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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Beijing based CEO’ operating in the Finance space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Wei Christianson
CEO China and Co-CEO Asia Pacific of Morgan Stanley
Wei Sun Christianson is CEO of China and Co-CEO of Asia Pacific for Morgan Stanley and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Under her leadership, Morgan Stanley has broadened its onshore footprint in China to include domestic securities and bonds underwriting, commercial banking, asset management, trust services and renminbi-denominated private equity investing. She is based in Beijing. Wei first joined Morgan Stanley in 1998, working in the firm’s Investment Banking Division. She graduated cum laude from Amherst College and earned her J.D. degree from the Columbia University School of Law.
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About Morgan Stanley: Morgan Stanley is a financial services company that offers securities, asset management, and credit services.
Anna Fang
Partner & CEO of ZhenFund
Anna Fang is the CEO and Partner of ZhenFund, an early stage venture capital firm in China. Anna oversees the fund’s investments, portfolio management and operations. Anna’s investments include e-commerce, AI and education companies such as RED (XiaoHongShu), Mia, Club Factory, Perfect Diary, Yitu, Mobvoi, Horizon Robotics and VIPKID. Before joining ZhenFund, Anna worked at GE China in Corporate Business Development, responsible for GE’s M&A and BD efforts in China. Anna started her career as an investment banker at JPMorgan New York office covering consumer and retail companies. Anna was made Forbes’ “The Midas List 2019”, named “Top 10 Early-stage Investors of the Year 2018” by Zero2IPO Group, voted “2018 China’s 100 Best Investors” by entrepreneurs on 36Kr, and selected Forbes’ Midas Brink List in 2016. She was also named a Young Global Leader in 2016. Anna received an undergraduate degree from Columbia University in Economics and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She is currently an advisory board member of Columbia College and Columbia’s Global Centers; she also leads the Beijing chapter of Stanford GSB.
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About ZhenFund: ZhenFund invests in TMT, healthcare, and education among other sectors.
Tao Hu
Founder and CEO of TokenInsight
Matt Hu is a CEO at Blofin.
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About Blofin, TokenInsight: TokenInsight is dedicated towards providing accurate data and ratings for cryptocurrency companies through transparency.
Lane Zhao
Founder, CEO of InnoVision Capital
Lane F. Zhao (Beijing) joined KKR in 2005, as one of the first team members in KKR Asia at the time. At KKR, Mr. Zhao has played a significant role in the investments in Far East Horizon, United Envirotech, Rundong Auto, Sino Ocean, CICC, VATS Liquor Store, Modern Dairy and Yageo Electronics. Currently, he is on the board of directors of Rundong Auto, United Envirotech and Sino Ocean. Prior to joining KKR, he was with Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia, where he was significantly involved in a number of successful and innovative private equity transactions in China, including Mengniu Dairy, Belle International, Ping An Insurance and Paradise Retail. He holds a B.S. in Physics, with first class honors, from Tsinghua University in China.
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About InnoVision Capital: InnoVision Capital is a Greater China focused private equity firm.
Ning Tang
Founder and CEO of CreditEase
Founder and CEO of CreditEase, Chairman of the Beijing P2P Association. He is also a member of Tsinghua University China Entrepreneur Training Program’s Advisory Committee and is an advisor to Peking University Social Entrepreneurship Training Program. Tang also heads the China Association of Microfinance’s strategy committee. Tang has over 10 years experience in the field of microfinance. During his time at college, Tang travelled and lived in Bangladesh to study the poverty alleviation strategies adopted by Professor Mohamed Yunus of the Grameen Bank. In 2006 Tang founded CreditEase in Beijing. The core business of the company was to provide intermediary services for individual micro-credit borrowers. In his early career Tang worked for DLJ Investment Bank in Wall Street and was engaged in IPOs, bond issuances, and mergers and acquisitions services for finance, telecommunications, media and technology companies. Tang graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Peking University.
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About CreditEase, Yirendai: CreditEase is a business consulting firm that offers wealth management services.
Lee Kai-Fu
Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sinovation Ventures
Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and President of Sinovation Venture’s Artificial Intelligence Institute. Sinovation Ventures, managing US$1.7 billion dual currency investment funds, is a leading technology investment firm focusing on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. Prior to founding Sinovation in 2009, Kai-Fu Lee was the President of Google China. Previously, he held executive positions at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Kai-Fu Lee received his Bachelor degree from Computer Science from Columbia University, Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Honorary Doctorate Degrees from both Carnegie Mellon and the City University of Hong Kong. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Kai-Fu Lee is the author of seven top selling books in Chinese and launching new book AI Superpowers (www.aisuperpowers.com/) internationally in fall 2018, and has over 50 million followers on social media. In the field of artificial intelligence, Kai-Fu Lee founded Microsoft Research China, which was named as the hottest research lab by MIT Technology Review. Later renamed Microsoft Research Asia, this institute trained the great majority of AI leaders in China, including CTOs or AI heads at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, Huawei, and Haier. While with Apple, Kai-Fu Lee led AI projects in speech and natural language, which have been featured on Good Morning America on ABC Television and the front page of Wall Street Journal. He has authored 10 U.S. patents, and more than 100 journal and conference papers. Altogether, Kai-Fu Lee has been in artificial intelligence research, development, and investment for more than 30 years.
