16 Facts About Donald Tang

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Donald Tang is the founder of Tang Media Partners and Global Road Entertainment.

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In November 2022, Donald Tang joined Chinese fast-fashion brand Shein as executive vice chairman.

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Donald Tang was born in Shanghai, China, where his parents were college professors.

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In March 1999, Donald Tang moved to Chicago and managed the Bear Stearns Midwest Region.

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Donald Tang was then transferred to Los Angeles, with a dual mandate to both manage its West Coast operations and, as chairman and CEO of Bear Stearns Asia, to supervise all activity in Asia.

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In 2003, Donald Tang was appointed chairman and president of Bear Stearns International Holdings.

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Donald Tang was instrumental in advising an arm of the CITIC Group during its unprecedented $1.15 billion acquisition of Nations Energy in Kazakhstan.

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Donald Tang led the Bear Stearns team representing Hunan Valin Group, a Chinese steel company, when it sold a 37 percent stake to Mittal Steel in what was then the largest acquisition by an international strategic investor of a Chinese-listed firm.

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Under Donald Tang's leadership, Bear Stearns Asia was the financial advisor to the telecommunications giant China Mobile and jointly led its secondary offering.

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Donald Tang continued expanding the global reach of TMP with the purchase of the US motion picture distributor Open Road Films from AMC and Regal.

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Donald Tang recruited Rob Friedman, the former co-chairman of Lionsgate's Motion Picture Group, former vice chair of Paramount Pictures and a former longtime executive at Warner Brothers to be chairman and CEO of Global Road.

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Donald Tang is behind such box office and critically acclaimed hits such as La La Land, Hacksaw Ridge and The Hurt Locker.

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Today, Donald Tang continues to pursue his interest in finance and real estate through select private ventures.

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Donald Tang hosted the C100 panel on Hollywood and China in Beverly Hills on April 16,2016.

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Donald Tang was a featured speaker at the Variety magazine-sponsored 2015 US-China Film and TV Expo in Los Angeles.

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Donald Tang was keynote speaker at the 2010 University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Asia Conference, He has been profiled in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Los Angeles Times.