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Colm Rafferty
Vice Chairman of AmCham China and Vice President, Asia Pacific/Chairman, China at Vermeer CorporationColm Rafferty is the Vice President – Asia Pacific for Vermeer Corporation and is Chairman of Vermeer China Limited. Vermeer is an equipment manufacturer from the Midwest of the United States, with products used for agricultural mechanization, environmental protection, infrastructure development, and non-blast surface mining. The Asia Pacific business includes integrated supply chain operations and dealer networks and company-owned distribution in China, Singapore, Australia, Northeast Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Vermeer advocates for the interests of U.S. businesses around the world. In the U.S., Vermeer is an active participant in President Obama’s Export Council (PEC). Vermeer’s Chair of the Board is the recent former Chairwoman of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the largest industrial trade association and lobbying group in the U.S. In China, this past year, Colm served as Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of AmCham China.
Colm received an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies from Brown University. He currently serves on the Yale University Asia Development Council, the Yale School of Management’s Greater China Advisory Board, and recently served on the Executive Committee of the Beijing Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO).
Sean Stein
Senior Advisor at Covington & Burling LLP; Former U.S. Consul General in ShanghaiSean Stein is a senior advisor in Covington’s Public Policy Practice Group. Prior to joining Covington, Sean served as the U.S. Consul General in Shanghai. He has over twenty years of diplomatic experience in Asia and has served in leadership positions in China, Washington, and the region. His insights informed policy making at the highest levels in Washington and he assisted dozens of U.S., Chinese, and international firms to develop strategies, manage risk, and identify opportunities for growth in response to the changing U.S.-China relationship.
Sean, a non-lawyer, is a key resource to businesses on issues related to political risk, public affairs, problem solving, and communications. He regularly assists companies facing acute or long-term issues to resolve them, often through discussions with U.S. and Chinese government officials. He is well placed to provide strategic advice to U.S. and international clients on issues relating to securing market access and protecting investments in China, assessing risk, navigating trade controls, sanctions, and supply chain restrictions, and resolving disputes and regulatory investigations.
Prof. Zhang Qinghua
Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at Guanghua School of Management, Peking UniversityDr. Qinghua Zhang is now Professor at the Department of Applied Economics in Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. She graduated from Wuhan University, where she received her bachelor's degree in economics. She received her Ph.D in economics from Brown University. She was a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin from 2002-2004 and then at London School of Economics and Political Science from 2015-2016. She also served as a consultant for the World Bank in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2017.
Dr. Zhang has broad research interests including Urban Economics, Public Finance, Labor Search and Matching, and Applied Econometrics. She is published in many distinguished economic journals including Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Econometrics, and Journal of Development Economics. She has presented at many international academic conferences. She has led many research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the World Bank, and international cooperative research institutions such as IGC (International Growth Center).
Dr. Zhang received the Best Paper Award from the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress in 2016 for her original work on China’s housing market. She was also awarded the First Prize in the National University Research Competition (in Social Science) awarded by the Ministry of Education of China in 2020 for her pioneering work on transportation infrastructure and urban decentralization in China. She is currently a member on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban Economics.
Wei Wei
Former Founder & CEO of McKinsey Academy at McKinsey & Company /Author/ Former Vice President of SAPWei specializes in the integration of advanced technology into overall business management and assists Chinese firms in rapid digital transformation and implementation. Wei has also held senior management positions at IBM, Capgemini, and Mercer, collectively, for over a decade, providing expertise for hundreds of large and medium-size enterprises in China in fields of organization and human resource transformation. In addition, Wei also has extensive experience consulting enterprises on corporate strategies, operation design, digital transformation, corporate development strategies, and overall operation management.
Furthermore, Wei is also certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and a columnist for the “Harvard Business Review”, “China Business Network”, and media platforms alike.
Charise Le
Executive Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer at Schneider ElectricAfter 15 years in a number of HR roles across Schneider Electric, in April 2020 Charise was appointed Chief Human Resources Officer. Before joining Schneider Electric, she gained experience at various international companies which were maturing their operations in China.
Having led HR teams in Businesses, Sales organizations and Country Operations, her most recent position was SVP HR Services and People Strategy. As the engine of HR in a global company, it gave her tremendous insights into HR Tech, future trends and market practices. On a personal level, she enjoys being part of a high performing team, leading transformation and digital challenges.
