Sage Brennan

Sage Brennan is an independent media and Internet analyst based in Shanghai, China. Sage has a broad range of marketing, consumer research, market entry and financial analysis experience in China, as both an advisor and a manager of entrepreneurial companies.

Sage is a founder and organizer of the Shanghai chapter of the global MobileMonday movement, one of the most active chapters of over 50 around the world with over three thousand participants.

He was also recently Research Director of Hong Kong-based hedge fund Pacific Sun Investment Management and Chief Representative of the firm’s China operations, based in Shanghai. Sage was earlier General Manager of Shanghai-based Pacific Epoch, a boutique telecom and technology research firm that was acquired by JL McGregor & Co. in 2006.

He contributed the weekly ‘This Week in China’ column to Dow Jones’ MarketWatch for two years, and remains a frequent commentator on China-related media and technology issues in print media and on programs such as CNBC’s ‘Asia Squawk Box.’

Sage also spent two years at a technology research firm in Beijing, where he advised on strategic approaches to investing in China. His early career included sales and marketing roles at Nextel Communications and at several venture capital-backed technology firms in Silicon Valley. A native of Boston, Sage holds both an MBA and an undergraduate degree in International Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has been speaking and studying Mandarin since he first lived in Beijing in 1987.

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