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Tony Ling
HR Committee Chair at AmCham ShanghaiTony Ling is an inspiring HR leader whose professional journey spans over 25 years covering a spectrum of 6+ industries. He was CHO of OYO Hotel, General Manager of HR at Wanda Culture Group, Vice President and CHO at SF Express Co., Ltd, VP of HR at Dianping, HR director at IBM Greater China and VP of HR at AstraZeneca. Him and his team were awarded the Prize of Best HR Manager by “China Staff” several times and he has also won HRoot's Magazine "Top 10 HR Managers of the Year" award twice.
Tony Ling is also a seasoned investor. Tony Ling is currently the Committee Chair for Human Resources at AmCham Shanghai.
Ling Fan
Founder & CEO of Tezign.comDr. Ling Fan is a Scholar and entrepreneur to bridge machine intelligence and creativity. He received his doctoral degree from Harvard University and master's degree from Princeton University. He was an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley and China Central Academy of Fine Arts.
In 2015, He founded tezign.com, a leading technology startup with the mission to build digital infrastructure for creative resources, with the vision that technology empowering imagination. Tezign has received hundreds of millions of investment from top VCs including Sequoia Capital, Hearst Ven-tures, Linear Capital etc and has partnered with over 8,000 enterprises such as Alibaba, Bayer, Budweiser, Unilever, Starbucks , Ant Financial, Ping An, Nestle, Estee Lauder, Tencent, Country Garden and more.
In 2016 Dr. Fan founded Tongji University Design Artificial Intelligence Lab, dedicated to the applied research to bring machine learning and A.I. technology to the creative industry. In 2019, Dr. Fan published From Universality of Computation to Universality of Imagination to explore the impact of data intelligence on human creativity.
Dr. Fan is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, an Aspen Institute China Fellow, a member of IEEE Global Council for Extended Intelligence, and a member of the Future Forum. He was awarded National DDF Award (2018) and 2019 Fortune 40 Under 40.
Cici Li
VP, Human Resources at Shanghai Disney ResortCici Li joined Shanghai Disney Resort in March 2018 as Vice President, Human Resources. In this role, she provides the strategic Human Resources leadership to further resort’s business priorities and deliver on the vision of Disney Parks. Cici is also responsible for the planning, integration, and implementation of all human resources strategies to enable the business and the development of Shanghai Disney Resort. She supports all leaders across the organization to continue to develop a culture of Disney leadership in China.
Cici joined Shanghai Disney Resort from Intel, where she most recently served as GM, Intel China Online Sales Group, and she successfully expanded the business by accelerating their B2B online platform development and leveraging the latest internet technologies in Mobile app, social tools and AI-based Chatbot. Prior to sales, Cici led over 20 year career in Australia, China and the United States in variety of human resources roles including Executive Search, Recruitment, Leadership Development and overall HR leadership roles. Cici was executive sponsor for Intel China Board of Diversity and Inclusion.
Cici holds a Master of Commerce from the University of Sydney. She is also a certified Hudson coach.
Lily Yang
Vice President, People, Greater China at WeWorkLily Yang joined WeWork in October 2017 and is currently the Vice President, People, Greater China and the person dedicated to build the employee-obsessed inspiring workplace. As an HR veteran, Lily has almost 20 years experience in human resources and enterprise management across retail, FMCG and manufacturing industries. Her former work scope included but was not limited to designing organization structure, building management model, and leading critical organizational transformation initiatives. Lily has rich experience in building the mission driven business and organization model, leading the organization and culture transformation for innovation and inclusiveness, building the future of HR, and optimizing organization performance and potentiality. Lily is also renowned for her thought leadership about the future of work concept. She is an inspiring workplace visionary and activist to think differently about the future of HR, the future of workplace and humanized employee experience.
Before joining WeWork, Lily was HR Senior Director at Nike and played a critical role as the business partner of GC commercial teams and the project lead of global organizational transformation. Before Nike, She was HR Director of Levi Strauss GC. She worked closely with the leadership and helped turn around its China operations by setting up a winning management team.
