Christine Y. Zhao, Chief Financial Officer of Tiedemann Advisors, an independent investment and wealth management platform for high-net-worth families and institutions. She is Director & CFO of Edoc Acquisition Corp (Nasdaq: ADOC), a healthcare-focused Special Purpose Acquisition Company (“SPAC”), Director & Audit Committee Chair of D&Z Media Acquisition Corp.(NYSE: DNZ), a media and ed tech focused SPAC, and Board member of Jaguar Global Growth Corp I (Nasdaq: JGGC), a prop tech focused SPAC. She is also Chair of Governance and Nomination Committee of publicly listed biopharma company BeyondSpring Inc.(Nasdaq: BYSI) and a Board member of fintech SaaS company Urban FT. Previously she served as Chief Financial Officer for two large PE-backed growth-stage companies, including Best Inc., a pre-IPO logistics technology company with major investors including Alibaba, Softbank, among other large PE funds, which later priced its initial public offering at over $3 billion valuation (NYSE: BEST). Prior to this, she was a Managing Director in Bank of America Merrill Lynch and an Executive Director in JPMorgan, where she held senior positions in HQ and global corporate and investment banking units, across a broad spectrum of functional areas including Treasury, liquidity products, capital management, risk management and regional CFO/COO in transaction banking and corporate banking units. She also worked at American Express in various capacities including corporate strategic planning and venture investing in payment solution space. Early in her career she worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and in corporate finance/corporate development at FedEx. She has worked in New York, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and China, and has managed teams across four continents.
A Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Christine holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics with distinction from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. She is a Board member of several non-profit organizations, including Volunteers of America - Greater New York, founded in 1896 and one of America's largest faith-based social service organizations with over $100mm budget, the Chinese Finance Association (TCFA) with over 7,000 members worldwide, and Asian Pacific American Advocates (OCA) Westchester & Hudson Valley Chapter. She’s also a founding Board member of the American Chinese Unite Care (ACUC), a charity coalition of 159 community organizations which raised $5.8mm funds and PPEs for the tri-state area medical workers and first-responders in Covid-19 relief between March-May 2020.