Charles Shao
Senior Client Partner at Korn FerryMr. Shao is Senior Client Partner with Korn Ferry based in Beijing Office and leads Industrial Market advisory business in Asia Pacific, helping multinational and local companies to drive and sustain superior business performance through talent and organizational interventions.
Mr. Shao brings near 20 years global experience in both corporate and consulting to clients and the Firm. He used to be the Global Head of Leadership Development and Learning & Development at Caterpillar Inc, a US Fortune 100 industrial company. Prior to that, he was Practice Leader at Hewitt Associates, advising clients from various industries, such as: industrial, real estate, pharmaceutical, financials, Hi-Tech and etc.
Mr. Shao focuses on helping Chinese companies going global and multinational companies to succeed in China through leadership assessment and development, talent management, succession management, org design, HR transformation, executive coaching, M&A and etc.
Mr. Shao holds Master of Business Administration from Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, the Netherlands and Bachelor of Economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He is accredited for several leadership assessment instruments and trained for executive coaching.
Michelle Zhang
Head of HR at Pfizer InvestmentMichelle is Head of HR at Pfizer China. Prior joining Pfizer in year 2010, she was working for Shell China Limited and used to take up finance, sales and HR positions with increasing management responsibilities. Michelle has been the HR lead for many country level business transformation programs, and also represented China to participate APAC/global level’s change projects. As a well rounded HR, Michelle demonstrates deep expertise in M&A, OD, HR operations and business partner areas. She graduated from South China University of Technology and obtained both B.S and B.A degree of Chemical Engineering and International Trade. She also studied in Peking University for the EMBA program for 18 months
Annie Wang
HRVP, Bayer Greater China & Bayer Pharmaceuticals Division for China and APACAnnie Wang has been the HRVP, Bayer Pharmaceuticals Division in China since 2012. She is a seasoned HR practitioner in different industries. Over the past 20+ years, Annie had held different HR management positions with multinational companies, such as DHL, Nortel Networks, Edelman, and Schneider Electric. Her study and work experience in China as well as in Canada has enabled her to appreciate different cultural environment and adopt the appropriate approach to tackle the cross-cultural issues.
Lin Gao
Executive Coach/ Trainer/ Writer/CEO of Message CoachLin has over 20 years' experience with Fortune 500 companies both in China and the U.S. across the areas of government affairs, IT, supply chain and marketing. She held the position of senior director of Global Government Affairs at Motorola Solutions China, and was responsible for managing relationship with various government bodies and trade associations for business advocacy. She was also responsible for corporate governance across Asia Pacific.
As an active member of the community, Lin has been serving on the board of American Chamber of Commerce since 2013 and is the first Chinese woman holding the vice chair role. Lin gives back to the society by advising a number of domestic and international NGOs including U.S. China Strong Foundation. She is also a mentor for Tsinghua Schwartzman program.
Lin held a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree from Nottingham Trent University and an MBA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
As a certified Marshall Goldsmith leadership coach and Erickson professional coach, Lin helps executives to further improve their leadership and communication skills. Lin is also a sought-after MC, trainer, column writer and speaker in cross cultural business communication, influencing, women leadership, government relations and strategic philanthropy. Lin Gao is the writer of one of the best sellers "职得"， and her new book “Influence through Storytelling” had been sought after by the community.
Johnny Choi
Partner & Head of Employment, China at DLA PiperJohnny Choi is Partner and Head of Employment at DLA Piper in China. He specialises in complex and strategic employment advice for multinational clients at C-Suite level, such as international human resources projects, large scale layoffs and restructurings, cross-border secondments, employee data privacy, HR investigations, litigious employment disputes, and contentious removal of company executives.
Johnny supports international and regional clients across a range of industries, including technology, life sciences, financial and retail. He successfully defended a number of technology companies against IP theft by their staff.
Recently, Johnny has advised life science companies and airlines on investigations into serious misconduct or corruption by employees. He also advises financial institutions and retail companies on the design and implementation of employee compensation and incentive schemes.
