Kang Jingwei
Kang Jingwei is a Hong Kong Chinese entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Cogobuy.[1]
Biography
Kang was born in Chongqing in 1970. He graduated from the Department of Electronic Engineering at South China University of Technology in 1991. From 1992 to 1995, he worked as a sales engineer at Panasonic. In 1995, he invested USD $50,000 to establish Comtech Group, a computer component distribution company.[2] In 2002, Comtech Group was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. By 2006, Kang had made the Forbes rich list with a personal valuation of RMB ¥17 billion. In 2011, he founded Cogobuy, which later developed into China’s largest O2O e-commerce platform for electronic manufacturing procurement.[3] In July 2014, Cogobuy was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and, in March 2015, became a constituent stock of the Hang Seng Index Series.
Honors
In 2015, Kang received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in China.[4]
References
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BA%B7%E6%95%AC%E4%BC%9F#cite_ref-Executive_Profile_Jingwei_Kang_1-0
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BA%B7%E6%95%AC%E4%BC%9F#cite_ref-Forbes_2-0
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BA%B7%E6%95%AC%E4%BC%9F#cite_ref-Bloomberg_Business_3-0
- ↑ Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 – China Technology Entrepreneur Award recipient , Ernst & Young official site.