 years experience in the capital markets both in Israel and globally, and a role as the personal financial advisor to some of Israel’s most prominent investors, Kobi brings a wealth of experience to Sailing Capital. Prior to joining Sailing Capital, Kobi was Chairman of the Board of UBS Investment Bank in Israel and CEO of UBS Wealth Management Israel. Before that, Kobi was the founder and CEO of the first Israeli Family Office.

Education
Kobi holds an MA in Economy and Business Administration and an LLB in Law from Bar Ilan University.