Karan Darroch
Karan Darroch joined Dunedin in 2012. She is responsible for the provision of detailed financial information for Dunedin’s investors, as well as the analysis of portfolio performance.
Karan has an honours degree in Accountancy from Glasgow Caledonian University. Whilst at university she worked as a team leader at First Direct Bank. Following graduation, she joined KPMG where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant. She spent 2 years seconded to KPMG Melbourne before returning to the UK as a senior manager in the Financial Services Audit team.
Zhang Li
Vice President of Canaan Creative. Ms. Zhang Li obtained her Master of Engineering degree from Tsinghua University, with a CPA certificate. Ms. Zhang Li has worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and Guotai Junan Securities M&A Department. She has led several overseas listing projects and has served more than 10 A-share listed companies in the internet and service sectors. Since 2014, she has been the vice president and secretary of the board of Hangzhou Shunwang Technology, the leading Internet entertainment platform company in China, responsible for the company's strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions and investment. During her tenure, Ms. Zhang Li led the investment in the domestic outstanding film and television entertainment company Ciwen Media, mixed ownership of the first single China Telecom's love game base, Donews, iKuai wifi. In addition, she led the acquisition of the light casual game platform 91y, the world's largest game show Chinajoy and China’s leading security platform Guo Rui Xin An.
In 2018, Ms. Zhangl Li established Canaan Creative’s investment team and an international legal team, led the AI business from scratch, and promoted the company to further deepen the edge of AI.
Yichen Shen
Yichen Shen is a co-founder and CEO of Lightelligence. He received his PhD degree in Physics from MIT in 2016, where his research focused on nanophotonics and artificial intelligence. Through his PhD, Yichen has published more than 25 peer-reviewed journal papers and has filed 10 US patents, including first authored papers in Science, Nature Photonics, and ICML (the top machine learning conference). In 2017, Yichen received Forbes 30 under 30 Global and MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators under 35 (TR35) China.