Lily Yang holds a bachelor’s degree from East China Normal University and has a Master of Business Administration from Fudan and Norway BI University.
Sharon Yang
Managing Director and Chief Human Resources Officer of SPD Silicon Valley BankSharon Yang is the Managing Director and Chief Human Resources Officer of SPD Silicon Valley Bank (“SSVB”). SSVB is the first technology and innovation bank in China serving as an independent legal entity, and it provides unique financial products and services to the technology and innovation industry in China.
Over her past twenty-year career, Sharon’s experience spans a number of HR roles across a variety of industries and locations. Apart from being the China HR head for companies in Banking, Real Estate Consulting, and Renewable Energy industries, Sharon was also once based in HK and served as the global HR business partner for an international engineering firm. In the early stage of her career, Sharon took multiple roles in a Shanghai-based Chinese state-owned group before she went to Singapore in 1997 and worked years there.
Sharon holds an MSc in Human Resource Strategy from the University of Sheffield, UK, and an MBA from the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Sharon is the founding member of VHR, and career mentor of SAIF FMBA, SUFE IMBA, SISU MBA programs. Sharon’s articles were published in the HR professional journals and books in both Mainland China and HK.
Julie Zhu
Global Vice President, HR Director of Global Sales & Applications at Texas InstrumentsJulie Zhu is a visionary global HR leader with close to 20-year experience rooted in hi-tech industry. Leveraging insightful global perspective and regional insights to drive organization evolution, Julie has taken various HR leadership roles from China to Asia and Japan. Currently, she is leading the HR organization for global Sales & Applications in Texas Instruments. Prior to TI, Julie was HR director of Asia Sales & Marketing for former Freescale semiconductor.
Julie is a visionary and inspiring leader in driving organizational transformation, shaping talent strategy and keeping exploring evolutional business model. She has also built an impactful HR structure and team, serving as strategic partner, employee advocate and change agent to support the organization’s consistent theme of change, innovation and evolvement. Julie was recently awarded as 2020 Best HR Leader by HRflag.
Julie earned a Bachelor degree in Journalism in Suzhou University and a Master degree, EMBA in Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Roy Gao
Managing Director of ProHR InternationalRoy is Managing Director of ProHR International, which is a consulting firm specializing in executive recruitment, leadership/talent development, and organization capability development. ProHR International is the official partner of RBL Group in China, which is the consulting firm established by modern HR management Guru, Professor Dave Ulrich of University of Michigan.
In his consulting work, Roy works with business leaders (CEO, VP and GM) as well as HR executives to develop and align business strategies with organization capability and talent strategies. He is a sought after facilitator and coach in his field.
Since 1993 Roy has amassed an unprecedented knowledge of the talent and organization development field in China by playing an active role in advancing the HR community. Roy’s experience goes beyond China’s borders as well by his leading and participating in global initiatives such as “Developing and Moving Talent Globally” for a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical company and by serving for three years in the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry and Chinese Embassy in Denmark.
Working in several industries (pharmaceutical, electronics & FMCG), Roy practiced HR in different stages of business development and various sides of businesses such as expansion strategies at one stage and rightsizing strategies at another. Roy has experience in the commercial sector as well as manufacturing. While serving in executive roles with MNCs like Philips Electronics, Foster’s and Bristol-Myers Squibb he excelled
at participating in strategic planning and then taking those plans to the operational level.
Roy has been recognized for his expertise many times, two of those presented to him by China and Hong Kong’s leading HR journal 《China Staff》- “HR Manager of the year（1997）” and “Outstanding Contribution to HR in Hong Kong and China” (the first local HR professional to receive this award).
Roy holds a degree from China Foreign Affairs University and an EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School. He is Secretory General of CEIBS Alumni HR Management Association.
