包泽民 (James H Boettcher)

Jim was a founding partner of Focus Ventures in 1997. While at Focus, he has led successful investments in Cosine Communications, PA Semi (Apple), Pure Digital (Cisco), Starent Networks, Telera (Alcatel), Teknovus (Broadcom) and Netscaler (Citrix). He is currently responsible for Focus' investments in Cyan Optics, Crossbeam, Infoblox, Marin Software, MuDynamics, Pivot3 and PCH International in Shenzhen, China. Jim was recently highlighted in the upper quartile of the AlwaysOn VC 100 List and was ranked #37 on the Forbes magazine 2011 list of The Top 100 Most Powerful Venture Capitalists.

He leads Focus Ventures' business development efforts for its U.S. portfolio companies in Asia. Value-added activities include recruiting, finding manufacturing and sales & marketing partners and establishing new or joint-venture Asian entities. He established Focus Ventures Shanghai Representative Office in 2001. Jim led the Focus Ventures investment in and is on the Advisory Committee for Golden Sands River Ventures in Beijing, a successful early-stage venture fund. As a long-time senior advisor to the Cha Group in Hong Kong, he helped organize and is on the Investment Committee for the Beijing and Shanghai-based Mingly China Growth Fund, one of China's leading private equity firms managing both U.S. dollar and RMB funds in a strategic partnership with the Jiangsu Provincial private equity fund.

Mr. Boettcher has an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA (as an Arjay Miller Scholar) and MA in development economics from Stanford University. He was a cofounder in 1986 and was Managing Director of a successful investment banking boutique, Amsterdam Pacific Corporation (APC) along with the Fremont Group and CITIC (Beijing), which was purchased by a large European bank in 1994. Mr. Boettcher has many years of experience and a successful track record in expansion stage investing and was a General Partner of BBU Mezzanine Funds I and II. Outside of Focus Ventures, successful investments include Alteon WebSystems (Juniper), ONI (Optical Networks Inc.), Deeptech, Hello Direct, US Filter (Vivendi), USA Waste (Waste Management Inc.) and Prism Radio Partners. Prior to forming APC, Jim worked at Ford Aerospace and was Vice President in the Telecommunications Section of the Bank of America's Investment Banking Group where he had investment banking assignments in the telecom, media, and high technology fields. He has concluded numerous complex financings in the U.S., Europe, and the Far East while based in London and Hong Kong with Bank of America and Crocker National Bank.

 

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