Our founders are investment and management professionals committed to using their experience, expertise and extensive relationships to build competitive leaders in the clean energy industry both in the China market and globally.  While SinoTransPacific is a new company, the founders are bound by long standing relationships, and have been collaborating for nearly two years to launch our firm. 

Bob Barron - Mr. Barron began his career in Silicon Valley as a technologist and has over 27 years of experience in investments and operations. He has led businesses in Fortune 1000, venture capital-backed technology, and co-founded a venture capital investment firm. Mr. Barron has acquired, sold, built and managed companies in a variety of industries including high-tech and non-tech, as well as medical devices. Most notably, Bob lead the deal selling Chromatis Networks to Lucent Technologies for $4.75 Billion, which was a return of 100 times investment. For this, he was featured on CNBC television for leading the largest Small Cap transaction in U.S. history. Bob lead a highly successful commercial spin-out of a government contracting business, MQA, facilitating a 500% market capitalization increase. MQA was later sold to Flextronics a 40X return. Bob was also responsible for the merger of Lightcross and Arroyo Optics, which became Kotura, yielding an increase in valuation. As the Managing Director of Bondurant Advisors, he has made direct investments in private companies as well, such as: Sonic, KineMed, IJAK, NVC, Vanguard Voice, and Bondurant Systems. All of these direct placement investments have increased in value since the initial investment and are currently funded through expected liquidity events. Bob is very experienced in venture capital technology investments and has served/serves as a Director on several BODs: iphotonics (acquired by Solectron); Chromatis (acquired by Lucent); PacketLight; Stratalight; BandWidth9; Sonic; Lightcross/Kotura (merger); Bondurant Systems.

Bob holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremy Yin - Dr. Yin has over 15 years of operating experience in both established IBM/Siemens and venture funded technology-based companies, primarily in the reas of semiconductor and equipment manufacture. From 2000 through 2007, he held several executive positions with Lightcross and Kotura, a leading developer of semiconductor components in communications, most recently as its Vice President of Product Management. Jeremy actively involved in 3 rounds of fund raising, raised $50+ million from top-tier venture capital, investment firms and strategic partners. Jeremy has managed distributors, customers, suppliers and contract manufactures in Asia and Europe. Jeremy is the Official International Economic Advisor to Baoding, China, a City of 11 million residents, and home to the People’s Republic’s officially designated Clean Energy Economic Development Zone known as the China Energy Valley.

Jeremy holds a B.S. from University of Science and Technology of China, an MBA from the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, and a PhD in Physics from City University of New York.

 

 

 

Anthony Rubenstein – Mr. Rubenstein is a business development and communications strategist with an in-depth knowledge of Clean Energy.  Tony is the former Chairman and founder of Californians for Clean Energy, the force behind the 2006 Proposition 87, the largest Clean Energy referendum in U.S. history. (The intent of Prop 87 was to reduce the use of petroleum fuels in California by creating market incentives to foster the use of clean alternative replacement fuels, renewables, and energy efficiency technologies.  Despite a record-breaking $110 million opposition campaign by the petroleum industry, Prop 87 was narrowly defeated, with support from 45% of California voters.)  Tony recruited and led the group of nationally renowned scientists, businessmen, environmentalists and others who formulated Prop 87’s policies, headed the initiative’s $54 million fundraising effort, and recruited and worked closely with leaders in the Clean Energy sector including the Solar Energy Industry Association, the Renewable Fuels Association, and the American Council on Renewable Energy. Among noteworthy supporters of Prop 87 were President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, venture capitalists John Doerr and Vinod Khosla, and Lawrence Bender, academy award winning producer of “An Inconvenient Truth”. 

Tony was a Boardmember and Director of Corporate Development for the non-profit L.A. Works, Los Angeles’ largest community service action center.  He was previously an entertainment industry executive, professional screenwriter and film producer. While still in college, Tony founded Cinemedia, Inc. to exploit his original idea of selling advertising on the outside of movie theater popcorn containers.  Tony sold the venture to National Cinema Networks (now National Cinemedia).

Tony holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management.

visit Mr. Rubenstein on the web: www.anthonyrubenstein.com