James Chen

Biography

Before joining Aoxing Parma, Dr. Chen was the CFO of Origin Agritech. At Origin, he successfully managed both operational and finance functions, and helped Origin to weather one of the worst years in the Chinese seed industry.  He was instrumental in bringing Origin's technologies to global cooperation programs and in  entering the seeds and traits market in the United States. Prior to working at Origin, Dr. Chen served as an Investment Manager at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the sovereign wealth fund owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi. In his investment manager capacity, Dr. Chen played a key role in managing equity investment in China-related portfolios. After joining ADIA in 2008, he contributed significantly in setting up the China A-Share QFII Fund and achieved consistent benchmark-beating performance from the Fund's inception. Prior to ADIA, Dr. Chen spent over five years in sell-side research, most recently as a Senior Research Analyst at Morgan Joseph and previously at BB&T Capital Markets and Fulcrum Global Partners. He was a member of an analyst team top-rated by Institutional Investors Journal and Wall Street Journal for collective coverage in such companies as Dow Chemicals, Du Pont and Monsanto. Dr. Chen started his career at Univation Technologies, a joint venture between ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical.

Research Interest

clinical research