GREATER CHINA CORPORATION
Programs and Projects - 4Q 2011
Greater China Corporation ("GCC") is composed of a global network of successful entrepreneurs and investors and influential leaders in the business, academic, government and cultural communities. Our primary mission is to construct successful business ventures in and with China.
A sample of current programs and projects is as follows:
Programs
China Investment Group LLC (www.chinainvestmentgroupllc.com) The China Investment Group (CIG) is composed of individual investors who meet monthly in New York City to discuss investment opportunities and to listen to important speakers. Many of the members of CIG are GCC Partners and shareholders including CIG President, Harry Edelson. Mr. Edelson is one of the world's leading VCs having run five funds for ATT, 3M, Asea Brown Bovari, Ford and other major companies. His annualized return on these funds was over 27%, the top of all peer VCs. He has been the first investor in 11 companies whose market cap has grown to $1 billion to over $40 billion. Some of his most successful ventures have been in China.
Chinese Cultural Foundation (www.chineseculturalfoundation.org) The Chinese Cultural Foundation (CCF) conducts high-level cultural events in China, the US and elsewhere. It has hosted gala events at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with the World Economic Forum, at the Palace of Versailles in France for the first World Cultural Symposium and numerous events in NYC at the UN, leading banks and in conjunction with global conferences. The founder and President, Elizabeth Wang was China's national dance champion before receiving her Masters in Art Management from the University of London. She is a GCC Partner and major shareholder. CCF provides personal access for GCC Partners to some of China's top business, political and cultural leaders.
AIESEC in China (www.AIESEC.org) AIESEC is the world's largest student run organization with operations in more than 110 countries. AIESEC in China was started with the support of many of GCC's shareholders and seed capital was provided by the Starr Foundation (AIG) and Spencer Foundation (Jack Wadsworth, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia). AIESEC in China is now the largest and fastest growing AIESEC member country. GCC has direct access to the top AIESEC students and graduates for employment in its various projects.
Conferences Current conferences with Greater China Corporation participation:
US-China Innovation and Cooperation Conference, NYC October 30-31, 2011.
This conference is being hosted by Daxi Li, President of the Chinese Association of Science and Business (CASB) and a GCC Partner and shareholder. Two other GCC partners are participating as speakers and all partners have received a free invitation. The conference includes a diner cruise on the Hudson, a private meeting with the Mayor of Shenzhen, Mr. Xu Qing, at the St. Regis Hotel and meeting with the featured speaker, Mr. Cheng Siwei, one of China's top leaders. Mr. Cheng is Vice Chairman of the 10th NPC Standing Committee of China and is widely known as the “Father of Venture Capital in China”. He will deliver a much-anticipated speech entitled The Lessons China Learned from the World Financial Crisis, analyzing the Chinese equivalent of subprime mortgages and concerns about the solvency of local governments.
Silicon Dragon Shanghai, Portman Ritz-Carleton, Shanghai, November 7, 2011.
(http://siliconasiainvest.com/SiliconDragonShanghai2011.aspx) This conference brings together top VC's and entrepreneurs from both China and the US. Rebecca Fannin, founder of the Silicon Dragon conferences is author of Silicon Dragon & Startup Asia and a frequent writer for Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. All GCC partners have been provided with a free invitation to this and other Silicon Dragon conferences.
Womensphere Pan-European Summit, "Creating the Future" October 21, 2011, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. ( http://www.womensphere-europesummit.com). This conference is a gathering of influential women leaders in business, finance, media, entrepreneurship and technology. The focus is on women's leadership, innovation, ventures, economics and sustainability. A number of GCC Partners have been participants and advisors to Womensphere and GCC will be taking an active roll in introducing successful Chinese and other Asian women entrepreneurs to Womensphere's growing global network
Global China Business Meeting, Valencia, Spain, November 7-8, 2011. This is the 7th annual Global China Business Meeting which brings together over 400 leaders from the European, American, Asian and Latin American business communities. It is one of Europe's most important gatherings for people doing business in and with China. Two Greater China Partners are scheduled to speak including Mr. Charles Tang, President of the Brazil-China Chamber of Commerce. Another keynote speaker is Mr. Ronnie Chan, Chairman, Hang Lung Properties, Hong Kong.
Projects A partial list of projects currently being developed by Greater China and its Partners:
Anna Hu Haute Joaillerie. Anna Hu is China's top young jewelry designer with growing international recognition. An initial gallery is located in NYC at the Plaza Hotel with another opening at the Peninsula Hotel in Shanghai in December, 2011 and at the Mandarin Oriental in Taipei in 2011. This is expected to become an extremely lucrative business as China and other Asian countries gain wealth along with increasing demand for luxury items. GCC is helping to structure and finance the company with a proposed significant equity position.
Spring Trading is a new derivatives trading platform that capitalizes on current changes in the $700 trillion global derivatives market. GCC has been asked to help develop the business in both the U.S. and Asia and to develop a Business Plan. This is a hugely profitable business with no capital risks since it processes rather than invests in derivative contracts. GCC is contemplating having a major position in the company's US and Asian operations.
Asian Hospitality Company. GCC has an ongoing interest in a proposed resort development and casino in Vietnam. One of our Partners has now introduced another casino property in Taiwan. These opportunities will enable us to involve others with whom we have already developed strong relationships including: Chuck Johnson (founder of Franklin-Templeton Funds), Steve Wynn of Wynn casinos, Herbert Pleissnig (top hotel and hospitality guru) and development partners from Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan and China. As a founder in this company, GCC will have a substantial equity position.
Greater China Art Fund GCC has been researching this for some time but now the Asian art market has come into its own and the timing is right. The business model is to acquire art and other valuable objects that can then be sold, leased and sub-leased to collectors, galleries and companies. The plan is to become a publicly traded company so that art works can also be acquired through an exchange of stock to achieve liquidity. GCC has a number of important collectors, artists, galleries, and art and financial professionals who have expressed interest in being partners in this endeavor in which GCC will have a major founding stake.
Technology Development Fund Some of GCC's largest Partner/Shareholders are proposing a major fund for developing new medical, environmental, "cloud computing", food, natural resource and other technologies in and with China and other emerging markets. GCC is employing the expertise of its subsidiary, Turtlesnap Ventures, to ensure that these entities are well researched and developed correctily from the beginning. This fund is being designed to be of interest to Sovereign Wealth Funds who want to diversify their holdings while contributing to the development of highly profitable new technologies with associated social benefits.
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