Jarrod Ward is Chief Business Development Officer for East Asia at Yusen Logistics. Yusen is a member of the NYK Group with its US Headquarters in New Jersey.

Jarrod is an experienced industry professional with over 20 years working in the logistics and supply chain solution industry. He is responsible for all sales activity in East Asia as well as Yusen’s Supply Chain Solutions division.

Jarrod has held senior leadership positions in Japan, Singapore, and the USA, including over 16 years at NYK Line container division.

Jarrod received his MBA in Supply Chain Logistics from Rutgers University in 2007 and graduated from Washington & Jefferson college. His hometown is lovely Pittsburgh PA.

In her current role as Area Vice President, Veronica is responsible for all of 3M’s Health Care Business in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Previously she was President and Managing Director of 3M Taiwan. Prior to that, she was the Global Platforms Director for the Medical Solutions Division. Veronica is a transformational and growth-driven business leader. Her successful results have been driven by her ability to influence stakeholders, quickly grasp business needs, and create strategies to drive change. A strong leader who develops high-performance teams, Veronica identifies the talents of her team and builds on those strengths – always encouraging stretch goals and risk-taking. Over the course of her career, she has successfully paired strategic and operational business experience with strong financial, sales, and marketing functional experience. Her business and marketing expertise spans Market Research, New Product Development, Strategic Planning, Pricing, CRM, Portfolio Management, and Brand Management. Veronica began her 3M career in Peru, where she held positions of increasing responsibility in Finance, Sales, Sales Management, Country Business Leadership, Corporate Marketing & Public Affairs, and Customer Service. In 2002, Veronica joined 3M Corporate Marketing as Marketing and Strategic Planning Manager for Latin America and Africa. In 2004, she was appointed Global Marketing Operations Manager for 3M ESPE. In 2008, she was named Global Business Director for Restorative Dental Products, and in 2010 she assumed the responsibility of Global Business Director for C3SD Acute Care Business. In 2013, she was appointed Business Development Director, Health Care Business for Latin America. Veronica has been actively involved in supporting women’s leadership and community programs. In 2019, She was the chair of the American Heart Association chapter for women. Veronica holds a Business Administration degree in Marketing and Finance from the Universidad del Pacifico, in Lima, Peru.

Julia Coym leads Control Risks’ political and regulatory risk consulting team for Greater China and North Asia and is based in Shanghai. With 15 years’ experience in advising organisations on risk and corporate strategy, Julia specialises in responding to rising geopolitical risks, the politicisation of technology and data, industrial policy, and anti-competition, cyber security and other regulatory enforcement.

Before joining Control Risks, Julia worked as a Principal Political Risk Analyst for Maplecroft, a UK-based global risk and investment advisory firm, where she wrote and oversaw risk assessments on China and other Asian countries and focused on the manufacturing, extractive, transport, financial, retail and other sectors. She was also previously a contributor of political and economic analysis for the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Julia speaks Chinese, is a native German speaker, is fluent in French and has previous experience in Frankfurt, Washington, Paris, Beijing, London and Berlin.