Christine Zhao (赵颖)
Board of Directors · 2021
Yuanming Capital managing partner, cross-border US-China
Biography
Christine Y Zhao is a Managing Partner of Yuanming Capital, a VCPE fund focused on cross-border investment and acquisition opportunities between US and China. Previously she was the Group Chief Financial Officer of Best Logistics Technologies, a pre-IPO internet-age infrastructure company with valuation over $3bn and major investors including Alibaba, Goldman, Walden, IDG, Softbank, IFC, China Everbrite and Citics PE.
Prior to this, she was a Managing Director in Bank of America Merrill Lynch and an Executive Director in JPMorgan, where she held senior positions in HQ and global corporate and investment banking units (including regional CFO/COO). She also worked at American Express in New York, London, Singapore in various capacities including strategy and corporate venture investing, in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, and in corporate development at FedEx Corporation in U.S. She has managed teams across four continents.
A Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Christine holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics with distinction from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. She is also a Board member of the Chinese Finance Association (TCFA), a non-profit organization with over 6,000 members worldwide. Christine is fluent in both Mandarin and Cantonese.