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Fan Chen
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Mr. Fan Chen is the Chairman and CEO of the Uniquantum PE Fund and is a Senior Private Equity investor with more than 22 years in Private Equity investing.Prior to founding Uniquantum China Mr. Chen held Senior positions in a number of China’s largest and most successful Finance and Investment Firms.
These included being:
In addition to his experience in China’s Finance and Investment sector, and developing new businesses and expanding existing ones in China; Mr. Chen also has experience with North American business as he has been involved with investment and development projects with United States companies and Financial Institutions.
And Mr. Chen, who has one of his university degrees from Canada (an MBA), is quite expert on business development between China and North America. In particular, Canadian business development with China is definitely not something new to Mr. Chen.
Mr. Chen and Mr. Connors, CEO of GSME, actually first met in the early 1990’s in Ottawa, Canada, and worked very closely together for two years on a special project for the Government of Canada to help Canada re-engage with China.
The project was an aquaculture, fisheries, and aquatic technology business development and cooperative initiative that opened the door to large scale business between Canada and China in these business sectors.
Before this project there was almost no business in these sectors between the two countries – and what was done was principally done through Hong Kong. There was virtually no direct contact between mainland Chinese and Canadian companies prior to this initiative. That all changed immediately with this initiative with virtually all of Canada’s main fisheries and aquaculture companies involved and with the direct personal involvement of their Presidents and CEOs.
Today, there is more than $1.2 billion annually in seafood business between China and Canada and that doesn’t even include the amount of aquatic and marine technology and engineering service business that takes place annually.
This initiative proceeded prior to the Chretien Government’s major Trade Missions with China in the 1990’s and the early stage work on this initiative actually helped open the door and helped to lay the foundations for the successful multi sector engagement with China through the Prime Minister Chretien led Trade Missions, which this initiative opted out of for its own special sector specific initiative because of certain advantages at the time in following that approach.
When this Project commenced, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada had no plan or intent to engage with China and to make a push for increased business and trade with China. China was not even in their Five Year Plan. That all changed with this initiative – largely as a result of the hard work of the Chinese lead consultant for this project, and his identification of the opportunities, and his vision of what could be achieved.
Along with Coordinating things on the Canadian side within the Government of Canada, and with the Canadian fisheries, aquaculture, and aquatic technology sectors, Mr. Connors worked closely with Mr. Fan Chen, who was contracted by the Government of Canada as the lead consultant to develop, and execute this important initiative. Mr. Chen, and his project team, set up everything in China for the initiative. Mr. Connors role was important in this initiative but it was Mr. Chen who was the relentless driving force that made things happen in this initiative, breaking down barriers and opening the doors, and without him the success that was achieved would not have been possible.
Profile
Mr. Fan Chen is the Chairman and CEO of the Uniquantum PE Fund and is a Senior Private Equity investor with more than 22 years in Private Equity investing.
Prior to founding Uniquantum China Mr. Chen held Senior positions in a number of China’s largest and most successful Finance and Investment Firms.
These included being:
In addition to his experience in China’s Finance and Investment sector, and developing new businesses and expanding existing ones in China; Mr. Chen also has experience with North American business as he has been involved with investment and development projects with United States companies and Financial Institutions.
And Mr. Chen, who has one of his university degrees from Canada (an MBA), is quite expert on business development between China and North America. In particular, Canadian business development with China is definitely not something new to Mr. Chen.
Mr. Chen and Mr. Connors, CEO of GSME, actually first met in the early 1990’s in Ottawa, Canada, and worked very closely together for two years on a special project for the Government of Canada to help Canada re-engage with China.
The project was an aquaculture, fisheries, and aquatic technology business development and cooperative initiative that opened the door to large scale business between Canada and China in these business sectors.
Before this project there was almost no business in these sectors between the two countries – and what was done was principally done through Hong Kong. There was virtually no direct contact between mainland Chinese and Canadian companies prior to this initiative. That all changed immediately with this initiative with virtually all of Canada’s main fisheries and aquaculture companies involved and with the direct personal involvement of their Presidents and CEOs.
