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Full Name
  
Jingwei Kang

Occupation
  
CEO of Cogobuy PLC

Nationality
  
Hong Kong

Name
  
Jeffrey Kang

Ethnicity
  
Chinese

Board member of
  
Cogobuy

Citizenship
  
Hong Kong


Jeffrey Kang

Born
  
February 6, 1970 (age 54) (
1970-02-06
)
Chongqing, China

Salary
  
US $500,000 USD (Bloomberg 2014)

Net worth
  
US$1.2 billion (Forbes 2015)

Residence
  

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Kang Jingwei (Chinese: 康敬伟, born February 6, 1970), known professionally as Jeffrey Kang, is the founder and CEO of Cogobuy Group PLC, the largest corporate procurement eCommerce platform for IC components in China.

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Early and Personal Life

Kang was born in the Chongqing Province of China on 6 February 1970 and currently holds a Hong Kong citizenship. He has two children with his wife Nan Ji and currently resides with his family in Overseas Chinese Town (OCT), Shenzhen, China.

In July 1991 Kang received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China, where he .

In 2006, Kang was ranked among the richest people in China by Forbes, with a net worth of ¥17 Billion CNY. In 2015, he joined the ranks of The World's Billionaires defined in USD by Forbes at age 45. Kang's total calculated executive compensation listed in his firm's annual accounts for 2014 was ¥2,933,000 CNY about $500,000 USD.

Business career

Kang started his career in China's telecommunications sector as a sales engineer in charge of the components business for Matsushita Electric Industrial now known as Panasonic from 1992 - 1995. In 1995 he invested $50,000 USD to form his own company 'The Comtech Group', to act as a distribution channel for the sale of electronic components in China. In 2002, the Comtech Group went public and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NASDAQ) as Viewtran (ticker: VIEW). In 2011, he established the first online platform for selling IC components in China, Cogobuy, which went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in July 2014 with an annual turnover of 84 billion CNY in 2014.

Honors and awards

  • 2015: Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award, China
  • References

    Jeffrey Kang Wikipedia


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