Jingjing Xu

Dr. Jingjing Xu is Managing Partner of Meridian Century Holdings and CEO of China Partners Management Alliance Holdings. Dr. Xu’s career has spanned both finance and legal professions in the U.S. and China. With two decades of the trans-Pacific experience as policy consultant for the Chinese Central Government, US transaction attorney, investment banker and venture capital fund of funds manager, Dr. Xu has worked extensively with Chinese government regulators and corporations, Wall Street institutional investors and venture capital funds focused on IT and telecom.

Prior to 2005, Dr. Xu was a Managing Director of Global Financial Group, a venture capital fund of funds management company with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. She served as Director of Global Telecommunications and Investment Group, LLC, an investment-banking group that has completed over $5 billion in financing of telecom projects in emerging markets. From 1992 to 1999, Dr. Xu was a lead attorney and Managing Director of the Asia-China Transaction Practice of Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP, a law firm headquartered in San Francisco, directly responsible for the development of energy, IT and telecom, healthcare and industrial projects in Asia with project capitalization over $2.7 billion. During the mid-1990s, Dr. Xu was selected to sit on the International Arbitration Panel of Shandong Provincial Chapter of China International Trade Promotion Council, the Chinese national arbitration agency for international trade and business disputes.

Dr. Xu serves as Senior International Advisor to several Chinese cities and economic development zones, including Foreign Investment Council of Dongguan Municipal Government, Guangdong Province, where one third of China’s IT product export to the US and Europe is made; Yangpu Development Zone of Hainan Province (the largest offshore economic zone in China); Jinan State High and New Technology Development Zone and Municipal Government of Jinan, Shandong Province. Dr. Xu is appointed the Co-Executive Director of Beijing International University Park Task Force led by the Beijing Municipal Government. She is working with the Beijing 2008 Olympic Committee on the digital infrastructure and performing arts sections for the 2008 Olympic Games.

Among California Chinese American professional and community organizations Dr. Xu has been actively involved or sitting on the Board, such as, Founding President of Chinese American Cooperation Council, Chinese Professionals and Business League in California (former Vice President), Chinese American IT Technology Association headquartered in Silicon Valley, Association of Chinese Finance Professionals headquartered in San Francisco, and San Francisco-Shanghai Sister City Program. She is a frequent featured speaker on trans-Pacific investments in the venues organized by the World Bank, IFC, US Department of Commerce, Institutional Investors Journal (New York), Asian Venture Capital Journal, China Venture Capital Forum and other international private equity groups.

Dr. Xu graduated from Beijing University at the age of 19. She was awarded the Ford Foundation Scholarship by the Institute of International Education in New York to come to the US in 1987, to take courses at the campuses of the University of California (Davis and Berkeley). She received her Ph.D. in International Political Economy and U.S. Government and Judicial Systems from the University of California (Davis).

Jessie Wang

Jessie Wang has been a key volunteer of CACC Finance Team and many CACC

events since 2003. She prepares financial statements, files tax returns and is

involved in setting financial policies for CACC for the past four years. As a

seasoned CPA and controller of a public company, she is experienced in SEC

reporting, tax and financial planning and analysis. She got her MBA from Cal State

Hayward and her B.S. in Management Science from Fudan University.

She is enthusiastic to continue to utilize her accounting knowledge to make CACC

a financially sustainable and transparent nonprofit organization.

Dennis Zhang

Dr. Zhang is an active volunteer and participant at community services, particularly at CACC since its inception in 2003. Dennis holds a B.S. degree from the Ocean University of China and has an MBA in Finance and a Ph.D. in Biology, both from the University of Texas at Austin. He served as the President of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association at the University of Texas at Austin in the mid to late 90’s. Dennis is currently working at Washington Mutual Bank as a First Vice President.