2021 Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference

Anthony Bizos has spent his career, building, scaling and exiting global technology driven businesses in the silicon, software, internet and fintech sectors. The last 15 years of his career have been focused on digital banking and finance, covering retail, wealth, insurance and investment banking ecosystems. Bizos has built 5 digital banks including setting up Africa’s first all-digital bank in 2006 for Standard Bank (part owned by ICBC of China) and another for MTN (one of the worlds largest mobile operators). He was a founding partner in Tyme Banking which commercialised 2 digital banks and subsequently exited to Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Prior to his most recent move to Asia, Bizos set up a fintech innovation unit in the Investment Banking space.

Bizos started his career in the internet industry in the 1990’s where he designed Africa’s first search engine; launched Africa’s first online advertising business; and commercialised one of the world’s first consumer internet services delivered via satellite. He subsequently worked as an Executive in Deloitte Consulting’s China Services Group, supporting multinationals with China based assets including TenCent’s seed investors, Naspers. Bizos is currently the Global Head of Retail Technology Platforms at HSBC, helping drive its growth agenda in its digital banking and wealth businesses. Most recently he led M&A teams driving transactions within China’s fintech ecosystem. Bizos holds an MBA from Cambridge University and is part time faculty member at WBS, Africa’s premier business school. He retains an interest in a rapid engineering business that helps financial, aerospace and pharmaceutical companies design and manufacture automation, IoT and robotic platforms.

Jacob Chen is the vice chairman of Hon Hai/Foxconn Technology Group and the founding president of the Foxconn University (the corporate university of Foxconn). After receiving his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, he accepted a faculty position at the Department of Industrial Engineering, the University of Houston and served as department chairman for a few years before taking the deanship of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Texas – Pan American in 1998. He joined Hon Hai/Foxconn in 2001 as the special assistant to chairman. With the rapid growth of Hon Hai/Foxconn, Chen was assigned responsibility for several key customer accounts, in charge of several key supporting functions, such as, corporate human resources, corporate safety/security and corporate IE. He is the former board member of Hon Hai and the former chairman of Smart Technologies and Flnet e-commerce Co.

Chen has published more than 120 referred articles and supervised 25 Ph.D., 33 M.S. students during his academic career. He served as the president of the International Society of Industrial Ergonomics and Occupation Safety in 1996, received the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Excellence in Productivity Improvement Award in 2006, and is the Fellow of the IISE and the World Academy of Productivity Science. Chen has also served as the adjunct professor at various universities, such as, Tsing Hua University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, TianJin University, and ChongQing University. Since 2001, Chen has been responsible for a new initiative to work with leading universities and colleges to establish degree programs in the Foxconn University. Foxconn employees are able to continue their study towards Associate, B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees. More than 40,000 Foxconn employees have received their degrees and more than 35,000 remaining employees have opportunity to study.

Fritz Demopoulos has been involved in the Asian region for over 20 years as a technology entrepreneur and investor. He is passionate about establishing businesses and creative disruption, exploring the ideas behind science and science fiction, and community building through education & gender equality. Demopoulos co-founded Qunar.com, China’s largest travel platform, which was listed on the NASDAQ in 2013. He also co-founded Shawei.com, China’s largest digital sports media company, which was acquired by Hutchison Whampoa-affiliate Tom.com. Previously he held senior executive positions at The News Corporation and NetEase. He coordinates his entrepreneurial business activities through Hong Kong-based Queen’s Road Capital. He is also on the Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Demopoulos was educated at UCLA Anderson, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Heidelberg in Germany and Cal State Fullerton. He is a member of the Global Board of Trustees of the Asia Society in New York, a Trustee of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, and serves on the Board of Advisors of UCLA’s Department of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences and the UCLA Center for Management of Enterprise in Media, Entertainment & Sports. He is a long-term resident of Hong Kong with his amazing wife and two, highly curious and energetic daughters.

Elinor Leung joined CLSA’s telecoms and internet team in 2002 and was promoted to her current role in 2009. CLSA, headquartered in Hong Kong, provides corporate financial and capital markets, asset management, wealth management and securities services to global corporate and institutional clients. Prior to that, Leung worked for private equity fund CDP Capital. She is a CFA® charter holder and a certified public accountant. She holds an MBA and an MEng (Mech) degree from Cornell University and a BEng (Mech) degree from the University of Hong Kong.

Derek Li is the founder and chief education technology scientist at Squirrel AI Learning. Squirrel AI Learning is the first AI-powered adaptive learning company in China and a top AI-Unicorn in China, that aspires to provide a high-quality personalized education for every student in the world at an affordable price with the AI tutor "that is as erudite as Socrates, as versatile as Da Vinci and as intelligent as Einstein." Squirrel AI was published as a case study at Stanford Business School. Derek Li was awarded “China’s Top 30 AI-Entrepreneurs.” As a serial entrepreneur, Li co-founded the first education company listed in China’s A-shares Stock Exchange. He is the deputy director of the Intelligence Education Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation and the co-author of Rewiring Education, written by John Couch, Apple’s first vice president of education. He also created several ingenious educational innovations, such as “Concepts on Nano-scaled Knowledge Components”; “AI-Model-Adapted Learning-Skills-Decomposition Methods”; “Reconstructing Knowledge Space Theory (KST) with Students’ Reasons for Mistakes”; and “Algorithms on Calculating the Relevance of Probability between Non-Relevant Knowledge Components.” Li has been invited to speak at Stanford Business School, UCLA Anderson, Singularity University, and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.

Gang "Danny" Qin joined Yuanzhan Capital Management in 2011. He currently covers U.S.-based investment operations for the company, including deal sourcing, business development, and portfolio management. He is highly experienced in investing in advanced hardware and enterprise SaaS startups at their early stages. He has led a series of deals in 12Twenty, OneWheel, Lunewave, Hesai Tech and others. Before joining Yuanzhan, he worked as an environmental consultant, serving clients in municipalities, oil companies and industrial enterprises. He holds a doctoral degree from UCLA and an MBA degree from UCLA Anderson.

Joe Rocha has been a key member of the South China business community and AmCham member since 2007, holding management roles in both multinational and SME companies operating in China. In addition to serving as an AmCham Representative, in 2015, he was appointed as Chairman of the AmCham South China's Texas-China Investment Delegation Organizing Committee, tasked with promoting bilateral trade between Texas and China. He is also Co-Chair of the Legal and Policy Committee of AmCham South China. Rocha currently serves as vice general manager of Kaiping IBL Sanitary Ware Co. Ltd. a U.S. joint venture manufacturing facility based in Kaiping, Guangdong specialized in producing Zamak die-casting and brass alloy accessories.

Prior to joining Kaiping IBL, Rocha served as managing director of GreenPro Capital Group (NASDAQ: GRNQ), a U.S. listed multinational financial services company and as associate director of a multi-national financial services firm specializing in corporate structures, finance vehicles and investment funds. He has years of experience, providing solutions and compliance for companies operating in China and Chinese outbound investment. Rocha also has a solid legal background, working with leading PRC law firm, Wang Jing & Co. assisting foreign clients with legal issues in China.

Jeongmin Seong is a Partner at the McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company’s business and economics research arm. He leads MGI research teams in China, working on global as well as emerging market-focused themes.

His recent research has focused on globalization, technology, innovation and economic development. He has co-authored several MGI reports and discussion papers, including Reskilling China: Turning the world’s largest workforce into lifelong learners; China and the world: Inside a changing economic relationship; Future of Asia: Asian flows and networks are defining the next phase of globalization; Future of Asia: Decoding the value and performance of Corporate Asia; Future of Asia: How Asia can boost growth through technological leapfrogging; Globalization in transition: The future of global trade and value chains; Outperformers: High-growth emerging economies and the companies that propel them; China’s choice: Capturing the $5 trillion productivity opportunity; China’s digital economy: Powering the economy to global competitiveness; The China effect on global innovation; China’s digital transformation; China’s role in the next phase of globalization; Artificial Intelligence: Implications for China; Notes from the AI frontier: Modeling the impact of AI on the world economy; and an ongoing series on the Future of Asia.

Prior to joining MGI, Seong worked with companies around the world focusing on consumer facing industries including consumer electronics, retail, and automotive. Seong also led McKinsey’s emerging market growth service line. Prior to joining McKinsey Shanghai office, he worked as a product marketing manager at Dell. Seong is a graduate of Harvard Business School where he received his MBA degree.

Florian Spiegl is an innovator, entrepreneur, and executive in the financial technology domain. He is the CEO of Hunter Technology Corp, a listed company that operates software platforms to digitalize and streamline physical commodities trading throughout the transaction chain in global markets. With its solutions, Hunter delivers more favorable economics and fair market access for all and promotes the transition towards a more environmentally and ethically responsible ecosystem. Its flagship product OilEx connects independent oil producers, buyers, and traders in a trusted digital marketplace to optimize prices, simplify processes, improve transparency, and support a reduced carbon footprint. Through its data analytics capabilities, Hunter will offer real time supply chain management tools for tracking the origin, transport, and processing of hydrocarbons and the environmental, social and governance (ESG) compliance during their life cycle.

