Mr. Wu Chen joined the Economist Group CFO China in May 2005. Prior to that, he has worked for BusinessWeek in Hong Kong and Bloomberg News in Singapore. Mr. Wu started his journalist career at the international news department of Xinhua (New China) News Agency in 1999.
 
Mr. Wu earned Master of Pacific International Affairs degree from University of California, San Diego and Master of Journalism from E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. He earned his B.A. from Beijing Foreign Studies University.
 

Prior to joining Haworth in 2006, Bo Christensen had 15 years in the design industry. During this time, he worked on Australia's first 6 Star Greenstar project, 40 Albert Road in Melbourne.
 
At Haworth, Christensen is part of the Global Governance group reporting on Haworth's global sustainability progress. This aligns the diverse needs of the US, AP and European markets.
 
The regional activities Mr Christensen manages relate to diverse areas such product environmental certifications (such Ecolabel), building rating systems (LEED and Greenstar) and materials used in product design and project specifications. He also oversees a crucial regional initiative; this is the Climate Positive strategy that fully mitigates the carbon embodied in selected product sold in the region. Importantly for Haworth this is done as a purely voluntary off set and demonstrates true commitment to lowering environmental impacts.
 
Bo Christensen is passionate about keeping sustainability front of mind in all aspects of Haworth's regional activities.
 

Erik Gain moved to Japan in February of 1994 to seek his fortune as an expat-entrepreneur, and has lived and established businesses in several destinations in Japan and China, including Nagoya, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.
 
Gain's ventures span a wide range of industries, from teaching and translating, to Internet businesses and real estate. He is one of the co-founders and running Managing Director of GPlusMedia Co., Ltd, a Japan based corporation that publishes several of Japan's best known English-Japanese websites, including JapanToday.com, GaijinPot.com, and Ecentral.jp, the official jobsite of the ACCJ (American Chamber of Commerce in Japan). Gain returned to Shanghai in 2009 to expand their China based business, which focuses on the CareerEngine.org Jobsite Network. CareerEngine.org is an Asia-wide white label online job board platform, which is used to power job boards for a wide range of partners including major foreign chambers of commerce, online and print publications, and educational institutions.
 

Edward's background is rich in the intricacies of high end, corporate finance throughout Asia with particular emphasis on China. He specializes in economic analysis, finance and accounting structures, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He is also an expert on the management and analysis of competitive intelligence.
 
During his long and successful career with a multi-national automotive supplier, he served a number of years as CFO of Greater China and Korea. He has an astute knowledge of the business practices in China where he established and managed the company's finance and accounting functions. He was also in charge of managing logistics, purchasing and costing functions; and led the establishment of a major holding company along with numerous joint ventures.
 
Edward set up effective planning and budget functions for all product lines and locations throughout China. His expertise helped this company grow from a minor player to the No.1 company in its industry in China.
 
Before entering consulting, Edward served as VP of Business Intelligence for all Asian operations. He is an expert at profiling competitors to identify their business models and providing regular monitoring and analysis of changes in strategic direction. He has also tracked economic and political developments of countries around the world to maximize his company's competitive advantage in its many theaters of operation.
 
Establishing or expanding a business in Asia can be extremely lucrative, but it is also can be fraught with financial pitfalls. Someone with Edward's hands-on experience and proven track record is an absolute necessity for bottom line success.
 
Edward is active in the American Chambers of Commerce in Shanghai and Beijing, serving as Chairman of the Washington DC "Doorknock" Committee. He was a recent candidate for AmCham Shanghai's Board of Governors.
 

Frank Mulligan is the China Director for Accetis International and the founder of Talent Software, a Shanghai-based HRO provider which Mr. Mulligan built up using China's first bi-lingual ATS and testing solution.
 
Mulligan, who has lived in China for over 10 years, previously served as the Chief Representative of Norman Broadbent Executive Search in China, 1st Sec. (Commercial) for the Irish Embassy in Beijing and Strategic Planning Manager, Siemens Ltd. China.
Mr. Mulligan's award-winning blog can be found at http://www.talentinchina.com/, and features a guest roster of the world's leading HR thinkers. He is also a frequent contributor to Onrec, ERE, Netassets, SHRM and Recruiting dot com.
 

Tom, born and bred in America's Detroit and educated in Chicago, somehow took a detour to Hong Kong in 1994 and never quite made it back to the States. In the meantime, he has become one of Asia's most respected advertising minds. His unique combination of pan-Asian work, plus nine years based in China, has made him a leading expert in the cross-border management of brand architecture and brand building. Furthermore, he is a passionate advocate of the iron link between brand equity and long-term profitability.
 
Having started his advertising career at Leo Burnett (Chicago) in 1989, Tom jumped ship and joined JWT Chicago in 1992. In 1994, Tom moved to Hong Kong as Regional Business Director, managing several of JWT's largest multinational clients across Asia Pacific (including Pepsi, Philip Morris/Kraft and Citibank).
 
In 1998, he landed in China as the Managing Director of JWT Shanghai, an agency that is now recognized by the marketing and communications industry as one of the finest on the Mainland. In 2002, he was appointed Northeast Asia Area Director (China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea) and Greater China CEO. Under his stewardship, JWT Northeast Asia has emerged as one of the region's most synergistically integrated, creatively dynamic and strategically insightful networks. In 2003, Tom was named Regional Agency Head of the Year by the region's leading marketing and advertising publication, Media Magazine. In recognition of his contribution to Shanghai's economic development, Tom was also a recipient of the prestigious "2004 Magnolia Government Award." He is also the author of "Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer," a book published by Palgrave MacMillan in January, 2006.
 