Today, there is more than $1.2 billion annually in seafood business between China and Canada and that doesn’t even include the amount of aquatic and marine technology and engineering service business that takes place annually.
This initiative proceeded prior to the Chretien Government’s major Trade Missions with China in the 1990’s and the early stage work on this initiative actually helped open the door and helped to lay the foundations for the successful multi sector engagement with China through the Prime Minister Chretien led Trade Missions, which this initiative opted out of for its own special sector specific initiative because of certain advantages at the time in following that approach.
When this Project commenced, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada had no plan or intent to engage with China and to make a push for increased business and trade with China. China was not even in their Five Year Plan. That all changed with this initiative – largely as a result of the hard work of the Chinese lead consultant for this project, and his identification of the opportunities, and his vision of what could be achieved.
Along with Coordinating things on the Canadian side within the Government of Canada, and with the Canadian fisheries, aquaculture, and aquatic technology sectors, Mr. Connors worked closely with Mr. Fan Chen, who was contracted by the Government of Canada as the lead consultant to develop, and execute this important initiative. Mr. Chen, and his project team, set up everything in China for the initiative. Mr. Connors role was important in this initiative but it was Mr. Chen who was the relentless driving force that made things happen in this initiative, breaking down barriers and opening the doors, and without him the success that was achieved would not have been possible.
Fan Chen’s Senior Partner with Uniquantum: Mr. Mingchen Zhou, the Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of COFCO, is an extraordinarily experienced and accomplished business executive with a profound understanding of what’s required for successful business operations with, and in, China, for doing business with Chinese companies, and for selling to China.
China National Cereals and Oilseed Company (COFCO) which Mingchen Zhou is the former Chairman and Executive Officer of, is no ordinary Chinese company. A member of the Fortune 500 as one of the World’s 500 Greatest Enterprises, COFCO is China’s largest food manufacturer, processor and trader; and is one of the world’s largest and most powerful business conglomerates. COFCO is involved in all aspects of the food production business from planting and livestock raising, to slaughtering and processing, to large scale consumer retail food sales in China through both its own retail sales stores and its own food e-commerce platform (womai.com) which is one of China’s major online food retailers.
COFCO produces, processes, buys and trades internationally (imports): dairy, beef, pork, poultry, grains and cereals products in extraordinarily large amounts.
COFCO owns the Greatwall Brand of Wine which produces wines in its wineries around the world and the COFCO subsidiary COFCO Wine and Spirits is one of Chinas largest Importers of wine, beer, and spirits.
COFCO’s womai.com, China’s first large-scale consumer-oriented online food retailer, is characterized by its selection of high-quality fresh fruits and vegetables, imported foods, and private-label products, becoming the preferred online food shopping center for emerging middle-class families.
WOMAI.COM continues to vigorously simplify its supply chain at home and abroad to meet consumers’ needs. WOMAI.COM has as an objective to create flat channels that run straight from overseas origin to consumers in China. With the help of COFCO’s Imported Food Marketing Platform and global supply chain, WOMAI.COM continues to strengthen its competitive edge in non-standard global products purchasing. WOMAI.COM’s private-label products architecture is becoming more comprehensive, with a variety of categories such as fresh fruits and vegetables, grain and oil, snacks, dairy products, and tea as well as other beverages.
To give an idea of how large and successful COFCO is, COFCO owns Menghu Dairy which itself is one of the World’s 20 largest Dairy Suppliers.
The COFCO conglomerate also has a major resort hotel and tourism business, a large scale real estate development business, a major textile production business, and shipping and logistics companies.
Mr. Zhou currently holds senior advisory positions with a number of China National Industry Associations including the China Trademark Association, China Grain Association, and the China Green Foods Association.
Mr. Zhou also has more than ten years of investment and management expertise in the realms of consumer goods and financial services and has made corporate investments into more than 20 leading Chinese companies.
From 1999 to 2017, Mr. Chen and Mr. Zhou between them have sourced financing and invested into more than 30 leading Chinese companies. These corporate investments included:
Uniquantum Investment Ltd.
