Christopher Thorne, Executive Chairman, Broadline Principle Capital, at China Leaders Forum 2012

Building off of the momentum of past conferences, Golden Networking brings back China Leaders Forum 2012 (www.ChinaLeadersForum.com), "Political and Economic Challenges for Xi Jinping, China's President-in-waiting", New York, December 7th.

New York City, NY, USA (November 15, 2012) -- Christopher Thorne, Executive Chairman, Broadline Principle Capital, will speak at Golden Networking's China Leaders Forum 2012, "Political and Economic Challenges for Xi Jinping, China's President-in-waiting", December 7th, New York City, conference that will examine the political and economic challenges facing China nowadays and the long-term opportunities that will be created in the world's largest economy by 2016.

Mr. Thorne leads Broadline Principle Capital, a global investment firm and early pioneer of Asia's private equity industry whose team has been managing high-performing, multi-industry private equity investment funds in China for more than a decade. He has spent his entire career building trust-based relationships globally with business leaders, industry experts, and entrepreneurs.

Previously, Mr. Thorne served leadership roles at McKinsey & Company. He also founded a software technology company whose solutions create efficiency gains for manufacturers, distributors and retailers in the consumer packaged goods, retail, and food service industries. The resulting company managed more than $200 billion of annual transactions and built a customer base of more than 5,000 suppliers and 100,000 retail operators. The company sold to institutional investors at a nine-figure valuation in 2007 and subsequently sold to Roper Industries for $525 million in 2010.

Mr. Thorne received his AB (Magna Cum Laude) from Harvard University, MBA from Harvard Business School, and Juris Doctor (Honors) from Harvard Law School, where he founded Harvard Negotiation Law Review and served as Executive Editor of Harvard International Law Journal.

China Leaders Forum 2012 will provide attendees with the responses to the above-mentioned questions and the most up-to-date review of where the Asian giant stands and the challenges and opportunities for businessmen looking to expand their business with China when others only see growth contraction. Recognized experts, regulators, and strategists, will return to China Leaders Forum 2012 in its fourth edition to provide the information practitioners are looking for in an open and unbiased environment, highly conducive to the most efficient and effective networking.

China Leaders Forum 2012 is produced by Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs and investors. Panelists, speakers and sponsors are invited to contact Golden Networking by sending an email to info@goldennetworking.net.

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