AmCham¡¯s 9th Annual

HR Directors Conference:

Embracing Corporate Change

Engaging Employees to

Accelerate Transformation

Sofitel Hotel

Chaoyang District, Beijing, PRC

8:00 AM ¨C 5:30PM

Friday, September 12

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Speaker	Company
Chris Lin	Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLp
Janet Zhong	Alcoa Asia Region
Jean Lin	Applied Materials
Paul Jensen	Bombardier
Frank Gallo	Calypso Consulting
Yajie Pei	Coca-Cola Beverage Co., Ltd.
Bernard  Choo	Corning Cable Systems
Angela Yan	Dell Computer
Jean Charles Dehaye	EU China
James Shen	Freescale Semiconductor (China) Ltd.
Emma Dong	GE Healthcare
Kitty Wu	Global Function
Jing Xu	Heidrick & Struggles
Susan Derkach	Hewitt
Weimin Yao	Huawei Corp. University
Elaine Bai	IBM China
Linda Liang	King and Wood
Rainer Schmidtz	Kraft Foods (China)
Gregg Gordon	Kronos Incorporated
Danielle Monaghan	Microsoft  Research & Development groups
Fengyu Liu	Motorola (China) Electronics Ltd.
Jenny Yan	Motorola (China) Electronics Ltd.
Robert Xiao	Perfect World Networking Co.
Reter Sun	Rockwell Automation
Derrick Young	Santa Fe Relocation services.
Pan Huei-Ren	Schlumberger China.
Andreas Ruppert	Siemens Limited China.
Helen Dong	Terex - China
Gao Lan	Thomson Broadband
Jon Randall	Watson Wyatt
Robin Adams	Yi Ming Consulting

Chris Lin, Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP. Chris Lin is widely recognized within the MNC community in China as a leading labor lawyer. Immediately prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Lin served as the labor counsel for the General Electric Company (GE) for Greater China. His duties there included advising all six businesses of GE on labor-related issues, from recruiting, hiring to termination. He also helped GE develop its reputational risk guidelines and training materials for its suppliers. Between early 2005, when the first bill for new Labor Contract Law was submitted by the then Ministry of Labor (MOLSS) to the State Council and August 2007, when this important labor legislation was finally adopted, Chris was involved in every step of the process by raising the concerns of the MNC community. Mr. Lin¡¯s opinions were well received by the drafters of the law and their advisors within the Chinese labor law community and he was instrumental in the drafting of comments from AmCham-China, AmCham-Shanghai, and USCBC, China Enterprises Confederation (CEC) and China Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment (CAEFI). Chris has served on the legal committee of AmCham-China as its labor law expert. His advice has been sought by the leaders of AmCham in dealing with these agencies and in the drafting of the labor law part in AmCham¡¯s annual white paper. Chris received his B.A. degree from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, his J.D degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, New York, and his M.P.A. degree from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Janet Zhong, Human Resources Vice President, Alcoa Asia Region(Beijing). Janet joined Alcoa as an HR Director in May 2004, when she led the talent management and organization development of the Alcoa China¡¯s Bohai and Kunshan projects. Prior to joining Alcoa Janet spent 12 years in PepsiCo, where she worked with the concentrate operations, bottling JVs and the corporate HR Team. Janet¡¯s experience spans the HR field, but she has extensive experience in Joint Venture projects, start ups, merge and acquisitions and Organizational Capability Building. Janet is a past recipient of the HR Manager of the Year award from China Staff, the leading HR publication in the greater China region. Janet received a Bachelor degree of Public Administration Management and a MBA degree from Henley Management College.

Jean Lin, HR Director, Applied Materials China She sets up the overall people strategy, including organizational development, workforce management, staffing, total rewards, mergers & acquisition, and employee relationship strategies in China; and directs the implementation of these HR programs to support the business goals and strategies.   Before this role, she was the Director of Compensation & Benefits ¨C Asia, for Applied Materials, driving and coordinating compensation and benefits programs in China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and Malaysia. Prior to Applied Materials, Jean was a Business Director for Hewitt Associates, a Human Resources management consulting firm headquartered in the US.  Jean has over 10 years' consulting experience and has worked extensively on broad-based compensation consulting, business incentive design, HR due diligence & integration, organizational restructuring, and employee communication.  Her clients include world famous multinational companies, local Chinese conglomerates, NGOs, and China governments. Jean Lin graduated from Nankai University in China, with a M.S. in Economics.

