Shery Ahn
Anchor
Bloomberg Television
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Shery Ahn is the New York-based anchor for Bloomberg Television’s flagship market open programs “Daybreak Asia” and “Daybreak Australia.” Every weekday from 6-9pm ET, Ahn brings the Wall Street close to Bloomberg’s global audience and kick starts the trading day for investors in Asia, setting up the agenda for the opens in Europe and the Middle East.
Ahn was raised in Bolivia and speaks Spanish, English, Korean and Japanese. While covering the emerging markets of Latin America, she interviewed top political leaders such as Chile’s president, Sebastián Piñera, Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos and Brazil’s Michel Temer. She has also interviewed some of the most influential figures in American and European business such as Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and US Chamber of Commerce CEO Thomas Donohue.
Before moving to New York, Ahn was based in Hong Kong where she covered key events including the G20 summit from Hangzhou and BOJ policy decisions from Tokyo. Her conversations with Asian business leaders and policymakers include Baidu’s Robin Li, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and Tokyo’s Governor Yuriko Koike.
Prior to Bloomberg, Ahn was based in Tokyo as an anchor for Japan’s public broadcaster NHK World, where she reported live on the 2011 earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster. Ahn began her broadcast career in Seoul as a Diplomatic Correspondent covering North Korea and the Six-Party Nuclear Talks in Beijing.
Ahn graduated from Seoul National University and is currently earning an MS in Global Affairs from New York University.
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The Outlook from Asia
In conversation with Shery Ahn, Anchor, Bloomberg Television
- Yichen Zhang, Chairman and CEO, CITIC...
Yichen Zhang
Chairman and CEO
CITIC Capital
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Yichen Zhang is the Chairman and CEO of CITIC Capital Holdings Limited. Mr. Zhang began his career on Wall Street in 1987 at Greenwich Capital Markets. He later joined Bank of Tokyo as Head of Proprietary Trading, and Merrill Lynch as Managing Director of Debt Capital Market for Greater China. In 2000, he joined CITIC Group as the President of CITIC Pacific Communications and Executive Director for CITIC Pacific (now CITIC Limited). He founded CITIC Capital in 2002 and has been involved in all phases of the firm’s development since then. Under his leadership, CITIC Capital has led a number of landmark deals, investing in some of China’s leading companies, including McDonald’s China, Alibaba, Sina, Harbin Pharmaceutical, SF Express, AsiaInfo and Focus Media. He is the Chairman of McDonald's master franchised business in China & Hong Kong, the Chairman of Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Holding Company, the Chairman of GNC, as well as the Chairman of Universal Medical. He also sits on the boards of HKEX, Vanke, AsiaInfo, SF Express, and the Russia-China Investment Fund.
Mr. Zhang is a leader in the alternative investment industry. He is an Executive Committee member and former chairman of the China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA). He is also a vice chairman in Beijing Private Equity Association (BPEA), Tianjin Private Equity Association, and a vice chairman of the PE and Buyout Funds Committee under the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC).
Mr. Zhang is also a leader in political, economic and social communities. He is a member of the Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Senior Vice Chairman of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a member of the Board of Trustees at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a council member of Future Forum, and a board member of Aiyou Foundation.
He obtained his degree in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A strong believer in education, Mr. Zhang has been supporting Phillips Academy Andover as a trustee, Yale Asia Development Council as a council member, Dalton Foundation as a board member, Duke Kunshan University as an advisory board member, Westlake University as an external board member, and the Tianjin Juilliard School as an advisory board member.
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