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| Alma mater | Columbia Business School Columbia University |
| Occupation(s) | Chinese American billionaire, Wall Street financier, institutional investor and strategic adviser
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Benjamin Wey (Tianbing Benjamin Wei) is a Chinese-American Wall Street financier, publisher and journalist, philanthropist, and CEO of New York Global Group, a company that promotes stock in Chinese companies to US investors.
Regulatoru Problems
In January 2012, Wey's Wall Street offices were raided by the FBI. Documents were removed and staff interviewed, but no charges resulted.. According to the Financial Times'', in 2005 he was banned from doing business in oklahoma.
Early life
Benjamin Wey is a resident of New York City. He was born in China and came to the United States in his teens with only $62 in his pocket to attend college on full academic and Valedictorian scholarships. Wey was educated at Columbia Business School of Columbia University in New York City where he received a master's degree in business administration.
Work
Benjamin Wey is the CEO of New York Global Group, a U.S. and Asia based venture capital and private equity investment firm that "is known for helping take midsize Chinese companies public in the United States through reverse mergers, or by buying the shell of defunct American companies that had been publicly listed". As an adviser to numerous Fortune Global companies as well as several governments, Wey claims to manage crisis, market entry, and complex funding for many economic and political forces. Interviewed on Fox Business News, Wall Street Journal, CCTV America and CNBC, Wey claimed that he helps to increase American jobs by introducing foreign capital to invest in American communities which in turn provide job growth and economic expansion in several regions across America.
Other activity
Wey has been a visiting professor at some universities in the United States and around the world. In addition, he has published articles and comments that give advice, guidance, and perspective on global finance, where he specializes in leadership strategies especially with Chinese companies.| He has been a visiting professor of finance at China University of Petroleum, guest professor at the Zhejiang University School of Management, and a guest lecturer at the University of Maryland. He continues to lecture and speak at other universities.
Wey's connection with online magazine "The Blot" has been criticised, and he has been accused of sending threatening letters to those who have done so.
References
- "New York Global Group CEO and China Expert Benjamin Wey Presents at the Carnegie Mellon University US - China Summit -Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Carnegie Mellon University". cmu.edu. Retrieved 2014-04-28. (This CMU story is attributed to "New York Global Group CEO and China Expert Benjamin Wey Presents at the Carnegie Mellon University US - China Summit", Wall Street Journal, April 29, 2013., attributed to PR Newswire, and labelled "The Wall Street Journal news department was not involved in the creation of this content.")
- "Made in China, undone in America", ft.com, July 26, 2011. Accessed 14 June 2014
- "The FBI Pay Benjamin Wey A Visit", The Financial Investigator, January 2012. Accessed 14 June 2014
- "Made in China, undone in America - FT.com". ft.com. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- "Benjamin Wey, Author at TheBlot". theblot.com. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- "An interview with Benjamin Wey – The human bridge between China & America | Today's Machining World". todaysmachiningworld.com. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- "New York Global Group China Experts James Baxter and Benjamin Wey Featured... -- NEW YORK, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --". prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- "Meet Benjamin Wey, Media Mogul", Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation, February 3, 2014. Accessed 14 June 2014