Is Jason Kolsevich a Lobbyist for CHINA????
The bio isn't ever going to say he's a lobbyist, but here's what you find on him and you have to connect a couple of dots. Here are the dots I found.
Not listed in his bio was that his work for the International Monetary Fund was in Beijing.
He's a director at Waters Street, which is a consulting agency based in Washington D.C. and states on their web site that 70% of their business is outside the US. Their work concentrates heavily on joint ventures.
BTW, he took his wife's name when they got married, but at least she didn't make him take her boyfriend's name. His original last name was Kolsevich.
The Waters Street web site is weird, but a lot of ambiguously named companies have web sites that are like that. Here's what shows up under a duckduckgo description in one article, but the text isn't anywhere on the page:
Jason Kolsevich. Jason is a Consultant at Water Street Partners. His recent experience includes economic advisory with the IMF (Beijing), global market research with the EIU (New York), and finance/operations with the U.N. (Bonn). Previously, Jason worked for a Fortune 500 TMT conglomerate as a Global Partner supporting JV/M&A strategy and ...
So, his bio has been recently changed, and the article that apparently used to have his name on it, but now has the managing director's name on it is about a joint venture between ViiV Healthcare, Pfizer, and GlaxoSmithKline. It was done to combine the companies' HIV/AIDS R&D activities, product portfolios, etc, to create the world's second largest HIV-focused healthcare company.