Joe Zhou, Keytone Ventures, Founder & Managing Partner

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		Joe Zhou is a Founding Managing Partner at Keytone Ventures. Joe is one of the most active VCs in China. Joe began his venture capital career in late 1999 with Softbank China Venture Capital as Head of Beijing Office. He joined Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund in 2001. He was a Partner at SAIF when SAIF II was raised. Prior to founding Keytone Ventures, he was a Founding Managing Partner at KPCB China. He was named Top Ten Venture Capitalists by CVCF/Zero2IPO in 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2007. He was named VC of the Year in 2005 by TopCapital. Joe focuses on identifying market opportunities in cleantech, technology, media and consumer sectors. Prior to founding Keytone Ventures, he served on 7 boards for KPCB China. He had significant involvement in many of SAIF’s investments such as Shanda (“SNDA”), Acorn (“ATV”), ATA (“ATAI”), Alchip, Unionpay Merchant and Yasi. Joe currently serves on the board of Acorn, Joe returned to China from the US in 1995 as Vice President of UTStarcom China. He was responsible for managing investments for UTStarcom and its major shareholder Softbank. Prior to that, he spent six years in New Jersey working at AT&T Bell Labs as a consultant and at Lepton Inc. as a project manager. From 1982 to 1987, he spent 5 years teaching at Beijing University of Technology. Joe holds a MSEE from New Jersey Institute of Technology and a BSEE from Beijing University of Technology.