Robert A. Theleen

ChinaVest Ltd. (ChinaVest) is the private equity/venture capital arm of Bermuda-registered ChinaVest Management Ltd. The firm was founded by Robert Theleen in 1981 to create a European-style merchant bank with a Chinese flavor to provide financial advisory services, discretionary direct investment and a range of other financial products. Headquartered in Shanghai, the firm also has offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and San Francisco. They manage the ChinaVest private equity funds and provide cross-border M&A advisory services for multinational firms seeking to enter the China market and private placement advisory services for Chinese firms across a wide range of industries.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai is a Chamber of Commerce based in Shanghai, China.