Jack Gao will become general partner and managing director of Walden International's China operations. Walden is a global venture capital company providing early-stage finance to technology firms and one of the first of the VC firms to invest in China.
Gao will be based in China and be responsible for exploring expansion opportunities, raising awareness amongst the investment community and identifying investment opportunities in IT and software. He has over 14 years experience in the software industry having been a research engineer, gained an doctorate in structural engineering and worked for a number of multinational software companies.
Most recently he worked for Microsoft where he was president and general manager in charge of business operations...