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Shirley Yeung
Founder and Managing Partner of Dragonrise CapitalMs.Yeung is the founder and Managing Partner of Dragonrise Capital based in Shanghai, China. Born in mainland China, and educated in both China and the United States, She is one of the earliest venture capitalists investing in mainland China. In past 20 years she has been instrumental in investments in and financing of a number of high profile and successful Chinese internet startups which are now multi-billon dollar public companies, including the Series A round investment in Tencent Technologies (HKSE:700); the largest internet media company in China with almost USD400 billion in market cap (as of 8/18/2017), investments in Sohu.com and Sina.com, and Focus Media Holdings (the largest Chinese outdoor media company with a market cap of USD22 billion), and GCL-Poly Energy, the leading poly-silicon and wafer suppliers in the world.
Prior to her return to mainland China, Shirley was Director of Venture Investments at PCCW in Hong Kong from 2000 to 2003. Before that she worked for JP Morgan as a Vice President in Equity Capital Markets Group in Hong Kong office from 1997 to 2000 and participated in the advisory and execution of privatization and overseas IPOs of China Telecom, China Mobile etc. Prior to relocating back to Asia, she managed $3.5 billion in non-U.S. equity investments for the NYNEX Asset Management Company (now part of Verizon Investment Corp) based in New York, one of the top 10 U.S. Corporate Funds.
As part of her contributions to the venture capital and investment industry, Shirley served a two-year term in Beijing between 2014-2015 as Executive Chairwoman of the Investment and Financing Committee, under the MOFCOM sponsored China Council for International Investment Promotion, responsible for promoting cross-border venture capital and private equity investments between China and overseas markets. Shirley received an MBA in Finance from Yale University School of Management in 1993, and is currently a Member of Yale SOM’s Global Advisory Board.
Chris Stijnen
VP Product & Portfolio Strategy at Bristol-Myers SquibbChris Stijnen is since September 2016 leading the Product & Portfolio Strategy department of Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) China.
In this role, Chris works closely with the R&D, medical and commercial teams of BMS, to develop and launch innovative new medicines that address serious unmet medical needs of Chinese patients, across a broad range of diseases.
Chris has over 25 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to his current role, he worked in strategic roles at the BMS head office in the USA.
Chris joined BMS in 2015 as President Director of BMS Indonesia and filled subsequent General Manager positions in Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey and Russia.
Prior to BMS, Chris worked in Marketing and General Management roles in Netherlands, Germany and Vietnam, and in a regional role for Latin America.
Chris is a Dutch citizen. He has a Master of Science Degree in Business Economics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Chris, his wife and youngest daughter are currently located in Shanghai.
Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases.
Dr. Claudia Suessmuth-Dyckerhoff
Board Director of RocheDr. Claudia Süssmuth-Dyckerhoff has been with McKinsey for 21 years, became a Board member of Hoffmann La Roche in May 2016, a Board member of Clariant in April 2016 and a Board Member of Ramsay Health Care (international hospital operator) in November 2018.
At Hoffmann La Roche she is a member of the Audit and Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee, at Clariant she is a member of the Compensation Committee and at Ramsay Health Care she is a member of the Risk Committee. For McKinsey, she remains in the role of a Senior Advisor. She also supports 3 start-ups, and in September 2017 joined the board of Cyrcadia, a med tech start-up.
Initially trained as a banker at Deutsche Bank, she joined McKinsey & Company in Switzerland 1995 with a transfer to the US focusing her work on supporting Healthcare companies - pharmaceutical/medical device companies, payor, provider and health systems in Europe and the US. In January 2006, she and her family transferred to China where she supported the buildup of the Healthcare sector – supporting Pharma and Med Tech companies in strategic as well as operative topics. As a Senior Partner, she took on the leadership of McKinsey’s Asia wide Health Systems and Services Sector serving healthcare companies as well as governments.
Most of her recent work focuses on market entry or market growth strategies, business development, assessment of potential privatization assets in the health services arena, commercial excellence, organizational redesign and capability building, and operational performance improvement in hospitals.
Claudia studied Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland as well as at ESADE, Barcelona where she graduated with an MBA. She also holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen/University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
She is married and mother of 5 children (four boys and 1 little daughter) aged between 18 and 5 years old.
Jinqing Cai
President at Kering Greater ChinaMs. Jinqing Cai has been appointed President of Kering Greater China, starting from September 10, 2018. Her mission is to further support the rapid development of Kering’s Luxury Houses in Greater China and to strengthen the links between the Group and its local partners.
