Team
Adam M. Roseman — Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Prior to ARC China, Mr. Roseman served as a member of Lehman Brothers’ Investment Banking Group and the Mergers & Acquisitions practice of Barrington Associates. He has executed investment banking transactions in numerous industries, including traditional and clean energy, media and hospitality, technology, consumer products, e-Commerce, business services, manufacturing and telecommunications. He also is an Advisory Board Member of US Doctors for Africa and the American Democracy Institute, a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, the Board of Governors of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles and is an active supporter of various other charitable and political organizations. Mr. Roseman was listed by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of LA’s top 20 entrepreneurs in their 20s.
Barry Freeman — Managing Director
Prior to joining ARC China, Mr. Freeman was a Vice President at Knight Capital Group (NASDAQ: NITE) in New York. He was a member of the Capital Markets Group raising growth capital for private and public companies. At Knight, he focused on cross border transactions with Chinese companies and completed over $100 million in equity and equity linked transactions over a three- year period. Prior to Knight, Mr. Freeman was a Vice President at HPC Capital Management in New York, focusing on direct investments in public companies.
Mengjiao Jiang — Managing Director
Prior to joining ARC China, Ms. Jiang was an Associate Director at Business Development Asia (Shanghai) where she executed numerous Joint Venture, Acquisition and Divestiture transactions in the chemical, fast-moving consumer goods, and manufacturing sectors in Asia, focusing on China. Ms. Jiang started her career at UBS Investment Bank in New York, where she worked on origination and execution of M&A , IPO, Debt and Equity issuances.
Ivan Chang — Managing Director
Prior to joining ARC China, Mr. Chang was the CEO of a financial consulting company, SpringLegend, in ChengDu City, Sichuan Province China specialize in assisting China companies to restructure and M&A. Prior to SpringLegend, he was a Vice President of business development in HimaSoft in Guangzhou City China, where he was primarily engaged in M&A and fund raising. He is a member of Taiwanese Investment and Business Association ChengDu.
Jason Lyons — Senior Advisor
Prior to joining ARC China, Mr. Lyons was Chairman of Lyons Capital, LLC, a strategic consulting firm based in Boca Raton, Florida that has worked with over 100 public and private companies, helping them develop investor relations and business development strategies. Mr. Lyons has served as an executive or senior Investment banker over the last 20 years with several major financial firms including Bear Stearns, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Oppenheimer and Co., and Sunrise Securities. Mr. Lyons also worked with senior management in professional sports when he was an executive with the Baltimore Orioles organization.
Toby Moskovits — Senior Advisor
In addition to her role advising ARC China, Ms. Moskovits founded Heritage Equity Partners, a family office private equity advisory firm, building on her work leading the direct investment activities of Cammeby’s, a NYC-based family owned investment company. Ms. Moskovits has executed on transactions in the software, telecom, cleantech, medical device and drug development industries and is also the founder of Gotham Angels, a NYC-based investment group focused on mature growth and middle market private equity opportunities. She currently sits on the board of directors of Melior Discovery and is a member of the national advisory board of Springboard Enterprises, a non-profit that supports women in accessing the equity markets and has helped women-owned enterprises raise $5 billion in capital over the past ten years. In October 2009 Ms. Moskovits served as the Chairman of Springboard’s fundraising dinner which was held at the American Stock Exchange.
Stefan Müller — Senior Advisor
In addition to his role advising ARC China, Stefan Müller is a member of the Executive board of FIB Frankfurter Investmentbank AG, a German-listed Bank focused on asset management, brokerage, M&A and corporate finance (www.fib.ag). Mr. Müller is responsible for asset management and brokerage at FIB. Prior to this, Mr. Müller was joint owner of Proprietary Partners AG, a Swiss portfolio and fund management company. Mr. Müller started his banking career at Dresdner Bank in Düsseldorf and joined their Investment Banking Unit Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in Frankfurt as a Proprietary Trader, responsible for their world wide equity activities in growth and emerging markets. He then joined equinet AG as head of trading and moved in 2003 to Sal Oppenheim, at that time Europe’s largest private owned bank as head of Trading. During his time in these banks he executed more than 100 IPOs and capital increases. Stefan is frequently guest on CNBC and BLOOMBERG and a member of both the supervisory board of Agrarius AG and the investment committee of Freudstein GmbH.