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About Sinovation Ventures: Sinovation Ventures is a full-service venture capital firm that actively invests in the Chinese technology market.
Leilei Wang
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of KongZhong
Wang Leilei (1974 -), the people of Beijing, people’s liberation army generals China Wangzheng The sun, in 1999, joined the TOM.COM Internet Group, served as general manager of operations China district. In 2001, he was promoted to general manager of TOM group’s deputy chief operating officer and online business. Wang Leilei was the founder of Beijing Yin Chengzhi Technology Co., Ltd. and served as president and general manager, and has worked in the Shantou Yifeng futures brokerage Co. Ltd. and Chinese the Great Wall computer software company.
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About AA Party, KongZhong: KongZhong is a provider of digital entertainment services for consumers in the people’s republic of China.
Daqing Ye
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Rong360
Daqing (David) Ye has over 20 years of experience in operations and management with leading global Internet companies and financial institutions in China and the United States. Before founding Rong360, he served at PayPal, Capital One, American Express and AOL. In 2011, He co-founded Rong360 in a three-bed room apartment in Beijing’s Zhongguancun. He received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Hunan University in China and a master’s of science in finance degree from George Washington University in the United States. He is an EMBA candidate at the PBoC School of Finance, Tsinghua University. He was awarded “Entrepreneur of the Year” by The Founder magazine in 2015.
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About Rong360: Rong 360 is a Chinese provider of customized financing and loan services.
William Zhao
Founder & CEO of Mashang Consumer Finance
Former Co-chairman of the board and CSO of JD; 18 years of experience in financial strategies and operation; PHD of Economics; EMBA degree from CEIBS and PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University.
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About Mashang Consumer Finance: Fintech company providing consumer credit services based in Chongqing.
Shengqiang Chen
CEO of JD Digits
Shengqiang Chen has served as Chief Executive Officer of Internet Finance at JD.com since September 2013 and is in-charge of the establishment and development of their new internet finance business. Chen has over 15 years of experience in finance and accounting management in China. Chen was JD.com’s Chief Financial Officer from March 2012 to September 2013, their Finance Vice President from January 2009 to March 2012 and their financial controller from April 2007 to December 2008. Chen received a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Beijing Technology and Business University and an MBA degree from Beijing Institute of Technology in Beijing and has completed his studies at the EMBA program of China Europe International Business School.
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About JD Digits, JD.com: JD Digits (formerly JD Finance) works to connect financial and physical industries with digital technology.
Wenjun Ye
Chief Executive Officer of PandaCredit
Wenjun Ye is Chief Executive Officer at PandaCredit.
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About PandaCredit: Pandacredit is a data-driven consumer fintech company that focuses on developing emerging markets.
George Zhengchun Zhi
CEO & Founder of Wecash
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About Wecash: Wecash was founded in October of 2013 and is reshaping the way customers around the world interact with finance.
Felix Zhang
Founder & CEO of Bairong
– Founded 100Credit in March, 2014 – Partner of both Baifendian Tech Corp. and Symbol Tech Corp. – Head of Data Mining Group, Tianya Online Community Corp. – Evangelist of Intelligent Analytics, IBM, R & D, Beijing – Founder, Geni-Sage Data Mining Corp. (
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About Bairong: Bairong is a professional financial information services to provide large companies.
Charlie Gao
CEO of Fengshion Capital
Charlie Gao is an industrialist investor and the founder and Managing Partner of Fengshion Capital. His career centres around supporting and empowering content-creating and technology-innovating businesses that offer elegant solutions to enterprises and enriching experiences to consumers. Prior to establishing Fengshion Capital, Charlie served as Director at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Senior Associate at Morgan Stanley, both focusing on direct equity investments in Asia. Charlie sits on the boards of Transport International (62.HK), Luoji Lab, Lianshang Net, Ideas Camp Education, UR Fresh, Oros Apparel, FSLB Auction, Yi Tunnel Technologies, among others. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Teach for China, and a founding member of Pay it Forward Foundation, which is a patron to the China Oxford Scholarship Fund. Charlie graduated from the University of Cambridge with M.Eng. and B.A. in Electrical and Information Sciences, with first class honours.
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About Fengshion Capital: Fengshion Capital is an investment firm.
Tim Lee
Founder & CEO of QFPay
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About QFPay: QFPay is a global mobile payment technology, service, and solution provider.
