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As i aTo mo r r o w
E me r g i n gE c o n o mi cP o we r s o f As i a
Y a l eUn i v e r s i t y Ma r c h2 8 , 2 0 0 9
Her Excellency
Heng Chee Chee Singapore's Ambassador to the U.S.
Chan Heng Chee took up her appointment as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States in 1996. Prior to her appointment, she was the Executive Director of the Singapore International Foundation (which created a Singapore version of the Peace Corps) and Director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. She was the founding Director of the Institute of Policy Studies. She has served as Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and was concurrently High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico. Ambassador Chan has received a number of awards including Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Letters from the University of Newcastle, Australia; and the University of Buckingham (United Kingdom). She was named International Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women in 1998 and she won Singapore's inaugural "Woman of the Year, Award”. She received the National Book Award in the non-fiction section for "A Sensation of Independence: A Political Biography of David Marshall" in 1986 and the National Book Award for "The Dynamics of One Party Dominance: The PAP at the Grassroots" in 1978. Ambassador Chan has served as a member on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the International Council of the Asia Society. She received from the Government of Singapore The Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 1999 and the Meritorious Service Medal in 2005. Ambassador Chan was educated at the University of Singapore and Cornell University.
Keynote Speaker
Jack Perkowski ‘70
Managing Partner, JFP Holdings Ltd. Founder, ASIMCO Technologies Author, Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion Dollar Business in China”
Upon graduation from Yale and the Harvard Business School, spent eighteen years on Wall Street, rising to Head of Investment Banking at PaineWebber. Well before others recognized the significant role that China would play in the global economy, spent three years investigating opportunities in Asia and China, leading to the founding in 1994 of ASIMCO Technologies, one of the most important players in China’s automotive components industry. Headquartered in Beijing, with 12,000 employees throughout the country, ASIMCO is a unique foreigninvested company that was established specifically to serve the China market. The Company has gained a reputation for developing local management and integrating a broad based China operation into the global economy. ASIMCO has twice been named one of the “Ten Best Employers in China,” ranking third in the most recent survey conducted by Hewitt Associates and 21st Century Business Herald. Widely recognized as an expert on doing business in China, have authored Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion Dollar Business In China, as well as numerous articles on China, its economy and developing a business in the country. A frequent speaker on all matters relating to China. Provide timely insights into ongoing developments in the country on www.managingthedragon.com. In 2008, was named by China Auto News as one of “30 Outstanding Entrepreneurs in China’s Auto Components Industry Over the Country’s 30 Years of Economic Reform,” the only foreigner to receive such distinction.
Asia Today: The Current State of Asia and How It Came to Be LC 101 10:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
In the past few decades, Asia has risen to prominence in the global political and economic arena. The Asia Today plenary session features four distinguished leaders from government, business, and academia who will present their perspectives on the forces that have shaped today’s Asia and the role that Asia plays in today’s global financial and political systems
Tom Barry CEO Founder, and Founder, Zephyr Management CEO Zephyr Management
President and and CEO CEO of of Rockefeller Rockefeller && Co. Co. President President of of T. T. Rowe Rowe Price Price New New Horizons Horizons Funds, Funds, Inc Inc. President
Prior to founding Zephyr, Mr. Barry was President and CEO of Rockefeller & Co., the investment management arm of the Rockefeller family, from 1983 to 1993. Previously, Mr. Barry was employed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. from 1969 to 1982. Among other responsibilities, he was President of T. Rowe Price New Horizons Funds, Inc., then the largest mutual fund specializing in small capitalization companies. Mr. Barry received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1969 and an undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1966 where he majored in Latin American Studies.
Pierre Landry Yale Professor of Political Science; Director of
Undergraduate Studies of International Studies Major
Pierre-François Landry, Associate Professor of Political Science, received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2000. He has been affiliated with the Research Center for Contemporary China since 1997. His research interests focus on Chinese politics, comparative local government, and quantitative comparative political analysis. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled "The CCP and Local Elites in Post-Deng China". Articles in progress include "Explaining Party Membership in Urban China" and "GPS sampling for social science survey research in China" based on an experiment in spatial sampling methodology that relies on the Geographical Positioning System to survey populations that are difficult to enumerate.
