Meet Team Members
Stone Chun Shi is a painter and musician who immigrated from Nanjing to New York in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, he has actively participated in exhibitions at prominent contemporary art venues in New York, including the Alternative Museum, Clocktower, White Columns, and various European art museums. The Grimm Museum in Germany collected his work “A Love Story”. In the mid-1990s, Stone gained fame in Taiwan with a series of advertisements for Oolong Tea, releasing the heavy metal album "Street Rocker." In 1995, he joined MTV Asia as a VJ, interviewed by mainstream media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Tonight.
In 2010, Stone created a series of six oil paintings of the Chinese currency, forming his unique visual language, the "Stone Oil Cube." Since 2010, he has continued to create a series of artworks using the Stone Oil Cube (www.shicube.com). In 2018, his work "Buddha Rose" achieved remarkable sales at the Poly Auction Autumn Sale. In 2021, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's New York branch commissioned his painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival," solidifying the prominence of " Stone Oil Cube." His works have twice graced the Chinese magazine "Collectio" covers. He has been featured on Sinovision, a Chinese TV station in New York, and China Central Television. In 2020, Stone established the Stonecube Art Association, dedicated to helping artists through various art projects. In December 2022, he participated in the fifth Maritime Silk Road International Art Exhibition in Quanzhou, garnering media attention.
In 2023, Stone organized the "Light and Love" charity art exhibition and concert in Princeton through the Stonecube Art Association, raising funds for the "Melodic Vision Scholarship" at the Peabody School of Music, Johns Hopkins University.
Martin R.Wade is a businessperson who has been at the head of 9 different companies and is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Broadcaster, Inc., Chairman and Chief Financial Officer at Vita Mobile Systems, Inc., Co-Chairman for Giga Carbon Neutrality, Inc. and Partner-in-Residence at Catalyst Acquisition Group LLC. He is also on the board of 6 other companies. He previously was President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at Digital Creative Development Corp., Chief Executive Officer of Bengal Capital Partners LLC, Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President of COMSovereign Holding Corp., Chairman and chief Executive Officer for Payless ShoeSource, Inc., Non-Executive Chairman of Old Holdco, Inc., Chairman & Chief Financial Officer at Gold Mining USA, Inc., President & Chief Executive Officer for International Microcomputer Software, Inc., Managing Director at Prudential Securities, Director & National Head-Investment Banking at Morgan Grenfell & Co. Ltd., Managing Director at Pricewaterhouse & Co., Director & National Head-Investment Banking at C.J. Lawrence, Inc., Managing Director-Mergers & Acquisitions at Salomon Brothers, Inc. and Head-Exclusive Sales & Divestitures at Lehman Brothers, Inc. He received an MBA from the University of Wyoming and an undergraduate degree from West Virginia.
Sonia Hu is a TV producer, writer, and publisher known as Hu Tao and Niu Yue Tao Hua. Sonia has worked as a television producer for major networks such as CCTV in China and CBS and MTV in the United States.
In the 1980s, Sonia began writing articles for magazines like "Foreign Drama" and "Reader's Digest," making her a member of the Chinese Women Journalists Association. In the early 1990s, after graduating with a master's degree from the TV Production Department at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College, Sonia started working for CBS. In 1994, she became the distribution manager for the Chinese market in the International Expansion Department of MTV in New York. 1995, Sonia was sent to MTV Asia to produce three daily music television programs, including the first music TV show in mainland China, "Tianlai Cun" (Village of Heavenly Sounds). In 1999, Sonia and Stone Chun Shi co-founded a television production company and created, filmed, and produced the 13-episode TV series "60 Minutes Looking at America," securing broadcast contracts with seven television stations in China. Since 2019, Sonia has founded Long Publisher (www.longpublisher.com) and served as the chief editor and publisher.
Since 2010, Sonia has contributed non-fiction articles, poetry, and novels to newspapers and magazines in the United States, Taiwan, and China. Her works have received numerous awards, including first place and honorable mentions in the Overseas Chinese Literature Awards. Her literary biographies, "Shanghai Forever Lost" and "Reminiscence of Fleeting Time," won the Outstanding Creative Award at the inaugural 2022 Overseas Chinese Film and Television Literature Awards and the first prize in news reporting at the 2023 Overseas Chinese Literature Awards, respectively.
Jie has over 20 years of institutional investment management experience. Before founding Songbird, she worked with Citi Alternative Investments as Vice President of Investment Management and Portfolio Risk Management.
Jie joined Citi Alternative Investments in 2002 as a risk manager responsible for overseeing individual hedge funds and managing accounts with $3.5 billion assets in aggregate. In 2004, she joined the team and was accountable for strategy research, due diligence, and manager selection. There, she focused on event-driven and special situation strategies. As a member of an investment team managing over $12 billion in assets, Jie developed an index to mimic merger arbitrage strategy returns and led a team to determine the feasibility of creating an Asian Fund of Hedge Funds.
In 2011, Jie left Citigroup and founded Songbird Capital to provide individuals and institutions with cost-efficient, value-added, and tailored investment programs. Songbird Capital is actively involved in local non-profits such as United Front Against River Blindness, Petey Greene, Princeton Cornerstone Community Kitchen, and Minding Our Business, supporting those organizations through donations and volunteer work. She has been an endowment committee member for the Princeton United Methodist Church Endowment since 2009. She serves on the board of trustees for the United Methodist Stewardship Foundation of Greater New Jersey.
Jie was interviewed by Beijing TV in 2006 for their documentary “Chinese Women on Wall Street.” In 2017, Jie became an “Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business” award recipient.
Melodic Vision Scholarship
Jie Hayes established the Melodic Vision Scholarship in 2023 to support scholarships for Peabody students with severe physical disabilities and to encourage inclusivity.
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