Johnny has been recognised by Chambers Asia Pacific for his employment expertise consistently since 2013. Chambers Asia Pacific (2021) highlights that Johnny Choi is hailed by interviewees as a "go-to person" for employment law who is "solid in terms of his experience" and "speaks very commercially." Johnny is also ranked by Asia Pacific Legal 500 (2021) as a leading lawyer in China. Asia Pacific Legal 500 (2021) highlights that “Johnny Choi consistently delivers high-quality service, taking time to understand our culture, and provide advice and solutions that are commercial and relevant. I cannot recommend him enough as a strong legal partner in China.”
Dr. Zhang Dongmei
Distinguished Scientist, Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research AsiaDr. Dongmei Zhang is a Distinguished Scientist and Assistant Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia, leading research in the area of Data, Knowledge, and Intelligence with research directions in data intelligence, knowledge computing, information visualization, and software engineering.
Dr. Zhang joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in 2004. Prior to joining MSRA, Dr. Zhang worked at Microsoft headquarters starting in 2001, playing a key role in developing the Microsoft PhotoStory product. In 2009 Dr. Zhang founded the Software Analytics group at MSRA, and led the team to conduct cutting-edge research and technology innovation in an interdisciplinary area that spans across big data, machine learning, systems, and software engineering. In recent years, Dr. Zhang’s groups have expanded their research into business intelligence. Their research and technologies have helped Microsoft Power BI to establish a technical leadership in Smart Data Discovery in the BI and data analytics market.
In recent years, Dr. Zhang has been continuously advocating Diversity and Inclusion internally and externally while conducting research. She is passionate about helping young females pursue their dreams in High Tech areas. This year, Dr. Zhang serves as Chair of Microsoft GCR D&I Council/Women Committee. She will work with the committee members to continue building a more inclusive working place internally. Meanwhile, they will expand the network to join forces with external partners to promote D&I and contribute to the building of an ecosystem of D&I culture.
Dr. Zhang received her Ph.D. in Robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her M.E. and B.E. from Tsinghua University.
Edward Guo
Head of HR, China at S&P GlobalEdward Guo is the Head of HR, China of S&P Global. Based in Beijing, Edward is responsible for the company’s overall HR management. S&P is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, and analytics in the global capital and commodity markets, offering ESG solutions, deep data and insights on critical economic, market and business factors, with divisions include S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices and S&P Global Platts.
Previously, Edward served as Country Lead of Talent & Recruitment and Head of Human Resource at UBS. He also worked at Foster Partners Consulting and Bo-Le Associates as an HR professional.
Edward holds a master's degree in human resource management from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the U.K.
Sylvia Pan
Vice President United Family Healthcare; General Manager and CEO of Beijing United Family HospitalSylvia has been with United Family Healthcare since 1996. Her career has advanced over the past 20 years due to her hard work, dedication, commitment to excellence, loyalty, and desire to constantly learn and change. Sylvia has held positions as project assistant, government relations and accreditation coordinator, assistant to General Manager, assistant General Manager and acting General Manager of Shanghai United Family Hospital.
Sylvia holds a Master’s degree in Healthcare Business Administration at the University of Colorado, a Master’s degree from Peking University’s Guanghua Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in English literature. Sylvia finished her Ph.D courses of Executive health administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and she is currently taking her Ph.D courses at Tsinghua-Johns Hopkins University.
Sylvia became one of the first cohorts of JCI consultant from Mainland China in 2016.
Sylvia is a member of standing committee of Private Hospital Management Branch of Chinese Hospital Association, Vice Chairman of Chinese non-government Medical Institutions Association
Teresa Shi
Chief Financial Officer at ChayoraTeresa Shi focuses on managing and optimizing the financial performance of Chayora, offers effective fund-raising activities and provides financial clarification to evaluate decisions and strategies.
Teresa has over 17 years of experience in providing excellent financial management and strategy to both world-class corporations and fast-growing start-ups around the globe.
During 2016-2020, Teresa was the Head of Finance for Byton, an EV start-up, where she established effective financial operations, processes, systems and teams. She led the team in delivering a diversified debt financing structure and played a key role in four rounds of equity financing, which in combination totals up to 1.2B USD. Prior to that, she worked as a senior finance executive in a Silicon Valley new energy start-up as well as a US based tier one automotive supplier.
