Investment Team | Innovation Works

	Hua Wang, Founder & Managing Partner Hua is a graduate of Stanford University with a Masters in Business Administration. Previously, Hua served as Google China’s Head of Business Development from 2006 until late 2009, where he built Google China’s premium ad network in the domestic market from scratch into an $80 million annual run-rate business. While at Google China, Hua also managed Google China’s portfolio of investments, including well-established Chinese internet companies such as Dianping, Ganji, Tianya, Xunlei, Maxthon, and others.Prior to Google China, Hua co-founded and managed Shanghai Yinda Technology, an engineering consulting company offering mobile telecom network planning and optimization services. During his tenure the company grew from 1 to 100 employees and to $15 million in sales by 2008.
	Chris Evdemon, Partner Chris Evdemon joined Innovation Works in 2009 as the General Manager of Incubation Programs and Investor Relations. Mr. Evdemon has 12 years of “hands on” entrepreneurial and angel investments experience, primarily in IT. From 2008 through late 2009 he was a Managing Partner at Eastern Bell Venture Capital. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Evdemon served as the CEO of ICDL Asia Pacific Ltd., an organization in the computer skills certification sector with operations in over 25 Asian countries, which he helped turnaround and relocate to Singapore. Prior to coming to Asia, he co-founded and managed ECDL Hellas S.A. in Athens, Greece, which by its third fiscal year had reached $10 million in revenues and $2 million in net profit. Mr. Evdemon is an active angel investor with a portfolio of angel investments in Mainland China as well as in Singapore, a Director of the Business Angel Network South-East Asia (BANSEA) as well as a Founding Member of the China Business Angels Network (CBAN). He holds a Masters in Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College in London and a Masters in Business Administration from INSEAD.
	Christine Lang, Partner Christine Lang has more than 10 years of investment and industry research experience in the Chinese TMT space. Prior to joining IWDF, she acted as Research Director / Consulting Director and Assistant President at Analysys International, a leading TMT research and consulting firm in the Mainland China market. Ms. Lang has led a number of strategic consulting projects for top-notch investment and TMT companies including Morgan Stanley, MIH, Warburg Pincus, WR Hambrecht, China Mobile, China Telecom, Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Tencent and Baidu. She has also previously worked for UNIDO UK as Head of Projects and earlier on she was Beijing’s Section Manager for Fuhwa Securities. Ms. Lang sits on the Marketing and Sales committee of the Internet Society of China (ISC). She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Beijing University of Technology and a Masters in Business Administration from Peking University.
	John Qiu, Partner John Qiu joined IWDF as a Partner, responsible for early stage investments and portfolio company management. Mr. Qiu has 15 years of experience in China’s TMT industry, as an early stage investor, a veteran entrepreneur, a management consultant, as well as a multinational IT company executive. From early 2007 to recently, Mr. Qiu was Morningside China TMT Venture Fund’s Beijing office head. From the portfolio companies with Morningside under his direct supervision, one has exceeded $1 billion valuation and three have exceeded $100 million valuation. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Qiu was a senior management consultant with McKinsey. Mr. Qiu was also the founder of two Internet startups, one in 2000 and another in 2006. The latter one made $1.5 million net profit in 2010. Mr. Qiu also spent 5 years with Hewlett-Packard China as the Sales GM of Financial Industry. Mr. Qiu is the Vice General Secretary of Tsinghua Alumni Investment Committee (The House). He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Tsinghua University.
	Peter Fang, Investment Director Peter Fang joined IWDF in mid-2011 as Investment Director, with more than a decade’s hands-on operational experience as a senior executive in the Internet, e-commerce, electronic payment and financial services industries in China. Prior to IWDF, from 2005 to early 2011, Mr. Fang was General Manager – Beijing operations of 99Bill.com, China’s leading independent electronic payment and clearance service provider. Mr. Fang was responsible for setting up the Beijing branch and oversaw it growing to a 150-strong operation and the biggest revenue and merchant base contributor for the company. Mr. Fang was also responsible for expanding and maintaining a long list of strategic partners and merchants, including industry-leading companies such as Baidu, New Oriental Education, Dangdang, 360Buy, Skype, Sohu, Perfect World, etc. Before joining 99Bill.com, Mr. Fang had worked as a senior consultant specializing in China’s Internet and IT fields. From 2000 to 2003, he was Business Development Director at NetEase (Nasdaq: NTES), overseeing partnerships with Google, DoubleClick, Dell and leading content providers including Reuters, AFP, Dow Jones and Gettyimages. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Fang was Editor-in-Chief of NetEase.com and built the foundation of NetEase’s Web content offerings. Mr. Fang holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the Beijing University of Technology.
	Michael Zhang, Investment Director Michael Zhang serves as an Investment Director at IW and IWDF; he has been with the team since the founding of IW and has been “responsible” for sourcing some of the most exciting companies from the current portfolio. Mr. Zhang was a top technology reporter in China, and was the Assistant Editor-in-Chief for the Global Entrepreneur magazine. As a technology reporter, he has interviewed more than 500 entrepreneurs, executives and investors, including Warren Buffett, Ka-shing Li, Lou Gerstner, Jamie Dimon, and John Doerr. This work experience has helped him to build an extensive network as well as relationships with an impressive number of “grass-roots” Chinese technology start-ups and entrepreneurs. Mr. Zhang also co-founded Apple4.us and DaCode.com, both became successful business ventures. He has graduated from the Central University of Finance and Economics with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics.
	Benjamin Qiu, Senior Counsel and Fund Manager Benjamin Qiu is currently Senior Counsel and Fund Manager for IWDF. Prior to joining IW, Mr. Qiu was an attorney with Lovells LLP (now Hogan Lovells). He has over 7 years of experience in intellectual property law and corporate law in China and the United States. He has extensively practiced IP litigation, patent and trademark portfolio building, licensing, corporate due diligence, and negotiations. In private practice, he represented Chinese and international clients including electronics companies, venture capital, and consumer goods companies. Mr. Qiu holds a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law and a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Webster University, and is a registered attorney of the State of California.