| Ashok S. Kothari |
Mr. Kothari is a Managing Director of Asia Pacific Capital, The GE Asia Pacific Capital Technology Fund, and Asia Pacific Capital Fund II. Previously, he directed large, diversified, multi-unit, multi-country businesses of major American corporations. Mr. Kothari has achieved major rationalizations, turnarounds, and exponential growth. He has hands-on experience in building value, and in executing very profitable LBOs, MBOs, privatizations, and IPOs.
Mr. Kothari served as CEO of W.R. Grace (Asia Pacific) Ltd. W.R. Grace was a diversified Fortune 50 corporation with interests in sourcing and contract manufacturing, specialty and agricultural chemicals, natural resources, specialty retailing and restaurants, and health care with over 90,000 employees in over 45 countries. Mr. Kothari also served as President of PPG Industries, Europe, Middle East and Africa. PPG, formerly know as Pittsburg Plate Glass, is a Fortune 100 corporation, the largest building materials (glass and coatings) manufacturer with additional interests in specialty chemicals and health care, and a very extensive presence in Europe. Mr. Kothari served as Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of over 20 subsidiaries including a number of joint ventures with Fiat. PPG also had large specialty chemicals and medical instrumentation operations in Europe under his leadership.
Earlier, Mr. Kothari was a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. and an accounting consultant with Deloitte & Touche, both in New York. He holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from M.S. University in India, and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
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| W. Gage McAfee |
Mr. McAfee is a Managing Director of Asia Pacific Capital, The GE Asia Pacific Capital Technology Fund, and Asia Pacific Capital Fund II. He also holds directorship in a number of Asian-based companies. As the Deputy Chairman of the Main Board Listing Committee and the GEM Listing Committee of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and of the Dual Listing Advisory Committee of Securities and Futures Commission, Mr. McAfee is heavily involved in evolving regulatory issues including corporate governance.
In 1992, Mr. McAfee co-founded Asia Pacific Capital Ltd., the original company of the Asia Pacific Capital Group. He made a series of private equity investments in the entertainment and multimedia area, including multiplex theatres in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. Asia Pacific Capital then teamed up with GE to launch the GE Asia Pacific Capital Technology Fund in 2000.
Mr. McAfee has lived and worked in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia since the late 1960s. He served with the U.S. State Department in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971 and was also an Adjunct Professor at the Saigon Law School. For more than twenty years, he was with the American law firm Coudert Brothers where he was a founder of their East Asia group in Singapore and later the senior partner in Hong Kong. He was also a founding partner of the Hong Kong-based private equity group ChinaVest, widely credited as one of the first venture firms to enter China. He was a general partner of four ChinaVest funds.
A former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, Mr. McAfee has acted as an adviser to the Asian Development Bank, served on the General Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, the Law Reform Commission, and was Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong Community Chest. Mr. McAfee is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Asia Center Committee of Harvard University, the Development Board of Phillips Academy Andover, Board of Governors of the Chinese International School and served as an adviser to the Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee.
Mr. McAfee received an A.B. in Government from Harvard University and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
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