James Chen

James (Zheng) Chen has served as our director since June 2015. He has served as the chief executive officer of Origin Agritech since March, 2018 and was appointed a director of Origin on August 30, 2017. He was Origin Agritech’s CFO from 2012 to 2016. Dr. Chen’s previous professional experience includes CFO of Yunji Inc., a fast-growing e-commerce business, investment manager at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), and senior equity analyst positions at Morgan Joseph and BB&T Capital Markets. Dr. Chen also worked as a Product Manager at Celanese and as a License Product Technology Manager at Univation Technologies, a joint venture between ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut and his M.B.A degree from New York University. Mr. Chen has a professional designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”).