{"id":458,"date":"2016-07-14T07:54:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T07:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avic.londonvalueinvestor.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2016-11-26T17:49:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:49:54","slug":"tbc-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valueinvest.com\/hongkong\/tbc-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Edouard Mercier"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/mbp-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/Edouard-Mercier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-477 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/mbp-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/Edouard-Mercier.jpg\" alt=\"Edouard Mercier\" width=\"210\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.valueinvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/Edouard-Mercier.jpg 210w, https:\/\/cdn.valueinvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/Edouard-Mercier-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Edouard Mercier,<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascendercapital.com\">Ascender Capital<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Edouard is Co-Founder and Investment Partnerat Ascender Capital.\u00a0Prior to founding Ascender Capital in Hong Kong in 2012, Edouard\u00a0built a successful entrepreneurial background as co-founder of Sendit AB, a Swedish telecommunications software company that was acquired by Microsoft in 1999. After its acquisition, he set up and managed Microsoft\u2019s Mobile Internet Business Unit in Asia until 2001. From 2002 to 2004, Edouard\u00a0was the leading investor and CEO of Incomit AB, which was later on acquired by BEA Systems. The acquisition was a key enabler for BEA and then Oracle\u2019s entry into the telecommunications field.\u00a0Since 2005, Edouard\u00a0has been an active financial investor in a number of publicly listed companies and closed-end funds. On occasion he has played an active role in the success of his investments; for example, he served on the board of InfoVista SA during its restructuring and up to its acquisition by Thoma Bravo in 2012.\u00a0Edouard holds an M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and an MBA from INSEAD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edouard Mercier, Ascender Capital Edouard is Co-Founder and Investment Partnerat Ascender Capital.\u00a0Prior to founding Ascender Capital in Hong Kong in 2012, Edouard\u00a0built a successful entrepreneurial background as co-founder of Sendit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valueinvest.com\/hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valueinvest.com\/hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valueinvest.com\/hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valueinvest.com\/hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valueinvest.com\/hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.valueinvest.com\/hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/www.valueinvest.com\/hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valueinvest.com\/hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valueinvest.com\/hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valueinvest.com\/hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valueinvest.com\/hongkong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}