Danqing Zhang — Venture Partner
Prior to joining ARC China as a Venture Partner, Danqing Zhang was employed for 18 years by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), China’s largest organization dedicated to promoting investment and trade in the country. During her lengthy career at CCPIT, Danqing served as the organization’s Representative to the United States, General Manger of International Business Consulting for China International Economic and Technical Cooperation Consultants, Inc., and Director of Business Consulting for the Economic Information Department. She is significantly experienced in strategic planning and has extensive networks of corporate and government relations. She has won numerous awards globally for her accomplishments in helping Chinese and foreign companies develop partnerships focused on investment, trade and technology exchanges.
Alan Chen — Senior Vice President
Prior to joining ARC China, Mr. Chen worked as a manager at Wisdom Capital Group (Shanghai), where he executed numerous private placement and investment transactions in the new technology, media and medicine in China. Mr. Chen also helped lots of companies with a wide range of corporate financing services. He has a rich experience in project management and development. Mr. Chen led and participate in private financing and enlisting overseas or domestic of some enterprises, is familiar with mainland, HK, US and other overseas capital market. Prior to joining Wisdom, Mr. Chen was an analyst at several securities companies including Gangao and Haitong, focusing on analyzing stock market trends and public companies foundation sectors and conducting the client to invest. Because of his expertise in stock investment, he used to be a special writer for many financial newspapers and magazines. Mr. Chen also is a member of Chinese CPA Association.
Kevin Kong – Senior Vice President
Prior to joining ARC China, Mr. Kong served as Vice President and General Counsel of Spreadtrum Communications Limited (NASDAQ: SPRD) and ASAT Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: ASTT). He focused on strategic acquisitions, legal risk management, debt financing, company operations, corporate governance and SEC compliance. Prior to his experience at publicly listed companies, Mr. Kong was a corporate attorney at international law firms in New York and Shanghai. Mr. Kong holds a J.D. from Cornell Law School and a B.A. with honors from Columbia University.
Martin Key — Vice President
Prior to joining ARC China, Mr. Key was an investment banker in the Syndicated and Leveraged Finance Group at JPMorgan in New York, where he was primarily engaged in structuring debt financing for investment grade healthcare, consumer products, and financial services companies. He executed more than eighty revolving credit, term loan, and investment grade bond transactions totaling over $115 billion. He holds an MBA degree from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, an MS in Finance degree from Boston College, and a BS in Business Administration degree from the University of South Carolina.
Mike Ren — Vice President
Prior to joining ARC China, Mr. Ren was an investment banker at Cappello Capital in Los Angeles, where he executed cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private placement transactions. Previously he focused on buyout investments at Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity, upon completion of the investment banking training program at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Ren began his investment career in venture capital at Apax Partners in New York, as assistant to chairman investing in early-stage technology companies. He attended Columbia University and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Lesley Jin — Senior Associate
Former senior consultant at Ernst & Young where she undertook a variety of tax and business development advisories as well as due diligence in the manufacturing and fast-moving consumer goods sectors. Ms. Jin started her career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers where she conducted various auditing projects in the energy, chemical, manufacturing and fast-moving consumer goods sectors. Her major clients include PetroChina, Exxon Mobil, Honeywell, Hamersley, Cummins and DuPont. Ms. Jin is a member of Chinese CPA Association.
Eric Shen – Associate
Prior to joining ARC China, Mr. Shen worked as manager at Think bridge Business Consulting, where he executed various due diligence and financial consulting projects for many well -established venture capitals and private equities in retailing, new energy, health care and TMT in China. Previously he was a senior auditor at Ernst & Young where he conducted numerous auditing projects in manufacturing, finance, consumable products and real estate sectors. Mr. Shen is a CFA Charter holder and a member of Chinese CPA Association.