Dr. David Pan obtained his LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Dr. Pan was admitted to practice law in 2002. He is also admitted in New York State, USA.

Prior to joining Llinks, Dr. Pan has practiced law in China and in the U.S. over 18 years. He accumulated an in-depth knowledge on Chinese and international business culture and legal systems. Dr. Pan has once worked in two well-known Chinese law firms, and most recently worked for a Fortune 500 Company as its General Counsel for Greater China. In addition to his corporate services such as mergers and acquisitions, joint venture, technology license etc., Dr. Pan specializes in various compliance matters including anti-trust, anti-corruption, cyber security and data protection. The clients that he represented spread over various industries, including auto, investment, energy, pharmaceutical, chemical, medical, food, advanced manufacturing, sports and entertainment, retail and consumer, real estate.

Based on his thorough understanding on business operations, Dr. Pan also specializes in providing companies practical solution-oriented services in the regulatory compliance areas. He has advised well-known pharmaceutical, healthcare, education, professional service, tourism, advanced manufacturing, high-tech, retail and manufacture businesses in adopting, adapting and implementing antitrust and anti-corruption compliance programs in China, internal training, conducting internal investigations and dealing with external investigations, crisis management, and third party relationship management tactics.

In the early 2000s, Dr. Pan started to represent MNCs in data and cyber security related legal matters, such as offshore server, log records storage and filing, personal data collection and use, data integrity, centralized data process, differentiation between trade secrets and state secrets etc. In the course of handling these cases, Dr. Pan gained solid practical experiences in this field.

Dr. Pan is recommended by ALB, Chambers, Legal500, LEGALBAND, Who’s Who Legal as China Leading Lawyer in field of Corporate, Compliance, Antitrust and Competition, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy.

Carly Ramsey is based in Shanghai and leads the political and regulatory risk consulting for Greater China and North Asia. She has a decade of experience in China advising multinationals how to engage the Chinese government and mitigate political and regulatory risk.

Prior to joining Control Risks, Carly was an Associate Director with APCO Worldwide. She led the Greater China healthcare team to provide advisory, government relations, and corporate communications strategy and execution services to major multinationals, trade associations, and governments.

Carly’s comments on China’s political developments have appeared in major media outlets, including the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. She has a master’s degree in foreign policy and international security from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Western Ontario.

Joseph Chan is the Chief Legal Officer at YumChina, a US$29B Fortune 500 consumer company dually listed on the NYSE and HKEX. YumChina was named one of the world’s 50 most innovative companies by Fast Company in 2020 and 100 most influential companies by Time in 2021. As a leadership team member, Joseph counsels the Board of Directors and CEO, and oversees the legal, intellectual property, risk management, compliance and international government affairs functions. He chairs the compliance oversight and disclosure committees, and serves on the investment committee, among others. Joseph was profiled by Asian Law Business as one of 21 leading general counsel in 2021. The law department he leads was named 2020 in-house team of the year by ALB and 2021 F&B industry team of the year by China Business Law Journal. Prior to YumChina, Joseph was a partner at Sidley Austin and a managing partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. His views were quoted numerous times in The Wall Street Journal, among other prominent publications.

Boon Kim Fam (Kim) is currently the Legal Director of Compliance and Privacy, PVH Asia Pacific, the parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger. She has over 18 years’ legal and compliance experience in Europe and Asia, gained in US law firms, the US and China-listed companies, as well as both the UK and Malaysian central government. Kim has the cultural sensitivity, technical expertise, and sound international outlook to seamlessly translate a Global Compliance program to effectively obtain buy-in from senior leaders and key business partners. Kim is passionate about business-driven compliance, and constantly identifies opportunities to inspire senior leaders to become Ethical champions. Kim was shortlisted for the category of Compliance Officer of the Year, Women in Compliance Awards 2020, a prestigious global award organized by C5 Communications Ltd, London to celebrate and honor women in Compliance.

Since 2017, David Xu has been GE China's Senior Manager in Digital Workplace/IT Infrastructure, which broadly leads the IT team in Great China area and locally supports the global IT and Cyber security function teams. His first role in GE in 2015 was APAC operation leader overseeing the network and computer operation team across APAC region.

He has 26 years of working experience in variety of IT function and roles. Before joining GE China, he lived and worked in Vancouver for about 15 years as an IT and Security Architect and senior consultant.

He holds the Cisco CCIE designation since 1999, and CISSP as cyber security professional since 2006.