Career Summary
Julian is a member of Heidrick’s Board, Private Equity, Financial Officers and Legal practice groups. Julian focuses on placing senior-level legal and finance executives into public and private companies. He also works with venture capital and private equity firms to identify executive talent for their portfolio companies - often in a cross-border context.
Prior to executive search, Julian advised American, European and Asian companies from a legal, banking, venture capital and operational perspective. Most recently, Julian was a Director in the Corporate Finance group of Evolution Securities China Limited, an investment bank based in London, UK.
Julian trained as a corporate lawyer and has practiced in New York, Washington DC, London, Singapore and Shanghai. As a lawyer for Paul Weiss, Baker & McKenzie and Linklaters, he advised multinational corporations on their IPOs, private equity investments and cross-border M&A transactions.
Julian gained direct investment experience as an Executive Vice President with DDL, a London-based venture capital fund, where he was responsible for portfolio management. Julian's operational experience was derived from being Director of European Business Development for CapitalKey Advisors and Capital IQ, which was a corporate finance boutique and private equity research firm backed by CSFB, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan Chase and Dresdner Bank.
Work Experience
- Board Member
- China Recycling Energy Corporation (100 ~ 499)
- October 2009 - Present (2 years 7 months)
- Board member of China Recycling Energy Corproation (CREG) a NASDAQ-listed cleantech company based in China. CREG is a waste-to-energy solutions provider.
- Executive Search Consultant
- Heidrick & Struggles
- Director - Corporate Finance
- Evolution Securities China Limited (1 ~ 49)
- June 2005 - October 2006 (1 year 4 months)
- Director in the the corporate finance division of Evolution Securities China. Assisted Chinese clients with their capital raising requirements on London's AIM market.
Education
- London Business School
- Corporate Finance Other
- 2002 year - 2003 year
- Harvard University
- Asian Studies Master's
- 1994 year - 1995 year
- The New York Univeristy School of Law
- Law Doctorate
- 1991 year - 1995 year
- The London School of Economics
- Government Master's
- 1990 year - 1991 year
- Cornell University
- Asian Studies Bachelor's
- 1986 year - 1990 year
Other
- Skills : Chinese speaker - Shanghai and Mandarin dialects.
- Honors :Board and Other Memberships
Julian serves on the Board of China Recycling Energy Corp. (CREG), a NASDAQ-traded company. He Chairs CREG’s Compensation Committee and is a Member of its Audit Committee.
Julian is on the International Boards of London Business School and the School of Oriental and African Studies. Julian is a Founding Member of The CXO Group, a Cornell Class Officer and Membership Chair, and a member of the Bar of the State of New York.