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Shen Nanpeng (Neil Shen), one of the founders and managing partners of Sequoia Capital China, ranked first on the 2011 Top Venture Capitalists in China by the Chinese edition of Forbes magazine. This is the second time in a row that Shen was champion on the list.

Shen, 42, received a bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1988 and a master's degree from the School of Management at Yale University in 1992. After working for more than eight years in several prestigious companies in the investment banking industry in New York and Hong Kong, in 1999, Shen founded Ctrip.com, China's leading travel service enterprise that provides over 50 million registered members with comprehensive services including hotel reservations, flight ticketing, packaged tours and corporate travel management. He served as Ctrip's CFO from 2000 to 2005 and its president from 2003 to 2005. In August 2005, Shen founded Sequoia Capital China with Zhang Fan, another outstanding venture capitalist.