Jinqing Cai started her career in 1993 in New York in a strategic consulting company. In 2002, she co-founded the PR firm New Alliance Consulting International in Beijing and in 2005, Ms. Cai became the founding partner of Brunswick Beijing.
In 2012, Ms. Cai joined the leading auction house Christie’s as the first Managing Director of Christie’s China. She was appointed President of Christie’s China in 2014 and then Chairman in 2016.
Jennifer Goforth
Chief Engineer – China Electrification at GMJennifer Goforth was appointed chief engineer of China Electrification in November 2016 by General Motors. In the newly created role, she is responsible for electrified vehicles developed for the Chinese market.
She began her GM career in 1998 at the Saturn division as an advanced manufacturing engineer for chassis and powertrain. A year later, Goforth accepted her first international assignment at Opel ITDC on the chassis and powertrain product development team.
After rotating through several manufacturing, production and engineering positions of increasing responsibility at Saturn, Opel and GM, she was promoted to vehicle line director for the Spark EV.
Over the past 10 years, Goforth has held multiple engineering assignments supporting GM’s electrification strategy, including chief engineer for the Chevrolet Bolt EV at GM Korea.
Prior to taking on her current assignment, Goforth was director of Global Accessories, where she oversaw engineering and program management for the development of GM’s aftermarket accessories.
Goforth has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Marquette University and a master’s degree in engineering from Purdue University.
Christian Lee
Vice-Chair at WeWork AsiaChristian Lee currently serves as Vice-Chair, WeWork Asia, including Greater China, India, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia. In this capacity he manages all strategic development initiatives across the region, including capital raising, M&A, new business lines, and partnerships. Prior to this he served as Managing Director of WeWork China and before that as CFO of WeWork Global.
While at WeWork, Christian has overseen numerous strategic initiatives, including raising $1 billion of capital for WeWork China, the investments by Vision Fund and Softbank across Asia, the partnership with Embassy in India, the acquisitions of Naked Hub in China and of Spacemob in Singapore, numerous real estate partnerships, and the launch of the PxWe business in Asia, among others. While in Asia he has helped grow the business from five buildings in three cities to over 150 buildings across 20 cities and 10 countries, creating a network of tens of thousands of members from companies of all sizes.
Prior to WeWork, he worked in New York as Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Development for Time Warner Cable and Director in the Finance & Acquisitions department at Time Warner Inc. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in International Relations from Carleton College.
He first came to China in 1995 where he was at Nankai University for a semester as a foreign language student and in 1997 he spent a semester at University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. He lives with his wife and two children in Shanghai.
Ellen Sun
General Manager at UTRCEllen Sun is Site Director of United Technologies Research Center (China) Ltd. At UTRC China, Sun leads the development of expertise and execution of global and Asia-focused research projects in digital buildings, thermal systems, fluid dynamics, decision and control systems, and intelligent systems and manufacturing. In this role, she has full profit and loss responsibility over UTRC operations in China and also directs university partnerships, external/government relationships, and UTC business unit interactions in Asia.
Sun joined UTRC in 1999 as a Senior Research Engineer and since then has held several leadership positions with increasing responsibilities. In her various roles, she executed strategic capability development; led the team responsible for pioneering the world’s first low-cost, conformable compressed natural gas tank; directed the development of solid oxide fuel cell technologies for stationary and mobile power generation; and managed projects in the areas of high temperature protective coatings and ceramic matrix composites. Sun holds 10 U.S. patents and 22 patent applications, and has 69 journal publications and conference proceeding papers to her credit, with more than 1,300 citations. She was also honored as a Connecticut Technology Council Women of Innovation finalist (2014) and has been an invited speaker at the Ceramic Leadership Summit organized by the American Ceramic Society. Sun received a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering and an M.S. degree in physics from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. She also earned an M.S. in business management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.
Eric Zheng
Chairman, Board of Governors at AmCham ShanghaiEric Zheng is the 2018-2019 Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. With over 3,000 members, AmCham Shanghai is one of the largest American chambers of commerce in the world and strives to be “the Voice of American business” in China. Until recently, Eric was President & CEO of AIG Insurance Company China Ltd. Headquartered in Shanghai, AIG China is the largest wholly-owned international property-casualty insurance company in China with a history dating back to 1992 when China first opened its market to foreign insurance companies. Prior to AIG, Eric served as Principal Commercial Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou. He was responsible for assisting American companies in marketing their products and services to China and in doing business in the country. Before working for the U.S. Department of Commerce, Eric was a management consultant with PwC in the U.S. During his tenure with the largest professional services firm in the world, Eric had increasing levels of responsibility including managing the China Desk, a consulting service that advised multinational companies on doing business in China. In that capacity, he counseled numerous clients on market entry and operating strategies for China.
