Robert Theleen
Group Chairman, General Partner and Founder, ChinaVest

Mr. Theleen co-founded ChinaVest in 1983. He began his career in 1973 with the First National Bank in Dallas. After serving as General Manager of the Singapore Branch, he organized in 1977 the bank's Hong Kong merchant banking subsidiary, First Dallas Asia Limited. In 1980, Mr. Theleen established the Dallas Pacific Group (predecessor to ChinaVest) to provide corporate finance advisory and investment services in East Asia to clients from the US and Europe, with a focus on China. Under his direction, ChinaVest's first private equity fund was launched in 1983.

Mr. Theleen was educated at Duquesne University and John Hopkins University and later received an MBA from the American School of International Management.

Mr. Theleen serves on several corporate boards, including Zindart, NewTone Communications, Virgin Asia Management. Mr. Theleen is also active in the wider community: he sits on the Board of Trustees of the Asia Society; is a contributing member of the Task Force on America's Role in Asia, a Brookings Institute sponsored group to investigate and propose US policy in Asia for the Bush Administration; and is active with the Young Presidents Organization and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center.


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