Alan Beebe is President of the American Chamber of Commerce in China based in Beijing. He has over twenty-five years of business experience in Asia, including seventeen years in mainland China.

As President, Alan oversees all advocacy, programs, partnerships and insights provided by the Chamber to support the business growth of nearly 900 foreign corporations operating in China, including most of the U.S. Fortune 500. He leads major advocacy initiatives related to trade tariffs, market access, cybersecurity, Made in China 2025, China’s NGO law and structural imbalances in U.S. – China trade and investment.

In 2018, he launched AmCham China’s Technology & Innovation Initiative, focused on the business and policy implications of disruptive digital technologies - such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and cloud computing – for U.S. companies in China.

Prior to joining AmCham China, Alan held various senior executive positions in China with EY, IBM, and management consulting firms AT Kearney and PRTM. He also led a Beijing based start-up for five years, the China Greentech Initiative, which merged in 2014 with the Paulson Institute, founded by Hank Paulson.

Alan has advised a wide range of corporations and global investors on investing and operating in China. His clients have included global private equity firms, high technology companies, energy related companies, and major state-owned and private Chinese enterprises.

He holds a Master’s degree from Yale University in International Relations and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the U.S. He is a Board of Advisor of the Yale Club of Beijing and in that capacity promotes academic and cultural exchanges between the U.S. and China. He is a fluent speaker of mandarin Chinese, and reads and writes Chinese. Alan was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska.

Phil has over 15 years of consulting and industry experience driving operations and digital transformation programs. Phil is part of the Management Consulting practice at PwC and focuses on Consumers and eCommerce businesses.

He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and has completed the Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) program by APICS. He is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Prior to joining PwC, Phil led several transformation projects in high-tech and medical device industries – responsible for innovation, product development and supply chain management.
Phil earned both of his Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University in Canada.

Andy Lei is the director of strategy for Walmart China. He leads the Walmart China omni-channel strategy development and digital transformation. He has also managed strategical collaboration activities with key partners such as Tencent and JD.com. Through the collaboration, he has led the development on many strategic projects such as Walmart X JD.com share inventory, the flagship initiative for Walmart JD.com collaboration.

He is also the Head of Omega 8, a Walmart centric startup ecosystem. He and his team has worked with top China startups to combine Walmart retail knowledge and startups technologies togethers for retail innovations. His work has created significant impact to Walmart’s business in China, which is also been recognized by China Chain Store & Franchise Association as one of the top 2019 innovation initiatives in retail industry.

Andy previously worked in Trustbridge Partners, one of the world’s leading growth capitals. He focused on investment and strategic partnership in elderly care and international education industry. Before Trustbridge, Andy was a startup founder in TMT spaces. He was also a project manager for different International projects at a U.S. based tech company.

He holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree from INSEAD and a Bachelor’s of Sciences and Arts degree in Apply Mathematics and Entrepreneurship Study from Saint John’s University

Dr. Jackie Ye Luan is the founder & CEO of Lavector Technologies, a Beijing-based marketing automation software startup that leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to drive marketing and sales performance. She graduated from Yale University with a Ph.D. in Marketing.

As Founder and lead of Mars APAC Digital business and AI innovation team, Freya Established Mars xsegment digital business technology and capability strategy to drive growth of ebusiness. As the key driver of Mars China digital innovation center, Freya and her team focus on 5 areas of digital business transformation including intelligent consumer marketing platform, digital content, big data driven product innovation, intelligent retail and integrated digital data and analytics. She created Mars china AI lab as an open learning and innovation platform to connect FMCG enterprise challenges with best AI players for AI enabled digital transformation.

Freya ever worked as senior manager in P&G west Europe, and Asia pacific in charge of domain of sales force automation, trade fund management, business intelligence and regional supply chain services to drive the technology driven growth through supply chain agility and optimization, customer relationship management and ecommerce & digital marketing capabilities.

She has rich experience and profound insight about challenges and opportunities of enterprise digital transformation for consumer goods industry and acts as an advisor to AI start ups and ventures on making AI + FMCG to life.