These included being:
- Managing Director of the Investment Department, and the Investment Banking Department of the Bank of China International (the Bank of China International is the wholly owned Subsidiary of the Bank of China and was established to serve as the key platform for the Bank of China’s Investment Banking Business)
- Joint Global Head, and Greater China Head, with Standard Chartered Private Equity Limited (Hong Kong) – (Standard and Chartered’s history goes back to 1859. Today it is one of the leading international banking groups);
- Vice President of the Investment Department, and the Investment Banking Department of the China International Capital Corporation (a joint venture between US Investment Bank Morgan Stanley, and the China Bank of Construction); and
- Vice President Richina Capital Partners (a China based Private Venture Capital Firm).
In addition to his experience in China’s Finance and Investment sector, and developing new businesses and expanding existing ones in China; Mr. Chen also has experience with North American business as he has been involved with investment and development projects with United States companies and Financial Institutions.
And Mr. Chen, who has one of his university degrees from Canada (an MBA), is quite expert on business development between China and North America. In particular, Canadian business development with China is definitely not something new to Mr. Chen.
Mr. Chen and Mr. Connors, CEO of GSME, actually first met in the early 1990’s in Ottawa, Canada, and worked very closely together for two years on a special project for the Government of Canada to help Canada re-engage with China.
The project was an aquaculture, fisheries, and aquatic technology business development and cooperative initiative that opened the door to large scale business between Canada and China in these business sectors.
Before this project there was almost no business in these sectors between the two countries – and what was done was principally done through Hong Kong. There was virtually no direct contact between mainland Chinese and Canadian companies prior to this initiative. That all changed immediately with this initiative with virtually all of Canada’s main fisheries and aquaculture companies involved and with the direct personal involvement of their Presidents and CEOs.
Today, there is more than $1.2 billion annually in seafood business between China and Canada and that doesn’t even include the amount of aquatic and marine technology and engineering service business that takes place annually.
This initiative proceeded prior to the Chretien Government’s major Trade Missions with China in the 1990’s and the early stage work on this initiative actually helped open the door and helped to lay the foundations for the successful multi sector engagement with China through the Prime Minister Chretien led Trade Missions, which this initiative opted out of for its own special sector specific initiative because of certain advantages at the time in following that approach.
When this Project commenced, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada had no plan or intent to engage with China and to make a push for increased business and trade with China. China was not even in their Five Year Plan. That all changed with this initiative – largely as a result of the hard work of the Chinese lead consultant for this project, and his identification of the opportunities, and his vision of what could be achieved.
Along with Coordinating things on the Canadian side within the Government of Canada, and with the Canadian fisheries, aquaculture, and aquatic technology sectors, Mr. Connors worked closely with Mr. Fan Chen, who was contracted by the Government of Canada as the lead consultant to develop, and execute this important initiative. Mr. Chen, and his project team, set up everything in China for the initiative. Mr. Connors role was important in this initiative but it was Mr. Chen who was the relentless driving force that made things happen in this initiative, breaking down barriers and opening the doors, and without him the success that was achieved would not have been possible.
Profile
Mr. Fan Chen is the Chairman and CEO of the Uniquantum PE Fund and is a Senior Private Equity investor with more than 22 years in Private Equity investing.
Prior to founding Uniquantum China Mr. Chen held Senior positions in a number of China’s largest and most successful Finance and Investment Firms.
These included being:
- Managing Director of the Investment Department, and the Investment Banking Department of the Bank of China International (the Bank of China International is the wholly owned Subsidiary of the Bank of China and was established to serve as the key platform for the Bank of China’s Investment Banking Business);
- Joint Global Head, and Greater China Head, with Standard Chartered Private Equity Limited (Hong Kong) – (Standard and Chartered’s history goes back to 1859. Today it is one of the leading international banking groups);
- Vice President of the Investment Department, and the Investment Banking Department of the China International Capital Corporation (a joint venture between US Investment Bank Morgan Stanley, and the China Bank of Construction); and
- Vice President Richina Capital Partners (a China based Private Venture Capital Firm).
