Building
off of the momentum of past conferences, Golden Networking brings
back China Leaders Forum 2013 (ChinaLeadersForum.com),
"Will the Chinese Dream Become Long-term Investors' Dream or
Nightmare?", New York, October 1st.
New
York City, NY, USA (September 24, 2013) -- Harry Edelson,
Managing Director, Edelson Technology Partners, will join China
Leaders Forum 2013 (http://www.chinaleadersforum.com),
"Will the Chinese Dream Become Long-term Investors' Dream or
Nightmare?", conference that in its fifth edition is gearing up
to provide the information practitioners are looking for in an open
and unbiased environment, highly conducive to the most efficient and
effective networking.
Mr.
Edelson is highly respected in both the technology and financial
industries and is one of the most prominent and successful venture
capitalists on the East Coast. Throughout his career, Mr. Edelson has
been known for his energy and outsized results partly due to his
unique background combining technology and Wall Street analyst
experiences. Mr. Edelson was named an All Star Security Analyst by
Institutional Investor magazine and was among the most quoted
analysts on Wall Street. Mr. Edelson left Wall Street when the CEOs
of ten of the world's largest multinational corporations (AT&T,
Viacom, 3M, Ford Motor, Cincinnati Bell, Colgate-Palmolive, Reed
Elsevier, Imation, Asea Brown Boveri and UPS) each in a different
business, entrusted him with corporate rather than pension money to
manage a series of strategic venture capital funds. Two additional
prominent limited partners were Harbourvest and Wellcome Trust which
entered the partnerships through secondary purchases. Mr. Edelson
worked closely with the executive management of his corporate
partners providing strategic assistance, consulting advice and
contacts. Other venture capital funds managing equal sums often had
four times the personnel and expenses of the Edelson Technology
Partner funds (ETP). By way of contrast, Mr. Edelson voluntarily
returned to the limited partners over 25% of management fees
annually.
His
venture capital performance over a 20-year span was rated number one
of all venture capital firms in the Eastern United States by two of
the four leading auditing firms. The annual return (IRR) for his
funds averaged 27%, even through the disastrous stock market decline
of 2000-2002. The Edelson Technology Partner funds were the first
venture capital investor in ten early stage companies that grew to
have market capitalizations of more than $1 billion and up to $30
billion. This was accomplished in part by Mr. Edelson's instigation
and support of numerous M&A transactions. Mr. Edelson has served
on 80 boards, 12 as chairman.
Mr.
Edelson's career includes a long line of firsts. He was the first
Wall Street analyst to combine coverage of computers, software and
telecommunications. At that time, there was not even one buy side
telecommunications analyst. He conducted the first video conference
call on Wall Street bringing together CEOs and investors. Because of
his background as a computer engineer and telecommunications
engineer, and his innovative research on the confluence of computers
and telecommunications, Mr. Edelson performed consulting assignments
for more than 50 corporations. Before hedge funds were popular, he
started a hedge fund for CEOs of technology companies and had
positive results in a severely down market.
In
March 2007, Mr. Edelson raised $40 million for a public Special
Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) whose mandated goal was to merge
with a Chinese company within two years. To complete the merger by
the deadline in 2009, Mr. Edelson traveled to China 13 times in 18
months. His travels to numerous provinces in China entailed visits to
50 companies involved in diverse industries. In 2009, when many SPACs
failed to complete their mergers and had to dissolve, Mr. Edelson
completed a merger with a high-growth specialty thin steel company.
China
Leaders Forum 2013 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 2013 to provide the
information practitioners are looking for in an open and unbiased
environment, highly conducive to the most efficient and effective
networking:
Experts
include:
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Ann Lee, Author, What the U.S. Can Learn from China
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Crocker Coulson, President, CCG Investor Relations
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Dan David, Co-founder and Vice President, GeoInvesting
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Edgar Perez, Author, The Speed Traders, Knightmare on Wall Street
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Harry Edelson, Managing Director, Edelson Technology Partners
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James O'Neill, Managing Partner, Jin Niu Investment Management Ltd.
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Janet Stites, Publisher, China Business Knowledge
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John Allen, Chairman & CEO, Greater China Corporation
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Jonathan Krane, CEO, Harvest Krane
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Lisa Prager, Partner, Schulte Roth & Zabel
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Minggao Shen, Managing Director, Citigroup
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Ned Cloonan, Managing Director, Liberty Square Group
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Neng Wang, Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Real Estate, Columbia
Business School
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Peter Halasz, Partner, Schulte Roth & Zabel
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Reuben Guttman, Director, Grant & Eisenhofer
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Robert Vambery, Professor of International Business, Lubin School of
Business
China
Leaders Forum 2013 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
information@goldennetworking.net.
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