Mr Boettcher was a founding partner of Focus Ventures in 1997.

He leads Focus Ventures'  business development efforts for its U.S. portfolio companies in Asia. Value-added activities include recruiting, finding manufacturing and sales & marketing partners and establishing new or joint-venture Asian entities. He established Focus Ventures Shanghai Representative Office in 2001. Jim led the Focus Ventures investment in and is on the Advisory Committee for Golden Sands River Ventures in Beijing, a successful early-stage venture fund. As a long-time senior advisor to the Cha Group in Hong Kong, he helped organize and is on the Investment Committee for the Beijing and Shanghai-based Mingly China Growth Fund, one of China's leading private equity firms managing both U.S. dollar and RMB funds in a strategic partnership with the Jiangsu Provincial private equity fund.

Mr. Boettcher has an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA (as an Arjay Miller Scholar) and MA degrees from Stanford University. He was a cofounder in 1986 and Managing Director of a successful investment banking boutique, Amsterdam Pacific Corporation (APC) along with CITIC (Beijing), which was purchased by a large European bank in 1994. Mr. Boettcher has many years of experience and a successful track record in expansion stage investing and was a General Partner of BBU Mezzanine Funds I and II. Successful investments include Alteon WebSystems (Juniper), CoSine Communications, Telera (Alcatel), ONI, NetScaler (Citrix), Starent Networks, P.A. Semi (Apple), Pure Digital (Cisco), Deeptech, Hello Direct, US Filter (Vivendi), USA Waste (Waste Management Inc.) and Prism Radio Partners. Prior to forming APC, Jim worked at Ford Aerospace and was Vice President in the Telecommunications Section of the Bank of America's Investment Banking Group where he had investment banking assignments in the telecom, media, and high technology fields. He has concluded numerous complex financings in the U.S., Europe, and the Far East while based in London and Hong Kong with Bank of America and Crocker National Bank.