Shilpi Biswas
Vice President, Strategy & Operations at AmCham ShanghaiShilpi is a Transformation and Global Growth Leader and her roles include executive positions in Product development, P&L management, Global commercialization at General Electric, Unilever, Delphi, General Motors, and SPX . Her 20+ year business career has been focused on growing and diversifying companies in adjacent markets and developing portfolios with innovative ideas, helping to shape concepts into viable products and launching them successfully in the global markets, along with being a change agent during critical transition period in legacy industries (Automotive, Telecom, and Industrials). Transitioning and innovating corporate culture to match the dynamic market requirements and enhancing staff capabilities in a continuous growth mindset to deliver P&L results has been her core competency through out her career. Shilpi has worked and lived in USA, India, Japan, Kenya, Ghana, Mexico and now in China.
Shilpi Biswas joined American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, as Vice President, as of May 2017. Shilpi’s previous role was General Manager, Product Management, for GE Lighting, USA. In her role Shilpi was responsible for providing strategic direction and P&L leadership to drive profitable growth and global share across all Consumer Lamp technologies.
Inspiration, Aspiration and Transformation are her core values. She is a Believer that ‘If you can See it, you can Be It”.
Sarah Köchling
Managing Principal at Blossom InnovationSarah Köchling is the Managing Principal of Blossom, a strategic insights, innovation and design consultancy that supports clients to get to breakthrough consumer, market and industry insights and collaboratively transform them into impact at all levels of their organizations. With over 25 years of experience in China and Asia, including brand management roles at Procter & Gamble China and J&J International, leading innovation practices at agencies What If and Dragon Rouge and advising several China startups, Sarah is an experienced consultant who offers her clients an optimal balance of best-practice experience and entrepreneurial savvy. Over the years she and her team have applied their considerable skills across a broad range of consumer and business to business categories for both Fortune 100 firms and local companies. She is an active member of AmCham Shanghai where she serves on the Board of Governors and is the co-chair of Women’s Executive Network (WEN).
Jean Liu
Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Education First (EF)As the Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at EF, Jean leads the company’s corporate affairs function, including Government Relations, Public Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility. Prior to joining EF, Jean was heading IBM China’s marketing team for Cloud and for the technology services business. Before that, Jean was Vice President of Corporate Affairs for EDS Corporation. She also spent 5 years as the global vice president for brand management and advertising for AT&T and BT’s joint venture. Earlier in her career, she held management positions with public relations firm Burson-Marsteller and advertising agency D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B).
Michelle Yan
President at Crane ChinaMichelle joined Crane China in July 2016 and is based in Shanghai, China. As Regional President, Michelle is the senior executive in the region, managing all aspects of businesses in China as well as multiple, globally recognized brands and products as well as all channels to reach the EPC, distribution and end user markets. Michelle has oversight responsibilities for company’s factories, joint ventures and offices in China, and works closely with all business units in outlining compelling growth strategies and also to insure that Crane China is compliant with local laws and regulations.
Michelle has 16 years of professional service firm experiences focusing on cross border M&A transactions in New York and Hong Kong. She is admitted to the Bar in both New York and Texas. Michelle received her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Gordon College and her Juris Doctor from St. Mary’s University School of Law.
Rory Macpherson
Partner, Head of Shanghai at BrunswickRory has extensive experience developing strategic communications and investor relations programs to enhance corporate reputation and address special high-attention situations, including restructuring, M&A, and litigation.
Prior to joining Brunswick in 2013, Rory led the corporate communications and investor relations functions at Suntech Power for more than five years. Rory previously worked for Ogilvy Public Relations in Beijing where he developed investor relations programs for numerous China-based, US-listed companies including Baidu, New Oriental, Home Inns, Mindray Medical, and AsiaInfo. Rory received Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Commerce degrees from the University of Sydney and is proficient in Mandarin.
