Mr. Ying is a Venture Partner and Special Adviser to West 22nd Capital Partners, an Asia-based Multi-Family Office backed Private Equity Firm, leveraging the influence of the respective listed companies of these families, which span the industries of real estate, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and technology and collectively have a market cap over $100 billion USD. He is particularly well-versed in China outbound investment activity and has been interviewed by and contributed for the BBC World News and SINA, along with publications like the Pinkwater Report.
Mr. Ying is also a Partner and CEO of Panta Neos S.A., a real estate private equity firm that is focused on investing in value add opportunities in Greece while offering turn-key management solutions for its end-users.
Wen-Lee is a supporter of social impact ventures, and was the Strategic Advisor for the IXI (Investment meets Impact) Collective - acquired by Ixora - that brings together global resources to both invest in and incubate social impact businesses.
He has been a speaker at Asia's largest TEDx forum, has been a panelist for numerous cross border investment summits, and a curator of several conferences, forums, and panels that have targeted both industry professionals and students alike.
Previously, Mr. Ying ran a corporate-incubated venture in Asia-Pacific and grew the business from the ground up into an investment vehicle that financed approximately 4.5 billion USD of real estate assets in the US.
Mr. Ying had attended the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College and Columbia Honors Program. He was co-founder of NextStep Shanghai, which was the leading entrepreneurship networking association in Shanghai at the time, and a co- founder of the Shanghai Chapter of the Urban Land Institute, a global institute with over 30,000 members worldwide. He also created the Entrepreneur Mentorship Program within the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC.
Wen-Lee holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an Emphasis in Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He is a native English speaker and fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