Weiquan Feng
Founder and CEO of QFPay
Feng Weiquan is the founder of QFPay Science & Technology, a company processing online transactions. Weiguan previously worked at Master Card, where he served as General Manager for the Greater China Region. He also worked for Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Price Water Coopers.
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About QFPay: QFPay is a global mobile payment technology, service, and solution provider.
Jing Wang
Chairman and CEO of FinTell
– More than 20 years of hands-on experience in finance and management. – Former Baidu Vice President and Co-Founder of Baidu Financial Services Group. – Former American Express Senior Vice President. – Ph.D in Physics and MBA in Finance from Michigan Stat
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About FinTell: FinTell is a financial service provider based in Beijing.
Xinhe Le
Co-Founder and CEO of Renrendai
Xinhe Li is a co-founder and the chief executive officer of Renrendai, a Beijing-based company providing peer-to-peer financial services such as loans, debts, investments, and more. Prior to that, he worked at the direct investment department of Deutsche Bank, international direct investment department of BOC, and investment department of Bohai Industrial Investment Fund Management. Xinhe Li graduated from the School of Financial Mathematics at Peking University.
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About Renrendai: Renrendai is a Beijing-based company providing P2P financial services such as loans, debts, investment, and others.
Joseph Liang
Chairman & CEO of CICC Alpha
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About CICC Alpha: CICC Alpha is a direct investment platform of CICC.
Chee-Yong Tan
CEO of Firstp2p
Chee-Yong Tan is the CEO of firstp2p.com.
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About Firstp2p: Firstp2p is an online finance marketplace which matches borrowers with investors.
Shen Lei
Founding Partner , Co-CEO of Licaifan
Graduated from China University of Political Science and Law, Renmin University of China International Institute for mergers and acquisitions and investment assistant. Has served as Sweden’s leading independent financial group soderberg & partner, familiar with risk management and financial asset allocation. In 2010, as a partner of the industry fund, we managed a 1.5 billion RMB FOF fund to invest in a number of private equity projects such as Wanda Commercial, White Elephant Food, Music China, Jiaming New Materials and other private equity projects. In 2011, he was involved in the creation of the Strait Financial Asset Exchange and served as General Manager of the Investment .
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About Licaifan: Licaifan is a Chinese online finance platform
Ye Yinghui
Founding Partner & CEO of Licaifan
Graduated from China University of Political Science and Law, Renmin University of China International Institute for mergers and acquisitions and investment assistant. Has served as Sweden’s leading independent financial group soderberg & partner, familiar with risk management and financial asset allocation. In 2010, as a partner of the industry fund, we managed a 1.5 billion RMB FOF fund to invest in a number of private equity projects such as Wanda Commercial, White Elephant Food, Music China, Jiaming New Materials and other private equity projects. In 2011, he was involved in the creation of the Strait Financial Asset Exchange and served as General Manager of the Investment.
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About Licaifan: Licaifan is a Chinese online finance platform
Zhang Fu
Founder and CEO of Qingteng Cloud Security
Zhang Fu is a Founder at Qingteng Cloud Security.
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About Qingteng Cloud Security: Qingteng Cloud Security is a SaaS-based cloud security company focusing on the endpoint adaptive security.
Nick Liang
Founder & CEO of iMeigu
Nick Liang is Founder & CEO at iMeigu.
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About iMeigu: iMeigu is a finance website that provide equity market information, news, financial data, and other services for investors.
Chao Xiaojuan
Founder & CEO of Baozhunniu
Chao Xiaojuan is the founder and CEO of BZN, a global insurance customization platform driven by insurance technology and big data. BZN was established in 2015, and excel in promoting InsurTech and exploring innovative opportunities across the industry. BZN, as an experienced insurance practitioner used technology consulting, ecommerce etc., and gradually formed accurate cover matching and modeling techniques to achieve dynamic risk management and precise insurance customization. Ms. Chao had executive experience for insurance technology operations, and starting new insurance businesses based on advanced technology. Prior to her current role, Ms. Chao was VP and CTO of E-Commerce branch company in traditional insurance companies, including the establishment of E-commerce department and day-to-day operations of online insurance business in several State-owned Insurance Companies. Ms. Chao achieved a Master Degree of Computational Engineering in Technical University of Dresden in Germany. Ms. Chao is a Fellow of the sixth class of the China Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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About Baozhunniu: Baozhunniu is a customized insurance products provider.
Li Peng
CEO and Founder of Qiniu School
Li Peng is the CEO and Founder of Qiniu Business School.
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About Qiniu School: Qiniu School is a provider of personal finance online course.
Xigang Zhao
Founder and CEO of Beijing Duibiao technology company
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About Beijing Duibiao technology company: Bringing the general public the most accurate and accountable financial advice.
Xigang Zhao
Founder and CEO of Beijing Duibiao technology company
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About Beijing Duibiao technology company: Bringing the general public the most accurate and accountable financial advice.
