Mr. Val Huston is the Principal Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, leading a team of dedicated trade professionals increase commercial ties between the U.S. and China. Conducting U.S. commercial diplomacy to increase U.S. product and service exports to China includes: helping U.S. companies find market opportunities and Chinese trading partners; assisting Chinese firms find investment opportunities in the United States; promoting U.S. education and tourism opportunities; and advocating for U.S. national economic and trade interests.

Mr. Chapman has more than 17 years of real estate experience in China specializing in industrial and investment services. Prior to a career in real estate he gained 10 years of project management and construction experience in New Zealand. As the Director of Colliers International’s China Industrial Services, Mr. Chapman has a long track-record and extensive experience of working for numerous multi-national manufacturers, logistics service providers and real estate developers investing in China and the Asia region, including major MNC’s such as Intel, HP, Flextronics, Bosch, DHL, GE, Grainger, AMB, Sumitomo, and Yamato.

Edwin has overall responsibility for the development and management of Goodman North China portfolio, which includes projects in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong and Liaoning Provinces. He has ten years of experience in the property industry. Prior to joining Goodman, Edwin was the Chief Representative (China) of Boustead Projects, overseeing Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Wuxi offices. He also previously worked for JURONG International and was responsible for their operations in Qatar as Country Manager. Edwin holds a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore.

Mr. Anthony Couse is Head of JLL Capital Markets Business for China. Mr. Couse’s expertise covers marketing consultancy of major commercial developments, portfolio leasing, general market agency, tenant representation and investment transactions. He has worked on landmark projects in Hong Kong including Three Pacific Place, Chater House, Two ifc, Cheung Kong Centre, Times Square, Swire Properties’ Island East portfolio as well as Taipei 101. Mr. Couse holds a degree from the University of London and has attended a senior executive training program at INSEAD, France.

Mr. Tyler Crawford joined Walmart eight years ago and has spent his entire time working on the international side of the business. Tyler was a part of creating the Purchase Leverage team, where he supported each of Walmart’s international markets gain access to merchandise from around the world and then set up the supply chain to export/import the items. Following this assignment, he took on a trade strategy role within Walmart’s Global Sourcing division and was responsible for understanding global free trade agreements and preference programs in order to ensure Walmart is optimally sourcing merchandise and reducing duties/tariffs where possible. Tyler came to China in June 2013 to build the internal capabilities to grow imports for both Sam’s and Hypermarket business.

Mr. Frank Dietlein has 12 years professional experience in the fields of real estate acquisitions, investment and finance, transaction advisory, strategic consulting and corporate real estate management. He has worked and lived in European, Middle East and Asia/Pacific markets with a 3.5-year China market experience. He worked for Deutsche Bank and JLL (MENA and Germany) before joining Daimler in 2011. He received a MSc Real Estate (distinction) from the Henley Business School/University of Reading, UK; a German Diploma in Real Estate Management from the University of Mittweida, Germany; a Diploma in International Business Studies from the University of Kuopio, Finland. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (London UK) Beijing Chapter and of CoreNet, Beijing Chapter (Network of Corporate Real Estate Profession).

Dr. Fisher is the Senior Vice President of E&G Group. He has been active in working exclusively with foreign owned (WOFE) and JV clients in facilitating and bringing to successful completion many industrial design and construction projects throughout China. Concurrently he is also a principal in Satinwood Business Consulting Co. He has been a Senior Analyst for the Dalian Bureau of Science and Technology and a Senior Advisor to the Dalian Business Enterprise Association. He also served as the Senior Business Adviser to the faculty at the School of Management, Dalian University of Technology. Dr. Fisher has been conducting business in China for the past twenty years, and has significant experience working with WOFE’s, JV’s, Chinese private and State owned business, as well as, Chinese government agencies at all levels. His initial foray into China in the early 90’s was to open supply chains, qualify local manufactures, and open new manufacturing operations for several private and publicly traded companies where he held the positions of COO and CEO.

Mr. Peter Garrison has 10-year experience in industrial real estate private equity and investment advisory work, he spent 10 years in China with 8 years in Shanghai of industrial real estate sector experience (2004-2010 and 2012-2014) He is the member of real estate private equity firms based in Shanghai (2007-2009) and San Francisco, California (2010-2012) before joining Colliers International in Shanghai (2012-2014). He worked on industrial investment transactions in both China and the United States totaling over US $2.5 billion. The higher educational institutions he attended include: Georgetown University, Washington, DC (2000-2004), Nanjing University, Nanjing, China (2002), Stanford University, Stanford, CA (2011-2012).

Ms. Lisa Liu was born in 1968 and studied MBA in Beijing Foreign Trade University in 1995. She worked as Deputy representative in the Netherlands Business Support Office from 1999 to 2004. She helped Dutch business to grow in the Northeast. After this job she joined the China Britain Business Council as Chief Representative. She worked together with the British Embassy in Beijing to help British companies to do business in China especially in the sector automobile, Advanced engineering and equipment manufacturing. Then she worked in DTZ as a real estate consultant. Lisa is now working in Global Logistics Properties as Vice President and General Manager for Northeast. GLP is the world leading provider of Logistic facilities, mainly operate in China, Brazil, Japan and the Northeast.

Mr. Stuart Ross is responsible for the day to day operation of China industrial business, with a focus on growth across all specialized sectors of industrial property, including logistics, manufacturing, business parks and investment. The focus is on client service and delivering best practices in transactional, consultancy and other integrated services on behalf of private, governmental and institutional clients in China and abroad.
Prior to this position, Stuart worked for 15 years in Sydney’s Industrial market. In Australia and Asia, Stuart has represented a wide range of clients including Adidas, AkzoNobel, BMW and Cisco. Stuart has extensive experience in land (greenfield, brownfield), development (pre-lease, pre-sale, build to suit) and investment sales. A large part of Stuart’s experience has been his ability to assist clients plan for and implement growth strategies, particularly with large logistics, warehouse and distribution companies. He received a bachelor of Business (Land Economy) from the University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury.