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Dr. Dan Wang
Chief Economist at Hang Seng Bank ChinaMs. Dan Wang is currently the Chief Economist of Hang Seng Bank (China), responsible for China-related research, macro forecast, Sino-US relation, and geopolitical risk analysis.
Dan previously worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) where she spent 5 years as China Chief Analyst, leading forecast and research. Prior to that, she was a postdoc fellow in the Chinese Academy of Sciences as an economist, specializing in agriculture. Dan holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington, with a focus on environment and econometrics.
Barry Chen
MD / Partner in Charge at InterChina Consulting (Shanghai) Company Ltd.Mr. Chen provides overall leadership to InterChina’s M&A advisory, corporate finance, and investment advisory practice. He is a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Clients include global fortune 500 and mid-sized multinational and Chinese companies.
Mr. Chen has over 20 years cross border mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance, and strategic planning experience in the infrastructure/logistics, consumer, technology, manufacturing, retail, and financial service sectors. He led and advised over 200 M&A and divestiture transactions in North America, Asia Pacific, and European regions. Transaction size range from $50M to $8 billion
Prior to InterChina, Barry worked with Price Waterhouse and UPS in the corporate development function. He also has long-time collaboration with all leading investment banking firms including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, UBS, and JP Morgan. He has extensive experience in deal origination, evaluating cross-border acquisitions in a strategic context, structuring complex transactions, valuing, and integrating the acquired companies, and managing complex divestment transactions. He is an experienced negotiator and has extensive senior-level contacts and origination capacity.
Ted HORNBEIN (moderator)
Director of China Operations at Rea Magnet WireTed has spent over 25 years managing China operations in various manufacturing industries including die casting, injection molding and compression molding in construction, electronics and telecommunications markets.
Ted's companies have accelerated their business growth by tapping his knowledge in the governmental regulatory requirements, unique business culture, and manufacturing supplier sourcing market within Asia Pacific and China. Ted is a current member and 3-time elected Board of Governor of AmCham Shanghai; and former Vice Chairman of the Manufacturing Business Council of AmCham Shanghai.
Ted is a Mandarin speaker and holds an MBA from The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.
Jarrod Ward (moderator)
Chief Business Development Officer for East Asia at Yusen LogisticsAn experienced industry professional with over 20 years working in the logistics and supply chain solution industry. Jarrod is currently the Chief Business Development Officer for East Asia at Yusen Logistics, a member of the NYK Group. He is also responsible for their Supply Chain Solutions division in China.
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.
Jarrod graduated from Washington & Jefferson college, and has his roots in western Pennsylvania.
Peter Layer
Vice President of General Motors China for Global Purchasing & Supply Chain, Executive Director of Purchasing and Supplier Quality at SAIC General Motors (SGM)Peter Layer is the Vice President of General Motors China for Global Purchasing & Supply Chain as well as the Executive Director of Purchasing and Supplier Quality at SAIC General Motors (SGM).
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University, a Master of Science in Engineering from Purdue University, and a Master of Business Administration from Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University.
Peter is a 25+ year veteran of the Automotive Industry having worked his entire career for General Motors. Early in his career he worked in Detroit in several safety engineering related position before moving to Adam Opel AG in Ruesselsheim Germany. There he continued in safety and interior engineering before moving to purchasing where he worked in several different commodities. In 2005 he moved for the first time to Shanghai and was Director of Electrical & Thermal Purchasing for the former Asia Pacific region of GM. In 2006 he spent the next 5 years working in Seoul South Korea in Program Management for GM’s small cars. In 2010 he was appointed to the Director of Purchasing & Supply Chain for Russia / CIS based in both Moscow and St Petersburg Russia. At the end of 2013 he moved back to Detroit and worked in Chassis Purchasing as well as Program Purchasing for GM’s full-size trucks. In the summer of 2018 Peter returned to Shanghai and assumed his current role.
Peter has strong industry experience in Direct & Indirect Purchasing, Program Management, Logistics, Supply Chain, Supply Quality, and Crisis Management.
He is happily married to his German American wife of 20 years, and they have three daughters and one son together. In his spare time, he likes to run, bike, play golf, travel, and coach his sons baseball team the Shanghai Sluggers.
Richard Brubaker
Managing Director of Collective ResponsibilityDriven by the belief that change begins with a single step, Richard has spent the last 15 years in Asia working to engage, inspire, and equip those around him to understand their power to leverage innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership to solve "the big" challenges cities face.
Currently, as the Managing Director of Collective Responsibility, Executive Director of HandsOn China, and a Visiting Professor of Sustainability at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Richard is focused on building platforms that promote long term organizational capacity to address the economic, environmental, and social hurdles that China faces as the country’s economic growth accelerates.
Johnny Jiang
Vice President of Asia at 百得（苏州）科技有限公司Johnny is the Vice President of Stanley Black and Decker Asia Manufacturing, oversee 7 Plants across the region, including India and Taiwan. From new product development to operation excellence, over 20 years in the power tools industry provides his insights of the business. A main focus about supply chain resilience during the VUCA situation from COVID outbreak to the geopolitics impact on the business. He also serve as AmCham Suzhou office as a member of advisory council to support the members in the Suzhou .Johnny holds an EMBA from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).
Michelle Liang
Senior Director, Human Resources of TE ConnectivityMichelle 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 being a PCC (Professional Certified 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.
Charles You
Representative, China at Rep Office, China, Georgia Ports AuthorityCaptain Charles You has served as the Representative of Georgia Ports Authority at China since Jan 2008, in the role of oversee the Port of Savannah / Brunswick’s Customers and Sales initiatives at China. Prior joining the Georgia Ports Authority, Captain You served as deputy managing director of Wilhelmsen Huayang Shipping Service Co., Ltd from 2004 to 2008, A Wilhelmsen Ship Service joint venture in China. In addition, he served as the regional quality manager at North East Asia (Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong), Wilhelmsen Ship Service in that same period.
Prior Wilhelmsen Huayang, Captain You was appointed by China Maritime Service Center, a division under the Maritime Safety Administration, Ministry of Transportation, as Fleet Captain of Huayang Maritime Center, between 2003 and 2004.
Further before China Maritime Service Center, Captain You has served as ship officer and ship captain in Cosco Dalian Crew Manning: In his seven years captain’s career, Captain You has served varied oversea shipping companies: Captain of Greek Multi-purpose Ship “Clipper Harmony”, Captain of VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) of AMCL Hong Kong; Trainee Captain and Acting staff Captain on Star Cruise Ships in a “Chinese crew takeover” project.