Mr. Chang SUN
Founder and Chairman Sunshine OrientalChang Sun
Mr. Sun used to be the managing partner of TPG China and the founder and Chairman of Black Soil Group Ltd., an agriculture investment and operating company. Prior to Black Soil, he was the Chairman, Asia Pacific at Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm, from 1995 to 2015. Mr. Sun was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs Asia in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1995, and an investment banking associate at Lepercq de Neuflize &Co., a boutique investment firm in New York from 1989 to 1992.
Mr. Sun obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Beijing Foreign Studies University and completed a post-graduate international affairs program offered by the United Nations, where he subsequently worked as a staff translator in New York for 3 years.Mr. Sun earned a joint degree of MA/MBA from the Joseph Lauder Institute of International Management and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Sun is the Chairman of the China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, which he founded in 2002, and Executive Vice Chairman the China Real Estate Developers and Investors’ Association, which he founded in 2006. He is currently an Independent Director of SOHO China and GDS.He is also a member of the Asia Executive Board of the Wharton School and a member of the Asia Pacific Council of the Nature Conservancy.