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The full-time members of AMCG's investment team include the managing partner, partners, principals, associates, and analysts. Additionally, the team also includes Advisory Directors, who spend up to one-third of their professional time on AMCG matters. The senior team members are also supported by a Board of Counselors, in addition to Specialist Advisors of AMCG.

All of the firm's full-time partners and part-time Advisory Directors own a stake in AMCG.

The Group's investment professionals are:

Joseph W. Ferrigno III
David Bussmann
Jonathan Robinson
Stephen Temple
Phillip Yang Wu, CFA
Stephen Yeung
Patrick Chovanec
Leo Zhao

 

Joseph W. Ferrigno III

Joseph Ferrigno is Chairman, Chief Executive and Managing Partner of AMCG and is chairman of the Fund’s Investment Committee and the AMCG Investment Review Committee. He has been a pioneer and leader in the investment management and banking businesses in the Asia region since 1984. Mr. Ferrigno has been principally involved with private equity/mezzanine fund management and with the development and financing of infrastructure, energy, telecom and Internet businesses while at Lehman Brothers, Ferrigno & Associates, the Bechtel Group and Prudential Financial of the United States. Earlier, he was with the Chase Manhattan Bank and Bankers Trust Company in New York and London. He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1991, Mr. Ferrigno initiated the establishment of a specialist infrastructure private equity fund management company owned by Ferrigno & Associates, Peregrine Capital, the Asian Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation, Frank Russell & Co. and the Soros Group, which launched and managed the US$780 million Asian Infrastructure Fund and the US$160 million Asia Telecom Fund, the first of their kind.

From 1993 to 1995, he was Managing Director Asia Pacific of Bechtel Enterprises, the development, finance and investment subsidiary of the Bechtel Group and was involved in the development and financing of infrastructure projects and direct investment funds in which Bechtel was a limited partner.

In 1996, Mr. Ferrigno initiated and co-founded Prudential Asia Infrastructure Investors Limited (PAII) with Prudential Financial of the U.S and in 1997 led the launch of the first Mezzanine Capital fund in Asia, the US$246 million Asian Infrastructure Mezzanine Capital Fund, for which Prudential Financial acted as Sponsor and the Asian Development Bank is a Core Investor, which closed in January 1998. He was Chairman of its Investment Committee until March 2002.

AIMCF is fully invested in companies active in the power, telecom, internet and transportation industries located in China, India, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. In March 2002, PAII was purchased by Darby Overseas Investments Ltd., a specialist Latin American emerging markets investment management firm based in Washington, D.C. Darby Overseas was purchased by Franklin Resources, Inc. in October 2003. Mr. Ferrigno had resigned from Darby in July 2003.

 

David Bussmann

David Bussmann is a partner of AMCG. He previously worked for PAII as a senior investment professional, and has more than 20 years of finance and investment experience, including arranging and structuring equity and debt financing for a variety of industries, projects and companies. He has expertise in debt, equity, and mezzanine investing, and also has experience in early-stage growth companies, financial restructurings, and corporate governance.

Mr. Bussmann’s Asian experience includes AMCG (mezzanine investing), Prudential Asia (mezzanine investing), Salomon Brothers (private placements, corporate finance, real estate finance), and Citibank (capital markets, corporate lending). In addition, he has served as independent director of various Asia-focused companies listed on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and the Hong Kong stock exchange.

Mr. Bussmann earned a B.A. in Economics from Georgetown University and speaks and reads both Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.

 

Jonathan Robinson

Jonathan Robinson is a partner of AMCG and previously worked for Deutsche Bank AG in Hong Kong first as co-Head of the Asian Debt Products business (Deutsche Bank’s leveraged finance practice) and then as Head of Financial Sponsors coverage. Mr. Robinson has more than 10 years of finance experience, and has been involved in arranging and structuring equity and debt financing for a wide variety of industries, LBOs and companies. His expertise includes debt origination and structuring, IPO origination and structuring, risk assessment, advising on M&A sellside and buyside assignments and debt restructurings. He has completed transactions in debt and/or equity transactions in India, Singapore and Korea while advising on transactions in Korea, China, and Singapore.

