Gary Rieschel Biography

Gary Rieschel has over twenty five years of successful operating and investing experience as a senior executive entrepreneur investor and global business strategist in technology. Mr. Rieschel was a senior executive at Intel Sequent Computer Cisco Systems and Softbank Corporation. Over the last 20 years as a venture capitalist Mr. Rieschel led investments in 12 companies which grew to over $1B USD in market capitalization. Gary aided in the creation of the venture capital industry in China through sponsoring and founding several of China’s leading VC firms including Softbank China Ventures SAIF Partners (2001) Ceyuan Ventures (2004) and Qiming Venture Partners (2006). He is Founding Managing Partner of Qiming a firm with over $1.7B USD focused on early stage investments in China. Mr. Rieschel’s personal investment areas are Healthcare and Cleantech. He has sponsored investments in imaging systems (Alltech) clinical trial execution (Tigermed) fuel cells (Bloom Energy) industrial waste water treatment (CSD Water and Sludge) clean coal technologies (LP Amina) smart meters (Hexin) and bioengineering (Lanzatech).
Mr. Rieschel is well regarded as a mentor to entrepreneurs founders and other venture capitalists. He advised both JUCCCE (Joint US China Cooperation Clean Energy) the China Greentech Initiative and helped bring the Rocky Mountain Institute to China. He actively supports the US China Clean Energy Forum Asia Society Paulson Institute the Council on Foreign Relations among other philanthropic organizations. Gary is a Trustee of Reed College. He has structured a number of cross border joint venture and M&A transactions during his career. He served on the joint venture boards of Blackrock/Bank of China and Silicon Valley Bank/Shanghai Pudong Development Bank over the last four years.

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