In addition to his experience in China’s Finance and Investment sector, and developing new businesses and expanding existing ones in China; Mr. Chen also has experience with North American business as he has been involved with investment and development projects with United States companies and Financial Institutions.
And Mr. Chen, who has one of his university degrees from Canada (an MBA), is quite expert on business development between China and North America. In particular, Canadian business development with China is definitely not something new to Mr. Chen.
Mr. Chen and Mr. Connors, CEO of GSME, actually first met in the early 1990’s in Ottawa, Canada, and worked very closely together for two years on a special project for the Government of Canada to help Canada re-engage with China.
The project was an aquaculture, fisheries, and aquatic technology business development and cooperative initiative that opened the door to large scale business between Canada and China in these business sectors.
Before this project there was almost no business in these sectors between the two countries – and what was done was principally done through Hong Kong. There was virtually no direct contact between mainland Chinese and Canadian companies prior to this initiative. That all changed immediately with this initiative with virtually all of Canada’s main fisheries and aquaculture companies involved and with the direct personal involvement of their Presidents and CEOs.
Today, there is more than $1.2 billion annually in seafood business between China and Canada and that doesn’t even include the amount of aquatic and marine technology and engineering service business that takes place annually.
This initiative proceeded prior to the Chretien Government’s major Trade Missions with China in the 1990’s and the early stage work on this initiative actually helped open the door and helped to lay the foundations for the successful multi sector engagement with China through the Prime Minister Chretien led Trade Missions, which this initiative opted out of for its own special sector specific initiative because of certain advantages at the time in following that approach.
When this Project commenced, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada had no plan or intent to engage with China and to make a push for increased business and trade with China. China was not even in their Five Year Plan. That all changed with this initiative – largely as a result of the hard work of the Chinese lead consultant for this project, and his identification of the opportunities, and his vision of what could be achieved.
Along with Coordinating things on the Canadian side within the Government of Canada, and with the Canadian fisheries, aquaculture, and aquatic technology sectors, Mr. Connors worked closely with Mr. Fan Chen, who was contracted by the Government of Canada as the lead consultant to develop, and execute this important initiative. Mr. Chen, and his project team, set up everything in China for the initiative. Mr. Connors role was important in this initiative but it was Mr. Chen who was the relentless driving force that made things happen in this initiative, breaking down barriers and opening the doors, and without him the success that was achieved would not have been possible.
Fan Chen’s Senior Partner with Uniquantum: Mr. Mingchen Zhou, the Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of COFCO, is an extraordinarily experienced and accomplished business executive with a profound understanding of what’s required for successful business operations with, and in, China, for doing business with Chinese companies, and for selling to China.
China National Cereals and Oilseed Company (COFCO) which Mingchen Zhou is the former Chairman and Executive Officer of, is no ordinary Chinese company. A member of the Fortune 500 as one of the World’s 500 Greatest Enterprises, COFCO is China’s largest food manufacturer, processor and trader; and is one of the world’s largest and most powerful business conglomerates. COFCO is involved in all aspects of the food production business from planting and livestock raising, to slaughtering and processing, to large scale consumer retail food sales in China through both its own retail sales stores and its own food e-commerce platform (womai.com) which is one of China’s major online food retailers.
COFCO produces, processes, buys and trades internationally (imports): dairy, beef, pork, poultry, grains and cereals products in extraordinarily large amounts.
COFCO owns the Greatwall Brand of Wine which produces wines in its wineries around the world and the COFCO subsidiary COFCO Wine and Spirits is one of Chinas largest Importers of wine, beer, and spirits.
COFCO’s womai.com, China’s first large-scale consumer-oriented online food retailer, is characterized by its selection of high-quality fresh fruits and vegetables, imported foods, and private-label products, becoming the preferred online food shopping center for emerging middle-class families.
WOMAI.COM continues to vigorously simplify its supply chain at home and abroad to meet consumers’ needs. WOMAI.COM has as an objective to create flat channels that run straight from overseas origin to consumers in China. With the help of COFCO’s Imported Food Marketing Platform and global supply chain, WOMAI.COM continues to strengthen its competitive edge in non-standard global products purchasing. WOMAI.COM’s private-label products architecture is becoming more comprehensive, with a variety of categories such as fresh fruits and vegetables, grain and oil, snacks, dairy products, and tea as well as other beverages.
