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Xiaodong joined NEA in 2005 to focus on investments in the rapidly growing China markets. In December 2005, he launched New Enterprise Associates (Beijing) Ltd. and opened its Beijing and Shanghai offices. Xiaodong currently helps manage and support all China related activities. Xiaodong's areas of interest include consumer and growth equity opportunities. He is on the board of Redbaby, BlueApple and Uni-Power Loan Guaranty. Xiaodong has co-sponsored NEA investments in Lianlian Pay, Leadtone, LineKong, ChinaWay, Baihe.com, Citic Pharmaceutical and Cathay Biotech, and works closely with Spreadtrum Communications, Availink and other NEA China portfolio companies. Xiaodong was recently honored by Entrepreneur magazine in China as one of China¡¯s most influential venture capitalists under age 40.
Prior to joining NEA, Xiaodong worked at ONStor, a storage networking start-up in marketing and business development and at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center on multimodal recognition. He was also a consultant to Hitachi on RFID market strategy. Xiaodong received a Master's degree from the University of Illinois and a bachelor's degree from Nanjing University in China. He was a a doctoral candidate in computer science at University of California, Berkeley as a United Nations Fellow and a Mayfield Fellow.
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