Jessie Ma
Vice President of Human Resource for Greater China at Ralph Lauren Trading(Shanghai) CompanyJessie Ma has been working as a HR professional since last two decades, responsible for overall human resources management, providing organizational strategic plan and change management in terms of talent development, retention and engagement, making analysis and advises while working for various international organizations including Christian Dior, H&M and Ralph Lauren. At her very latest career with Ralph Lauren as a Vice President of Human Resource for Greater China started from 2016, she and her team has been successfully leading talent optimization and organization design, creating a winning culture to support Ralph Lauren’s sustainable business and profitable growth and brand elevation in the region.
Jessie Ma won “Top 10 HR Of The Year” in 2012 and 2018. She holds a MBA from UCET and majored in Physics in her bachelor. Jessie is a certified Senior Engineer at her first career with CSSI. She’s a member of CHRO Committee with a Sr. HRM certification and also a certified SHRG by SHRM.
Maria Mora Vinueza
Director, Human Resources of General Motors (China) Investment Company LimitedMaria Mora Vinueza was appointed director of Human Resources for GM China, effective August 1, 2018 based in Shanghai.
Maria began her GM career in human resources in 2001 at GM Colmotores in Colombia. She later held various assignments throughout South America before becoming director of Human Resources/Labor for GM Argentina in 2005. Maria was appointed director of Talent Management in the United States in 2007, director of Organizational Capability for GM International Operations in Shanghai in 2009 before transferring to GM Russia in 2010 as director of Human Resources. Maria returned to South America in 2011 as regional lead of GM Global Business Services (GBS) People Services, based in Colombia. Prior to taking on her current position, she was director of GBS People Services – Transformation in the United States from 2016.
Maria is a native of Colombia. She has a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Universidad Javeriana in Colombia/Lulea Tekniska Universitet in Sweden, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Insead - PGSM in France.
Jessica Dou
HR Director, Asia of Celanese (China) Holding Co., Ltd.Jessica Dou is Asia HR Director at Celanese, a global chemical leader in the production of differentiated chemistry solutions and specialty materials used in most major industries and consumer applications.
She has over 20 years’ HR experience in multinational companies of different industries of chemical, FMCG, industry. Her expertise covers various HR functions of business HR support, Talent Acquisition, Talent & Organizational Effectiveness. Jessica has great passion on leadership and organization development, diversity and inclusion. She is the executive sponsor Women Impact Network in Celanese Asia.
Jessica holds bachelor degree of Arts from Nanjing Normal University and a MBA from Nanjing University. She is a certified coach from International Coach Federation.
Jeffrey Wilson
Counsel at JunHe LLPMr. Wilson has more than two decades of experience assisting multinational corporations with labor and corporate law matters in China.
After developing a background in PRC corporate law, Mr. Wilson has focused exclusively on PRC labor and employment law since 2006. He has advised many multinational corporations on labor issues relating to corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions. He has also represented clients regarding reductions in force and employee transfer issues. Mr. Wilson has also advised clients on stock option, data privacy, and employee benefit issues, as well as issues relating to the employment of foreign nationals in China. His JunHe employment team is also active in many labor arbitration and litigation matters.
Mr. Wilson has spoken widely on PRC labor law in China, Europe, and the United States. He received his J.D. and MA in Chinese studies from the University of Washington.
Zheng Lu
Partner at Baker McKenzie’s Shanghai officeMs. Lu is a Partner of Baker McKenzie’s Shanghai office. She routinely leads massive employment projects, such as mass layoffs, restructuring, investigations, and employee unrests / strikes, involving challenging and complex considerations. She also specializes in strategic employment counselling and developing creative employment solutions for multinational corporations in their global transactions and day-to-day operations. Ms. Lu was named the “Leading Individual: Labor and Employment (Foreign Firms, China)” by Legal 500 Asia Pacific in 2019 and 2020, and “Leading Lawyer – Employment: PRC Law (International Firms)” by Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide from 2016 to 2020.
Ms. Lu graduated from the University of lowa College of Law with a J.D. (2004) and an LL.M. (2001), and also from the East China University of Politics and Law with an LL.B. (2000). She is admitted before the State Bar of Missouri, U.S.A.