Melinda Po
Managing Director of EdelmanMelinda is currently acting as Managing Director of Edelman Shanghai. Her career has covered multiple disciplines of the advertising world. Before joining Edelman, she served as Managing Partner at Ogilvy China running their integrated team to drive both marketing and business’s solution capability’s growth including Branding, Digital, Social and PR offering.
She previously worked at AKQA Shanghai playing a key role developing the client portfolio, for companies such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Budweiser, Unilever, Uniqlo and Tencent, with a proven track record, including Cannes, Effie and Agency of the year awards. She then founded Arcade Shanghai, building a team of 25 people and winning several key clients including Unilever, Honeywell and Ray-Ban within the first year of operations.
Over the years Melinda has shown the ability to manage large global brands, has been exposed to the latest in digital creativity and technology, and has comprehensive brand marketing experience. She now puts these skills into use to drive Edelman’s communications marketing proposition in China and APAC.
In 2014, Campaign Asia-Pacific named Melinda as one of their 40 under 40 – the region’s most impressive marketing talent under the age of 40.
Rebecca Liyan Branham
Co-Founder, Managing Director of B & L (Shanghai) Engineering ConsultingRebecca has extensive experience with foreign and international investment and engineering companies in the fields of government relations, business development, office management and human resources. She also served as the China Government Relations Manager for a large American multinational engineering and construction company.
In 2005, Rebecca co-founded B & L Group. B & L Group, an international consulting company with extensive experience in the areas of Investment and Business Consulting, Project Management Consulting, Factory Maintenance, Education & Training. Rebecca helped the B & L Group team to successfully complete the 2010 World Expo USA Pavilion and was received twice by former US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.
In 2014, Rebecca founded CP Woman an organization that aims to foster more female leaders by providing a series of programs and business consulting to Professional Women and Women Entrepreneurs worldwide and to promote women economic development worldwide.
Allen Wan
Deputy Bureau Chief at Bloomberg NewsAllen Wan is the Deputy Bureau Chief at Bloomberg News in Shanghai. Before arriving nine years ago, he was an editor for Bloomberg in his hometown of New York. He is the former Asia bureau chief for CBS MarketWatch in Tokyo and has also worked at Reuters and AsiaWeek magazine. Allen has also taught at Jiaotong and Fudan universities and is a former president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Shanghai. He graduated cum laude from Boston University and received a masters from Georgetown University and a JD from Rutgers Law School-Newark.
Annabelle Vultee
Chief Operation Officer at EF English CenterAnnabelle Vultee is Chief Operating Officer, EF English Centers, a division of EF Education First. As COO, Annabelle oversees the strategic direction and day-to-day management of EF’s English training businesses for adults in our largest markets in Asia and key markets in Europe. Annabelle and her team are currently working on a project that leverages EF’s core assets to deliver a unique offering, which will improve the customer experience as well as EF’s operations for years to come.
Before accepting her current position in Shanghai, Ms. Vultee served as President of Smithsonian Student Travel (now Explore America), EF’s domestic student travel business for North American middle and high school students. During her tenure there, she was instrumental in doubling customer volume during a three-year period while dramatically improving customer satisfaction and repeat rates. Annabelle joined EF in 2010 as Director of Business Analysis and Strategy for EF Educational Tours, where she spearheaded a comprehensive market analysis in India to determine whether and how EF should expand in the South Asian nation. Earlier in her career she worked for The Coca-Cola Company in the Sales and Marketing Division in San Diego, Seattle and Honolulu, and for a high-end fractional aircraft ownership business as COO.
Sook Yee Tai
COO of Octave; Executive Director at Aitia Institute, and Senior Corporate Executive & Mindfulness Practitioner at OctaveSook Yee Tai has been with the IMC Pan Asia Alliance Group since 2007, heading up various functions and business groups. Since qualifying as a professional certified accountant, Sook Yee has spent more than 30 years in practice, consulting, corporate, governance and business leadership, including serving as director on Australian listed entities.
In the IMC Group, she was the Group Managing Director of the Industrial Business Group, which employs more than 10,000 employees with offices across 16 countries. Prior to joining the IMC Group, Sook Yee spent more than 15 years in the heavy building materials industry holding, the last position being Country Director for CEMEX Malaysia. Sook Yee was the first and only Asian female Country Director in CEMEX Global.
Having served two family businesses and operated in multi-cultural, male dominated, large businesses, Sook Yee understands and appreciates the relational dynamics and the need to be true, respectful, inclusive and engaging. She believes that to be a true leader in her life, there is no cookie cutter and she needs to lead by serving from her heart and to keep learning. Sook Yee is now part of a larger team, under the flagship AITIA Institute, working to journey with family businesses and enterprises to support and transform its leadership and practices, so they can evolve to support sustainability.
