After a sorry season, Aston Villa fans found a reason to rejoice as the club got a new owner, Chinese businessman Dr. Tony Xia.
His dad was an agricultural technician and his mother was a housewife. Having been academically talented, “Xia Jiantong”, moved to the United States to study at Harvard and MIT, and has took a five-month exchange at Oxford University.
Xia is now the CEO of Recon Group, the China-based multinational holding company that owns the Midlanders now. Xia became boss of the organization back in 2004, as he struck rich in the urban development industry.