Kenneth Huang

Jian-hua "Kenneth" Huang (Chinese: 黄健华; born 1965) is a Chinese businessman.

Born in Guangzhou, China into a family with close business and government ties, he graduated in 1984 from Zhongshan University. Huang then pursued under graduate studies at Columbia University, and then obtained his Masters from St. John's University, before undertaking his MBA in financial management at New York University.

In 1988, Huang became the first mainland educated Chinese person to work on Wall Street, as a public relations executive.

Huang and Chicago-based sports consultant Marc Ganis, founded Sportscorp China in 2004, a company that helps bridge sports and sponsorship deals between the United States and China. This enabled Chinese sponsorship and rights distribution deals with both the Houston Rockets and the New York Yankees.

Huang introduced the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2009 to Tsingtao Brewery, which resulted in an historic agreement between the two. In 2009, Huang and his partner Adrian Cheng, whose family controls the Hong Kong conglomerate New World Development, invested in Chinese sports leagues and teams. It was reported in early 2010 that Huang had acquired a 15% shareholding in the Cleveland Cavaliers, considered at the time the first significant investment in a large US sports franchise by Chinese investors. However, in April 2010 it was made clear by the Cavaliers that Huang's role with the Cavaliers was to have acted as a middleman to secure the team's sponsorship with Tsingtao. Adrien Cheng left his partnership with Huang soon after for unspecified reasons. After buying into and hence becoming co-chair of both the National Basketball League of China and the Chinese Baseball League, Huang bought the Jilin Northeast Tigers.

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