Bill Qian, JD Finance's head of cross-border M&A, was promoted to general manager of corporate ventures in July.

Bill Qian, formerly head of cross-border M&A at China-based e-commerce firm JD.com’s financial technology spinoff, JD Finance, was promoted to general manager of corporate ventures in July this year.

Qian currently oversees investments in enterprise services, industrial internet-of-things and consumer internet technologies. He has overseen investments in digital contact platform Jiatui Technology, collaboration software developer FangCloud and news aggregation platform Qutoutiao.

Having joined JD in July 2015 as head of crowdfunding business strategy, Qian initially concentrated his efforts on equity…

Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.