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Shanghai, China

Shanghai, China

• Rebuild the emerging market R&D organization and revamp its project portfolio’s• Lead multinational team on emerging market whitespace products and global platform technologies developments• Manage J&J’s open innovation/external collaboration in Asia and its global integration to enable/ accelerate/maximize innovation outputs• Lead J&J’s Innovation Pillar whose team designs/deploys programs to build innovative culture/ capabilities and enrich disruptive pipelines at R&D centers in Shanghai, Singapore and Mumbai.• A key member of Asia Technical Council which steers J&J’s R&D mission/strategy/ operation across Asia• A key member of J&J’s Global Innovation Team managing worldwide patent strategy and portfolio• Among the first few seed Fellow of J&J, a distinguished recognition of contributions to and reputation in the industry. Also as a key member of J&J’s global Fellow Governance Committee which elects qualified Fellow’s and manages the elite society. • Being a core member of the distinguished Science Advisory Board for J&J’s CTO

Cincinnati, Ohio, Usa

• Led team to develop and commercialize disruptive technologies which drove impressive consumer wins globally for fem pad• Built critical technical insights and breakthrough enablers that greatly accelerated pipeline technologies/products development.• Managed the sector's successful biosafety & chemical QA programs.• Led several technology & science societies across company and managed their external collaborations.• Coordinated patent strategy in core strategic areas with multiple business units

Cincinnati, Ohio, Usa

• Built the new business development organization primed with the vigor, passion, creativity and flexibility & entrepreneurship while leveraging P&G's strength in technical depth.• Led the development and commercialization of novel whitespace products and their driver technologies whose categories were strategically complementary to existing global business.• A key member of a multifunction task team to assess/determine acquisition targets.• Guided regional R&D that successfully developed a series of low cost personal and health care products for mid tier consumers in developing countries.• Key member of advisory board and expert panel of colloidal, polymer and other societies• Established and led the nanotechnology society which had more than 300 passionate scientist members around globe.

Beijing Technical Center, China

• As key leader of the steering team, oversaw the daily operation of the new technical center with focus on installing the QA/Safety systems, designing the training programs and building an innovative and global site culture.• Managed the technology function for emerging market products. Built strong core expertise in several global strategic areas.• Designed and deployed structure which integrated each site individual functionally with world project team to accelerate both personal growth and project development.• Established collaborating programs with a dozen prestigious research institutes and leading suppliers across Asia to broaden the site's capabilities and leap forward its programs.

Kobe Technical Center, Japan

• Led the task team to design and supervise the construction of a new technical center in Beijing with vision that won support of both top management and company board. • Overcame institutional resistance and developed the very first successful PhD recruiting system in China’s industry. Led the recruitment and training of 40+ seed R&D staffs for the new Beijing Technical Center.• Managed a multifunction team to redesign and re-launch the powder detergents in China and Japan, with strong blind test against key competition at lower cost.• Led teams in both Japan and China to develop a novel technologies/products critical to AP market

Cincinnati, Ohio, Usa

• Led a team of scientists from multiple geographies to investigate the underlying science and refine the bar formula & making process with the outcome detergent bar gaining market shares in China, Philippines and other countries.• Worked with multifunctional team from marketing, finance and sales to develop the business model and product strategy in emerging countries.• Led successful re-development and deployment of disruptive perfume delivery and malodor control technologies whose progress had been stalled for years due to “insurmountable” technical barriers.• Led the team to build insight/model on optimum surfactant system for balanced cleaning performance and perfume fabric susbstantivity • Developed and commercialized novel polymer technology that brought superior cleaning performance to its host detergent via fabric surface modification through laundry process • Coordinated a joint task team with supplier scientists to resolve the production issue of dryer sheet lotion that costed the company $1MM USD each week. Successfully completed the mission ahead of schedule.