Some of JWT China's key clients include: Unilever, the Diamond Trading Company (formerly DeBeers), HSBC, Inbev, Ford, B&Q, Unicharm and Nestle as well as several local enterprises such as Lenovo computers, Konka mobile phones and televisions, China Unicom and Metersbonwe, Anta.
 
Tom completed his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) in 1985 and his MBA at the University of Chicago in 1989.
 
Tom's new book, "What Chinese Want: Culture, Communism & China's Modern Consumer" will be released in May 2012 from Palgrave Macmillan.

Born and raised in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Clare Cheng has lived and worked in New York City, Taipei & China and is now based in Shanghai, where she contributes more than 16 years of international branding and integrated marketing experience to both local and international clients.
 
After starting her advertising career at LLT in NYC in 1993 (key clients including MCI, Citibank, and New York Life), Ms. Cheng decided to return to her motherland in 1995, joining Ogilvy Advertising Taipei. She was then the Head of Brand Marketing Communication for Tower Records, Hachette Filipacchi, TVBS, and California Fitness center in Taiwan. In 2003, she moved to China to found the 4 IN GROUP- Brand Consulting.
 
Cheng specializes in creative branding and integrated marketing/PR programs, assisting multinational companies with their entry into Asia as well as assisting local brands with market launches, and has been acclaimed by major media in Taiwan, China & overseas as one of the leading creative brand marketing specialists in Asia. She is also a frequent speaker at Branding/ PR conference in China.
 
Ms. Cheng holds a M.A. in Marketing Communication from Boston University and a B.A. in Commercial Design from Chung Yuan University, Taiwan. She has also published three best-sellers, contributed to "The Economist: Business China," and occasionally writes lifestyle-columns for magazines in China.
 

Mr. Graylin is a seasoned technology entrepreneur having over 17 years of management experience with nine years managing businesses in Greater China. Mr. Graylin co-founded mInfo in early 2005 and has lead mInfo to its market leader in mobile search and mobile advertising in China. mInfo is the exclusive partner for China Telecom’s Omni-search service and China Mobile’s SNS service for mobile search and advertising. mInfo was also selected by BOCOG as the official mobile search provider for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
 
Mr. Graylin has rich entrepreneurial experiences prior to mInfo, having also been the founder and CEO of two other venture-backed technology start-ups in the US. Mr. Graylin began his career in the early 90’s at IBM and Intel designing what became the PowerPC and Itanium microprocessors. In the mid-90’s Mr. Graylin also helped establish the Intel organization in Shanghai, and lead the growth of its consumer PC business in China. He later ran Asia Pacific Marketing for Intel Online Services in the late 90’s. Mr. Graylin headed the global Enterprise and Consumer business units at Trend Micro, and security products/services business at WatchGuard Technologies in the early 2000’s.
 
Mr. Graylin earned an MS in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He graduate top of his department with a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. Mr. Graylin was born in China and educated in the US. He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
 

Alex Barker, a Concordia University graduate, is a recent addition to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. In charge of Marketing Development for the upcoming Asia-Pacific Forum he is excited to be a part of their ever-expanding team. Alex has now spent approximately a year and a half in China, which was spent teaching English in Guangzhou and studying Mandarin on Hainan Island.

Patrick est ne a Lyon en 1965. Apres une enfance francaise, il est parti aux Etats-Unis au milieu des 80 pour etudier a l'Universite. C'est en revenant en France en 89 que Patrick a pris conscience qu'il etait devenu un francais d'ailleurs. Il est rentre chez Alcatel en Novembre 89 et est arrive en Asie en 1992. Apres l'Inde, Singapour, l'Indonesie, et l'Australie, Patrick s'est installe a Shanghai en 2001 avec sa femme et ses 2 fils. En 17 annees dans cette partie du monde, il a cree une joint-venture, construit des equipes multiculturelles, transforme des business models, adapte des organisations aux circonstances, forme des hommes et des femmes partout en Asie, accompagne des partenaires, deploye des infrastructures, rencontre des hommes et des femmes exceptionnels: Patrick fait definitivement partie des quelques centaines d'hommes d'affaire francais qui connaissent le mieux l'Extreme Orient.

Max has spent 20 years in Asia (whom 12 years in China), living and working in Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Bangkok, Beijing and Shanghai. Graduated from France's ISG business school, Max initially started his career in trade publishing and media. For the past 12 years, he has engaged actively in developing supply chain and logistics solutions for both overseas SMEs and foreign-invested companies in China: running a strategic sourcing consulting firm Sinosources, developed a B2B platform Sparkice.com and managed a supply chain solution provider ECnet.
 
More recently, he was the director of Trans-Access Solutions, a value-added logistics platform operator in China. Max is the founder and the director of the Global Supply Chain Council and currently dedicates his full time in leading this growing professional organization across Asia.
 

凌嘉拥有在美国中国两地共13年的市场营销，品牌经营策略，及消费者行为研究的经验。 目前在阳狮集团旗下的Razorfish 以及 Digitas两家数字营销咨询公司，担任战略策划以及移动营销职责，主要为两家公司的项目进行消费者洞察研究，策略发展模式，并协助客户发掘更多更先进，并且符合其企业需求的新契机。职责目的在于讲营销策略及活动，精准地转换成消费者体验过程。

她同时负责为两家公司建立独特的agency point of view，以及在全球数字行销刊物中撰写中国市场内容 （Razorfish Outlook Report 2010）同时，凌嘉也曾为复旦大学新闻系的客座讲师，以及iTV-Asia Digital/Mobile 讲座的嘉宾。

于此之前，凌嘉曾有10年在LVMH路易威登集团美国及中国的10年经验。

凌嘉成长于美国加州旧金山市，并在加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校以哲学，艺术双主修毕业。