Teresa holds MBA from Schulich School of Business in Canada and she’s also a certified management accountant (CMA) and a chartered public accountant (CPA).
Steven Song
Beijing Office Managing Director & Senior Client Partner of Korn Ferry Hay GroupSteven Song is a member of firm’s Global Technology Markets and a core member of firm’s Government Relations center of expertise based in Beijing. He also plays an active role in firm’s Fintech sector.
In his nearly two decades of experience with Korn Ferry International, Mr. Song has severed a great number of clients in diversified industry backgrounds, including financial services, technology, industrial, and consumer. His client base extends from major multinational companies to large Chinese stated owned and private enterprises. His clients in financial services include Thomson Reuters, United Overseas Bank, Bank of East Asia, Bank of China Group Investment Ltd, Taikang Asset Management, and Legend Holding, etc.
Mr. Song has solid track record of handling high-level recruitment projects, such as Asia Pacific/Greater China President, Global Functional Leader and China commercial leadership positions. He has been also heavily involved in cross-border assignments, working across different regional offices and recruiting executives from North America and European markets to Asia.
Mr. Song was posted to Korn Ferry International San Francisco office in 2008 on the “China Desk Program”. During this period, he established good understanding of US talent market and has successfully recruited a number of western executives and oversea Chinese talents back China market.
Mr. Song holds Executive MBA degree from Tsinghua University. He earned his Bachelor degree in English Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Cici Wang
Executive Vice President & China Head of HR at EdelmanCici is a seasoned HR leader and expert in various industries and HR functions. Nearly 20 years HR full-function experiences wherein over a decade deeply engaged into business as HR leader and business partner to drive business thriving.
Prior to joining Edelman, Cici spent the last 4 years with Dell Technologies as the Strategic HR Business Partner to support the senior executives for multiple business unites across Asia Pacific and Greater China Region. She is strongly driving Talent and Culture strategy to contribute their business growth and build up talent pipeline. Cici also played the key role and well supported merger and acquisition of Dell EMC integration in China in the aspects of OD restructuring, C&B harmonization, employee engagement etc. and passionate on culture re-enhance and change management.
Cici start her career journey in sales and key account management role for 4 years, then transit to in-house HR role oversaw talent acquisitions and rotate to various China HR functional leader roles including talent development, organization development, HRBP and Comp & Ben. She spent many years to help the growing business with total HR solutions and partnership with high-level executives to build up the talent strategies.
Cici holds a Bachelor degree of International Trade, from Liaoning Institute of Technologies. She is holding many international multi-functional HR certifications. Now she is pursuing EMBA degree in ESC PAU Business School.
Gloria Xu
Vice President, Greater China at Dow IncGloria Xu is Vice President, Dow Greater China and serves as Dow’s corporate representative with government, trade associations and other key external stakeholders.
Prior to this role, she was General Manager, Public & Government Affairs, Greater China, responsible for the company’s policy advocacy, government engagement, and strategic communications in the Greater China region.
Before joining Dow in 2014, she led the China government affairs functions of DuPont and Standard Chartered Bank respectively for 13 years.
Gloria was China Public Relations Manager of Alibaba.com Group in 2000-2001 and helped build up brand awareness of the new company in its early years.
From 1993 to 2000, Gloria was a political correspondent with China Daily, covering legislative and foreign affairs, military, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan news.
She was elected Vice Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in China in 2020 and was a board member in 2017-2020.
She is a member of the Agenda Committee of World Financial Forum, Co-Chair of AmCham China Women Advisory Council and Chair of the Digital Transformation Expert Committee of China International Import Expo.
Gloria graduated from Nanjing University with a BA in English Language and Literature.
Melody Xu
Head of Human Resources, Greater China at HP Inc.Melody serves as the Head of Human Resources for HP Inc. Greater China based in Beijing, China. She leads the Greater China HR Team supporting business growth through various organization and people solutions.
Melody has more than twenty years of full spectrum human resources experience serving a number of the world's fortune 500 enterprises, including Microsoft, Lenovo, Bayer-Schering Pharmaceutical etc. Melody acts as a trusted advisor to business leaders and had solid experience transforming Human Resources functions to be business driven and customer focused. She also has proved track record to design and implement human resources policies and processes to achieve better business results and to build up a healthy organization environment.
