Jeffrey Kang, or Kang Jingwei (Chinese: 康敬伟, born February 6, 1970), is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the Shenzhen-based Cogobuy Group,[2] the largest corporate procurement e-commerce platform for IC components in China with worldwide sales and distribution.[3]
Kang started his career in China's telecommunications sector as a sales engineer in charge of the components business for Matsushita Electric Industrial now known as Panasonic from 1992 to 1995.[9] In 1995 he invested US$50,000 to start his own company called the Comtech Group,[10] to act as a distribution channel for the sale of electronic components in China.[11] In 2002, the Comtech Group went public and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NASDAQ) as Viewtran (ticker: VIEW).[12] In 2011, he established the first online platform for selling IC components in China, Cogobuy, which went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in July 2014 with an annual turnover of CN¥84 billion in 2014.