Yang Lan's husband Wu Zhi: 1. The life and educational background of the founders of Sunshine Media and Hongyan Capital Group Wu Zhi, founder of Sunshine Media Investment Group.
Founder of Sunshine Media Investment Group
Wu Zhi 1966 1 1 was born in Shanghai and his native place is Yixing, Jiangsu. My father is a professor of educational psychology. My mother is a middle school Chinese teacher. Grandfather Wu Kaisheng was a famous barrister in Shanghai during the Republic of China. He studied in France in his early years and made great contributions to the recovery of Hankou Concession and the rescue of many CPC leaders. He has written many legal monographs and is a famous figure in the legal history of China.
Wu Zhi studied in Shanghai Jiangsu Road No.5 Primary School, Shanghai No.3 Middle School and East China Normal University No.2 Middle School. During my school days, I won many national and Shanghai composition and English competition awards. 1985 was recommended by the school to be admitted to Fudan University without examination. In order to inherit the family tradition and study in France, I chose French literature as my major.
Wu Zhi 1986 graduated from College of French Language and Literature, Savoi University, France, and obtained "Advanced Diploma in French Literature". 1988 arrived in San Francisco, USA in August and transferred to St. Louis one year later. 1990 obtained a bachelor's degree in business administration from Calvin stockton College, USA. Then go to Washington University for a master's degree in international relations. In order to pay the high tuition fee, Wu Zhi took a part-time job while working. In June 199 1 1, he joined the Metropolitan Insurance Company as the deputy manager of the branch and the "Asian Marketing Specialist", responsible for developing the local Chinese market. Later, class action lawsuits broke out in several States in the United States, accusing insurance companies of misleading in promoting life insurance in the name of "saving and preserving value". Zheng Wu could not avoid being involved, but was later removed from the defendant by the plaintiff and only sued the insurance company. Wu Zhi also left the Metropolitan Insurance Company to start his own business after his master's degree.
Mr. Wu Zhi received a master's degree from Washington University on 1993. 1994- 1996 studied by correspondence at barrington university. Barrington University is a distance education institution. Although its academic qualifications are not recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, more than 65,438+000 of the top 500 enterprises in the United States admit that their employees accept their correspondence courses. Since Mr. Wu Zhi started his own business, he began to engage in investment major other than international relations major, so he borrowed correspondence courses to make up his knowledge of financial investment. The school is still in operation, with branches in Asia and Africa except the United States. 1997-2000, Mr. Wu Zhi studied in the School of International Political Relations of Fudan University, and obtained a doctorate. From 1997 to 200 1, Wu Zhi was successively employed as a visiting professor in Peking University, Tsinghua University and Shanghai University, a Hope Project and a senior consultant in China Economic Research Center of Peking University.
From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Wu Zhi founded Bona Investment Consulting Co., Ltd., and served as chairman and president respectively, which facilitated a number of transnational M&A investment transactions and jointly explored the greater China TV market with Warner Music Group.
Mr. Wu Zhi participated in the acquisition of Hong Kong ATV from1June 1998 to1February 1999 and served as the chief operating officer. In the meantime, he drastically reorganized ATV and launched a series of new programs, such as Stories of Searching for a Foreign Country, Weeping Forest, and Foraging at the End of the World. , have received a good response, making ATV once hit the dominance of wireless and created the best stage in history.
1994, Yang Lan gave up the position of host of CCTV and went to study in the United States under the sponsorship of Zheng Da Group of Thailand. During this period, she met Wu Zhi and they got married on 1995.