Paul Jensen, HR Director, Bombardier Paul Jensen is employed by Bombardier as Director HR and Organization Development, China. He is a specialist in organizational development and enterprise management.  He has particular experience in cross-cultural management issues and has worked or consulted for both private and public sector organizations, especially in China, on issues such as enterprise management, organizational structure and design, operations management, State Enterprise (SOE) Reform, efficiency enhancement, cross-cultural conflict, etc. Jensen started his international career working as a Merchant Seaman at age 15 on Danish freighters. Since then he has traveled/worked on all continents except Antarctica, most particularly in Asia. Previously employed as a consultant by both the World Bank (China) and the Asian Development Bank (Bhutan) Jensen began his career with Bombardier in 2000 at the BSP Joint Venture in Qingdao, China during the start-up phase of that plant ¨C Bombardier¡¯s largest rail manufacturing facility in China. Subsequently he was promoted to his present position and joined the management team of Jianwei Zhang (President and Chief Country Representative ¨C China) in Beijing. Having commenced work in China, Mainland in 1979, he has particular sensitivity to, and experience with, the challenges faced by Chinese organizations transitioning to a market economy, including both publicly (Government) and privately owned corporations. Paul Jensen is also an accomplished trainer and educator. He was Adjunct Professor at Webster University, Shanghai Program (MBA), Senior Lecturer at the Western Management Business Institute in Beijing (MBA), Visiting Professor at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in Shanghai (MBA/MS-E) and Adjunct Professor at George Washington University in Washington D.C. (BS/MBA)

Frank Gallo, President, Calypso Consulting Frank Gallo is one of the foremost executive coaches in China.  With over 30 years of management and human resources experience, he works with both Chinese and Western executives helping them to be successful leaders in China.  Frank has lived in China for seven years and is the retired president of Watson Wyatt China.  He is the founder and president of Calypso Consulting, a firm dedicated to improving the level of leadership in China.  In 2006 he worked exclusively with the leadership practice of Hewitt Associates in China. Frank is the author of the highly acclaimed, Business Leadership in China: How to Blend Best Western Practice With Chinese Wisdom, (John Wiley and Sons, 2008).   He writes a monthly column on HR for CHO-Zhaopin Magazine in China.  From 2003 to 2007 he was the Chair of the HR Forum of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.  He is currently the Chair, Emeritus. Clients have included various size organizations in a variety of industries.  For most of the 1990s, Frank was with the Hay Group in Boston, New York and Atlanta.  Prior to Hay, Frank was a human resources executive at Wang Laboratories where he specialized in the design and measurement of reward programs.  For six years Frank was president of Gallo Associates, Inc., a management and marketing consulting firm. Frank holds a Bachelor¡¯s Degree from Hofstra University and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Center for Applied Social Science at Boston University.

Yajie Pei, Human Resources Director, Beijing Coca-Cola Beverage Co., Ltd. Yajie graduated from Jilin University with master degree in law (LLM). Before becoming an HR professional, she worked as a civil servant involved in legislative and law enforcement related inspections and as a college teacher lecturing on corporate and litigation law. Prior to joining Beijing Coca-Cola as its human resources director, she worked in three companies in charge of HR, administration and legal matters.

Bernard Choo, President, CCS Greater China, Corning Cable Systems Bernard Choo joined Corning Incorporated in Oct 2002 and is currently President, Corning Cable Systems of Greater China Region. Prior to joining Corning, Choo was president of Lucent Technologies Optical Fiber Solutions Operations in China and Asia Pacific. He was responsible for the overall business operation, development and growth in the China and Asia Pacific regions. Before that assignment, Choo was president and CEO of Lucent Technologies Beijing Fiber Optic Cable Co. Ltd., a joint venture company. In this position he had responsibility of the joint venture, starting-up and growing the business profitably to over $100 million in the initial five years of operation. Choo has won numerous awards for outstanding performance at Lucent. He has been named Consumer Products Business Unit Leader Council Award in 1992, Lucent Technologies Celebration of Excellence Award in 1997 and Lucent Technologies Leader Council Award in 1999, 2000 and 2001. A graduate of Polytechnic of Central London/Ngee Ann Technical College, Singapore with a technical degree in mechanical engineering, Choo holds a Bacholer of Scinece in mechanical engineering and a master¡¯s in engineering management from Florida Institute of Technology.

