Founder of CITIC Capital Holdings Ltd., Yi Chen Zhang is a Chinese businessperson who has been at the helm of 22 different companies and currently holds the position of Chairman & Chief Executive Officer for CITIC Capital Holdings Ltd., Chairman at CITIC Capital China Mezzanine Fund Ltd., Chairman at CITIC Capital Asset Management Ltd., Chairman at CITIC Capital Partners Ltd. (China) and Chief Executive Officer of TruStar Capital (which are all subsidiaries of CITIC Capital Holdings Ltd.), Chairman for Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Holding Co., Ltd., Chairman of GNC Holdings, Inc., Chairman of China Universal Leasing Co., Ltd., Chairman at Shsun Education Co., Ltd., Chairman for Grand Foods Holdings Ltd., Chairman for CITIC Capital Equity Investment (Tianjin) Co., Ltd., Chairman at Citic Capital Cultural Tourism Chengdu Co. Ltd., Chairman of Citic Capital Ningbo Investment Management Co. Ltd., Chairman for Citic Shenzhen Innovative Equity Investment Mgmt Co. Ltd., Chairman for McDonald's Corp. (China), Chairman of China Auto System Technologies Ltd. and Chairman at McDonald's (China) Co., Ltd. Mr. Zhang is also Member of China Economic & Social Council and on the board of 83 other companies.

In his past career Yi Chen Zhang occupied the position of Chairman of Genertec Universal Medical Group Co., Ltd., Managing Director at Merrill Lynch Ventures LLC, Managing Director at CITIC International Financial Holdings Ltd., President & Executive Director at CITIC Pacific Communications Ltd., Principal at NatWest Markets Securities, Inc., Managing Director-Debt Capital Market at Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Ltd., Head-Proprietary Trading at The Bank of Tokyo Ltd. and Member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

He received an undergraduate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.