Primary Job Title Group President Primary Organization Shanda Group
Location Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC) Gender Male
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Robert is the President of Shanda Group, tasked with managerial responsibilities of all business units with a particular focus on heading the Group’s private equity and venture capital investments globally. He is also deeply involved in the Group’s philanthropic efforts. Robert, with more than 20 years of international experience and sound track
record in technology, finance and investment banking, and Internet industries; has played a critical role in Shanda Group’s transformation since 2012.
In addition to being the Group President, Robert also served as the Chairman and CEO of Cloudary Corporation, the world’s largest Chinese-language original content platform, which has been acquired by a consortium led by Tencent and Carlyle in late 2014. In his current capacity, Robert has been widely recognized for having built an innovative, IP-centric, and big data digital platform that has successfully converted online literary content into many popular TV dramas, movies, animation films, published books, and online and mobile games.
Prior to Shanda, Robert served as Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific TMT Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Furthermore, Robert has held several senior management positions in other renowned financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Nomura at their New York, Menlo Park and Hong Kong offices. Robert began his career at IBM in 1992.
Robert was awarded the 2014 Economic Leader of China by China Economic Development Forum. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of Copyright Society of the People’s Republic of China.
Robert earned his Master of Management degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, with a Fulbright scholarship.
