John Zhang

Managing Director, Sustainable Mining

John Zhang is Managing Director at Roc Global based in the Greater New York area. He joined Roc Global in 2018 and has over 30 years of experience in capital markets and investment banking businesses. At Roc Global, he has been involved with and successfully executed a variety of capital formation and M&A transactions in the Metals and Mining sector. He is also responsible for liaising with Asian institutional investors.

Before joining Roc Global, he was a founding partner at a global macro hedge fund and commodity trading advisor. He also served as a Managing Director at Bank of America, Citigroup, and Credit Agricole Lazard Financial Products, advising clients on complex capital market transactions in the US and throughout Asia. He started his career as a derivatives trader and convertible bond arbitrager in New York , as well as in Europe. He also serves on the investment committee of Fairfield County’s Community Foundation.

John graduated summa cum laude with bachelor’s degrees in mathematics, statistics, and economics from the University of Rochester and earned a master’s degree in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. John is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.