Angela Yan, Senior HR Manager, Dell Computer Angela currently works in Dell Computer as Senior HR Manager in charge of Executive recruitment for China and HK market. Graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University in English major, she steps in human resources functions in 1997.  She has 11 years working experiences in human resources department in Nortel Networks, Mars China, Coca-Cola before Dell Computer in various HR function in Com & Ben, Recruitment and Staffing, organization development, etc. Most of time she plays a HR generalist role to be business partner in driving the business and support the business growth. She was also nominated as Torch Bearer in Beijing 2008 Olympics Games by Coca-Cola China.

Jean Charles Dehaye - HR Expert EU China Jean Charles DEHAYE, Human Resources expert in the EUCSS project is in charge to enhance the capacity building of Policy makers and High Level managers for Social Security Ministry and agencies. This includes: -           HR strategy definition and implementation at the central level and six pilot provinces, -           Team Leader for the project group on performance management and development of ratios to calculate the needs of HR and costs, -           Definition and implementation for organisational model, and -           Gender Balance issues. This project is supported by European Commission and Molss for 40 million Euros and five years duration.  Previously from 2004 to 2006 Team Leader of the European PHARE project to define and implement the Work Injuries Scheme in Romania. JC Dehaye had meanwhile a normal activity from 1997 to 2004, which is to be Director General of the Provincial Fund for pensions (CRAM North East), health insurance and work injuries. This activity gives him many opportunities to develop the Human Resources expertise. His company has been selected to be in charge of administration and salaries calculation and HR management for the whole staff of Provincial fund in France. Many could think JC Dehaye is a civil servant detached to the leading of European project. As the mater of fact the French Social Security is a non profitable private organisation that's why all the management links tightly with private companies. This HR oriented career gave him frequently the opportunity to intervene in the field of training and the number of national missions or international missions is significant. He has created several training centres in Estonia, Poland, Slovenia, and Bulgaria. He has realised the twinning between the National Training Centre for Social Security Directors in France with the new created SSCBC (Social Security capacity building centre) in Beijing. JC Dehaye is doctor for Social Security Paris 1University and EN3S (National School for Soc Sec).

Kitty Wu, China HP Co. Ltd, HR Program Manager & HR Generalist ¨C Global Function Kitty has been serving as HR Program Manager & HR Generalist ¨C Global Function for  China HP Co. Ltd since April 2007. Prior to that she worked for Tektronix (China) Co. Ltd. as an    HR Manager ¨C Sales & Marketing between September 2006 and April 2007. Between September 2004 and September 2006, she worked for Intel (China) Co. Ltd. as HR Business Partner ¨C Sales & Marketing Group(SMG). Prior to that, Kitty worked for GE (China) Co. Ltd. between May 2003 and April 2004 as a Human Resource Generalist for North China.  Kitty began her HR career in September 1995 when she took a position at MSAS Global Logistics (China) Co. Ltd. as Human Resource Manager ¨C North China. She worked at that position until December 2000. Kitty received her Master of Science (MSc) in Human Resource Management from University of Manchester, United Kingdom in December 2002.

James Shen, Human Resources Director, Freescale Semiconductor (China) Ltd. James is primarily responsible for Human Resources of Freescale businesses in China, which include HR strategic support to senior management as business partner and provide HR leadership to Human Resources team as HR Director. James has worked with multinational companies for 14 years as senior HR leader, including General Motors; Delphi Automotive System; Freescale Semiconductor; worked with a Joint Venture company ¨C CIBA-GEIGY Pharmaceutical for 7 years as HR manager; and State-Owned Enterprises ¨C Beijing No. 3 Pharmaceutical Factory for 5 years as a department head. James has about 18 years HR working experience in multinational companies, his HR experience including recruitment; compensation and benefits; organizational development; employee training and development; merge and acquisition; Culture management; inclusion management, etc¡­. during his service in General Motors time, James has worked in General Motors Asia Pacific headquarters Singapore; General Motors International headquarters Switzerland; General Motors worldwide headquarters in Detroit, USA and General Motors manufacturing plant in Australia Holden for about 3 years to work on expatriates management; executive compensation and benefits; talent management and development; and James also has experience to manage a medium size manufacturing joint venture company as General Manger for 1 year and 2 years experience as Vice President of Delphi China in charge of Business Development. James has received Bachelor degree of in 1982 and EMBA in 1992 and also received Executive Development education in University of Michigan Business School in 1999.

Emma Dong, Great China Compensation and Benefits manger/HR Manager for Finance , GE Healthcare Prior to join GE, she worked at Hewlett Packard as a Senior Consultant in China Compensation and Benefits for 2 years and Asia Pacific and Japan Project Manager role of Merger, Acquisition and Outsourcing.  She has been responsible for leading many M&A projects across Asia Pacific as well as critical Compensation and Benefits structure/policies changes. She also worked at Cisco for 4.5 years, responsible for China compensation and Asia Pacific Benefits programs.

Jing Xu, Principal in Beijing Office, Heidrick & Struggles Jing Xu is dedicated to the recruitment of senior executives in the technology and professional services.   She specializes in serving the recruitment needs of global and local technology companies operating in the telecommunication, software, hardware, semi-conductor and IT industry in the greater China market. Before joining Heidrick & Struggles, She worked as a consultant for Boston Consulting Group Shanghai office, advising Fortune 500 companies, state owned enterprises and non-profit organization on growth strategy, risk management, organization and human resources issues. Jing also spent more than 10 years in technology industry, where she held various positions in management and research & development for Motorola headquarter in US. During her early years, Jing Xu worked as a system supervisor for Ericsson China in the early deployment of mobile infrastructure business. Jing's industry experience and professional background in both America and Asia enable her to add unique value to clients in the execution of search assignments. Jing earned her bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou and Master¡¯s degree in Engineering from Wright State University in US and her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University in US.

Susan Derkach, Senior Talent and Organization Consultant, Hewitt Associates¡¯ Beijing Susan works with clients to improve organizational effectiveness and manage organizational change through talent and leadership development, and employee retention, engagement and communications. Susan¡¯s previous experience includes work in the training and development industry, general management and HR management. Susan¡¯s experience brings broad strategic perspectives in addition to understanding of market entry and cross-cultural people management issues. She has been working in Asia for over 12 years. Susan holds a Bachelor of Commerce with a concentration in Industrial Relations Management and Human Resource Management from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, a post-graduate diploma in Asia Pacific Management from the McRae Institute of International Management in Vancouver, Canada, and a Masters of Science in Organization Development, from Pepperdine University in California.  Susan has a conversational fluency in Mandarin.

Elaine Bai, Staffing Executive, IBM Greater China HR Organization Elaine Bai is Staffing Executive of IBM China.  In this role, she is responsible for supporting Greater China Region in executing talent acquisition strategy and game plans in meeting company¡¯s revenue and profit commitment by strengthen employer branding, staffing sourcing capability, enhancing staffing deliverables, and foster value-based culture through an innovative and collaborative execution of staffing Strategy and programs. Elaine Bai has more than 14 years of HR experiences in Greater China.  She worked for various HR roles in China in the past including Asia Pacific HR Director for Diebold, North Asia HR Director for Rational Software, Greater China HR Director for Accenture, China HR Manager for 3Com, and China HR Operation Manager for GE. Elaine holds EMBA degree from Rutgers Business School, University of New Jersey.

Weimin Yao, Senior Corp Vice President, Huawei Technologies Executive President, Huawei Corp. University Weimin Yao is currently the Senior Corp. Vice President of Huawei Technologies and Executive President Of Huawei Corp University. Prior to joining Huawei, he served as senior HR and OR/OE manager at Motorola Asia/Pacific and head of Motorola University China, senior consultant to Microsoft Research Asia and CEO of ChinaHR.com. As a veteran HR professional, he has over twenty years diversified multi-national and cross-cultural experience in both private and public sectors, local and MNC environments, Corp. and start-up settings in China, Asia and USA in the fields of education & research, general management with full P&L responsibilities, HR management, especially training and learning, organizational and leadership development, management localization, strategic talent sourcing, and e-HR services, etc. He is well connected through professional and personal networks with the ICT industry and related government and educational/research institutions in greater China region. He was educated in Nanjing University in China, SUNY Sony Brook and MIT in USA, and University of Cambridge in UK.

Linda Liang, Partner of King and Wood Ms. Liang specializes in labor and employment law and serves a lot of multinationals in this field. Ms. Liang¡¯s practice covers various aspects of labor and employment law: she represents clients before labor arbitration committees and courts; helps clients establish, modify and terminate employment relationship; assist clients in choosing appropriate employment form for different employees; drafts various labor-related documents such as employment contracts, secondment agreements, employee handbooks; and advises on trade union, non-competition, working hour and overtime, collective bargaining, etc. Mr. Liang also provides due Diligence investigation on labor law and internal training for clients. Ms. Liang is also involved of a number of social activities relating to labor law. She is Director of Chinese Labor Law Seminar of China Law Society and Member of the All-China Bar Association. She gives speeches on international and domestic conferences. Ms. Liang joined King and Wood in 2007. Before joining King and Wood, she worked with C&M Law Office and State Development and Investment Corporation. Ms. Liang obtained her LLB from the Law School of Northwest University, and her LLM from both China University of Political Science & Law and the University of Birmingham. She was qualified as Chinese lawyer in 1994. Ms. Liang¡¯s working language is Chinese and English.

Rainer B. Schmitz, Director Human Resources China, Kraft Foods (China) Mr. Schmitz is responsible for all aspects of the Human Resources aspects of the China business. He serves as a business partner to the Executive team and the whole organization. His main focus areas are organizational people and team development, recruitment, restructuring and outplacement. Rainer has worked across 3 continents (Europe, Australia and Asia) in Regional Headquarters, Countries and business units across various cultures. He is a Generalist by heart and very focused on the development aspect of the organization and the people. During his assignment in China he took on various Coaching assignments of Senior Leaders. He managed to achieve ¡®Top Employer in Beijing Area¡¯ and brought the turnover rate below market average. The recent acquisition provided Rainer in depths insight into all aspects of the integration in the Chinese environment and context. Rainer¡¯s 21 years of Human Resources experience is balanced across all aspects of the business, such as Manufacturing, Commercial Headquarter, Regional Headquarter, Management & Organizational Development and Strategic Business Development. Rainer holds a degree in Business Administration for Economics with emphasis on Human Resources from Berlin University of Economics. He has a professional education in Banking before he started his career in Human Resources.

Cherry Yan -  Kronos Workforce

Gregg Gordon, Director, Manufacturing Marketing, Kronos Incorporated Gregg Gordon oversees all marketing efforts at Kronos to build awareness around workforce management and generate sales through appropriate channels in the manufacturing industry. Besides successfully leading national marketing efforts, Gordon, a strong advocate of workforce management, has effectively led strategic initiatives in emerging international markets, as well as helped establish Kronos in growing market segments such as oil and gas and life sciences. Committed to enhancing operational efficiencies for manufacturers through improved workforce effectiveness, Gordon led the development of Overall Labor Effectiveness (OLE ™), a key performance indicator that measures the utilization, performance, and quality of the workforce and its impact on productivity. Gordon has more than 20 years of experience in the manufacturing industry. Prior to Kronos, he was director of product marketing at i2 Technologies where he focused on supplier relationship management. Earlier, Gordon worked in the engineering department at Areva, a diversified global manufacturer, and received two U.S. design patents for products that he developed. Gordon has a degree in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and a master¡¯s degree in business administration from Boston University. He is a sought-after speaker at leading domestic and international industry events and has been quoted in publications such as IndustryWeek and Managing Automation.

