Peter Fuhrman is Chairman of China First Capital, Ltd. (www.chinafirstcapital.com), a boutique investment bank based in China and the USA. China First Capital works exclusively with China’s most innovative and high-growth SME companies, providing strategic financial advice and pre-IPO capital-raising.

In addition to his work with China First Capital, Peter is also a founder and CEO of Awareness Technologies, a security software company based in Los Angeles, California that was recently named one of Deloitte’s “Fast 500” , the list of the fastest-growing technology businesses in North America.

Peter has had a varied career, spanning journalism, finance, management, technology, venture capital and private banking, investment banking - and all the while traveling relentlessly and seeking out as much of the world’s best cuisines as possible. He worked first as a management consultant focusing on China, then spent ten years, beginning in 1986, working for Forbes Inc., Peter spent eight years based in Europe for Forbes Magazine, as a foreign correspondent and editor, rising to become European Bureau Chief, and head of Forbes Magazine’s editorial operations in Europe. During these years, he was named four straight years as one of the 500 Most Influential Journalists in America.

Subsequently, Peter left journalism to help establish and then serve as a principal and director of a market-leading music software company, establishing partnerships with Intel, Compaq and AOL.

Peter then moved to Los Angeles to serve as CEO of a venture capital corporation. Peter managed a $50 million venture capital investment portfolio of 16 companies based in the US, Europe and Israel operating in the software, computer hardware, internet services and healthcare fields. He served on numerous corporate boards. Investors include European and American hedge funds, private equity groups, corporations.In late 2003, Peter was recruited to serve as Chairman and CEO of a film finance company during its IPO process on the NASDAQ market in the USA.

These days, Peter has time for little else except the two great businesses he works for, China First Capital and Awareness Technologies. He likes it that way.

He graduated with his BA in Chinese History from Tufts University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He holds an M.Phil degree from Cambridge University in Britain, and also did postgraduate studies at Nanjing University in China, and as a Yale Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Peter has lectured at UCLA’s Anderson Business School on entrepreneurship, private equity and venture capital. He enjoys cycling, and is an avid collector of antique Chinese and Tibetan art.