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The Next Generation is Built on Straw | Jerry Peng | TEDxCharlottesville

621 views · Published 23 January 2017 · 19:40 · Indexed 16 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2017 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Jerry Peng speaks on his life experience, and his transition from senior banker in Hong Kong to a green entrepreneur in the US.

Jerry Z. Peng is the Chairman and CEO of Vastly, Inc., a company that produces rapidly renewable, sustainable, and high quality straw is the perfect fiber to make the paper products of the future. Vastly's new earth-restorative technologies are ushering in a new era of paper making.He served previously as managing director with Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC, based in Hong Kong, managing corporate financing and derivatives business in the Investment Banking Division and corporate sales for the Securities Division in China. Prior to this, Mr. Peng was executive director of China Onshore Sales for the Fixed Income Division of Morgan Stanley, and senior vice president and director at Standard Chartered Bank, as well as head of China franchise corporate banking. He is a member of Committee 2005 in China. Mr. Peng serves as a trustee on the University of Virginia Darden Business School Foundation Board and as vice chairman of Darden’s Global Advisory Council. 

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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