Board Members
GRC SinoGreen (Beijing & Taipei)
Grand River Capital Management Co., Ltd, a Greater China based venture capital private equity fund, was established in 2005 by a group of senior venture capital investment executives. The management team includes former Chairman and President of First Commercial Bank of Taiwan, former Head of Corporate Investment of Quanta Group, Managing Director of WK Technology Fund, President of Industrial Technology Investment Corporation, Founder of Sinova Capital Limited, and renowned author and Co-Founder of JL McGregor & Company. Grand River Capital Management Co., Ltd has more than $200 million in assets with allocation distributed across various sectors – technology, renewable energy, energy efficiency, flat panel display, telecommunication infrastructure and retail and services. Grand River Capital Management Co., Ltd has two offices in Beijing and Taipei.
GRC’s vision for the SinoGreen Fund is to operate at the nexus of the global financial services industries with a specific focus in integrating China’s cleantech market opportunities to other nations’ technology innovation; to capitalize on significant long-term trends across capital markets; to sponsor and manage investment products capable of generating sustained and attractive risk-adjusted returns through economic cycles and to attract a talent pool capable of building the next generation of businesses.
IDFC Private Equity (Mumbai)
IDFC Private Equity focuses on long-term private equity investment opportunities and also invests in listed equities in certain circumstances. The objective is to achieve attractive returns by providing equity risk capital to early stage and rapidly growing infrastructure focused companies.
Olympus Capital Holdings (Hong Kong)
Olympus Capital Holdings Asia is a leading independent middle market private equity firm. Since its establishment in 1997, Olympus Capital has invested approximately $1.3 billion on behalf of its investors in over 30 portfolio companies throughout Asia, including China, India, Japan and South Korea.
Olympus Capital’s target industries include agribusiness/food, business services, environmental services/renewable energy, financial services, manufacturing and natural resources. Olympus Capital has a team of experienced investment professionals located in offices in Hong Kong, New Delhi, New York, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Qiming Venture Partners (Shanghai)
Qiming is a premier venture capital firm located in Shanghai. Qiming invests in high growth companies across China in the technology, communications, media, healthcare and other sectors. The Qiming team – along with its U.S. partner, Ignition Partners – brings together a long term commitment to and established track record of success investing in China with decades of executive experience and relationships at some of the leading companies in China and the world. This unique combination of access, proven insight and global resources is all focused on helping Chinese entrepreneurs gain the advantage they need to build great companies and achieve lasting success.
Praj Industries (Pune)
Praj is a global Indian company that offers innovative solutions to significantly add value in bio-ethanol, alcohol, brewery plants, process equipment and water and wastewater treatment systems for customers, worldwide. Praj is a knowledge based company with expertise and experience in Bioprocesses and engineering. It has one of the largest resource bases in the industry with over 450 references across all five continents. Led by an accomplished and caring leadership, Praj is a socially responsible corporate citizen. Praj, which is the founding member of Global Growth Companies (part of World Economic Forum), is listed on the Bombay and National Stock Exchanges of India.
RockPort Capital Partners (Boston)
RockPort Capital Partners is a leading venture capital firm partnering with clean tech entrepreneurs around the world to build innovative companies and bring disruptive technologies and products to the 21st century. RockPort’s investment approach is distinguished by collaboration with management teams to foster growth and create value. Combining domain expertise with policy and international experience, RockPort has a proven track record of leveraging its insights and networks to foster growth and create value.
Samho Green Investment (Seoul)
Founded in 2007, SGI is the first and only venture capital firm in Korea focused on the clean growth sector, including renewable energy, green and agricultural technologies. We engage in venture capital and private equity investments for mergers & acquisitions and buyouts, and conduct business as well as engineering consulting for our portfolio and client companies.
Our investment focus areas are Cleantech, including green technology (Greentech) commercialization, green infrastructure and agricultural technologies (Agritech), as well as early-stage project development. We have an experienced team of in-house Cleantech specialists and an extensive domestic and international Cleantech network, which assists us in deal sourcing, value creation and exit management.
SGI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samho Development Group, a Korean conglomerate operating since 1976, comprised of Samho Development Co., Ltd. (KRX-listed), Samho Resources, Inc.,
Suzlon Green Power Limited
Tata Power (Mumbai)
Tata Power is India’s largest integrated private power company with consolidated revenues of Rs. 19450.76 Crores for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011. Inspired by a powerful vision, the founders of Tata Power pioneered the generation of electricity in India with the commissioning of India’s first large hydro-electric project in 1915. Today, Tata Power has an installed generating capacity of 3120 MW and a presence across the entire value chain in generation (thermal, hydro, solar and wind) transmission, distribution and trading. The Company has emerged as a pioneer in the Indian power sector, with a track record for performance and has been a frontrunner in introducing state-of-the-art power technologies. Among its achievements, the Company has to its credit the installation of India’s first 500 MW unit at Trombay, the first 150 MW pumped storage unit at Bhira, a Flue Gas De-sulphurization plant for pollution control at Trombay and is now bringing the first 800 MW super-critical unit at Mundra, Gujarat.
Tsing Capital (Beijing)
Established in 2001, Tsing Capital is the fund manager of China Environment Fund. With its affiliation to the distinguished Tsinghua University through Tsinghua Holdings, Tsing Capital utilizes local management plus international capital and technology to maximize financial returns while achieving important environmental and social benefits. Tsing Capital has built a successful track record with strong expertise to become the pioneer and leader in Cleantech investment in China, and has been recognized via a series of distinguished awards, including the 2008 Corporate Citizenship Award by the 21st Century News Group, the 2008 Cleantech Leadership Award and the 2005 Pioneer Award by the Cleantech Group.