Alvin Lee is CEO at Genius 51, an eLearning startup. Before that, he was China Market Lead at Coursera, a leading global eLearning MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platform company where courses are provided by top universities such as Yale and Stanford. At Coursera, he led 10+ new partnerships with leading companies including Baidu, Huawei, New Oriental, and Evernote by growing the China user base to 1.5 million. Alvin is a venture partner at 1823 Ventures, an early stage angel investment company.

Chet Scheltema is Director of International Business Advisory at Dezan Shira & Associates, where he guides business investors through the process of establishing, expanding, and restructuring their operations in China. Chet has been involved in business management and consulting in China for eight years. Prior to that, he practiced corporate and commercial law in the US, where he is a licensed attorney. Chet also earned an MBA in international business. Chet is a native of San Diego, California.

Jerry Liu is a partner of Global Law Office. Mr. Liu has extensive experience in areas of investment, mergers and acquisitions, PE/VC, compliance/anti-corruption, and dispute resolutions. For cross-border merger and acquisition projects, Mr. Liu has advised clients in many aspects throughout all phases of transactions, including transaction structure design, due diligence exercises, drafting / reviewing transaction documents, negotiations, providing relevant legal opinions and deal closings.

Mr. Liu has provided the aforementioned legal services to many Fortune 500 multi-national companies and Chinese companies. Mr. Liu's clients cover a wide range of industries, including without limitation to manufacturing, automobile, aerospace, insurance, energy, pharmaceutical, agriculture, retail, TMT, and consulting. Meanwhile, Mr. Liu also assists Chinese companies in their outbound investment projects and has provided legal services to Chinese companies investing or acquiring targets in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions.

He is admitted to both PRC and NY State Bar.

Jinxuan (Ann) Zhang is currently Director of The Rui Group, and co-author of Doing Business with China: Avoiding Pitfalls (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). She has 20+ years of strategy and business development experiences spanning executive education, consumer goods, infrastructure and banking industries in China and Europe. She has worked with multinationals and SMEs on their China entry and expansion strategies through organic growth or acquisitions. In her capacity as consultant and guest speaker at top international business schools, she has written case studies, and articles. She has also taught programs for senior executives on forming and managing partnerships in the Chinese context, dealing and negotiating with Chinese counterparts.

Passionate about lifelong learning and building learning organizations, her consulting, researching, teaching and writing activities are focused on China/Asia, especially on challenges faced by Western companies/organizations entering or seeking to grow in China and Chinese companies expanding overseas.s. Her time is currently split between China and Switzerland.