William C. McCahill
Vice Chairman, JL McGregor & Company Senior International Business Advisor, WilmerHale
With a distinguished career in the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service and with China and government experience dating back to 1976, William C. McCahill, Jr. is an authority on Chinese government and politics. As former Charge d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Mr. McCahill played a key role in concluding the 1999 WTO U.S.-China Bilateral Trade Agreement. Before joining JL McGregor & Company, Mr. McCahill was the senior international business advisor of the law firm WilmerHale, where he helped foreign companies overcome the challenges and complexities of doing business in China. He holds an AB from Boston College and completed graduate studies in Sanskrit, South Asian studies, and the history of religion at Harvard University.
Yuen Pau Woo
President and Co-CEO Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Mr. Woo is President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is Canada's representative on the Standing Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) and is responsible for PECC's annual State of the Region report. Mr. Woo is on the management board of the National Centre of Excellence in Immigration Research at UBC and Simon Fraser University (Metropolis BC), and is an advisor to the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Centre and the Asian Development Bank. He is also on the International Advisory Council of the Asia Society in New York. In December 2008, Mr. Woo was appointed by the Premier of British Columbia to the province's Economic Advisory Council. He was educated at Lester B. Pearson College, Wheaton College, the University of Cambridge, and the University of London.
LC 211 2:30-3:30 p.m.
With its tremendous economic growth, Asia is one of the world’s most dynamic markets for entrepreneurs. The Internationalization of Entrepreneurship discussion presents two professors who have studied the rise of entrepreneurship in Asia. Professor He and Professor Liu will deliver a comparative study of the internationalization of small and medium size entrepreneurial firms in China and India. They will also discuss the changing role of marketing in Asian countries.
Ben Liu
Professor of Marketing, Lender School of Business, Quinnipiac University
Ben Liu
Quinnipiac
Professor Ben Liu has Lender a Ph. D. in Marketing Professor of Marketing, School of Business,from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a Quinnipiac Master of University Art in Religion from the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, a Professional Managers’ Program degree from Tunghai University. He speaks Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese. He is currently a professor of Marketing at the Lender School of Business at University. His professional positions include: Managing Director at Teamwood Corporation, Taiwan; Purchasing Supervisor at General Instrument Microelectronics; Marketing Manager at ATW Electronics; and Export Manager at Chang-Shing Iron Works.
Professor Liu researches in the areas of Cross-cultural, Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty, Trust, Internet Marketing, New Product Strategy, Buyer-Seller Negotiations, and Industrial Marketing. He teaches Marketing Management, New Product Development, International Marketing, International Business, Promotion Management (including Integrated Marketing Communication), Marketing Research, Marketing Strategy, Negotiations, Business Marketing. Professor Liu is a member of The International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), The Institute for Operation Research and Management Science (INFORMS), American Marketing Association (AMA), Association for Consumer Research (ACR), Academy of Marketing Science (AMS), and Strategic Management Society (SMS).
Xiaohong He
Professor of International Business, Lender School of Business, Quinnipiac University
Xiaohong He is professor and the founder of International Business Department at the School of Business, Quinnipiac University. Professor He received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Dallas in International Management Studies. Professor He has published many articles in refereed academic journals and has written books. Her research areas are multinational corporations, international monetary system, global entrepreneurship, globalization, etc. Professor He teaches International Business and has received the Excellence in Teaching Award at Quinnipiac University.
LC 102 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Rich Kuslan HGS '83 Editor, Asiabizblog
Rich Kuslan writes about Asian business and law, with a special focus on China. His writing seeks to interpret 25 years of experience working with, buying from and selling to, as well as managing, Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and American businesses. As a consultant, he has trained executives at major multi-nationals, such as GE Medical Systems, Timken, Corning, Lucent, United Technologies and others, in English and Mandarin. He has been invited to speak on numerous panels, including the American Bar Association, International Law Section national convention, and is an editor of the ABA, China Committee, Year in Review. Rich is a practicing attorney licensed in New York and Connecticut.