Spiegl, co-founded FinFabrik, a Hong Kong-based blockchain and trading technology company which was acquired by Hunter in 2020. Before starting FinFabrik, his career spanned strategy consulting with the Boston Consulting Group in Vienna and New York and wealth and asset management with Credit Suisse in Switzerland, London, and Singapore. Spiegl is an active angel investor with a focus on sustainability and impact ventures. He is a co-founder of the Hong Kong FinTech Association, regular lecturer at Greater China universities, and serves on the FinTech Advisory Board of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. Spiegl holds a Ph.D. in political sciences from the University of Vienna.

Sam Sun is a managing partner at Affinity Equity Partners (AEP), a leading pan-Asia private equity firm. Prior to AEP, he was a partner at Sequoia Capital China. Previously, Sun worked at AGIC Capital and CITIC Capital, where he was one of the market pioneers making cross-border buyout investments in industrial, technology, and healthcare sectors. He holds an MBA degree from UCLA Anderson and a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh.

From 2005 to 2008, Jason Wang served as deputy manager, international sales and marketing for Mindray’s IVD line where he was mainly in charge of the IVD products sales and promotion activities as a pioneer in Africa. He then assumed sales management roles in a number of different regions, including Central Asia and South Asia. From 2009 to 2017, Wang served as Mindray’s general manager for Africa and the Middle East and Africa region. He led the business in the regions where it grew rapidly and was in charge of optimizing the local operation platforms by establishing and developing seven subsidiaries, including in Cairo, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Lagos, Riyadh, Istanbul and Ankara. Wang has been in his current role as director of global marketing since 2018 and is responsible for communicating and interacting on behalf of Mindray with various stakeholders, including NGOs, industry agencies, industry associations, and key opinion leaders, among many other constituents.

David Yin joined Mindray in 2005 and has successively held many positions with the company, including product line manager and general manager of Europe. He has held his current position of group vice president since 2014. During his tenure with Mindray, Yin has successfully enhanced Mindray marketing promotion and expedited the integration of the company’s North America and European subsidiaries. He has rich experience in international business and sales and marketing strategy. Yin graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University where he majored in electronic engineering. From 1998 to 2003, he served as the sales and marketing manager for General Electronics medical division (China district). In 2004, he received his MBA from Sun Yat-Sen University.

Dean Antonio Bernardo is the 9th dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management, and also holds the John E. Anderson Chair in Management. He became dean on July 1, 2019. Dean Bernardo joined the Anderson faculty in 1994 as a professor of management in the school’s finance area, and has a long history as an active and engaged member of Anderson’s faculty and administration, having served as department chair and senior associate dean for academic affairs from 2006 to 2009, and finance area chair from 2013 to 2015 and again in 2019. During his quarter century at Anderson, it’s estimated that he’s taught more than 5,000 students -- a fact he describes as an honor. His reputation as a teacher is highly distinguished and he has earned numerous teaching and leadership awards. In addition to teaching at UCLA, Dean Bernardo has also taught at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and the India School of Business in Hyderabad. Dean Bernardo also held a visiting appointment at the University of Chicago. He has published numerous articles in leading finance, economics and law journals, and has served as associate editor of the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Research, Critical Finance Review and Financial Management. Born and raised in Canada, he earned his bachelor’s in economics from the University of Western Ontario and a doctorate in economics from Stanford University.

Cindy Fan is UCLA’s Vice Provost for International Studies and Global Engagement, and is the first woman and Asian American to hold that position. She is also Professor of Geography, and formerly Associate Dean of Social Sciences and Chair of the Asian American Studies Department. As UCLA’s senior international officer (SIO), she manages UCLA’s international partnerships and agreements, represents UCLA globally, promotes international education and research, and oversees the 27 interdisciplinary research centers and eight degree programs within the International Institute.

Vice Provost Fan was born in Hong Kong and received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Bristol. She has numerous publications on migration, regional development and gender in China, including the pioneering book China on the Move. She contributes to the media frequently, and has delivered keynotes in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. She has received many research and teaching awards, including the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, Distinguished Scholar Awards from the Asian Specialty Group and China Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers, an American Council on Education Fellowship, an Andrew W. Mellon grant, and research grants from the Henry Luce Foundation and National Science Foundation.

