Jeongmin Seong is a Senior Fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company’s business and economics research arm. He leads MGI research teams in China, working on global as well as China-focused themes. Jeongmin’s recent research has focused on technology, innovation and China’s economic transition. He has co-authored several MGI reports and discussion papers.

Prior to joining MGI, Jeongmin worked with companies around the world focusing on consumer facing industries including consumer electronics, retail, and automotive as an associate partner at McKinsey’s Greater China office. Jeongmin also led McKinsey’s emerging market growth service line.

Prior to joining McKinsey Shanghai office, Jeongmin worked as a product marketing manager at Dell China. Jeongmin is a graduate of Harvard Business School where he received his MBA degree.

Hong Chen is a Professor of Management Science at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF). Professor Chen was Alumni Professor in Supply Chain Management and Chair of the Division of Operations and Logistics, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC). He was Dean of School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University.

Professor Chen’s current research focuses on clean energy market and investment. His research also includes operations and supply chain management, financial service operations and risk management, queueing network theory and applications, and best practices of supply chain in China.

Professor Hong Chen was one of the founding faculty members and academic associate dean at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. He had held visiting positions at China Europe International Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Stanford University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a Special Term Professor at the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University.

Professor Chen has published extensively in leading operation management journals including Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management，Production and Operations Management, Mathematics of Operations Management. He coauthored a book on the fundamentals of queueing network theory. He received the Engineering Initiation Award from NSF (U.S.), Killam Award from UBC and the Faculty Research Excellence Award from UBC Faculty of Commerce. He was the president of INFORMS Society on Applied Probability, and was the associate editor for Management Science, Operations Research and Queuing Systems Theory and Application. In the last few years, he has written many teaching cases on the best practices of the supply chain management in China and articles for Harvard Business Review (China Edition). Professor Chen provides consulting services for many reputable companies in North America and in Mainland China.

Professor Chen received his Ph.D. of Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1987.

Steven Gao is the Business Supply Director for Corning China. Steven oversees all supply operations in China and executes corporate global supply management strategy to support Corning China's growth. Moreover, Steven contributes to Corning China Business Council.

Steven has extensive experience working in supply chain management. In his previous role, Steven was the Managing Director of Singapore Supply Management Service Company (SMSC) for Corning International. Leading SMSC in Singapore, Steven further developed the organization and executed shared objectives with Corning International.

Steven Gao received his Master of Business Administration at York University, Canada. In addition, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Nanchang Hangkong University, China.