Throughout his fifteen year tenure with increased responsibilities, Andy had guided the company in consummating at least five technology transfers, four joint venture/wholly own venture establishments, and launched a few major programs in Asia. Andy left the career at TRW as VP of Greater China in 2001, moved on to a start up company Astrolink as its Asia VP to develop a global constellation of satellites for data transmission. Andy is currently the General Manager of VTEC Asia, an automotive supplier based in Detroit MI. A bi-lingual Chinese American with MSME from University of Southern California and EMBA from Rutgers University, Andy served on boards of American Chamber of Commerce in both Beijing and Taipei for a period of 8 years (1994-2002).

He now resides in Shanghai, China.

Before joining Tyco, he worked at Rockwell Automation as Vice President for China Operations. In this role he reported directly to the President and COO of Rockwell Automation and was responsible for all of Rockwell Automation operations in China. While at Rockwell, Mr. Byrnes implemented a comprehensive government relations plan at the national, provincial and municipal levels that focused on enhancing influence, administrative and organizational facilitation and regulatory monitoring and shaping. Mr. Byrnes was also directly involved in establishing Rockwell’s R&D center, several manufacturing facilities, a logistics center and the International Procurement Office in Shanghai.

Before working at Rockwell, Mr. Byrnes served 30 years as an officer in the United States Army, rising to Major General. His experience in Asia included working as a military attaché to the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong and culminated as the U.S. Defense Attaché at both the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and Ulaanbaatar.

Mr. Byrnes holds a Master of Arts degree in strategy and operations from the Navy War College, as well as a Master of Arts degree in Asian studies/international relations from the University of New Hampshire.

Mr. Byrnes speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese.

In China, André has designed and facilitated programs for Fortune 500 companies, including GE, Swire Coca-Cola, Schneider Electric and EF.  André was the Managing Director at HCD Global in Shanghai, a consulting firm focusing on strategic marketing and HR management learning & development for MNCs and leading local companies. Prior to coming to China, André was a manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Advisory Services in San Francisco, where he focused on project management in the Intellectual Property and Economic Analysis groups. Previous experiences also include positions with McKinsey & Co., American International Group and a subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services.

André is a native of Switzerland and speaks five languages. In his spare time he enjoys oenology, traveling, skiing and scuba diving.

Kamalabadi reads and writes Chinese, including writing quality brush calligraphy and composing articles and papers on Chinese ancient philosophy. Moreover, he speaks mandarin as well as a number of other dialects such as Cantonese and Shanghainese.

Before the end of the Millennium, Kamalabadi had visited over 400 cities covering virtually every single province of China. Also, by then he had personally visited some 2000 factories in China manufacturing all types of products; had conducted scores of major public lectures in Chinese, including several key-note addresses to the national leaders of China at the Great Hall of the People and the State Guest House; was published or featured in over 1000 Chinese media (magazines, newspapers, radio, television programs, and internal circulars and periodicals); had first-hand developed the most impressive network DATA of over 10,000 grassroots organizations including government departments, private and public businesses, media, and so on.

At Utrecht University he was the managing director of the European Research Center on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER). At Malmö he is Associate Professor at the Department of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) at the Faculty of Culture and Society. Since 1 September he is on Leave of Absence from his job as Associate Professor and Head of Department of IMER at Malmö University.

Philip Muus is currently based in Shanghai. Here his main professional interest is in the area of Cross-Cultural Encounters in Business Environments, next to a growing interest in Contemporary Chinese Art.

Philip Muus speaks next to his native tongue several languages: English, French, German, and Swedish, and has a basic working knowledge of Spanish and Egyptian Arabic. He recently took up the study of Mandarin Chinese.