Danielle Monaghan, Senior HR Director, Microsoft Research and Development Groups Danielle Monaghan is the Head of HR for the Microsoft Research and Development groups in SE Asia and is based in Beijing, China. She and her team of 75 talented HR professionals are responsible for talent acquisition, engagement and development of a fast-growing and dynamic people investment in Research and Development in China and Thailand for Microsoft Corporation. During her tenure, the people investment has grown from 590 FTEs to 2,000 FTEs in two and a half years while maintaining record high retention rates. An 11-year  Microsoft veteran, Danielle has deep experience in all areas of the talent lifecycle, ranging from talent acquisition, talent engagement, talent management and culture to create a long-term integrative HR strategy.  As an experienced international HR professional, she started her career in South Africa with IBM and has since worked for a variety of companies, ranging small start-ups to large high tech companies such as T-Mobile USA and Microsoft Corp.   She holds a B.S. degree in Information Technology. Danielle sits on the advisory board for the Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership in the U.S, the board of the HR Forum of the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing and has been an active participant, speaker and columnist in leading professional HR organizations. Danielle and her family (husband and three teenagers) have lived in Beijing for two and a half years.  When she has (rare) free time, she enjoys family activities, travel, horse-riding, squash, reading and soccer. She hopes one day to become good at one of her hobbies.

Fengyu Liu, Senior HR/ER manager, Motorola (China) Electronics Ltd. (MCEL). Fengyu Liu graduated from Beijing Normal University and got his Bachelor degree in Education in 1991 and his Master degree in Science (Psychology) in 1997, and graduated from Nankai University and got his P.h.D in Business Management in 2004. Fengyu Liu has very rich Human Resources Management experiences. Since joining in Motorola in 1997, he has worked at almost functions of Human Resources, such as Training & Development (T&D), Organization Development (OD), Employee Relations (ER), HR governance, etc. He is good at governing HR operations, planning HR strategy, handling complicated ER cases as well as managing M&A projects. Right now, he makes his more efforts on HR governance through organization diagnosis, market intelligence and external environment scanning. Besides his rich HRM working experiences, Fengyu Liu has also made some academic contributions. He published a monograph book named Service Productivity and its Evaluation System publishing by Naikai University Press, a translated book named Kellogg on Branding publishing by People Post Press, a joint-complied book named Agglomerating knowledgeable employees publishing by Guizhou People Press. He also published more than 10 academic articles at relevant China core periodicals.

Jenny Yan, Director, Motorola University Asia Operation & Motorola Univerity China Jenny Yan joined Motorola in 1994 as manager of government and university relations, followed as Site manager of MU TJ, operation manager of MU China, Senior manager of MU China and Director of Motorola University China and MU Asia Operation. Jenny has more than 14 years rich experience and knowledge on training & development, human resource development, leadership development and six sigma improvement system, having been certified as a Green Belt. Jenny has a Ph.D. Degree from University of Reading, UK

Robert Xiao, Vice President, HR, Perfect World Networking Co. Mr. Robert Xiao has been vice president of Perfect World Networking Co. in charge of human resources since May 2008. Prior to joining Perfect World, Mr. Xiao worked in Dell China from 2005 to 2008, serving as the director of the L&D and talent management. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Xiao served as the director of people and organizational development in Philips China. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Xiao worked in Cisco Systems, as the APAC manager of the career and leadership development, and earlier as the China manager of organizational effectiveness.  Mr. Xiao also worked in the HR/OD/training area in Motorola and CANA consulting in China/US, before joining Cisco Systems in China. Mr. Xiao received his bachelor¡¯s degree in physics in 1989 from Tsinghua University, and received his master¡¯s degree in science and his Ph.D. degree in engineering from University of Southern Californian, in 1991 and 1995, respectively.

Reter Sun, HR Director, Rockwell Automation, Greater China Mr. Reter Sun Xiaobei joined Rockwell Automation Inc. as Director, Human Resources, Greater China Region to head up the entire HR organization and providing overall Human Resources leadership to all Business Units, Commercial Organizations, Research & Development center, Manufacturing and Shared Services Functions in Greater China region.  He also was the key driver of Rockwell¡¯s recent sales transformation project. He completed his international MBA degree from University of British Columbia, Canada following a post-graduate diploma in international business management and a Bachelor Degree in geography.