Including his tenure at Deutsche Bank in New York, Mr. Robinson has extensive experience in leveraged finance, including more than a decade of structuring, underwriting and financing LBOs for many of the leading global private firms. Before Deutsche Bank, Mr. Robinson previously worked for three years in consulting for Strategic Planning Associates (later acquired by Mercer Management Consulting) in Washington, D.C. He has a bachelor of arts degree magna cum laude from Harvard College and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar (top 5% of the class).

 

Stephen Temple

Stephen Temple is a partner of AMCG and previously worked for Darby Asia and PAII from 2001 to 2006

Prior to this appointment, he held several executive positions since 1988 at the international investment company Brierley Investments Limited. Mr. Temple was based in Hong Kong for most of this period as a Director of BIL Asia Holdings Limited responsible for the origination, structuring, and monitoring of investments in the Asian region. Mr. Temple was also Managing Director for BIL Asia Group Treasury Limited, the international financing vehicle for the Group, and a major issuer in the Asian capital markets. During his employment with BIL, Mr. Temple was Chairman of Asia Power Developments Limited, a company that was established in 1993 to originate, develop and operate geothermal and hydro power projects in Asia.

Mr. Temple received a BA in Political Science from FIU, a Masters in International Management from Schiller International University, Heidelberg and was a graduate in the CSEP program from Columbia University.

 

 

Phillip Yang Wu, CFA

Phillip Wu is a Senior Advisor of AMCG and currently focuses on investments in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is a private investor in real estate, global equities, and start-up companies and advises foreign companies on setting up their Chinese operations. Mr. Wu has had extensive experience in investing in domestic and international debt and equity securities and in direct investments in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan with Credit Suisse since 1995. From 1997 to 2002, he was Managing Director and a shareholder of Shanghai Sundial Investment Management Co., Ltd. in Shanghai and Capital Growth Investment Management Inc. in Hong Kong. From 2002 to 2006 he was Chief Financial Officer of Novel Investment Holdings (NIH), Hong Kong and Shanghai and is currently Advisor to the Chairman. NHI is a holding company with assets including Dragon Airline in Hong Kong, real estate development & investment in China, TV tube & optical instruments manufacturing, and department store retailing.

Mr. Wu has been a leader and pioneer in the modernization of the Chinese enterprise system and its financial markets. In 1993 he became the first CFA Charter Holder from Mainland China, and in 1998 was appointed the China Advisor of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute. Mr. Wu is a member of the Asian Executive Board of the Wharton School, is Managing Director of the Wharton Shanghai Office and is President of the Wharton Alumni Club in Shanghai. He is a member of the Finance Committee of the Shanghai American School. Mr. Wu holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a BBA from the University of Houston.

 

Stephen Yeung

Stephen Yeung is a Vice President of AMCG and was formerly a management consultant at the Hong Kong office of McKinsey & Company. He also previously held positions with the Asia Pacific Credit Research team of UBS and with the Asia Ratings Advisory team of UBS Investment Bank, both based in Hong Kong.

Mr. Yeung received his Bachelor in Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in Canada. In addition, he also holds an MSc. in Accounting and Finance degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MPhil. in Finance degree from the University of Cambridge, both with distinction standings. Mr. Yeung is a CFA Charterholder, and he is also a holder of the United States CPA-Inactive Certificate issued by the Washington State Board of Accountancy.

 

Patrick Chovanec

Patrick Chovanec is an Advisor of AMCG. Currently, Patrick is an associate professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing. He worked for AMCG as a Senior Associate and Vice President from 2006 until 2008. Prior to joining AMCG, he worked as an investment officer for SEAF's Sichuan SME Fund (sponsored by New York Life and the International Financing Corporation) in Chengdu, China and as the Business Development Director at Redgate Media, where he managed strategic acquisitions in China's media sector. Before that, he worked for Institutional Investor magazine as Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute and later the Global Fixed Income Institute. He has served as a senior U.S. congressional aide and as an Army officer.

Mr. Chovanec has a BA in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar.

 

Leo Zhao

Leo Zhao is an Associate of AMCG. He earned an MBA from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology during which he attended the Columbia Business School. He also holds a Master degree in Computer Engineering and a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Fudan University. He has passed all of the required examinations of the CFA program, and will apply for CFA Charter holder status upon completion of the work experience requirement. Prior to joining AMCG, he worked as project manager and senior software engineer at IBM China.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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