She has also written a number of textbook case studies published by Prentice-Hall. Her Leadership Quarterly article with Pat Parker was reprinted in the “Simmons Reader”- Robin J. Ely, Erica Gabrielle Foldy, Maureen A. Scully, and The Center for Gender and Organizations, Simmons School of Management (Eds.) Reader in Gender, Work, and Organizations (Blackwell Publishing, 2003). Dr. ogilvie is on the Editorial Review Boards of Group & Organization Management and Emergence: Complexity and Organization.

Her 1990 paper in Business Perspectives, Should Your Global Strategy Include China? (with James Fitzsimmons), was one of the most requested papers on the Business Forum on Delphi database. She has published in the Academy of Management Journal, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Career Development International, International Journal of Information Technology and Management, Group & Organization Management, The Learning Organization: An International Journal, and has chapters in James G. (Jerry) Hunt, George E. Dodge, and Leonard Wong (Eds.)

Dt Ogilvie is Associate Professor of Business Strategy at Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick, Director of The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development, and was previously Associate Provost of Information Technology Strategy and CIO at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Newark. She is also Professeur Associe Invite de Gestion Strategique a l'Universite de Reims, Champagne-Ardennes, France, where she is a Fellow of EUROP (Equipe Universitaire de Recherche sur les Organisations et leurs Performances) a Reims. Dr. ogilvie is a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow, an Institute for Research on Women Funded Faculty Fellow, a GE Teaching Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Women and Work, a School of Business Fellow, and a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence.

She earned her Ph.D. in Strategic Management from The University of Texas at Austin, her MBA in Strategic Management and International Strategic Management from the Executive MBA Program at Southern Methodist University, her BA in Sociology from Oberlin College, and attended The Wharton School of Business at The University of Pennsylvania. Dr. ogilvie earned certificates in Advanced Marketing from The University of Texas at Austin and in Non Linear Systems from the Inter University Consortium for Political and Social Research at The University of Michigan, where she was a Visiting Scholar in the summer of 1993. She earned a certificate from the Management Development Program at Harvard University in 2004 and a certificate in The Art & Craft of Discussion Leadership from Harvard Business School in 2008.

Dr. Dt Ogilvie research interests include executive leadership strategies of multicultural women executives; women in the executive suite; strategic decision making and the use of creativity to enhance business and battlefield decision making, and applying complexity theory to strategy and creativity; assessing environmental dimensions; strategic thinking in the 21st century; economic development of the inner-city; e-commerce business models; effective communication for women in business; and technology transfer and countertrade issues in the People's Republic of China.

Prior to her academic career, Dr. Dt Ogilvie had over 13 years experience in the corporate world. She was Business Planning Manager/Strategic Planning at The Southland Corporation, where she previously served as Information Systems Planning Manager, Franchise Planning Analyst, and ran multimillion dollar profit centers. She managed and ran two turnaround situations before joining Southland. Prior to that, Dr. ogilvie owned a small jewelry manufacturing business. She provides consulting services for public agencies and businesses, including Fortune 50 firms and the US Army; her work with the Army on battlefield decision making for 21st century Army is based on her model of creative action based strategic decision making. She has spoken at national and international academic conferences, business meetings of major companies, the 1997 Christine Todd Whitman Governor’s Conference on Women, the London office of Ernst and Young, the Work/Life Leadership Council of the Conference Board, among others. She attended the 49th National Security Forum at the Air War College, at the invitation of the Secretary of the Air Force, to discuss national security issues.

Dr. Dt Ogilvie is regularly quoted in the business press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Business Week, The Economist, The Star-Ledger, and The Record, among others.

His sales career began in 1977 when he adopted the sales role for the scientific instrumentation company who employed him as an electronics engineer.
From 1979, he spent five years implementing and developing sales campaigns for the top UK Intel components' distributor, Rapid Recall. Rapid were the premier UK Intel product distributor of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. In the role of field sales engineer, he achieved 125% and 142% of target before accepting promotion into a product-marketing position. Responsible first for the Intel component products, then later for the Intel systems products, he continued to trounce multi million pound targets.