Derrick Young General Manager, Northern China for Santa Fe Relocation services. Derrick Young has been an expatriate Manager for over 15 years and has lived and worked in 5 locations including: France, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong and China. His main area of expertise is International business management and he joins us with 13 years Management experience in the Moving and Relocation service sector. While living in Thailand Derrick created an ¡°HR Development Series¡±. This series has continued for over 3 years and provides training to HR professionals on a variety of subjects including Change Management, and Staff Retention. Currently he is managing and developing teams in China focused on providing Relocation and Moving services to MNC¡¯s. These HR Services commonly known as ¡°DSP¡± services include: Immigration, Expense administration, Property Services, Orientation, and Cultural Training. He also helps manages locally other business units within Santa Fe including Records Management and Logistic services. He completed studies at both the EPSCI University in Paris, France and at San Diego State University in the USA where he graduated with a Bachelors Degree in International Business Management. He continued his studies and later obtained the Global Mobility Specialist (GMS) certification in the USA from the Employee Relocation Counsel (ERC). He has received a variety of Business development and Quality awards from Clients, Industry organizations and internally at Santa Fe. He moved to Beijing in 2008 with his wife and son.

Pan Huei-Ren, Director of Personnel, Schlumberger China. As Director of Personnel for Schlumberger in China, Pan Huei-Ren is responsible for managing the performance, development and motivation of all employees ranging from field operations to research, engineering, and manufacturing. ¡°Managing such a diverse population in our current aggressive growth and expansion mode presents complex challenges I look forward to meeting every day,¡± he writes. Not originally an H.R. professional, Pan Huei-Ren began his career in Schlumberger as a geophysicist working offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. ¡°At some point, someone must have noticed the initials of my given name were ¡°H.R.¡± and everyone also called me ¡°H.R.¡± A career in Human Resources, I suppose, was inevitable.¡± After his last technical role as Senior Geophysicist, what followed were positions such as: -        Recruiting Manager for India, Oman & Pakistan -        Quality, Health, Safety & Environment Program Manager for the North American Gulf Coast -        Director of Personnel, Singapore -        Recruiting, Training & Development Manager for Research, Engineering & Manufacturing, Worldwide Does he miss being in a technical job? ¡°Not for moment,¡± he says. ¡°Long ago I came to the realization that no matter how large your company or how good your technology, nothing happens unless you have the right human capital to drive it all. With the top corporate value of Schlumberger being People ¨C attracting, keeping, managing and motivating your workforce is the most important job of all.¡± Pan Huei-Ren was born in Taiwan, raised in the United States, and holds a degree in geological sciences from the University of Texas at Austin as well as a Human Capital Management certification from Cornell University. He has developed multiple, worldwide training and development programs within the company, and has lectured on people and performance management internally and externally, such as Singapore Management University. Schlumberger is the world¡¯s leading supplier of oilfield services with over 80,000 employees of 140 nationalities operating in over 80 countries worldwide.

Andreas Ruppert, HR Shared Services Business Development Manager, Siemens Limited China Andreas started his professional career as commercial trainee at Siemens AG, Germany, and studied at the same time commercial economics. After finishing this combined qualification with a bachelor degree, he started to work in the sales department of Information & Communication Networks as finance manager sales in Cologne. Two years later he wanted to focus on different topics and changed into the HR environment, where he took over the administrational HR support and payroll of several Business Groups. Almost 3 years later, Andreas helped to establish a new helpdesk during the reorganization of the HR departments, which operated for whole Germany (170.000 employees) as single point of entry for all administration and payroll related topics. After this organizational set-up, Andreas was promoted to participate at a special assigment in Bratislava, where he helped to offshore the accounting of travel expense management from Germany to Slovakia as project interface between both countries. Subsequent to this assignment, Andreas took the chance the handle a new challenge in China and the responsible for all commercial and business development activities of Siemens Limited China, Human Resources. For over two years he is focussing on the alignment of IT in Human Resources, increasing continuously the productivity and improving other factors in his environment by comparing applicable KPI¡¯s. Andreas will celebrate his 10th Siemens Anniversairy in October and will look for new challenges in the near future in the area of Siemens HR

