Mr. Tao brings over 20 years of investment banking, principal investments, and cross-border M&A experiences to the team. He had worked closely with Mr. Zhang Wei from 1999 to 2002 at China Eagle Securities and joined Co-Stone team again in 2007.

Mr. Tao served as Managing Director in ChinaVest, the first US private equity firm and a boutique merchant bank in China from 2004-2007. Previously, he was Director and Senior Assistant to the CEO of the Asset Management Department at Long March Launch Vehicle Technology Company (SH.600879) in Beijing. Prior to that, he served as Executive Director of the Private Equity Department of China Eagle Asset Management Co., Ltd. in Shanghai and Vice Executive Director of Investment Banking department of China Eagle Securities.

In ChinaVest, Mr. Tao has worked as financial advisor of cross-border investment and M&A in China for many fortune 500 companies including Mueller Industry, S&N, Danone, IBM, Coca-cola, Honeywell, Tele Atlas, Timken, AIG, John Deere, CHD ,etc.

Mr. Tao received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Japanese from Beijing Foreign Studies University and an MBA from Chicago Booth. In addition to fluency in Chinese and English, he is also fluent in Japanese.