About the author
Peter Fuhrman is Chairman & CEO at China First Capital, a leading investment bank serving China’s most successful and high-growth private companies, assisting them with PRE-IPO private equity financing as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Fuhrman was previously a founder and CEO or Awareness Technologies, a California-based “cloud-based” security software company that holds a leading position in its market.
China First Capital has established itself as the investment bank of choice for some of China’s best entrepreneurial companies. The firm is also a “thought leader” in the Chinese financial industry, producing in-depth research on the structure and performance of China’s private sector economy, and transformational role of private equity finance in meeting growth capital needs of entrepreneurial companies. China First Capital’s clients include some of largest and best-known private companies in China. Its geographical reach is across all of China, and it has domain expertise in most of China’s major industries in China’s booking domestic market. It works closely as trusted source of quality deal flow with patners at the Top Tier private equity firms in China, both renminbi and dollar funds.
Peter is a columnist for two Chinese-language business publications. You can read those columns here, if your Chinese is up to the task:
福布斯中文网专栏：http://www.forbeschina.com/column/peterfuhrman
21世纪网专栏：http://author.21cbh.com/Peter%20Fuhrman
He spent his early career as journalist and European bureau chief for Forbes Magazine, and running California-based venture capital firm. He holds a Masters from Cambridge University.
Peter is a frequent speaker at conferences on private equity and IPO market in China, as well as columnist for Chinese publications Forbes China and 21st Century Business Herald. He has lectured at UCLA’s Anderson Business School on entrepreneurship, private equity and venture capital. He enjoys cycling, and is an avid collector of antique Chinese and Tibetan art.