Managing Directors
Michael D. Dingman
Michael Dingman is the Chairman of Shipston Group, was President of Signal and Allied Signal and CEO of Allied Signal’s spin-off Henley Group whose $1.2 billion initial public offering in 1986 was at the time the largest in history. He was also CEO of Fisher Scientific. In 1994, Mr. Dingman began investing in emerging markets, with an emphasis on restructuring opportunities in Russia as the nation was privatizing its industries. Mr. Dingman started investing in China six years ago. Mr. Dingman is a former director of Ford Motor Company (21 years), Time Inc. and Time Warner Inc. (23 years), and Mellon Bank Corporation.
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Wenyong “Winston” Wang
Wenyong Wang has been working on emerging market investments for eight years after serving as a diplomat with the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC and as a member of the Chinese Government. He also worked with the United Nations office in India, and as a member of government negotiation team for a number of international agreements on nuclear, intellectual property and environmental cooperations for seven years prior to his business career. Mr. Wang received his MBA degree from Darden Business School of the University of Virginia.
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Steven Huang
Steven Huang has executed deals totaling over $1 billion in transaction value over eight years of principal investment and investment banking experience in China with CITIC Bank and the Shipston Group. Prior to working in China, Mr. Huang was a consultant at Accenture. Mr. Huang received his MBA (cum laude) from the New York University Stern School of Business, where he was a member of the Mu Sigma Tau honor society and was awarded the Amerada Hess scholarship and the Glucksman Research Fellowship, and his BS (cum laude) from Cornell University.
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Henry Nordhoff
Health Care
Henry Nordhoff has spent 40 years in the healthcare field living in the United States, Europe and Asia. He spent the first 16 years of his career with Pfizer, starting in finance and moving into business development and general management. In 1986 he began working for Sterling Drug as head of mergers and acquisitions and acquired companies in Europe and in the United States. He subsequently transitioned to the biotech field serving as CEO of two companies, taking one public and merging the other one before joining Gen-Probe as President and CEO in 1994. During his 15 years as CEO of Gen-Probe, revenues grew at an average annual rate of 16% to $500 million in 2008 while net income grew 23% to $107 million. Cash grew from $17 million to $505 million, while the ratio of pretax income to revenues expanded from 10% to 34%. He retired as CEO of Gen-Probe in 2009 and remains Chairman. Mr. Nordhoff has a BA from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from Columbia University.
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Shamel Rushwin
Automotive
Shamel Rushwin has over 30 years of business, engineering and operations management and is an accomplished global automotive executive and corporate officer with significant international business experience in Asia, South America and Europe. Shamel has led the successful design, construction and launch of eight world-class manufacturing facilities with a history of bringing unique perspectives to operations. He is widely regarded for his expertise in continuous improvement and variability reduction using the Six Sigma methodology. Shamel is currently or has been a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University.
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James T. Dingman
James Dingman has been working for Shipston Group for a number of years with the oversight and management of Shipston’s operations in China. Prior to joining the Shipston Group, he served as a founding partner and co-president in National Timber Company, and also owned and served as President of Fitapaldi-Dingman Racing. James has lived and worked in emerging markets in excess of 20 years, joining Renaissance Capital’s corporate finance arm in the early 1990’s. He attended Saint George’s School in Newport, Rhode Island and Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts. He currently splits his time between China and the Bahamas.
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Shipston Management
David Dingman
Associate
David Dingman has his MBA from The Carroll School of Management at Boston College; he also has a B.A. in History from Boston College. He attended Clongowes Woods College in Kildare Ireland. David currently splits his time between China and the Bahamas.
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Sunny Zhao
VP of Investor relation
Sunny Zhao has spent the last 8 years working in both marketing and international hospitality, most recently with Abercrombie & Kent working with a range of clients that have included everyone from NBC to Fortune 500 executives. Before that, she served as Marketing Director at Hui Xiang Textile Inc in Beijing. Mrs. Zhao attended NanKai University of Tianjin where she received a degree in International Business.