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Jon B. Anderson is Partner-in-Charge of the Shanghai, China office of Lake Pointe Partners, LLC. Mr. Anderson is a seasoned business executive and consultant with over thirty years of diverse experience working in and consulting to fast growth, industry-leading public and private manufacturing and service companies.
His corporate experience includes international responsibilities in multi-site operations, acquisition due diligence, operations integration, business start-ups, human resource management and recruiting, and governmental relations in both union and non-union settings. In addition, he has country experience in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mexico, England, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Mr. Anderson resides in Shanghai, China.
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Co-author of "Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor", Sarah is a great grandniece of Thomas Edison and his second wife, Mina Miller Edison. Sarah has been engaged in creativity and innovation throughout her life. Prompted by a family history of invention dating back to the 1850’s, she began her 20-year career as a Marketing executive in the Fortune 500 with brand-driven firms such as Quaker Oats and Unilever.
In 2007 Sarah established Power Patterns of Innovation and established StarWave Associates in 1998 where service offerings provided included executive coaching and training.
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Eric is a Managing Partner of WHI Capital Partners and brings more than 14 years of operational, managerial and M&A transactional experience. Prior to joining WHICP, Eric oversaw all operations and acquisition initiatives as General Manager of Midwest Air Technologies, Inc., a consumer and industrial products company. Under Eric’s leadership, sales grew from $100 million to over $200 million and the company captured the leading market share position in its industry niche.
Before Midwest, Eric was CEO and majority owner of Ampere Automotive, Inc., a middle market family-owned automotive component remanufacturer. At Ampere, Eric grew sales from $25 Million to $50 Million and doubled profitability by successfully completing two acquisitions and implementing the Toyota Production System. With this system, production lead times at Ampere dropped from 3.5 days to 4 hours and inventory turns tripled.
Previously, Eric was a manager at General Electric, holding various operational and business development positions with GE Medical Systems, GE Power Systems, and GE Corporate. Throughout Eric’s career, he has been consistently successful in developing and executing strategic plans, growing revenues, dramatically improving margins and integrating acquisitions. Eric has a BS with honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Rob is a co-author of Doing Business in China for Dummies, which was released by Wiley Publishing in August 2007 and President of Doing China Business L.L.C.
Rob has been associated with developing opportunities in the China market for 25 years. Prior to establishing his own firm, Rob developed the China business strategy for Aon Corporation and several other leading international companies.
Mr. Collins lived and worked in Beijing and Hong Kong, China for 12 years. He led business development, P&L management, and new market entry for 14 Asian countries. He also developed successful new market entry strategies in Europe, South America, and Australia.
Rob obtained a joint MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Rob is an active member of the Mayor of Chicago’s Sister City Committee.
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Kevin provides consulting time to various technology ventures in mainland China and is the President of A Full Life, Inc. and a Trustee for A Full Life (UK Trust) an organization creating a financially self-sustaining transition home for adult orphans in developing countries.
Kevin ‘s past EMEIA career adventures include being the Managing Director of The Chalfont Project and Vice-President of Program Management for marchFIRST Europe, based in London.
From 1992 to 2000 Kevin was based in Shanghai, PR China. In 1992 he founded and became General Manager of the Shanghai In Dex Computer Company. The company was sold in 1998 with three offices in Shanghai, Bejing and Guangzhou and 250 employees. The buyer, Zhaodaola Internet services required Kevin to stay on for two years as their Chief Operating Officer as part of the transfer.
Kevin has an MBA from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.
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Bev owns a multilingual enterprise solutions consulting firm specializing in language automation, knowledge systems, learning systems, localization, data center design and managed services. She manages data centers with a team of enterprise architects, developers and specialized consultants. Bev specializes in designing global web services and enterprise workflow systems that integrate legacy systems with learning and language automation technologies. Bev also consults for specialized technical learning systems with a unique focus on the relationship between machine learning and human learning.