Peter von Loesecke
CEO and Managing Director of The MBA Tour
Peter von Loesecke is the Managing Director of The MBA Tour LLC, a company dedicated to helping graduate business programs recruit applicants from all over the world. The MBA Tour has over 150 international and US university clients and organizes recruiting over 50 recruiting events in 30 different countries. Mr. von Loesecke is an expert on global business education trends and how that drives the global demand for business education. The Yale School of Management is one of his clients. Prior to buying The MBA Tour, Mr von Loesecke worked 13 years as a management consultant for Temple Barker and Sloane (Now Mercer Management), Arthur D. Little, and Applied Value. He worked with an international client base in the medical, chemical and transportation industries. He is a graduate of Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and Cornell’s Johnson School of Management. He is a veteran of the United States Navy submarine service.
Alice Young
Partner, Chair, Asia Pacific Group, Kaye Scholer, LLP Associate Fellow, Davenport College Trustee, Asia Foundation Trustee, Aspen Institute Director, Mizuho Trust & Banking (USA
Alice Young is a Partner and Chair of the Asia Pacific Practice at Kaye Scholer LLP International Law Firm. She advises multinationals and entrepreneurs on their business activities and investment considerations in the United States and throughout Asia, including complex cross-border transactions and sensitive legal and governmental strategies. She also assists clients in identifying potential Asian partners and resources. She represents clients in a wide range of disciplines, including joint ventures, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, finance, trade, foreign ownership issues, regulatory matters, trademark and copyright, employment, tax, private placements, real estate, manufacturing projects, licensing, high technology, telecommunications, retailing, commercial lending, restructurings, and general business negotiations. She has been lead advisor on projects in China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, India and the Philippines. She has been in private practice for over thirty years.
LC 211 3:45-4:45 p.m.
Akira Odani
President, Odani Research Co. Professor of Marketing, SUNY Delhi
Owner, founder and president of Odani Research, LLC, a marketing research and consulting firm specializing in facilitating business between Japan and the United States. Founded in Mamaroneck, New York, in 1980, its clients include Toyota Motor Corp., Sony Corp., Hakuhodo, Inc., Dentsu, Inc., Toshiba, Matsushita, SBC, Revlon, and KPMG. Expert on Japanese business practice and international marketing for American corporations Lecturer in marketing, market research, and best practices for trade and business organizations Secretary of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Marketing Committee and a Board member of Margaretville Hospital, New York.
John Jiang
President, CEO, Founder, Level Nine Group
Jianxin Jiang is a business executive with fourteen years of experience in information technology and information risk management. Before establishing his own consulting firm in 2007, he was a director with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), advising large financial services clients in IT internal control and regulatory compliance. Jianxin Jiang joined PwC in 2003 as a senior manager in its Global Risk Management Solutions practice. During his tenure with PwC, he was instrumental in the formation of a national team, and acted as a co-leader focusing on assisting financial services clients in integrating controls enabled by technology into their business processes to mitigate risk. His areas of expertise include: Internal Controls and Operational Risk Management, IT Risk Management Framework (CobiT), Structure, and Governance, Sarbanes Oxley, Basel II, and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Compliance and Program Management Jianxin holds a B.S. from Nanjing University, China, and an M.S. from the University of Chicago. He matriculated as a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University.
LC 102 3:45-4:45 p.m.
