Joe Zhou

Mr Zhou has experience in cross border transactions into and out of China. He has previously worked for Ernst and Young and Price Waterhouse in Shanghai where he worked on Hong Kong listings of clients and provided transaction services support for more than 30 deals covering the manufacturing, real estate, asset management, chemical, motor spare parts and body care industries. From 2011 to 2014 Mr Zhou was an investment Director at PE Fund Shanghai Linhui Fund where he played a role leading the financial assessment of 6 projects. Subsequently Mr Zhou was CFO of Shanghai Taisheng Wind Power Equipment Co Limited from 2014 to January 2018 where he had a team of 31 members in 19 subsidiaries, including 2 subsidiaries in Canada. Here he implemented a new ERP system and set up the group finance share service centre standardising internal control and accounting processes throughout the group. For most of the remainder of 2018 Mr Zhou was then the CFO for Sunglow Australia - Energy and Commodity Division with 4 of his team members in Australia and 4 in Hong Kong and Shanghai. He also led the overall risk control process for all projects of Sunglow Australia in mainland China and Hong Kong to ensure investment rigour as well as being responsible for the financial due diligence on PE investment target companies. Mr Zhou brings a financial rigour to FOD as well as experience in these cross-border transactions and operations in China.