Lesli Ligorner
Partner at Morgan, Lewis & BockiusK. Lesli Ligorner is a Partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius where she serves clients on a wide range of labor and employment matters involving hiring and termination, establishment and enforcement of company policies, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and local anticorruption compliance, and discrimination and harassment policies, training, and investigations. For three consecutive years, Lesli was listed as one of the “Attorneys Who Matter” in the labor and employment category by the Ethisphere Institute, which recognized her for her commitment to advancing corporate ethics and compliance. She has also been listed in Chambers Global and was named “Lawyer of the Year” for Labour & Employment by China Law & Practice and AsiaMoney Women in Business Law.
Ryan Purkey
Founder: SEO Executive, PPC Partner Consultant & Google Analytics Auditor of rQuadrantRyan Purkey is the Marketing Director of Property Passbook - 金房本 and an APEC consultant. Ryan began his career in the 1990s with an SEO internet startup that survived the Dot-com bubble and was later acquired by Marchex, which is still in business today. After navigating those long odds early on, he continues to be fortunate enough to work with several other successful companies and startups--from single owner websites to unicorn, publicly-listed companies. He has a passion for teaching and helping people achieve their goals.
Jun Dong
Managing Director of TMall GlobalAt TMall Global, Jun is responsible for developing and managing all Fortune 500 global strategic key accounts. She has more than 13 years of experience in brand building across Asia with a China focus. Her experience is in beauty and retail, covering upstream innovation, brand architecture, and campaign with social and digital activation. June has a proven track record of leading whitespace expansion and business turn around as country leader. She previously worked for multiple brands under P&G including SK-II and Gucci. Jun has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Beata Dziedzic
Digital Learning Chief Consultant at Mulan Innovation LabBeata Dziedzic, Assoc. CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development), is a learning and development consultant and coach who guides companies to develop their captivating employer brand, increase employees engagement and social learning, as well as harness the full power of LinkedIn.
She is the author of Creating an Influential LinkedIn Profile and Publishing on LinkedIn courses, as well as co-author of Social Recruiting course launched by the Online Marketing Institute in New York. Currently based in Shanghai, she was instrumental for Antal China to win LinkedIn Top 15 Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agencies award and to grow their LinkedIn company page followers to over 3000 in less than six months as a direct result of her unified talent branding strategy on WeChat and LinkedIn.
Beata is also a certified career development and executive coach who helps clients to build a fulfilling cross-border career, as well as a strong personal and online brand. With her executive search and social recruiting background in Finance, Pharma, IT, and R&D, she excels in international career transformations, talent assessment and development, as well as outplacement projects. Throughout her career, she has designed and facilitated various types of online and offline coaching and training programs that have served over 4000 people from more than 40 countries, including many European and African states, the U.S., Canada, India, China, South Korea, Singapore and Japan. She has delivered training and coaching to diverse participants at various stages of their career, including entrepreneurs, middle and senior managers, and C-suite executives.
While working as an executive and IT recruiter in London, she assisted companies such as Siemens, Swisscorp, Barclays Bank, Capgemini, Infosys, Volvo and many others to acquire niche talent and improve their staffing strategies. In 2011, she moved to Beijing as an HR & intercultural consultant, where she delivered training to individuals, start-ups, MNCs and NGOs, including Networkers, Mars, Daimler, GSK, CNOOC, and the SACE Foundation. A few years later, she relocated to Prague, where she co-founded Coachify – a location independent consulting company that provides its clients a unique blend of cross-border career coaching and social media training. In 2016, the call to return to China proved too strong, so she moved to Shanghai. Here, she is conducting her research for a book on international careers in the age of talent mobility, while at the same time publishing some findings on Coachify blog. She has recently launched an employer branding course as a part of mulan HR Lab.
Beata graduated with a Masters Degree in politics from Ecole Internationale des Sciences Politiques (a joint program by University of Silesia and Sciences Po Bordeaux). She has earned a certificate in Human Resources Management, Level 5 with CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) and a certificate in career coaching from Ellia Communications. She speaks fluent English, French, and Polish, intermediate Czech, as well as conversational Chinese Mandarin and Spanish.
