Post-EXPO Shanghai – What's Hot, What's Not

Following the "growth-at-all-costs" behind China's tremendous economic growth, Shanghai's Pudong is being positioned as China's pilot for sustainable urbanization, as well as its financial and hi-tech center. A focal point an d catalyst of this is the next Disney theme resort in China, a massive $25B project that follows the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2010 World EXPO as a national priority. Resources are being committed now to engage with the foremost providers in cleantech, clean energy, and entertainment technology with leaders in the region's private equity industry here to provide a first look at the scope and opportunities.

Poly Growth Partners Investment Fund is a China-based, onshore, RMB-denominated private equity growth fund partnered the Shanghai Pudong Economic Commission focused on the next phase of Pudong's development and offering unparalleled deal access and project implementation.

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Speaker Bios:

Alex Smayda, is a director of the Poly Growth Partners Investment Fund. Mr. Smayda has spent most of his career in greater China, initially in the automotive industry, followed by the role as regional manager of a large entertainment & beverage company, then as the country manager for Cutler Investment,  a private equity firm. Later he founded Kamsum Development in Shanghai, and is now one of the managing directors for the Fund. He is a graduate of UC-Santa Cruz, and serves as an adjunct professor to the college. He has made his home in Shanghai for over a dozen years.  Alex Smayda, Twenty years in Greater China, including 15 in the mainland, with extensive experience in government relations.  Managed US pension fund's investments in China including two landmark cases that established new precedents for foreign entities investing in China.