William Wang has been appointed managing director of the Tsinghua Technology Transfer Fund.
Tsinghua Holdings, the investment firm backed by Tsinghua University, has appointed William Wang as managing general partner and director of the Tsinghua Technology Transfer Fund, according to Wang’s LinkedIn page.
Tsinghua was reported in June 2016 to be establishing a 1.5bn commercialisation fund as part of a $7.6bn initiative to support research over the next five years.
According to a statement on Wang’s LinkedIn page, he led the process of establishing the fund.
Wang is also a venture partner at Yu Venture Philanthropy, which he joined in July 2015, and runs the Social Innovation Hub at Tsinghua University. He also helps run the social innovation centre at Tsinghua X-Lab.
He was previously a partner, managing director and head of China at investment firm Advantage Ventures from 2012 to June 2015.
– Image courtesy of LinkedIn