To give an idea of how large and successful COFCO is, COFCO owns Menghu Dairy which itself is one of the World’s 20 largest Dairy Suppliers.
The COFCO conglomerate also has a major resort hotel and tourism business, a large scale real estate development business, a major textile production business, and shipping and logistics companies.
Mr. Zhou currently holds senior advisory positions with a number of China National Industry Associations including the China Trademark Association, China Grain Association, and the China Green Foods Association.
Mr. Zhou also has more than ten years of investment and management expertise in the realms of consumer goods and financial services and has made corporate investments into more than 20 leading Chinese companies.
From 1999 to 2017, Mr. Chen and Mr. Zhou between them have sourced financing and invested into more than 30 leading Chinese companies. These corporate investments included:
- COFCO Coca Cola (the China Joint Venture Company co-owned by COFCO and Coca Cola)
http://www.cofco.com/en/BrandProduct/COFCOCocaCola/
With COFCO owning 65% share and Coca-Cola 35% share, COFCO Coca-Cola Beverage Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as COFCO Coca-Cola) is a partnership between COFCO and the Coca-Cola Company, and is the only Coca-Cola bottling group held by Chinese partner in China. As one of the fastest growing Coca-Cola bottling groups, COFCO Coca-Cola has successfully entered and kept its position in the world’s top 10 Coca-Coca bottlers just 10 years after its foundation.
COFCO Coca-Cola’s main business involves production, distribution, promotion, and sale of Coca-Cola products and Chinese brand products, providing consumers with soft drinks, fruit juices, fruit milks, water, coffee, tea and functional drinks etc., covering 8 large categories and 17 brands. - Greatwall Wine
Greatwall Wine is COFCO’s Wine Production Company with wineries around the world.
COFCO Wine and Spirits, the specialized platform for COFCO’s liquor business, is the majority owner of Greatwall Wine. COFCO Wine and Spirits was the producer of the first bottled wine in the People’s Republic of China, and aims to become China’s most valuable international wine and spirits company with strong brand influence and abundant product mix. - Sina.com
With more than 85 million users per day and over 2 billion daily page views, SINA is the most recognized internet brand name among Chinese communities globally. SINA’s portal network consists of four destination websites dedicated to the Chinese communities across the globe: Mainland China (www.sina.com.cn), Taiwan (www.sina.com.tw), Hong Kong (www.sina.com.hk), and overseas Chinese in North America (www.sina.com). - Xibei North-West Food
A major food company based in the Xibei Region of China. - COFCO TUHNE
http://www.cofco.com/en/BrandProduct/COFCOTunhe/
COFCO TUHNE is engaged in domestic chinese and international sugar production, imports, refining, sales & trade, warehouse & logistics, and tomato products manufacturing. In terms of imports and refining, COFCO Sugar’s import volume accounts for about 50% of China’s total sugar import volume. With 1.5 million tons of refining capacity at the port, COFCO sugar’s oversea sugar resources are well situated for the domestic market. - Shimao Property
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimao_Property
The Shimao Property Group develops large-scale residential projects, hotels, and other commercial buildings in prime locations, and it is one of the largest property developers in the People's Republic of China. - Greentown Property (China)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greentown_China
Greentown China is one of the largest property developers in China and the largest property developer in Zheijiang Province. - SOHO China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOHO_China
SOHO China is the largest Premier Office Real Estate Development Company in China. - Sino-Ocean Property
Sino-Ocean Property is one of China’s major Real Estate Development Companies. - Dong Feng Autos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongfeng_Motor_Corporation
Dong Feng Autos is one of China’s Big Three Automakers. - Giant Interactive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Interactive
Giant Interactive is one of the largest online game developers and operators in China. - Beifa Stationary
http://www.beifa.com/en/about.php?gid=0
Beifa Stationary is the #1 Stationary Company in China, and one of the top 8 in the world.
Uniquantum Investment Ltd.