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I’ve spent 35 years as a business leader, resident analyst and business developer in China and Southeast Asia (including 30 years in China/Greater China), and as a strategic adviser and top management consultant on a wide range of China and Asia strategy, performance improvement, and organizational effectiveness issues. In my current role with The Conference Board, I support development, thought leadership, insight creation, and programming in Asia and undertake China-related business- and policy-community engagement worldwide.Before joining The Conference Board, I led the Technology-InfoComms-Entertainment Advisory practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers in China for 21 years. My extensive project portfolio includes numerous M&A, license bid and strategy consulting projects in China and throughout Asia.My former clients in the Global 2000 space included AT&T, NBC Universal, Symantec, Time Warner, and Telstra. I’ve also worked with emerging companies such as Gemstar, GLU Mobile, Informa, Experian, and Reed Elsevier, and provided strategic direction to prominent domestic Chinese ICT players.Considered an expert on the regulatory and policy environment, market dynamics, and business model and technology developments in China’s technology, information and media industries, I am a frequent keynote speaker at corporate and industry events and actively maintain a broad network of clients and contacts in the region.In addition to deep domain knowledge of China and Southeast Asia economies and markets, and ICT and digital industry developments, I bring great depth of skills in: • Strategy, business planning and business development, with refined expertise in the multinational business and operating environment• People development, business operations and P&L management• Consultative sales and customer relationship management; fundraising• Quantitative and qualitative research; information synthesis and framework creation; strategic analysis and insight generation – economies, policy environments, markets• Board work, corporate governance, ESG excellence, risk management, and forecastingI welcome connecting with colleagues and organizations looking for thought leadership and guidance on the China/Asia business environment, key success factors and best practices.Additional thought pieces and reports available on request.

Listed skills include Strategy, Business Strategy, Mergers And Acquisitions, Business Development, and 12 others.