Andrew, a proud Australian, completed his undergraduate degree in Business at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. Since then Andrew took on multiple challenges both within a corporate landscape and then more aggressively with his own entrepreneurial ventures.

In China Andrew became known as the ‘Mailman’ after acquiring the leading alternative media company Mailman China. Andrew then took the company to its 10th year and managed to grow the already popular product PostKard Media to new heights. In 2008 Andrew was recognized for his dedication to entrepreneurship by winning the ‘Top 30 Entrepreneur under 30′ by a Telstra sponsored award in Australia, featured across the Australian Anthill Magazine.

Andrew is now the Managing Partner of Zero Degrees, a leading China Social Media Agency. Andrew is the engine that drives business development, client relationships, and agency partnerships that allows Zero Degrees to evolve and grow.

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.

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.

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.

Leanne, a guest host for ITV-Asia, is a financial reporter at China Business News (CBN), a leading financial media in China. She hosts programes at ITV-Asia interviewing business leaders and experts. At CBN, she covers markets for commodities, equities and bonds; private equity and venture capital funds; sovereign wealth funds; company scandals, and legal disputes.

Leanne started her journalism career by freelancing for various financial publications and iterning at Financial Times in Hong Kong. She also had experience in marketing communication field at MNCs in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Leanne holds PgDip in Journalism from University of Hong Kong, MSc International Marketing Management from the University of Leeds, UK, and BA in International Chinese Studies from East China Normal University, China.

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.

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.

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.