Nick NING

• Equity Research + data insight, dedicated to integrating big data into research to enable data-driven investment decisions
• Self-motivated; critical thinking; curious in new areas and eager to learn; detail oriented

Dec 2017 to 2024        Executive Director, Product Dev / Data Partnership,  UBS Evidence Lab,  Shanghai

China team core member; develop data partnership, manage contract flow, data risk control, data collection, ingestion and product design for Research to support their investment thesis / make more convicted calls across sectors / regions

Jan 2016 to Nov 2017    Research Director, Strategy & Overseas Dept,  TalkingData,  Shanghai / Beijing 

Build an investment research team to serve investors looking for data-driven investment ideas in public / private equities;

Identify the secular trends and emerging start-ups by leveraging its massive in-house SDK data as well as partners’ data; attend & speak at sell-side conferences

Oct 2012 to Dec 2015    Sr. Research Analyst,   86Research                                    Shanghai 

Early member of this boutique equity research house influential among offshore investors focusing on China internet; cover on China online entertainment stocks such as Tencent, NetEase

Mar 2008 to Sep 2012   Research Associate / Research Analyst,   ROTH Capital Partners       Shanghai

Cover China internet & consumer sectors (online game, budget hotel, education, e-commerce & advertising, consumer product etc); build an extensive network along the industry value chain of covered companies/competitors

Jul 2003 to Feb 2008   Reporter,   Shanghai Daily newspaper                     Shanghai 

Write social and then biz news; liaise with various government agencies; did hot line / investigative reports, covered utilities, environment, machinery, pharmaceutical etc with a focus on internet

Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Shanghai International Studies University in 2003

Minor in Law Sciences from Fudan University in 2002 (2-yr study)