In the mid 1980’s, as companies began to use personal computers, he joined PC reseller, Quest, to help make the new technology solve business problems. In 1984, he won a place on the IBM study tour in Florida

He specializes in:

• Strategic Planning and Business Development
• Organization Effectiveness
• Reengineering and Continuous Improvement
• Coaching and Management by Leading
• Human Resources Development and Management

He has developed and implemented Competency Models for companies in China, both foreign and local.  He has also been involved in the development of an Assessment Center for companies here in China.

In terms of management experience , Robert has had the following roles and responsibilities in Advisory work for government agencies in China; as Advisor, Center of International Cooperation, State Council Office of Economic System Reforms, State Council, China; as Advisor, Human Resource Development and Management, Ministry of Health, China; as Chief Human Resource Adviser, The Southern Forum, Guangzhou, China; as Director and General Manager, Suzhou Capsugel Limited, Suzhou, China (SCL is a joint venture between Warner Lambert Company of USA and the Chinese State Pharmaceutical Administration Commission); as Director, Customer Service Group; Warner Lambert Canada Inc., Toronto, Canada; WLCI is a 100% owned subsidiary of Warner Lambert Company, USA; as Vice President, Operations; Bausch and Lomb Canada Inc., Toronto, Canada; BLCI is a 100% owned subsidiary of Bausch and Lomb, USA; as Vice President, Distribution and Corporate Planning; Harding Carpet Limited, Toronto, Canada; Harding was the largest Canadian owned carpet manufacturer in Canada; as Material and Program Planning Manager; Xerox Canada Inc., Toronto, Canada.  XCI is a 100% subsidiary of Xerox Corporation of USA; and as Distribution Planning and Control Supervisor. Canadian Canners Limited, Hamilton, Canada.  CCL was a 100% owned subsidiary of Nabisco Corporation of USA.

Robert Song’s educational and certification background includes B. Comm. (Singapore National University, Singapore); M. A. (Dalhousie University, Canada); M.B.A. (McMaster University, Canada); Matrix Management (Princeton University, USA) ; Advance Financial Management (Michigan University, USA); Effective Leadership (Hartford Graduate Center, USA); Advance Marketing Management (York University, Canada); and from Advance Reengineering (Institute for Reengineering Leadership, USA).

Robert’s teaching experience included tenure in the following universities/colleges:  Professor, York University Banff Management Center, Toronto, Canada; Chairman of the Advisory Board, Center of Entrepreneurship, Centennial College, Toronto, Canada; Curriculum Adviser, George Brown College, Toronto, Canada;  Contract Professor for CEO Classes, Shanghai Fudan University, China; Contract Professor for EMBA and International Human Resource   Management classes, JiaoTong University，Shanghai，China; and Contract Professor, International Labour Organization, United Nations.

Dr. Wen SUN has a solid background with AT&T Asia Region, one of the world's well-known telecom equipments manufacturers. During his 20 years with AT&T Asia/Pacific region, he was a successful “Product Marketing Management” expertise plus “Competitive Marketing Planning” professional for his territory, prior to being charged as the first Country Manager of “IT Consulting” and business development professional for a European IT Consultancy organization in China.

Mr. Wen SUN has solid experience on “Project Management”, “Project Management for 6σ “, “Business Strategic Planning”, “Product Marketing Management”, “Key Account Management”, etc. He has served hundreds of small to medium-size enterprises and including many Fortune 1000 companies in fields as diverse as：Dell Computer, PESICOLA、BP China、GE China、Siemens China、3M China、Motorola TianJin、Syngenta China、Bell-Alcatel Telecom、TCL China, China Mobile Communications, HuaWei Technologies (Shenzhen) 、Great China Communications, ZHE Telecom, Utstarcom, NetCom, China Unicom, Great Wall Computer (Beijing), WuHan ChangFei Fiber Optics, etc. as well as a number of trade associations and professional societies. His wide assignment client base has provided him expertise in designing and delivering programs that are customized to the needs of the participants.