Dr JP Huang has been Founder, Chairman Emeritus and Chief Strategic Adviser of Jpigroup Inc. since 1988. Under Dr. Huang’s advisory guidance, Jpigroup has become one of China's major private investment and development companies that has invested and advised in the areas of manufacturing, human capital development, technologies and financial services. From 1985 and prior to founding Jpigroup, Dr. Huang worked for the Government of China in the former Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade and during this time, he was very active and instrumental in helping formulating some of China's first open door strategies and reform plans, especially in the area of international investment and trade. Dr. Huang holds a Ph.D. in economics from University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, where he now concurrently holds a Professorship in Finance.