Tim Clissold is one of the few Western writers on business in China. He is the author of a memoir detailing how he helped the Wall Street trader Jack Perkowski to invest over $400 million in mainland China as the country first opened up to foreign direct investment. Clissold was briefly president of the foreign-invested ASIMCO Technologies before parting company from Perkowski, who claims never to have read the book that gave him the nickname Mr. China' Clissold is currently the CEO of Peony Capital, a Beijing-based fund for investing in emission reductions and clean energy in China.