Melody holds MBA Degree from Peking University and Bachelor of Economics from Renmin University.
Charles Yan
Managing Director | North China of Colliers International Property Services (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Charles Yan joined in Colliers International as Managing Director and Director of Office Service of North China in 2019, he optimized the business strategy of North China comprehensively, and strengthened the team’s strength of investigating and consulting, leasing, investment attraction and bulk sales. Through his enthusiasm for the business innovation, he enlarged the coverage of services to build innovative and flexible service mode, he led North China team to provide customers a full range of solutions.
With more than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry, Mr. Yan has served in a number of international and foreign intermediary companies, bringing significant growth to enterprise. Mr. Yan is an expert in real estate development and commercial property agency. He has considerable experience of structuring flexible and cost-effective lease transactions for occupiers through his comprehensive understanding of occupancy strategies, negotiated complex transactions including relocations of commercial office, restructuring leases, lease renewals, expansion, subleases, surrendering, lease termination and office acquisition.
Extensive track record with most of Beijing leading commercial developments and arrange many anchor tenant transactions in Key Grade A office buildings in Beijing. Charles leads a strong team who has assisted a wide variety of corporations in different industries including banking, insurance, pharmaceuticals, hi-tech and etc.
Qualifications
> EMBA in University of Texas > MRICS
Key Clients
> Volkswagen
> Bayer
> ABB
> CITIC-Prudential
> MetLife
> Standard Chartered Bank
> AIA
> CITI Bank
> DBS Bank
> China Mobil
> Hanergy Group
> The people’s bank of China > Aviva-CofcoKey Clients
> Volkswagen
> Bayer
> ABB
> CITIC-Prudential
> MetLife
> Standard Chartered Bank
> AIA
> CITI Bank
> DBS Bank
> China Mobil
> Hanergy Group
> The people’s bank of China > Aviva-Cofco
Natasha Miller Naderi
Founder of Emerge Global LLCNatasha is passionate about creating workplaces that radically unleash human purpose and potential. She has 20 years of experience facilitating personal and organizational transformation through senior leadership and consulting roles across China and the United States.
Natasha is Founder of Emerge, an organization development consultancy that creates workplaces that empower everyone. She is also Co-Creator of Teal Around the World, an annual conference organized by the Teal Network, which gathers more than 1,000 participants from 50+ countries together to share stories of future workplaces characterized by self-management, wholeness, and evolutionary purpose. Finally, she is a future work story collector, community-builder, writer, and researcher, who is currently co-authoring a book of stories of purposeful & participatory workplaces from around the world.
Previously, Natasha’s leadership development work at Galaxy Entertainment Group in Macau won two HR Excellence Awards for Leadership and Talent Development in Asia. Additionally, her work in establishing networks of empowered work teams was recognized as Best Demonstrated Practice at Tyco Electronics.
Natasha holds a Master’s degree from Vanderbilt University in Human and Organization Development.
Malcolm Nerva
Co-founder & Partner of Emerge Global LLCMalcolm Nerva is a trainer, facilitator, and coach with 18 years of training, facilitating, and coaching experience in China, Singapore, and Asia Pacific.
Since he opened his boutique training and development consultancy in 2002, Malcolm has worked with a multitude of multinational, state-owned and small medium enterprises, and has trained, coached, and assessed over 10,000 participants from all over the world.
Malcolm graduated from The National University of Singapore with a Bachelors (Honors) in Business Administration. He is certified in MBTI Step I and II, DISC, Firo-B, and the Enneagram, and is a certified administrator of MRG’s Leadership Effectiveness Analysis 360 and LEA Role Expectations as well as Sino Associates Leadership Feedback 360°. He is a WABC Certified Business Coach, a Certified Stress Management Consultant, a Career and Behavioral Consultant as well as an NLP Executive Coach and NLP Practitioner. He also has a Squared Online Certificate in Digital Marketing, and is a Celemi Tango Certified Facilitator. He is a regular guest lecturer at the BBA, MBA, and Masters of Finance programs at Peking and Renmin universities.