Our People

Mr. Sun is TPG’s Managing Partner for China. Prior to joining TPG, he was chairman and founder of Black Soil Group, an agriculture investment holding company. From 1995 to 2015, Mr. Sun was a partner at Warburg Pincus Asia and served as chairman of Asia Pacific for the firm and a member of the firm’s Executive Management Group. Mr. Sun has also worked as an Executive Director in the Investment Banking Division and the Principal Investment Area of Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C., at Lepercq, de Neuflize & Co as an investment banking associate, and at the United Nations as a translator.  Mr. Sun holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Beijing Foreign Studies University and a joint degree of MA/MBA from the Joseph Lauder Institute of International Management and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Sun is the founder and current honorary Chairman of the China Venture Capital Association (CVCA) and the founder and current Executive Vice Chairman the China Real Estate Developers and Investors’ Association (CREDIA). He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Lauder Institute at the Wharton School, and a board member of the China Entrepreneurs Club (CEC).

Dong Tao is a Managing Director and the Vice Chairman Greater China for Credit Suisse Private Banking Asia Pacific. Dr. Tao was ranked #1 in First Business News Survey and was highly regarded by investors worldwide. He has published more than ten books in his careers. Dr. Tao joined Credit Suisse in 1998 as the Chief Regional Economist for non-Japan Asia, with a focus on China. He moved from investment bank to private bank in July 2016. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, he was with Schroders Securities Asia as Senior Regional Economist and Head of China research. Dr. Tao holds a Ph.D. degree and a M.Sc. degree from University of Utah and B.A. from Beijing Foreign Language University. He worked in China, the US and Japan. He has been based in Hong Kong since 1994.

John Wood is the Hong Kong-based Founder of Room to Read, the world’s most impactful NGO for developing world education. The organization has raised US$650 million and brought education programs to over 23 million children in 18 low-income countries. Prior to Room to Read, he held numerous senior roles at Microsoft, including Director of Marketing for the Asia Pacific region and Director of Business Development for the Greater China region.  Mr. Wood is currently the Asia Partner for Concentric Equity, a US$2 billion Chicago-based family office.  He serves on the Boards of Singapore-based technology private equity firm Asia Partners and is a founding member of the Advisory Board of XA – a group of over 100 “big tech” alumni who have made over 30 active investments in ASEAN-focused technology start-ups.  He was a four-term Advisory Board member of the Clinton Global Initiative and was chosen for the inaugural class of Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum. Mr. Wood graduated with highest honours from the University of Colorado, did his MBA at the Kellogg School of Northwestern University and has been awarded honorary PhD’s by four universities, including McGill and the University of San Francisco.

Mr. Ng is the Chief Financial Officer of the Lee Kum Kee Group, a leading consumer products enterprise founded in 1888. Prior to joining the Lee Kum Kee Group, he was the Managing Partner of the Asia investment arm of a substantial Swiss family office. During his thirteen years there, he was responsible for the firm’s Asia investments in private equity, public equities, bonds and properties. Mr. Ng began his career in the financial advisory team of PwC New York. He later joined Lehman Brothers’ investment banking team in Hong Kong. Between 2000 and 2006, he was a senior corporate finance executive at  Hutchison Port Holdings and tasked with setting up its strategic planning department. He holds B.S. Business Administration and Master of Accounting degree from the University of North Carolina, and serves on the Chancellor’s Global Leadership Council. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Executive Education program (PLD). Mr. Ng has been a supporter of Green Monday since inception. He has served in an advisory capacity to various parts of Green Monday since 2016.