She enjoys blogging, traveling around the world, and studying languages. Beata is an ardent advocate of dual careers, supporting this cause as a volunteer at IPWS (International Professional Women Society), Shanghai and career mentor at CIPD, London.
Gladdy He
Senior Client Partner; Managing Director of Life Science Practice at Korn FerryGladdy He is a Senior Client Partner and Managing Director of Life Science Practice Asia Pacific at Korn Ferry. She is a member of the Global Life Sciences Markets.
Born and raised in northwest of China, and educated in the US, Ms. He has more than two decades of work and life exposure across US, China, Southeast Asia, and Europe. She possesses extensive global HR consulting experience, including executive search, executive coaching, succession management, strengths-based leadership programs. Over the course of her career, she has worked with many Fortune 500 clients.
Prior to Korn Ferry, Ms. He was Director of Consulting and Leadership Consultant for Gallup Consulting in Greater China and Southeast Asia. There, she managed global and regional accounts focusing on talent selection and employee engagement, including conducting hundreds of coaching sessions for C-level and senior executives in Asia-Pacific.
Before that, Ms. He served as engagement manager and research director for Gallup Consulting in Washington, D.C. Her key clients covered many government and healthcare agencies.
Ms. He started her career as a management trainee in market and risk leadership program at General Electric (GE) Capital Services.
Ms. He holds a master’s in business administration degree from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, and a master of science degree in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Connecticut, as well as a bachelor’s degree in economics from Nankai University in Tianjin.
Ms. He is a Board Member at Wharton Alumni Club Shanghai. She is the board member of several NGOs and Charitable organizations. She is also the Member of Young President Organization (YPO).
Diana Yang
Head of Enterprise Infrastructure Solution, APJ & GC at DellDiana is a director and BU head of Enterprise Infrastructure (EI) managing Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China business. EI is responsible for Server Upsell and Solution Ecosystems to provide end-to-end solution to Dell customers. With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, she has undertaken various roles ranging from Technical sales, Program Management, Quality Engineering, Procurement, and Marketing to BU management.
Erin Meagher
Director of Business Transformation & Operations at 3MErin Meagher is the Director of Business Transformation & Operations for 3M Greater China Area based in Shanghai. Erin has spent the past 20 years leading global business transformation programs, the past 10 with 3M. In his current role, he is responsible for customer service, sales & marketing support and IT for 3M’s Greater China Area. Prior to 3M, he was a Partner with Ernst & Young’s global consulting practice and Vice President with Cap Gemini Consulting.
Jessie Zhang
CFO, Asia Pacific at EatonJessie Zhang was appointed as the CFO, APAC for Eaton in October 2018. Jessie provides financial leadership for the hydraulics, vehicle business and corporate in Asia Pacific. Jessie joined Eaton in Mar 2015 from GE. Jessie spent almost 10 years with GE in Finance Function in both the U.S. and China, most recently severed as CFO China, GE Industrial Solutions. Before that Jessie has above 5-year working experience in Nestle in both China HQ and plant. Jessie holds a bachelor's degree in Economics (with major in investment) Eaton is dedicated to improving the quality of life and the environment through the use of power management technologies and services.
Walter Blanding
Jazz at Lincoln CenterWalter Blanding (tenor, soprano saxophones) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in New York City. He has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for over 20 years and has been also currently a member of the Wynton Marsalis Quintet for the past 12 years. He has performed in 5 of the 7 continents many times over the last few decades, and has also recorded and/or performed with such great artists as Paul Simon, John Hendricks, Illinois Jacquet, the Count Basie Orchestra, Cab Calloway, Roy Hargrove, The Wynton Marsalis Quintet, Willie Nelson, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with such greats as Dianne Reeves, Tony Bennet, the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Paris Radio Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and many, many others.
Dedicated to enriching lives by using the arts as a means of cultural exchange, Walter has been serving as the Jazz Ambassador for Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai for the past 5 months. He will be performing here March 12 - 31st, featuring different music and Artists each week. The first week will include music from his new album “Fantasy In Blue”. The second week will feature an unforgettable combination of Chinese Folk songs and Jazz with his “East Meets West Quintet.” Finally, the third week’s theme is “Something Old, Something New”, and will share popular songs as well as traditional favorites, featuring vocalist, Audrey Shakir. Mr.Blanding states: “These performances are designed to bring us closer to understanding the beauty of our differences as well as the things we all have in common. We will discover together, through various aspects of the music, the depth and importance of cultural awareness and well-being."