Joyce Gong
Senior Client Partner at Korn FerryJoyce Gong is a Senior Client Partner with Industrial & Financial Service Practice of Korn Ferry International, based in Shanghai. She is heading HR practice, leading to promote Korn Ferry’s total talent solutions in China. She also leads set up China Enterprise sector and China Education Markets.
Ms. Gong has over twenty years of experience in human resources consulting in China, and over nineteen years in the executive search business. She joined Korn Ferry in 2005. She has been dedicated to the search of C-level executives in the industrial and financial service sectors in China and Asia Pacific. Ms. Gong successfully led to build HR functional practice in China. And she also led to develop “on-boarding process” for senior leaders in China.
Prior to joining Korn Ferry, Ms. Gong was a Senior Consultant with another executive
search firm for four years, concentrating on chemical, financial service, hi-tech, automotive, diversified manufacturing and consumer goods industries.
Her earlier experience included six years at an HR consulting company as an Assistant Manager and Senior Consultant of its business consulting division.
Ms. Gong holds her Doctor of Education from Rossier School of Education at University of Southern California, a Master in Business Administration from Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California, and a bachelor’s degree in Scientific English from Shanghai University. She also completed a master program in Human Resources Management from China Peoples’ University.
Ms. Gong is a certified coach of International Coach Federation.
Simon Lance
Managing Director, Greater China of HaysSimon has over 18 years consulting and management experience within the professional recruitment industry in China, Australia and UK. Simon is currently the Managing Director for the Greater China region, with overall responsibility for over 300 staff across offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
In addition to his role with Hays, Simon is currently the Chairman and Non-Executive Director of the Board for AustCham Shanghai, the peak body for Australian business interests in China. In this volunteer position, Simon leads the Board to provide strategic direction, governance and financial oversight for AustCham Shanghai.
Simon graduated from the University of Western Australia (BSc) and maintains a strong personal interest in infrastructure, renewable energy & conservation.
Michelle Liang
Senior HR Director of TE Connectivity ChinaMichelle has been partnering with senior executives from China, Asia Pacific and global for different B2B and B2C industrials over the last 20+ years. With her profound experiences in sales, marketing and HR, she witnessed the expanding scales and responsibilities falling on HR professionals over her roles as country HR leader and Business HR partner. She has been exploring how to have HR work closer and more effectively with business and to enable HR as a sustainable part of business growth; and as a Certified Executive Coach, Michelle also provides continuous efforts in executive coaching to leaders from China and Asia Pacific countries, from which she learns the pain points from businesses leaders and also demonstrates new values that leaders and HR can play in influencing people. Joining TE Connectivity in 2018, Michelle together with her team of more than 100 HR professionals has successfully participated, designed and deployed the HR digitalization and transformation.
Eva Shen
CHO & Partner at MoseekerEva‘s corporate career includes 20 years of Human Resources Management experiences with Moseeker Honeywell, GE and Henkel.
Very recently Eva joined Moseeker , a leading AI powered HR Tech Company based on Wechat recruitment, as CHO and partner.
Before that, Eva worked for Honeywell for 17 years with various HR executive roles i.e. China country HR head, APAC HR head for Security Group, etc. Eva and her team are responsible to provide competitive talent and organization strategy with strong business acumen, to actively build up talent pipelines to support business development and to drive Honeywell’s overall growth and sustainable success in China & APAC.
Eva holds an MBA from University of Strathclyde Business School and graduated from Shanghai International Studies University majored in English. She is a member of China CHO100 and VHR group.
Lorraine Wang
Head of Human Resources at Tricor ChinaLorraine Wang has over 15 years’ experience in various HR functions. Before joining Tricor, Lorraine was holding a dual role as Director of HR and China Regional Director of Learning and Development in Langham Hospitality Group. She has participated and led several new hotel openings and set up the HR system and P&P. Lorraine has possessed a sound professional knowledge and solid practical experience, especially in culture driven and talent development. She has initiated several programs, including but not limited to recruitment related activities, succession planning, and management training programs.
Lorraine gained her bachelor’s degree in Tourism and MBA from the Business School of Sun Yat-Sen University.
