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Richard Brubaker
Managing Director of Collective ResponsibilityRichard is the Managing Director of Collective Responsibility, the Founder of HandsOn China, and an Adjunct Professor of Sustainability and Social Innovation at Southern Methodist University, Driven by the belief that change begins with a single step, Richard Brubaker has spent the last 20 years in Asia working to engage, inspire, and equip those around him to take their first step. To date, Richard has overseen the development and execution of more than 200 projects focused on solving the social, environmental, and economic challenges that are faced in Asia. Richard holds a Masters in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Vincent Djen
Associate Director, Innovation Center of PHABuilderVincent has over 16 years of experience in the textile and fashion industry. He is the co-founder of Remakehub, a startup that focuses on turning waste into valuable products and materials for the apparel and plastic industry. He also serves as Director of Cheng Kung Garments, a 47 years old family business that focuses on garment products for premium brands using sustainable materials and processes.
Vincent also works with different startup accelerators such as Fashion for Good, German Accelerator, and Startupbootcamp as a mentor and advisor to help startups in the Fashion industry.
Ellen Wu
General Manager at RESET Carbon Environment ManagementEllen is an impact investor turned General Manager at Reset Carbon, an environmental consulting firm with 14+ years of experience in Asia helping enterprises make meaningful carbon footprint reduction. She has devoted her time in helping many Fortune 500 businesses reduce their global carbon footprint and meeting their carbon neutral goals through executing on the ground with the businesses and their value chain. She drives value by leveraging the strengths of diverse backgrounds and creating long term strategic and sustainable plan. She was previously a Chief Information Officer at a Manulife-Sinochem Life Insurance with 2 decades of experience in technology and data and had worked internationally across New York, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Ellen has degrees in Mathematics & Economics from Smith College, a Data Science degree from the MIT Digital Program, and a certification in International Relations and Quantitative Methods in Economics & Business from Harvard.
Sophie Song
HRD at Avery Dennison (China) Co., Ltd.Sophie Song is the HR Director of Avery Dennison, Label and Graphic Materials, Greater China. Sophie is a seasoned HR leader with extensive international exposure, she has broad experience in managing vision/purpose as well as organization development/change management.
Sophie is a passionate pioneer in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DE&I) as well as innovation. As one of the key DE&I architects in Avery Dennison Greater China, Sophie has a pragmatic approach to bridging DE&I with business and value chain, sparking creative ideas of doing things differently. Being authentic, be different, be you, we are all on the journey!
Sophie has an engineering background and an International MBA from The University of British Columbia. Prior to joining Avery Dennison in 2017, Sophie has extensive experience in various multinational companies, such as General Motors and Intel.
Alex Xie
Asia Strategic Program Director of Aptar GroupAlex Xie is the Asia Strategic Program Director at Aptar. As a member of the Asia Leadership Team, Alex is committed to supporting Aptar to better serve its customers and achieve its sustainable growth ambitions in Asia through various strategic programs and initiatives.
Alex has MBA ME from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Bachelor’s Degree in Meteorology from the National University of Defense Technology.
Oliver Yang
Director of Sustainability and Social Impact at Coca-Cola Beverages (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Mr. Oliver Yang is the Director of Sustainability and Social Impact at Coca-Cola Great China & Mongolia. He is responsible for sustainability strategy planning. He drives cross-function collaboration to ensure effective implementation of the ESG agenda across the Coca-Cola system in Great China. Mr. Yang works closely with internal and external stakeholders. He contributes to the company’s holistic approach to stakeholder engagement, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and social impact practice.
Before joining Coca-Cola, he was deputy secretary-general and board director of the Shanghai Soong Ching Ling Foundation. He was in charge of strategic program development, policy planning, external communication, and policy advocacy. Mr. Yang focused on stakeholder management and facilitated collaboration between multinationals and the foundation on CSR, sustainable development, social impact, and shared value creation.
Mr. Yang had served as CSR and Government Relations Manager of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai for more than seven years. Mr. Yang joined the Chamber in 2005 and led the Chamber’s robust Corporate Social Responsibility program.
Steven Zhong
Lead Partner for the Sustainability Strategy & Transformation Business at PwC ChinaSteven has more than 15 years of combined consulting and industry experience. He has deep operational experience serving predominately leading companies from various industries in the areas of strategy and target operating model development, end-to-end process design and optimization, program management, performance improvement and value maximization, sales and marketing, channel management, route to market and trade promotion analysis.
Prior to joining PwC’s PRTM, Steven worked at Accenture U.K. while managing projects on outsourcing risk management. He also worked for Nokia China and SAIC (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation), where he focused on dedicated supply chain and demand management projects.
Steven earned his Master of Science from Manchester Business School, specializing in operations management. He also earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and completed one year exchange program in economics with University of Southampton. Steven completed the Certified Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) program by APICS and also he is a Six Sigma Black Belt. He also speaks English and Mandarin Chinese fluently.