Dr. Zhiwu Chen Yale Professor of Finance
Dr. Chen is Professor of finance at the School of Management at Yale University. Before joining Yale, Dr. Chen was Professor of finance at the Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Chen is well known for his leading research in the academic world of finance. His research covers a wide range of topics, with a focus on stock valuation, investments, and financial options and futures markets. Dr. Chen won the prestigious Merton Miller Prize in 1996 for his research on demographic changes and their impact on financial markets. He also received the Chicago Board Options Exchange Competitive Research Award in 1996 for his research on the Japanese stock market and related derivatives products. He has also been active in portfolio management since early 1992. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in finance in 1990, a M.Ph. and M.A. in 1988, all from Yale University. He earned his M.S. degree in systems engineering from the Changsha Institute of Technology in 1986, and a B.S. in computer science from the Central-South University of Technology in 1983, both universities in China.
Mark W. Heaphy Partner, Wiggin and Dana
Mark Heaphy is the chair of Wiggin and Dana's Information Technology and Sourcing Group. His practice focuses on the sourcing and procurement process, from initial RFP through implementation and beyond. Mark has experience in financial services, healthcare, insurance, life-sciences, manufacturing, telecommunications and utilities. Mark helps clients structure, negotiate and document domestic, near-shore and off-shore, commercial relationships related to complex, global, outsourcing strategies and the development, distribution, customization, implementation, support and management of technology solutions. Mark graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the College of William and Mary in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and international relations. In 1993, he earned a Master of Arts degree in international relations from Yale University and, in 1996, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association's sections of International Law and Practice, Intellectual Property Law, and Science and Technology.
Dr. K. Thomas Liaw
St. Johns Professor of Economics and Finance Dr. Liaw holds his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He is the author of several books on investment banking and financial markets. His recent book publication is The Business of Investment Banking: A Comprehensive Overview, second edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006. He also recently published an article on China’s accession into the WTO and China’s financial markets. In addition, Dr. Liaw has published in the areas of capital markets, insurance, banking, repurchase agreements, and risk management. He is an associate editor for Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies. Dr. Liaw’s principal areas of teaching and research interests include asset management, capital markets, risk management, and investment banking. His current projects include risk management for financial institutions, equity and fixed-income trading strategies, and China’s financial markets. He served as president of the Chinese American Academic and Professional Society for 2005. He is a director of a bank. Dr. Liaw serves as an advisor to financial firms. He speaks on various subjects of investment banking and capital markets at academic institutions, executive programs, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, the World Bank symposium, Harvard China Review conference, and Information Management Network conference.
Raghav Nandagopal
General Partner, Exigen Capital Raghav Nandagopal is a General Partner of Exigen Capital with focus on investments in Financial Services, Media, Communications and Government sectors. Raghav has over 20 years of operating, technology and investing experiences with over 9 years in the PE industry. Prior to Exigen Capital, he was the Senior Vice President of Bank of America Capital Advisors ($3.2B under management) and a senior member of the Investment Committee. He joined BoA through the acquisition of U.S. Trust where he served as the Co-CEO of the PE funds and head of direct investment programs.
Prior to U.S. Trust, he was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company. Currently Raghav serves on the boards of Exigence Insurance Solutions, ExpertMarkets, Execue, and is an advisor to Cava Capital. He has also been a long time board member of the CT Venture Group (Stamford Chapter), Angel Investor Forum. He holds a BS from University of Madras, MBA from the University of Bombay and an MS from Penn State, and has also completed executive programs at MIT and Carnegie Mellon.
Yale Asian American Cultural Center
Yale University Timothy Dwight Master’s Office
E me r g i n gE c o n o mi cP o we r s o f As i a
Y a l eUn i v e r s i t y Ma r c h2 8 , 2 0 0 9
Her Excellency
Heng Chee Chee Singapore's Ambassador to the U.S.
Chan Heng Chee took up her appointment as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States in 1996. Prior to her appointment, she was the Executive Director of the Singapore International Foundation (which created a Singapore version of the Peace Corps) and Director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. She was the founding Director of the Institute of Policy Studies. She has served as Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and was concurrently High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico. Ambassador Chan has received a number of awards including Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Letters from the University of Newcastle, Australia; and the University of Buckingham (United Kingdom). She was named International Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women in 1998 and she won Singapore's inaugural "Woman of the Year, