Clara Yu, Principal Consultant in Finance of GTDC
 China
 MBA, China European International Business School (CEIBS)

 Subject Title: Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Clara has had over 17 years of financial management experience with various industries and types of companies. Having started as an accountant in a big SOE, Clara's career evolved into a series of financial management positions with companies such as J&J, Henkel, GE and Kodak. In her finance leadership role, Clara has built a solid record on delivering competent financial services in the area of accounting, FP&A, treasury, tax, and internal control. As a business partner, Clara has also worked closely with BU leaders on strategic planning, performance improvement, and M&A projects. In M&A projects, Clara has experienced difficulties & success with different partners under various businesses, industries, environment, and local implementation environments.

As a native Chinese citizen, Clara's contribution is both insightful and practical with her understanding on both China context and MNC's business context.

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 Edward T. Brown, Jr. , Founding Partner and Creator of Mindful Selling™ and Mindful Leadership™  and Mediator for the Massachusetts State Courts
 United States
 M.A., Harvard University

 Subject Title: Mindful Selling™ and Mindful Leadership™

Having over 25 years of experience consulting with Fortune 500 executives, government officials, academics, and law firm partners to uncover their organizational needs, Edward T. Brown advises managers on process creation and process management to address organizational goals. Edward has designed and conducted executive and worker seminars to help implement these new strategies. He has had extensive experience in working with diverse groups, identifying common interests, building rapport and finding and creating successful solutions

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 Hu Jun Chen, Director of Human Resources Management Institute at Fudan University
 United States, China
 PhD in Psychology

 Subject Title: Human Resources Management/Organizational Behavior and Management  Pscyhology

Hu Junchen is a Professor of Enterprise Management at Fudan University and Director of the Business Human Resources Management Institute at Fudan University.

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 John D. Van Fleet, Senior Advisor and Adjunct Faculty at Antai College of Economics and  Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Founding director of the China Marketing Association
 United States, Japan, China
 MBA, University of Southern California

 Subject Title: International Business/Service marketing in China

John D. Van Fleet’s Asia career spans ten years in Japan and six in China. For five years starting in 1996, Van Fleet led the Asia-Pacific communications function, and marketing for a product group, for General Electric’s healthcare group. Since 1996 now his responsibilities have covered all of East Asia—most recently in his role as director of an executive MBA program based in Shanghai. He has extensive experience throughout the region in marketing, business development and operations. Van Fleet is  the author of numerous articles for business publications, and a regular speaker on business in China.

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 Kathy Chasse Hanna, Managing Director of the Hanna Consulting Group Ltd.
 United States, Brazil, France, Hong Kong, and China

 Subject Title: Human Resources Management

Ms. Kathy Chasse Hanna has lived in the US, Brazil, France, Hong Kong and China, where she has worked for fifteen years. She has twenty-two years combined experience in international human resources, finance, treasury, legal and government relations areas. Ms Hanna has participated in over twenty WFOE and joint venture start up projects in China.
Ms Hanna is Managing Director of the Hanna Consulting Group Ltd., which specializes in human resource consulting in Greater China. Prior to establishing Hanna Consulting Group Ltd., Kathy was Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources for LG Philips Displays, a $4 billion joint venture corporation headquartered in Hong Kong.
Ms. Hanna was previously a member of the General Electric merger and acquisition team while working as a consultant with Watson Wyatt Worldwide. She is able to work in Mandarin Chinese and is a recognized expert in human resources in China. Ms. Hanna is a featured speaker in the “Working in China” series produced by Meridian Resources and shown frequently on the Hong Kong learning channel.

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  Lucy Lu, Professor of MBA Program in Newcastle University Business School
  United Kingdom, China
  MBA, DBA, Newcastle University, England

  Subject Title: Leading Change/Cross Culture

Lucy is currently working as the MBA Programme Manger in Newcastle University Business School where she teaches Leading Change, which is one of the core modules in both MBA and EMBA programmes. She is also involved in delivering workshops for the Newcastle / Grenoble (France) joint DBA programme. As a Chinese citizen, Lucy plays an active and important role in China; she is currently the Associate Editor of Journal of Technology Management in China and an active executive member of China Association for Management of Technology which is an International Academic Organization with a global reach. While Lucy lives in the UK, she maintains a close relationship with the Chinese government and its well-known universities.