Helen Dong, Business Management Consultant, Former HR Director, Terex - China Helen Dong has 10+ years of Human Resources general management experience in the Industrial, FMCG & IT arena. She started her career in Kraft Confectionary Co. Ltd, and then moved to BHP Steel Building Products Ltd in Shenzhen as a Marketing Executive, where she gained commercial knowledge. Helen subsequently joined GE¡¯s Plastics business where she began her HR career as an HR Specialist, based in the company¡¯s Nansha manufacturing facility. She was then promoted to Integration HR Manager for a new acquisition in the structured plastics division, and later went on to become the business HR Manager for the new acquisition. Helen then left GE to work for Motorola in Beijing as an HR Manager in their corporate office, responsible for Corporate Projects, Process Improvement and Communications. She then re-joined GE as the HR Manager for the Sensing business¡¯ Greater China operations based in Shanghai, before taking over her last role in the corporate world as the HR Director for Terex China. Terex is a $300MM business in Construction Machinery, it has 18 legal entities with 3000+ employees including 7 manufacturing sites in mainland China. Helen is currently based in Beijing and work as freelance management consultant and trainer, business column writer for several professional magazine and newspapers, guest speaker for China Radio Station. She recently published a business management book with the title of <Why you think this is an unfair world>.

Gao Lan, HR VP Asia Pacific, Thomson Broadband Gao Lan joined Thomson in November 2006 as HR VP Asia Pacific. In her role, she is covering HR function in countries of China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Malaysia, India, Japan, Thailand, etc. Before joining Thomson, Gao Lan worked in BP for about 3 years as HR VP for BP Gas business in Asia Pacific. Prior to that, Gao Lan worked in Novartis for 6 years with position of Country Head of HR, covering China and HK. Gao Lan has been on Human Resources Management Programs in Stanford University in US. She studied in The University of Cambridge in UK for M.Phil on Environment and Development.

Jon Randall, Director, Sales Effectiveness & Compensation Asia Pacific, Watson Wyatt Jon Randall, a director in Watson Wyatt Singapore office, has over 24 years of experience consulting in the areas of performance-based rewards, with a particular focus on sales compensation and share-based compensation. He is the director of Watson Wyatt¡¯s Sales Effectiveness and Compensationi practice in Asia pacific.  In addition to work in Singapore, where he is based, Jon has rich experience in cross-country incentive projects, including China. Jon¡¯s expertise spans organizational assessment, strategy development, program design, change management and implementation.  Jon works with a wide range of organizations of varying size, in both the public and private sectors. Jon received a B.A. degree (magna cum laude) in International Relations and German from Tufts University.  He is a 2001 recipient of the B.E. Wyatt Award for excellence in client relationships.  Jon is a frequent speaker on total rewards and compensation issues and has published on the topics of retention, performance measurement and sales compensation.

Robin Adams, General Manager, Yi Ming Consulting Robin Adams has deep and rich experience helping, creating and building businesses, and elevating those who run them. His extensive experience in three start-up businesses has helped him amass a broad skill set and a proven track record in international business. Born and raised in the US, but having spent the past 20 years living and working in Hong Kong and China, Mr. Adams successfully blends a diverse resume, rich personal history, and extensive education. Highlights of the experience he offers: -        Bachelor of Science in Education from the Pennsylvania State University -        Masters Degree in Business Administration (Finance) from the Loyola University of Chicago -        Masters Degree in International Business from the Chinese University of Hong Kong -        US Certified Public Accountant Certificate Since arriving in Hong Kong more than 20 years ago, Mr. Adams has been closely involved with the establishment, management and profitable sale of three successful entrepreneurial businesses operating in Asia across borders. His experience relative to these enterprises ranged from the development of business plans, marketing and sales strategies, and leadership competencies. Mr. Adams single-handedly hired, managed, developed and motivated staff to achieve the real business goals of these ventures in order that they could be built from scratch into solid and viable ventures subsequently sold at a profit. Leveraging his experience, Mr. Adams has been very successful in serving senior-level leaders as an Executive Coach. As such, Mr. Adams helps enable middle and upper management staff to efficiently and effectively respond to the rigors imposed on them by the increasingly competitive global marketplace. Yi Ming also offers various group-based talent development and training programs throughout the year. Through customized, highly-personalized interaction, Mr. Adams raises the performance and confidence of these top-level executives in real, and measurable ways ultimately designed to drive your bottom line.