Joseph Castillo is the CEO of Nations Abroad LLC. and Co-Founder of 北京中美圣联 ESL job placement company with his Chinese wife, as seen by China Dailey and China Radio International (CRI), the Global Times and CNTV Panview. Mr. Castillo is best known as the TV star 四百 on his many TV appearances and talk shows for several CCTV, Tianjin TV, and BTV channels, including the Spring Festival Global Galla.

His activities have been featured on BBC World News in 2004 on behalf of Conservative Christian Republicans, and on Fox News. Though living in China he makes an effort to be involved with Republicans Overseas and remains in support of Presidential Nominee Donald Trump since 2015. Christian conservatives are among the first to support Trump long before he won the Republican nomination.

Michael H. Dardzinski has lived and worked in Beijing for almost 15 years. He is co-founder and COO of Zihua, on online professional career training company in China. Prior to Zihua, Mike practiced corporate law with international law firms in Beijing where he represented both foreign and Chinese companies and individuals in M&A transactions, media and entertainment projects, and private equity and regulatory matters in China across many industry sectors. He advised clients on structuring complicated cross-border investments in regulated industries in China, including aviation, telecommunications, film and media, life sciences, publishing, mining, and real estate. He also represented clients involved in crisis situations that required coordinated cross-border government relations strategies in connection with government investigations, IP theft, employee scandals, accounting fraud allegations, and Chinese regulatory issues and potential public scandals.

Michael is the former Co-Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in China's Legal Committee and former Chair of the Media and Entertainment Forum. He also is co-founder of Americans Promoting Study Abroad (www.apsaglobal.org) a non-profit that brings under-served young Americans from more than ten U. S. cities to China for intensive Chinese language and culture study. Having served on President Obama’s National Finance Committee in 2008, Mike organized a first of its kind international pop charity concert in Beijing in 2011 to support President Obama’s 100,000 Strong Initiative (which aimed to increase dramatically the number of Americans studying in China). Earlier in his career, Mr. Dardzinski also founded the first annotated online Chinese legal research database, which he eventually sold to Thomson/Westlaw. He also co-founded Project Homeless Connect Rochester (PHCR) in his hometown Rochester, NY. PHCR has become the largest one-day comprehensive homeless service day in Rochester, NY for the homeless or those at-risk of homelessness.

John L. Holden is Associate Dean of the Yenching Academy, a center for the interdisciplinary study of China at Peking University. He is also Professor of Management Practice at the Guanghua School of Management of Peking University, nonresident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Senior Adviser to Vermilion Partners.

From 1998 to 2005 Mr. Holden was President of the National Committee on United States‐China Relations. Previously, Mr. Holden was employed for twelve years by Cargill, Inc. in Hong Kong, Beijing, Geneva, and Minneapolis. He served as Chairman and General Manager of Cargill’s China holding company.

Mr. Holden has served as Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China in Beijing. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and serves as advisor to a number of not-for-profit organizations. He received a B.A. magna cum laude in Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota, and an M.A. in the same field from Stanford University.

Mr. Miller is President & CEO of Ken Miller Capital, LLC (“KMC”), a closely held merchant banking firm which invests in early stage companies and serves as a strategic financial advisor on acquisitions, divestitures and capital raising to a small select group of clients.

Mr. Miller has served successively as Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets and Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Miller is a member of the Board of Directors of Loews Corporation (NYSE: “L”), the company which controls Diamond Offshore Corporation (NYSE: “DO”), CNA Financial Corporation (NYSE: “CNA”), Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP (NYSE: “BWP”) and Loews Hotels.

Mr. Miller is a member of Hillary Clinton’s Asian Advisory Group and a Board member of the National Committee on US-China Relations. He is the Chairman of the Advisory Board for the NYU-Shanghai Program on Innovation & Creativity.

Mr. Miller has a long history of involvement with China including serving as a visiting professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management and chairing the Finance Committee for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Exposition.

Mr. Miller received his B.A. with honors from the University of Michigan (1964), M.A. from Yale University (1965 – Chinese Studies), and J.D. from Harvard University (1969).

Mr. Zhang is a partner in Davis Polk’s Corporate Department, resident in Beijing. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, including private equity portfolio investments, buyouts, joint ventures and strategic investment transactions. He also advises clients on cross-border securities and general corporate matters.

Mr. Zhang graduated from the Boston University School of Law (J.D.) in 1993 and is currently a member on the Dean’s Advisory Board at the Boston University Law School. He is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and registered at the Beijing Ministry of Justice.

Mr. Zhang is consistently recognized as a leading lawyer in numerous industry publications including Chambers Global, Chambers Asia Pacific and IFLR 1000.

James Zimmerman is the 2015 Chairman of AmCham China, and also served as the chairman in 2007 and 2008 and as a vice chairman in 2005 and 2006, and also has served on various AmCham committees for over 15 years. Zimmerman is the managing partner for the Beijing office of the international law firm of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, and is the author of several publications concerning trade and China related issues, including the well-recognized China Law Deskbook, a publication of the American Bar Association (now in its 4th edition). Mr. Zimmerman is recognized as one of Asia’s leading business lawyers in the AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers Survey and is listed as a Leading Individual in the category of Corporate/M&A for foreign law firms in China of the AsiaPacific Legal 500: The Guide to Asia's Commercial Law Firms. Mr. Zimmerman serves on a number of non-profit boards focused on child health and education issues in China and is active as a fundraiser for charitable organizations. He has lived and worked in Beijing since 1998.