南思同在中国有30多年的经商经验。自1990年以来，他一直担任在中国拥有25家以上投资的美国制造业控股公司PRI的董事长（最初担任总裁）。PRI平均每年考察10-15项投资，以便从中选择1-2项。PRI还有一个咨询部门（主要位于北京和上海），为在中国启动和/或扩大制造和应用工程提供支持。南思同先生曾任中国8家工厂/企业的总经理，雇员从30人到750多人不等。他在PRI旗下100%控股的媒体部门ZDL（中国最大的犹太-基督教伦理学作品出版商）担任了2年多的临时总经理。80年代末，他还担任过通用电气一个部门的中国区经理——这属于通用电气总部公司的职位。现在是南思同先生担任中国美国商会制造和采购论坛主席的第16年。自1990年以来，南思同先生平均每年发表一篇文章。他曾在超过15家的董事会任职，也曾担任许多中国地区经理的执行“教练”。他拥有休斯顿大学工商管理硕士学位，TCU本科毕业，并在弗莱彻大学（塔夫茨/哈佛）和耶鲁大学进行了两年半的研究生学习。

美国威猛公司是位于美国中西部爱荷华州的工业、农业设备制造商，设备在全球被广泛应用于农业现代化、环境保护、非爆破露天采矿和基础设施建设领域。

华先生在18年前开始他在中国的职业生涯，投身高科技互联网行业。他是阿里巴巴集团(NYSE: BABA)的第120名员工，曾任其业务发展总监。他现在担任互联网教育公司VIPKID的国际顾问委员会委员。VIPKID是拥有全球最大规模北美外教数量的在线少儿英语教育机构，北美师资力量超过6万名。

华先生为中国美国商会副主席。

他毕业于美国耶鲁大学MBA专业，并兼任耶鲁大学亚洲发展理事会理事及耶鲁大学管理学院中华区顾问委员会委员。

Jewel Nordstrom has been living and working in China for most of the last 31 years.  She is the Vice President of PRI and the Executive Director of Life Connections, the nationwide training division of ZDL Books.  Life Connections has trained more than 25,000 people in marriage and also focuses on Christian Leadership and Parenting.  The Nordstroms founded, own and run ZDL Books, the largest Christian book publishing and media company in China with over 250 books legally published and over 5 million books distributed. 

For much of Jewel’s time in China she taught Ph.D. students at the “Harvard of China”, Beijing University, where she was honored with the “Most Excellent Teacher” award.  She was also the Regional Director for the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) with television broadcasts reaching up to a 66 million viewing audience and weekly, national radio broadcasts reaching tens of millions.  She ran Operation Blessing implementing extensive aid to the poorest of the poor throughout China through medical, education, orphan and elderly care, disaster and water relief projects.  Later she spear-headed Geneva Global’s launch into China, locating, analyzing and evaluating hundreds of the most strategic projects in China and helping to implement grant funding.

Nick Sykes has 8 years of operations and marketing management experience within the industrial engineering and chemical processing manufacturing sectors. Beginning in 2019, he is General Manager of BAP (Beckett Asia Pacific). Beginning 2017, he was Project Manager for PRI and Assistant General Manager of Beckett Asia Pacific (Beijing) with 110 employees.

From 2015 to 2017 he was Crane Co. (Los Angeles) Product Manager, overseeing strategic product marketing for a $30M industrial instrumentation product line (pressure, temperature, level, and flow switches and transmitters) with engineering and manufacturing in Los Angeles, Germany, and China. In this role, he led strategic planning development, market research, NPI (new product introduction), pricing, distribution, and promotion activity. In addition, he directly supervised all Application Engineers for Industrial and Oil & Gas vertical markets. From 2013 to 2015, Nick was Value Stream Manager for Crane Co. overseeing all operations for a $33M Oil & Gas division. This included 33 direct reports (production, manufacturing engineers, buyers, and planners).

Nick completed his MBA in 2015 at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles with a double emphasis in Marketing and Management/Organizational Behavior. In 2010, he completed his Bachelors degree at Biola University majoring in International Business. Nick is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

David McDermott (买大卫）is a highly motivated Global Supply Chain and Operations leader with 20 years progressive experience in North America, Europe, and Asia. Expert in executing end-to-end global operational strategies that cut costs, drive efficiencies, ensure compliance, generate revenue, and deliver high-levels of service quality.

Industry Focus

Specializes in company-wide improvements and transformations for sanitary, consumer, manufacturing, and technology.

Selected Recent Experience

Coaching and mentoring teams and leaders.
Contract Management
International 3PL Logistics Optimization
ISO9001:2008 Internal Auditor Certification.