Managing Partner
Carnegie Towers Group
Henry Tang is a 35 year investment banking veteran of Wall Street having participated in the global development and transformation of the capital markets that exists today.
As an experienced securities management executive, he has been engaged in domestic and global securities and banking activities for several of the largest Wall Street investment banks, among them, Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers, Prudential, and Jefferies & Co.
Today, he is the managing partner of Carnegie Towers Group, a global strategic investment advisory organization to mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds and institutional investment managers.
After earning BS and MBA degrees from Columbia University , he entered the Wall Street investment industry as an economist with subsequent assignments in research analysis, portfolio strategy, corporate finance, sales, syndication, trading and securities corporate management. His numerous corporate finance assignments include the financing of Air Melita (Malta), the Veronex Resources acquisition of the Enim oil reserves, and the CITIC exploratory study of a U.S. investment bank acquisition. He has also had assignments and been active in the markets of Britain, Germany, and France as well as in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.
Prior to joining Wall Street, his financial industry experience included 4 years as a credit analyst/loan officer specializing in receivable and trade financing for a division of CIT Financial and Chemical Bank.
In addition, he has also had a long-standing commitment towards fostering conditions for the advancing Asian economies through public policy. To further this goal, he has been active as a governor, chairman and co-founder of Committee of 100, a non-governmental public policy organization engaged in U.S.-China relations since 1989 as well as an 18 year chairman of the Chinese American Planning Council, a New York public service agency.
Henry Tang has also served as a founder and director of the Asian Financial Society, the Chinese American Executive Forum. He has also served on the New York-Beijing Sister City Commission. In 1987, Mayor Edward Koch granted him the Ethnic New Yorker Award. He is also the first recipient of the Asian American Business Achievement Award and was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor as well as the Bridge to Brotherhood Award.
Currently, he is also serving on the boards of the New York 2012 Olympic Committee, and the advisory boards of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese Studies, and trustee for the Committee on Economic Development, a Washington based policy organization comprised of retired CEOs.