Financial IT expert ventures into e-learning

BEIJING - IT specialist, ventral capitalist and founding CEO of Global View Technology, a start up company specializing in e-learning, Chen Zhongsu - like many overseas returnees - has ambitions all his own.

With more than 20 years of experience in information technology, including nine years with Wall Street firms like Standard & Poors, New York Life and Ambac Financial Group, Chen was invited to come back to his home country in 2001 as an IT specialist in the finance sector, as the country strives toward the development of its own capital markets.

He was first appointed deputy chief technology officer at the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) to help develop the bourse's new transaction system, which costs 400 million yuan (58.56 million). Starting from scratch, Chen helped build a team with dozens of IT specialists to be in charge of running the system and improving business and technology innovation.