Liao Ming
廖明
Founding Partner, Prospect Avenue Capital(PAC)
Prospect Avenue Capital创始合伙人
Ming Liao is the founding Partner of Prospect Avenue Capital (PAC), a growth capital fund focusing on China's technology sector. Prior to PAC, he was the Chief Representative of UBS AG’s Beijing Office. He also worked with Morgan Stanley IBD and Firm Management Department, covering China’s regulators and major financial institutions. He later joined the Carlyle Group and established close cooperation relationship with China’s sovereign wealth funds, including SAFE and CIC. Ming has been the only China’s PEVC fund manager to contribute to Preqin’s reports for six consecutive times, including Preqin’s inaugural report on China’s PEVC market in 2019, 2021 Global PEVC Report and 2022 Global VC Report. His comments on China’s capital markets and regulation have been quoted for more than 20 times by the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters and South China Morning Post in 2021. Ming earned a BA in Economics in China’s Renmin University and a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Before studying at Princeton, he was a foreign service officer with China’s Foreign Ministry for three years.
廖明毕业于中国人民大学和普林斯顿大学,曾任职于外交部、摩根士丹利投行部和公司管理层部门,瑞银集团投行部和凯雷集团等机构,于 2018 年创立Prospect Avenue Capital (PAC资本),专注投资中后期的中国互联网科技企业。
他近年来持续在全球PEVC行业主流媒体和刊物上向全球投资者介绍中国市场。从 2019 年开始, Preqin 报告中所有七篇关于中国的文章,皆由廖明撰写。他同时还是财新国际和The Information的专栏作家。
廖明在 2022 年初撰写的中文文章,在中国创投行业和全球金融圈被广为传阅,超千万阅读,受到高层关注,之后应投行和其他金融机构的邀请,就中国PEVC投资、中美关系、中国监管政策、美国国内政治对中概股的影响等,为全球 1300 多机构投资者做了讲座。2023 年初他撰写的中文文章,再次引发行业热议、受到高层关注。