James Ho
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Orion3 Group
James Ho, our co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, has almost 30 years of experience in private equity, including 18 years with Capital Group Private Markets from 1996 to 2014 as the partner responsible for private equity business in Greater China. Prior to that, Mr. Ho was with Bank of America Global Equity Group as Vice President responsible for direct investment in Asia. Mr. Ho has been the founder and managing director of Cedarise Capital Ltd since 2015, focusing on principle investment opportunities.
Mr. Ho has established an investment track record in technology, media and telecom (“TMT”), consumer, industrial, financial services and transportation industries in the Greater China and Southeast Asian markets. He has experience in advising portfolio companies on their IPOs (including advising Focus Media Holding in its listing on NASDAQ) and trade sales (such as International Container Terminal Services, Inc.’s (“ICTSI”) sale of its international ports to Hutchison Port Holdings). Mr. Ho has served on the board of AutoFlightX Inc. and was also previously on the boards of Pacific Textiles Ltd. (SEHK: 1382), China Dili Group (formerly known as Renhe Commercial Holdings, SEHK: 1387), China Digital TV Holding Co. (an NYSE-listed company until its delisting in 2017), Eastern Multimedia Group, and ON Media Corporation.
Mr. Ho received a Master of Business Administration degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from National Taiwan University. He was a Board member of the Wharton Executive Board for Asia from 2011 to 2020.