For 18 years, Mr. Uwe Haizmann is working and living in Shanghai. He joined EAC in 2008 and he is the global head and Partner in charge of EAC’s Operational Excellence practice. Before joining EAC, Mr. Haizmann worked over 4 years for an international trading company in Shanghai in the positions of Head of Controlling and Business Development Manager. Mr. Haizmann’s team in Shanghai focuses on operational excellence projects for Germany-based and other European-based engineering, chemicals, and consumer goods companies. He speaks German, English and Mandarin. As a fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) he holds a Master of Business Administration from the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and a Bachelor from the East Asia Institute in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Mr. Ralph Koppitz is the Chief Representative of Taylor Wessing Shanghai office. He is assigned to the firm’s general corporate practice advising multinational as well as medium-sized corporations on their business operations and investments in mainland China. He mainly works on foreign direct investment, mergers & acquisitions, and corporate restructurings. Ralph further heads the China employment and social insurance practice.

Xu Zhicheng, born in 1977, was granted his doctor degree in Administration from Southeast University. With extensive experience in Nanjing Automotive Corporation, Nanjing Development and Reform Commission, Nanjing Municipal Investment Service Center, he is now working at the CFLD Nanjing and responsible for the industry development of the Nanjing Development Zone and the CFLD Longtan Industry New City.