Boyd Jones

Business Development / Corporate Development

Infocomms / Internet Product Marketing + Business Development

Private Equity / Venture Capital / Fund Management / Investment Banking

Strategic Market-entry Consulting & Implementation - Greater China; Middle East

Boyd Jones’s Specialties:

Business Development. Corporate Development. Telecoms Product Marketing. Private Equity fund management. China and Middle East market entry strategies and implementation - especially for Private Equity/ Venture-backed firms / Portfolio Development. Cross-border Corporate Finance. Software. Wireless. Telecommunications.

Boyd Jones’s Experience

Project Consultant, International Group

Institute for Information Industry

(Non-Profit; Research industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

Spearheading initiatives at III's International Group to promote Taiwan's high-tech products abroad.
Director

Shenzhen Temobi Science & Tech Development Co., Ltd.

(Internet industry)

December 2007 — Present (2 years )

Temobi leverages its bleeding-edge technology to provide mobile video / TV solutions (branded as Wonhot) over GPRS/EDGE in China. Over 1,000,000 paying subscribers in China.
Standing Director

Shenzhen Venture Capital Association

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

Elected to be a Standing Director of the Shenzhen Venture Capital Association. www.szvca.com
Non-executive Director

Radfort Holdings Limited

(Computer Software industry)

March 2004 — Present (5 years 9 months)

Serving as Non-executive Director of this video conferencing solutions vendor.
Partner

iTech Holdings Limited

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

iTech Holdings is a Venture Capital fund management company.

Building on the success of our first angel fund (iTech Fund I), we at iTech have recently closed another seed / angel fund focused on the Mobile Internet space in China.

iTech also provides limited consulting and China market entry services from time to time. For example, from January to February 2008, we assisting a prominent British WVAS firm in terms of analysis and partner selection in China.
Senior Consultant

Atheeb Telecoms Consortium

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

July 2008 — April 2009 (10 months)

* Product Marketing - Nomadic WiMAX

* Product Marketing - Fixed WiMAX

* Business Analysis - Business Rules Formulation

* Vendor / CPE Analysis + Sourcing

* IT Systems - Change Requests Processes
Director

Kerrick Limited

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

August 2002 — February 2008 (5 years 7 months)

* Wings of Eagles flight school - helped firm meet with Chinese entities for recruiting students (huge demand for pilots in China). Product definition work as well.

* Buckeye Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BKI) - China market entry analysis and services in partnership with PacUS LLC. Product Scoping for China market.

* TAK Imaging - Partner, investor and distributor selection and evangelizing in Asia. Chinese-language Sales & Marketing Kit.

* Barnes/Associated Spring - M&A advisory work for potential acquisitions in China.

* InnerWireless - Assisting partner, Asia First Technology to model business and find channel partners.

* Poemt - Devised and implemented "vulture capital" M&A campaign within China during SARS crisis for this leading, women's day spa operator in China.

* Marketworks - Asian partner and investor selection and strategy.

* Provided services for EITC in Dubai including Product Definitions, Product Marketing.
Senior Adviser

Paradigm Venture Partners

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

January 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 5 months)

Advised Paradigm on capital market strategies ex-Taiwan. Provided Product Strategic Planning consulting services to some of Paradigm's high-tech portfolio firms.
Senior Manager, Business Development

chinadotcom

(Internet industry)

July 2001 — August 2002 (1 year 2 months)

Business development for chinadotcom subsidiary, Ion Global in Taiwan. Scoped and defined Product-services and marketed.
Senior Manager, Asia Pacific

Winstar Communications

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WCII; Telecommunications industry)

May 1999 — July 2001 (2 years 3 months)

Involved in Asian expansion for leading LMDS (broadband wireless) operator. Regulatory advocacy, business planning, financial modeling, partner selection, product marketing, business development. Contributed to formation of joint venture in Hong Kong with Hongkong Land and sourced similar opportunities in Singapore.
Country Director, Taiwan

US Asia Commercial Development Corporation

(Telecommunications industry)

May 1998 — May 1999 (1 year 1 month)

Spearheaded U.S. Asia's consultancy work in Taiwan for SBC (now AT&T again) and a prominent CCB solutions vendor.
Senior Associate

China Investment and Development Corporation

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

January 1997 — April 1998 (1 year 4 months)

Responsible for entire value chain related to non-Taiwanese portfolio (other Asian and US). Sourcing, screening, analyzing, championing, deal structuring, post-investment monitoring and value add.

Boyd Jones’s Education

Manchester Business School, Manchester University

MBA , Venture Capital, Private Equity, Entrepreneurship , September 1996 — January 1997

1 of 4 MBA terms here in Northern England.
Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School

MBA , Finance , 1995 — 1996
Oberlin College

B.A. , Government, Economics, East Asian Studies , August 1987 — December 1990

Activities and Societies:

Baldwin Food Co-op; led student voter registration drives in 1988 and 1990; Asia House