Bev is personally dedicated to education and teaches for the University of Chicago’s Translation Technology in Business Program and assists with the program’s development. She is a member of the Globalization Management Strategies Group with the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Bev has helped start and develop several non profit and for profit organizations, serving on boards, and has served on the advisory boards of several companies. In addition to her work in learning and language technologies, She has coordinated language services for international conferences, coordinated global business leadership events such as the Executive Speaker Series for the Seattle University Albers School of Business and Economics, provided technology services for Localization World Conferences, and other international business leadership events.
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Robert A. Davis Jr. was born in Chicago’s south side and graduated from Northern Illinois History, where he studied Chinese art history, Chinese philosophy and Chinese language. In 1997 Robert moved to Xi’an in central China where he lived for two years and taught English to adult scientists and researchers at the Xi’an International Studies University. During this stay in China, Robert traveled extensively throughout the region and developed a keen interest in contemporary Chinese culture, especially the education system. In 1999 Robert returned to Chicago and became the first Asian world languages program coordinator for Chicago Public Schools (CPS). He now serves as the Director of the Confucius Institute in Chicago and the CPS Chicago’s Chinese Connection Program. In 2002 he was awarded a full scholarship from the Chinese government to study Chinese language and culture at Peking University. He has lead 9 education cultural immersion programs to China, with over 100 teachers and administrators having participated. In October 2004 Robert accompanied Mayor Richard M. Daley to Shanghai and Shenyang, China as his education representative, and facilitated in the signing of an Agreement of Cooperation between the Chicago Public Schools and the Chinese Ministry of Education. In May 2006 he returned to China with Mayor Daley to expand collaboration between Chicago and China, which included meetings with Minister of Education, Zhou Ji. He is a frequent lecturer on the subject of Chinese language education development in the United States, and has spoken at the Asia Society in New York, The First World Conference on the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language (Beijing), The Institute on International Education (Washington DC), the University of Chicago and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (several occasions). Robert is an avid supporter of language education and an advocate for an increase in International education programs in America’s public schools.
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Tristan has over three decades of leadership and management experience, working with the world’s largest and most respected consumer goods companies. Starting out as brand manager at Procter & Gamble in the Philippines, Tristan has risen to senior marketing and eventually country executive and board level positions in companies that include Kraft Foods, Johnson & Johnson, and the Wm Wrigley Jr Company. He has been posted in some of the world’s most important and fastest growing markets - including China, India, the tiger economies of South East Asia - as well as in the United States. His latest foreign assignment was in Vietnam as General Director for URC, a subsidiary of JGSummit Holdings, one of Asia’s largest and most respected business conglomerates. In these assignments, Tristan successfully led and managed organizations in meeting every imaginable challenge: from overseeing start-ups to turning around problem ventures; from launching brands in a single market to orchestrating complex marketing and business campaigns across an entire region. Most recently, Tristan moved to Chicago where he founded and is now President & CEO of Banyan Way, an Executive Coaching & Development company dedicated to helping marketing executives further improve their leadership and management skills.
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Since 2002, Cary responsibilities have focused on China for Motorola's product introduction and systems deployment. During this period he instituted operational process and discipline while recognizing and balancing cultural differences between teams based in the US and China.
Meeting regularly with customer executives to build relationships, understand requirements and deliver solutions has resulted in a high level of system performance as well as customer satisfaction and ongoing opportunity for business success.
Cary has nearly 30 years in the telecommunications industry spanning a broad set of management and engineering responsibilities. He has been associated with numerous successes including two US patents, several innovative technical papers and multi-million dollar product deliveries to global customers.
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JF has been actively involved in the corporate training market and responsible for implementation management and leadership development content with over 20 years experience in the education industry in academic and corporate settings. He has been with HBSP for over 10 years, driving the implementation, customization and integration of CD-ROM, Intranet and Internet delivered e-learning into the professional development curriculums of multinational organizations.
He currently leads the Corporate Learning Implementation Services division of Harvard Business School Publishing, a group focused on professional services around strategy, customization and facilitation of learning solutions.
JF has facilitated leadership workshops and train-the-trainer sessions, worked with clients and presented best practices and case studies at conferences in the UK, India, Germany, South Africa, Canada, Mexico, China, Australia and the US.
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