Ms. Lu leads the employment practice of Baker McKenzie Fenxun’s Shanghai office. She has 15 years' experience in advising global clients in all aspects of China employment matters and works closely with clients on their policies and daily operations. She routinely leads large-scale and high-stakes employment projects, including restructuring, employee investigations, mass layoffs, employee transfers in transactions, and employee unrests / strikes, etc. Ms. Lu often provides effective solutions to intricate matters and is highly regarded by clients for her practical approaches to problem solving. Ms. Lu has been named as the leading lawyer by Chambers and Legal 500 for many consecutive years. She frequently speaks at employment forums and seminars.

Ms. Mao focuses on mobility immigration practices related to foreigners in China. She is experienced in providing advice to multi-national companies on immigration strategies, requirements and processes for short and long-term international assignees, local hires, and business travellers in a compliant and practicable way. . Ms. Mao has more than 10 years experiences in global mobility immigration and tax. Before joining Baker McKenzie, Ms. Mao worked at the global mobility team of KPMG Shanghai for 7 years, mainly focusing on global mobility tax and immigration.

Chen graduated in June 2001 from Paul Merage Business School at the University of California, Irvine with an MBA in marketing and strategy. She started her career that year at World Link Medical Center and worked her way up from account executive to marketing and account services director, expanding her responsibilities beyond Shanghai and overseeing the expansions of World Link in other cities such as Chengdu.

While at World Link, Chen oversaw the marketing and sales of a financially hemorrhaging incubator company. When Parkway Health acquired World Link, she joined the incubator as a general manager, hoping to gain experience in attracting investors and managing finance and HR operations. She managed to help the firm break-even within 18 months. Chen founded The Martec Group’s Shanghai Office in 2007 with her husband and started her own company, Essential Healthcare, the following year as one of the first healthcare administration firms in the Chinese market. The firm first received business from an international bank, and now manages the healthcare services for employees of over 100 multinational companies. In 2015, Essential Healthcare merged with Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) to form JLT Essential Benefit Solutions. Chen replaced her husband as the manager of Martec Shanghai in 2018 due to changing family circumstances. Despite having little prior understanding of the company and its operations, Chen poured her efforts into Martec’s business development and managed to help the firm achieve 43% new business that year in the face of the US-China trade war.

Michelle 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.

Sharon Yang is the Chief Human Resources Officer of SPD Silicon Valley Bank (SSVB). SSVB is the first technical bank in China focusing on supporting innovation companies. The past 20 plus years of Sharon’s work experience includes a number of HR roles spanning across a variety of industries and locations, including Banking, Real Estate Consulting, Renewable Energy and Engineering industries. Sharon is the founding member of VHR, and career mentor of SAIF FMBA and SUFE IMBA programs.