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.

Sherry Carbary was named president of Boeing China in February 2019. She serves as Boeing’s senior in-country executive in China, in charge of leading companywide activities and government affairs, implementing Boeing’s China strategy, strengthening new business and industrial partnerships, supporting community engagement projects and expanding Boeing relationships with stakeholders. She reports to Michael Arthur, president of Boeing International.

Prior to this appointment, Carbary served as vice president and program manager for the Boeing 2nd Century Human Resources initiative. She was also responsible for technology integration, functional excellence and change management across the Human Resources function.

Previously, she served as president of Flight Services for Boeing Commercial Airplanes Commercial Aviation Services (now part of Boeing Global Services) and led nearly 5,000 employees across 15 training campuses on six continents. In this role, Carbary was responsible for overseeing the organization’s global operations including flight crew, maintenance and cabin safety training; simulator services; flight operations; flight optimization services; and air traffic management as well as navigation and crew operations services for the aviation and marine markets through Jeppesen, a Boeing subsidiary. Prior to that, as vice president of Strategic Management for Commercial Airplanes, Carbary helped develop a competitive, market-driven business strategy for Commercial Airplanes.

Other positions at Boeing include serving as the Commercial Airplanes business director and deputy vice president for International Sales, in which she was responsible for leading sales directors and associated airplane services in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. Carbary was also director of Boeing Corporate Investor Relations, representing the financial position of Boeing to the investment community.

Carbary joined Boeing as a senior financial analyst in the Corporate Credit Office. She has served as Commercial Airplanes director of Revenue Management, regional director of Marketing for Airline Financial Analysis and financial planner for the 777 program.

Carbary holds a master’s degree in business administration from Seattle University and bachelor’s degrees in finance and economics from Eastern Washington University.

Since August 2018, Jens Hildebrandt is heading the Delegation of German Industry & Commerce Beijing as Delegate & Chief Representative and Managing Director of the German Chamber of Commerce in North China. He studied Political Science and Sinology in Leipzig, Beijing and Hong Kong and completed an MBA. Since 2007 Jens Hildebrandt has held various management positions in the network of German Chambers of Commerce Abroad (AHK) and the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK), i.e. as Head of the East Asia Department in Berlin and later as Delegate & Chief Representative of German Industry & Commerce in Guangzhou.

Nancy is the Northern China Regional Sales Director of United Airlines. Based in Beijing, she is responsible for passenger sales and marketing.

Nancy has more than 20 Years of experience in the aviation industry and worked as executive for many international airlines. She started her career with United Airlines as manager of China Call Center and ticketing department. Nancy had serviced Cathay Pacific Airways from 2004 to 2008 as the regional sales manager of Eastern China. From 2008 to 2011, she worked for Continental Airlines as the Assistant Country Director of Eastern China and successfully launched Shanghai to New York daily non-stop service in March, 2009. She proactively promoted Guam in China market and launched the very first holiday charter flight from Shanghai to Guam in 2010. After merger of Continental and United in 2011, she was relocated to Beijing. With her expertise and great efforts, United pioneered into the new frontier of China’s secondary cities. In 2014, nonstop daily service from Chengdu to San Francisco was launched and seasonal nonstop flight from Xi’an to San Francisco was operated in 2015-2016.

Nancy has won the “Chairman’s award” in 2009 at Continental Airlines. She is also selected to two executive training programs in Chicago--LEAD from 2015-2016 and RISE from 2018-2019.
United is now operating four daily nonstop service from Beijing to Chicago, San Francisco, Newark/New York and Washington D.C.

Adh is a U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Officer currently serving in the U.S. Embassy Beijing Economic Affairs Section. Adh’s portfolio as the Transportation Affairs Officer includes aviation, new energy vehicles, autonomous and connected vehicles, shipping, rail, logistics, etc.

Adh previously served in the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico as well as in the U.S. Consulates General in Shanghai, China and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Before joining the Foreign Service, Adh worked as a corporate financial analyst. He received his M.B.A from the Marriott School of Management and his B.A. from Brigham Young University, where he studied translation and interpretation.