Robert Koepp is a lecturer at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and founder of Los Angeles-based Geoeconomix, an independent consultancy focused on the intersecting economics of global markets, technology, and government policy. He also serves on the Advisory Council of the Center on AI Technology for Humankind (AITH) at National University of Singapore and as an invited member of the Pacific Basin Economic Council. Throughout a long-running executive career, Koepp most recently served as director and the chief economist of the Corporate Network in Hong Kong for The Economist Group, parent company of the weekly publication, The Economist. His other senior leadership positions include roles in international marketing, media, finance, technology, and energy. He has also worked extensively in economic research involving technology, market strategy, and capital markets.

Koepp previously authored two full-length books, Betting on China: Chinese Stocks, American Stock Markets, and the Wagers on a New Dynamic in Global Capitalism and Clusters of Creativity: Enduring Lessons on Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Silicon Valley and Europe’s Silicon Fen. His latest research activities cover digital geopolitics, cybersecurity, and business education. With grant funding from Loyola Marymount University’s Center for International Business Education, he is currently developing a documentary on global cybersecurity and its implications for organizations and society. Along with co-editor Anatoly Zhuplev, he is authoring Global Trends, Dynamics, and Imperatives for Strategic Development in Business Education in an Age of Disruption to be published by IGI Global in 2022

Terry Kramer has enjoyed a 30-year career in telecommunications. For 18 of the 30 years, he worked for Vodafone Group Plc/AirTouch Communications in a variety of roles domestically and internationally including group strategy officer and regional president, Vodafone Americas. He also sat on the executive committee of Vodafone Group Plc and on the board of Verizon Wireless. In June 2012, he received an appointment by President Obama to serve as Ambassador, Head of U.S. Delegation for the World Conference on International Telecommunications focused on internet governance. As part of this, he led a 100-person delegation comprised of members of U.S. Government, industry and civil society.

Kramer is a full-time adjunct professor at UCLA Anderson where he teaches the foundational technology management course, the Shenzhen/Hong Kong tech transformation global immersion course and also a new course focused on the role of technology in society. He is also faculty director of the Easton Technology Management Center. From 2011-13, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Harvard Business School. In 2017, 2019 and 2020 he was awarded Teacher of the Year by the UCLA Anderson FEMBA students and the Citibank Teaching Award in 2019. Kramer is on the Board Chair of Skylo Technologies and sits on the boards/advisory boards of RapidSOS and the UCLA Economics Department Board of Visitors. He is also advisory board chair of Harvard Business School’s California Research Center. Kramer holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from UCLA and MBA from Harvard University and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Christine Loh is a visiting professor at UCLA Anderson and former deputy minister for the environment, in the HKSAR Government, a position she held from 2012 to 2017. Loh’s direct policy responsibilities included air quality, energy, climate change and biodiversity. She worked with her Mainland Chinese counterparts to define new policies to control shipping emissions, an area of work she pioneered prior to joining the HKSAR Government, which has changed China’s national policy in this area. She created new dialogue platforms between the government and business sectors in order to strengthen Hong Kong’s capacity to meet the challenge of climate change, as well as in protecting biodiversity. She currently serves as chief development strategist at the Institute for the Environment at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Since 2018, Loh has taught an MBA course at the UCLA Anderson School of Management titled Non-Market Risks and Understanding Politics: The Global Context for Doing Business. She serves on the boards of a number of international organizations, as well as advises HSBC on climate change, and BASF on sustainability.

James K. Yuann (Jim) is an adjunct professor in the IMBA program of MIT Sloan - Fudan School of Management, the EMBA program of National Tsinghua University and Shanghai Finance and Economics University where he lectures on topics such as leadership practice and corporate politics and globalization and China. Yuann, a devoted teacher with passion since 2006, has been elected by the student body as ‘The Most Welcomed Professor’ for his focus on combining theory with industry practice. He has also served as academic director of executive development programs between Fudan School of Management and the EMBA programs of many global business schools in Europe, U.S., South America, Israel, Korea, Singapore and India. Prior to his full-time engagement in teaching, Yuann was chair of Vistage China responsible for coaching multinational and local CEOs in China. He also served as an independent board director of Haike Petrochemicals Group Company, a London AIM Stock Exchange listed company. Earlier in his career, Yuann was Asia Pacific president of Honeywell Specialty Materials. During his tenure, he built Honeywell’s Asia leadership team, doubled its revenue and relocated Honeywell Asia headquarters from Singapore to Shanghai where he established Honeywell’s largest global technology center. Prior to Honeywell, he was general manager for PolyOne Corporation, the world’s largest specialty polymer manufacturing company.