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 Maria Wang, Principal Consultant of Organizational Development for GTDC
 China
 MBA, China European International Business School (CEIBS)

 Subject Title: Coaching and Mentoring, OD and Change Management

Maria Wang is principal consultant of Organizational Development for Global Talent Development Center. With her career aspirations in helping individuals, teams, organizations to achieve full potential, Maria is dedicated in developing expertise in organizational learning, organization and system development, leadership and talent development, and executive coaching.
Maria previously worked with Kodak as Learning & Development Director for Greater Asia Region. While working with Kodak, she worked on wide variety of areas at local, regional, and global level including global design and rollout of the Kodak Frontline Leadership Excellence System, Talent Development, Coaching and Mentoring, OD and Change Management. Maria is certified in MBTI, Coach U's Corporate Coaching Program (CCP).
Maria received her MBA from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai and her Bachelor of Engineering from Jilin University of Technology.

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 Paul T. H. Chan, President of HELP University College, Malaysia
 Malaysia, Australia
 BA (Hons), M.Ec (UM); MA (McMaster); PhD (ANU)
 Hon. D.Litt (Oxford Brookes); Hon. DBA (CSU).

 Subject Title: Leadership/ Strategy Thinking/ Enterprise Diagnostics

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

As an economist, Dr. Chan has had a distinguished academic career. His works are widely published and taught in many universities. He has also consulted to international organizations and Governments on economic policies.
As a director of public companies, he has founded and managed several private enterprises. Paul has been the former Chairman, Division of Applied Economics at the University of Malaysia, an Auditor of the Australian Universities Quality Agency, and Chairman of the KLSE Composite Index during 1991-2001.

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 Richard Li-Hua, MBA Programme Manger in Newcastle University Business School
 Founder and current President of China Association for Management of Technology (CAMOT)
 China. United Kingdom

 Subject Title: Strategic Challenge and Management/ Knowledge Management and Strategy of  International Technology Transfer

Richard Li is known in the West by his monograph Technology and Knowledge Transfer in China and is an international recognized authority on strategy of international technology transfer. His research interests currently lie in technology strategy; in particular, the effectiveness and appropriateness of technology and knowledge transfer in China.
As a academic researcher and business consultant, he has long been involved in managing corporate partnerships, strategic planning and implementation, international marketing research, business development and contract negotiation for his previous Chinese and current UK employer. He has been Senior Economic Advisor to the Henan Provincial Government, China and International Advisor to ARMCO, Saudi Arabia since 2003. He is now visiting professor and invited speaker to a large number of universities both in China, (including Tsinghua University, Tongji University, Wuhan University…) and in the West, (including, Reading University, Buckingham University, Teesside University and International University of Monaco).

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 Sherry L. Read, Principal Consultant of Executive Coaching for GTDC
 United States, Singapore, China
 B.S., Cornel University, M.S., Colorado State University, M.B.A. San Jose State University

 Subject Title: Coaching/ Human Resource Management

Sherry L. Read is the principal consultant of executive coaching for Global Talent Development Center. She is also the Founder and Chief Coach with Read Solutions Group. She has over 20 years of industrial experience in finding solutions to business issues using skills in human resources, compensation, statistics, and process improvement. Since 2000, she has relocated in Singapore, and has focused on the human capital challenges of managing and growing businesses in Asia Pacific. Having relocated to Shanghai in 2005, Sherry has founded Read Solutions Group – a coaching company that helps people be confident and successful as leaders, particularly in multicultural settings. She coaches individuals, speaks to professional groups, leads workshops and writes about organizational, leadership and coaching topics.
Sherry has a BS in Statistics and Biometry from Cornell University, a MS in Statistics from Colorado State University, and a MBA from San Jose State University. She attended the Human Resources Executive Program at the University of Michigan. She is active in Shanghai in the American Chamber of Commerce and Expatriate Professional Women's Society, and stays current with global human resources trends through her membership in the Society for Human Resources and the Human Capital Institute. Sherry is a Certified Professional Coach through International Coach Academy and a member of the International Coach Federation.

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 Zi wei Pan, Business Development Director for Rockwell Automation
 USA, China
 MBA, Washington University

 Subject Title: Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Ziwei has played key roles in orchestrating the whole inorganic growth strategy for multiple major MNCs in China. Since 2002, he lead and closed eight acquisition and joint venture projects which includes GE Energy’s first joint venture and (then) largest acquisition in China, as well as the first public company acquisitions for the Alstom Group.
Currently living in Shangshai, Ziwei is also active in the M&A “community” in China. He frequently speaks on related forums and is interviewed by media on some of his transactions which are considered “ground-breaking”.