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Mr. Shih – Founding Partner, Hudson Highland Partners

Mr. Shih is a founding partner of Hudson Highland Partners (HHP).  He has extensive experience in buyouts, corporate divestitures, and cross-border mergers & acquisitions.  Prior to founding Hudson Highland Partners, he was a Managing Director & Partner at One Equity Partners, a $12 billion private equity fund under JPMorgan, where he founded One Equity Partner's operations in Asia.
His investment experience includes companies in the healthcare, alternative energy, new materials, telecom, and Internet sectors, among others.
Prior to One Equity Partners, Mr. Shih was an investment banker at both Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank covering the semiconductor, alternative energy, media, and hardware sectors.  Shortly after law school, Mr. Shih was also an attorney at SkaddenArps focused on capital markets and M&A transactions. 
Mr. Shih is on the board of Silergy Corp, a publicly traded, leading analog semiconductor company with a $6 billion market cap,, as well as other companies in the technology and telecom industries.
Mr. Shih holds a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School and B.S. in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point.  He left the U.S.  Army as a captain prior to his financial services career.
In his spare time Mr. Shih rides motorcycles and is an avid pilot with over 1,000-hours flown in a variety of airplanes and helicopters.  When he’s able to find students who are daring enough, he also teaches people how to fly.

Education

STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, Stanford, CA

Juris Doctor, 2003

Passed New York Bar 2003

UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY, West Point, NY

B.S.M.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 1995

Distinguished Cadet (top 5% of class)

Buyside

•Personal investments totaling US$50 million in a number of startup companies in semiconductors, aviation, healthcare, AI, education, and crypto-currency
•US$70 million investment in CMC (investment in 2010, returned $45m of capital in 2012, remaining stake exited in 2016)
•Assisted OCI Korea to develop its polysilicon and wafer business in China (resulted in OEP returning over 8.5x on its US$100m investment in 2010)
•US$25 million investment in Gintech Solar (investment in January 2007, partial exit throughout 2008 at 2x return)
•US$10 million investment in Trina Solar Limited (investment in May 2006, exited in August 2008 at 6x return)

Sellside

•US$1.0 billion initial public offering on the NYSE for Giant Interactive (industry team leader)
•US$107 million initial public offering on the Nasdaq for China Sunergy (industry team leader)
•US$137 million initial public offering on the NYSE for Acorn International (execution team leader)
•US$107 million initial public offering on the NYSE for Trina Solar Limited (origination and execution team leader)
•US$1.8 billion sell-down of shares by creditors of Hynix Semiconductor (execution team)
•US$70 million initial public offering on the Nasdaq for Silicon Motion, Inc. (execution team leader)
•US$760 million arrangement of a senior secured credit facility by Hanaro Telecom (execution team)
•US$50 million acquisition of a 40% stake in ChinaHR.com by Monster.com (execution team leader)
•US$160 million convertible bond offering by Powerchip Semiconductor (execution team leader)
•US$50 million placement of shares and reverse merger by Haier-CCT (execution team leader)
•US$215 million offering of senior notes by STATSChipPAC (execution team)

Corporate Attorney

•US$71 million initial public offering on the Nasdaq for eLong, Inc (lead attorney)
•US$58 million acquisition of a 30% stake in eLong, Inc. by IAC/InterActiveCorp (attorney)
•US$1.8 billion initial public offering on the NYSE and SEHK for SMIC (attorney)
•US$3.5 billion initial public offering on the NYSE and SEHK for China Life Insurance Company (attorney)