Yuann was an early pioneer in Asian business starting in the 1980’s. He was instrumental in establishing Standard Oil Co. (later acquired by BP) in China by successfully marketing products, licensing technology to six major petrochemical complexes, and subsequently establishing ten manufacturing sites in Asia. He has also held positions in the U.S. for Monsanto Co, Occidental Oil Company and BP America with responsibilities in engineering, marketing, technology licensing and general management. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and is the main author of the Amazon best-selling book ‘Super Trends of Future China.’ He received a D.Sc. degree in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, a M.S. degree in materials science from University of Cincinnati and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from National Taiwan University.

Ryan Tan is the Chief Operating Officer of D'Crypt, a high value design and development firm that delivers cryptographic technology and components that are an integral part of our customer's information security appliances, systems, and applications. D’Crypt is wholly owned by Temasek Holdings. Prior to this, he headed Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Planning at StarHub Ltd, Singapore's second largest integrated telco where his portfolio included insurance, risk management, and post-merger integration. He previously was the Head of Strategy & Risk Management for SMRT Corporation, a consultant with Bain & Co., and prior to that occupied operational and leadership roles in Singapore Armed Forces, including a deployment to Afghanistan. Tan received his MBA degrees from UCLA Anderson and the National University of Singapore and holds a M.A. from Columbia University, and a B.A. (High Honors) from Dartmouth College, summa cum laude. In 2019, he was named a John Wooden Global Leadership Fellow at UCLA Anderson. Tan actively returns to the nation as a Lieutenant-Colonel (National Service) as the Commanding Officer of an Armored Battalion.

A foremost scholar of global supply chain management, Chris Tang focuses his current research on social innovation in developing countries, identifying how companies operate in the environment to do good while doing well at the same time — “where corporate responsibility, social justice and environmental stewardship can go hand in hand,” as he says. Tang’s interest in his field began in the private sector when he worked for IBM to solve internal production planning problems. Exposure to real-life industry projects motivated his academic research, where he developed teaching cases on a variety of concerns such as microfinancing for the poor, mobile platforms for developing economies, creating shared values and direct procurement of agricultural products, response management in disasters and new business models in the age of the Internet. These cases exceeded the traditional topics of operations management, addressing the trendy and pressing issues faced by supply chain executives, as well as innovations that industry leaders use to create higher values in the global market.

World-renowned in the field of global supply chain management, Tang has been a consultant to numerous corporations such as Amazon, HP (California, Singapore, South Korea), IBM (New York, San Jose), Nestlé (USA), GKN (UK) and Accenture. He has taught courses at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, National University of Singapore, MIT (Zaragoza) and London Business School, and served as a visiting professor at Cambridge University (UK) and the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) at HKUST. He has delivered more than 200 keynote speeches and seminars at conferences and universities worldwide; chaired numerous advisory committees at various universities in the United States, Europe and Asia; been interviewed and quoted by international press over 100 times; and served on the boards of various nonprofit organizations. Tang’s research contribution to global supply chain management is recognized by all three major academic societies in the fields of operations research, management science and operations management. He was recently distinguished for research exploring the impact of regulatory policies on the welfare of different stakeholders in on-demand ride service platforms. He has published six books, 30 book chapters, over 100 online blogs and over 160 research articles in various leading academic journals. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Financial Times (UK), China Daily, Fortune, Bloomberg Law, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Business Times (Singapore) and The Guardian (UK).

Michael Woo, the son of Wilbur K. Woo, was the dean of the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona for 10 years and before that was the first Asian American and the first trained urban planner elected to the Los Angeles City Council. His accomplishments as an elected official included spearheading the Hollywood Redevelopment Plan that laid the groundwork for Hollywood’s current revitalization, choosing the route and station locations of the Metro Red Line subway through Hollywood, and launching the Hollywood Farmers Market. He is currently teaching a virtual seminar for Cal Poly Pomona on housing insecurity and social justice.

Relating to China, Woo is a trustee of the Lingnan Foundation, a U.S.-based charitable foundation that supports academic innovation and international opportunities at Sun Yat-sen University (which incorporated Wilbur Woo’s alma mater Lingnan College after 1949) in Guangzhou and at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is a member of the management committee for the Mandarin Plaza shopping center (in which his father was one of the original investors in the 1970s) in Los Angeles Chinatown and is a cofounder of a Chinatown Stakeholders Group that is representing the interests of Chinatown property owners in a wide-ranging rezoning process that is likely to shape future development in Chinatown. Like his father, Woo is a product of the University of California. He earned his B.A. in politics and urban studies from UC Santa Cruz, and his master of city planning degree from UC Berkeley.