Based in Shanghai · Building globally
Oliver Sun.
Zero • To • One
I break things down. I own every problem. I challenge assumptions to make improvements. And I deliver value, not hours.
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Based in Shanghai · Building globally
Zero • To • One
I break things down. I own every problem. I challenge assumptions to make improvements. And I deliver value, not hours.
Get in touch
About
Oliver Sun is a Spanish founder and entrepreneur based in Shanghai, growing a prefabricated building business between China and Australia.
With a background in Business Management, he understood that the biggest opportunities live in the fastest-changing markets. Thus he left the comfort zone of Spain to bet on the velocity of China.
Journey
I started my career at Deloitte as an auditor and quickly realized it wasn’t for me. Reviewing financial statements from the outside, without being involved in the day-to-day of a business, wasn’t what I wanted. I wanted to build things rather than observe them.
China felt like the right bet: a high-growth market full of opportunity, and far enough from Barcelona to force me to grow. Before looking for a job, I spent a year at BLCU learning Mandarin while auditing classes at Tsinghua and Peking University in my free time. I didn’t go there as a tourist passing through. I went there because I had decided to stay.
With the language and cultural context in place, I began working in China. I spent a year at ACCIÓ advising Spanish companies on market entry and quickly saw why many struggled. The opportunity was there, but preparation often wasn’t.
That year was an education in how business actually gets done in China: how decisions are made, how much relationships matter, and why humility and local understanding are critical.
Sometimes life calls you back home. I returned to Barcelona for personal reasons, but I wasn't willing to put my career on hold. I actively looked for opportunities and landed at Alstom Power during its integration with GE, working in project controlling across multimillion-euro energy contracts. My first real exposure to the financial complexity of a large multinational: budgets, forecasts, cross-functional coordination at scale.
The contract was tied to the post-merger restructuring. When the integration phase ended and the team was reduced, so did the opportunity to stay. I left on good terms, with a clear sense of what I'd learned, and headed back to Asia.
I returned to Shanghai and joined Anken Group, where I worked alongside someone who would become one of the most influential people in my career. A mentor with a track record that spoke for itself: WeWork APAC, real estate development across Asia.
When she left to found Bibo Build and asked me to join, the answer was obvious. What followed was seven years of building from scratch: forty projects, AUD 5.5M in revenue, a supply chain between China and Australia, and every function of a business handled at once.
Closing a chapter isn't failure. It's knowing when you've learned everything that chapter had to teach you.
I'm looking for a high-growth company, ideally in technology or an adjacent industry, where operational depth, ownership culture and the ability to build in complex environments actually matter. I've done it before, in places most people find complicated, and i'm ready to do it again at a bigger scale.
Contact
If you're building something interesting, thinking about China, or want to explore an idea that most people would call crazy, I want to hear it.