James is a passionate and creative multilingual business leader with close to two decades of experience in leadership roles in business development, content marketing, and business intelligence. He specializes in defining value-adding products and services that achieve clear market differentiation and sustainable, socially responsible growth for his companies and his clients. In the past ten years, his extensive experience in building, managing and developing cross-border multi-functional teams in Asia includes building a business intelligence consultancy from scratch, transforming a renowned business publication platform into an award-winning, revenue & profit positive market research business, as well as managing all marketing activities across active emerging Asian markets for parent business group as well as alliance partners. His specific work in helping clients develop actionable business intelligence have created more than $25 million USD in annual revenue for parent firm and helped international investors drive more than $2 billion USD of FDI into China, India, and Southeast Asia.Inside his organizations, James’ work in building proprietary knowledge-sharing infrastructure greatly improved client service efficiency as well as service capacity across multiple investment destinations and added long term shareholder value for his companies.With an BFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MBA from the University of Oxford, Pembroke College, he’s an avid traveler and photographer who believes that the most insightful lessons in life are learned on the ground with a fresh and open perspective.