Jim Zhang- Beijing 张谨

Chairman, Juma Capital

Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

About

Jim has 25 years of international experiences in management, entrepreneurship, investment, IPO sponsorship, and cross-border M&A activities. Jim and his team advised a number of Chinese SOEs and private enterprises in cross-border investments, M&A transactions involving oversea private and listed companies on HKSE, London AIM, ASX and TSX. His team sponsored a number of HK main board, London AIM IPOs, and won the Queen’s award for Sino-British bi-lateral commerce and investment activities in 2009. As Vice Chairman of Evolution Securities (FTSE 250) Asia, Jim built the China investment banking businesses. Previously Jim was a senior director of Motorola China Strategic Planning, worked at Hewlett Packard, LSI Logic in Silicon Valley, and AT Kearney in New York . In 2000 Jim invested and raised capital to form Teleion Wireless. Jim was a founding director in 2009 for Junior Achievement China, and founder to Wharton Beijing Club, and served as its president for 10 years. Jim grew up in Shanghai, was trained as a concert pianist, and an Ironman competing in IRONMAN events.

Experience

  • Chairman at Juma Capital
    Dec 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 8 mos

    Jim founded Juma Capital Limited, a boutique advisory and investment firm for China-centric cross-border M&A and investment transactions. JCL’s professionals have decades of experience in securities, financial, legal, government regulatory arena, and handhold clients across linguistic, cultural, business-model, governance and regulatory chasms to bring closure to tailored deals. JCL’s clients include international companies, institutional investors, Chinese state-owned-enterprises, and private and regulated Chinese companies listed on China and international stock exchanges.

  • Vice Chairman at Evolution Securities Asia Limited
    Jul 2007 - Nov 2015 · 8 yrs 5 mos

  • Partner at GreenWave Partners
    2004 - 2007 · 3 yrs

  • CEO at Locus Communication (KOR: LCS)
    2002 - 2005 · 3 yrs

    Manage portfolio companies in China which are invested by Locus Group

  • Co-Founder at Teleion Wireless
    2000 - 2002 · 2 yrs

    A CDMA module design start up company serving China Unicom