CEO China Business Strategy

Firmly rooted in both the American and the Chinese culture, Paul Denlinger is the ideal person to set foreign business in China straight. Many of those companies failed in China, especially in technology, because they were misinformed. Paul Denlinger can set them straight.

Technology observer, cultural commentator, and rock musician

Kaiser Kuo is an American-born writer, rock musician, technology watcher and cultural commentator. He currently divides his time between consulting for China's leading Internet video site, Youku.com, where his brief includes international trade marketing, media relations, and multinational advertiser/agency relations.

Retired MBA lecturer and China entrepreneur

Warren Liu takes with him the academic rigor of the top-end business schools where he has been teaching. Combined with his practical business experience, and his recent study of KFC in China, he brings a unique set of skills, viewpoints and background, makes him a challenging partner at your next event.

Chairman and CEO at The MacLellan Group

Douglas MacLellan has been working in China since 1983 (26 years) and is a recognized authority on joint venture and wholly foreign owned enterprise (WFOE) structuring. Mr. MacLellan is currently Chairman & CEO of AMDL, Inc. a U.S. based Pharma business with significant operations in China. He is also Chairman & CEO of the MacLellan Group an international advisory business focused on China business development. Mr. MacLellan is a senior international business executive, economist, venture capitalist and merchant banker. MacLellan has been a catalyst for the development and financing of global businesses in the United States and throughout the world in countries that include: Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Hungary, India, Korea, Madagascar and Russia over the past 17 years. Throughout his professional career, as a senior international business executive and or as a member of the board of directors of numerous companies, he has provided management, advice and counsel on strategic planning, operational activities, corporate finance, economic policy, asset allocation and mergers & acquisitions. He has helped raise over US$715 million for development stage, start-up and mid-cap companies.

Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Canadian Ambassador to the WTO (1999-2004)

An extensive career in government and business places Ambassador Sergio Marchi in an excellent position to explain China to the outside world. He served as a Canadian Ambassador to the World Trade Organization and UN, in Geneva; as a Canadian Cabinet Minister of International Trade, the Environment and Immigration; and in a range of private sector advisory positions.From 2004 to 2008 he was the President of the Canada-China Business Council.

Environmental, energy lawyer; professor at Jiaotong University

Charles R. McElwee brought 27 years of legal experience in environment, water and energy to China, when he decided a few years ago to settle in Shanghai. Now he is the leading expert on environmental law, one of the most important political and economic battlefields in China.

Senior research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

A highly respected expert and speaker on China and Asia, Dr. Overholt, joined in 2008 as a senior research fellow the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2007 he published Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics

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Assistant professor political science, Northwestern University
leading specialist on China's financial systems

What is the People's Bank of China thinking? Victor Shih is one of very few people who can shed so light on the decision making process of some of the world's most important people. The Harvard-educated scholar has a profound insight in the inner workings of China's politics, where others barely scratch the surface.

Founder and CEO of Bioforesight

Dr. Zhu Shen is an award-winning business leader, prolific author, and media personality. She is the CEO of BioForesight, a strategic consulting company providing licensing, partnering, investment advisory, outsourcing advisory, cross-cultural communication & negotiation training, and media/public relations services to clients in North America, Europe, and China.