Jenny Hsui (MGS Year of 1968 and ACS Pre-U Year of 1970) has
done the ACS family proud when she was among 100 individuals
to receive the “2013 Best of China Innovative Entrepreneurs”
award at the recent 13th Annual China Innovation
Forum Award Ceremony held in the Great Hall of
the People in Beijing.
The Award, which is one of the highest
honours bestowed by the Chinese
Government, is in recognition of Jenny’s
accomplishments as a venture capitalist
responsible for launching into China
some of the first companies from the
United States in food distribution, IT
technology, distribution/supply chain
management and China’s development of
the South China Sea offshore petroleum
industry.
Jenny is one of the most experienced private equity investors in
China with more than 30 years of hands-on financial and investment
experience in Greater China. She is the President of ChinaVest, the
first institutionally-funded American Venture Capital Fund in China
which was she co-founded with her husband Bob Theleen in 1981.
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Jenny with her award, flanked by her
husband Robert Theleen
(the Chairman of the American Chamber of
Commerce in Shanghai)
and daughter, Kristina, who is with the
Grey Group in Shanghai |
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Echo caught up with Jenny in Inner Mongolia and when we asked
her the secret of her sterling success, this was what she shared
with us:
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"The values that I learned, the friendships that I made,
the teachers who inspired me, the long history of our
great School, all combined to make me want to live my
life differently, to make a difference, to contribute to the
lives of others. So, as you walk the halls of ACS, and listen
to those dedicated teachers and staff, remember that each
of you can not only contribute to Singapore’s success, but
to the world. I was not special at ACS. In fact, there were
more brighter,better students all around me. But ACS taught
me how to compete, how to make friends for life and, most
importantly, that the values of the school carried me far,
from Singapore, but never far from ACS. " |
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