Entrepreneurial experience
Mr. Wu Zhi is the founder of Sunshine Media Investment Group, and served as the chairman of the group from the establishment of 1999 to August 2007. Sunshine Media Investment Group is a leading private media group in China. Its business covers more than 20 countries and regions around the world, with shares in nearly 20 media information companies and a number of media brands and products. In the independent selection of China Media Magazine in 2004, Sunshine Media ranked first in the comprehensive strength and profit of private (non-state-owned) media information enterprises in China. In this selection in 2005, Sunshine Media ranked second in comprehensive investment strength, but its total profit remained the first among domestic private media enterprises. The profit of Sunshine Media's investment mainly comes from its investment department. In 2007, Sunshine Media Investment Group was split into Sunshine Media Group and Hongyan Capital Group. Sunshine Media Group develops business strategies of cross-TV production, large-scale performances and activities, Internet community media and publishing multimedia platforms. Tiannv Media Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sunshine Media Group, has integrated relevant content and commercial services for its target group-urban women in the workplace, forming the leading brand of China women's communication marketing company. Sunshine Media Group owns publishing departments including Wide Angle Lens, American Entertainment Today magazine with a history of more than 40 years, and more than 740 online publishing businesses of chinese magazine. Its TV Department owns well-known brands such as Interview with Yang Lan and Sunshine Culture, and its large-scale event companies have successfully hosted large-scale performances such as Singing the Olympics, Expo Kick-off Party and World Post Expo. Sunshine Media Group can reach as many as 200 million consumers every month through its media.
In August 2007, Mr. Wu Zhi resigned as the chairman of Sunshine Media Group and founded Hongyan Capital Group on the basis of the investment department of the former Sunshine Media Investment Group. Its business sectors include venture capital, financial services, bond issuance and private equity funds. Among them, Hongyan Venture Capital Department has invested more than 10 in global projects. Hongyan Capital established a joint venture with harvest fund Management Co., Ltd., a leading domestic fund management company, and the performance of Hongyan Group maintained a strong growth trend.
In addition, Mr. Wu Zhi and his wife, Ms. Yang Lan, a famous TV personality in China, established the Sunshine Culture Foundation. Sunshine Culture Foundation is a well-known charitable organization in China, which aims to help the poor teaching assistants, help the poor, promote the development of charity culture and contribute to the establishment of a caring, mutual assistance and harmonious modern society. Mr. Wu Zhi and Ms. Yang Lan have also been among the top charities in China for many years.
Other professional experience
Mr. Wu Zhi served as the operation director of ATV, one of the two major television stations in Hong Kong, from June 65438 to February 65438. During his tenure, Mr. Wu Zhi greatly improved the ratings and financial situation of ATV. 2006 54 38+0-2002, Sunshine Media was the largest shareholder of Sina, the largest Chinese online media company in the world, and Mr. Wu Zhi became the co-chairman of Sina.
In 2003, Mr. Wu Zhi was appointed as the chairman of the "International Emmy Award" TV Festival for two years. Mr. Wu Zhi is also a member of the international board of directors of the American Radio and Television Museum in new york and Los Angeles, and a member of the board of directors of cfau. In 2005, Mr. Wu Zhi was appointed as the Chairman of the Financial and Commercial Development Committee of the American Academy of International Television Arts and Sciences. Mr. Wu Zhi is also an independent director of Shanda Entertainment (NASDAQ: SNDA), the world's leading online game company. In August 2009, after Shanda Entertainment acquired the controlling stake in Huray (Nasdaq), Mr. Wu Zhi resigned as a director of Shanda Entertainment and became an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of Huray.
Honors and works won
From June 5 to 10, 2007, Mr. Wu Zhi was appointed by His Majesty Prince Charles as a member of the Global Tropical Rainforest Protection Steering Committee under his Prince Foundation. In 2009, Mr. Wu Zhi was hired by Tsinghua University as distinguished professor, the international exchange center of Communication College.
Mr. Wu Zhi was awarded the "Outstanding Media Star" by the Hong Kong and Macao Outstanding Persons Selection Committee in June 5438+0998, and was awarded the title of "Hong Kong Goodwill Ambassador" by the Hong Kong Tourist Association in June 5438+0998. In 2005, he was awarded the title of "Red Wine Knight" in France. In 2007, Mr. Wu Zhi was elected as the director of the European Photography Society. In 2007 and 2009, Mr. Wu Zhi was twice rated as one of the top 500 Chinese businessmen in the world by the World Outstanding Chinese Businessmen Association. In 2009, it was awarded as one of the "Best Business People of the Year in China" by the China-Europe Global Business Forum held in Lisbon.
Mr. Wu Zhi is the author of China's Great Power Status and International Communication Strategy, and his thesis Farewell to the Desert: New Media and Spiritual Ecological Reconstruction.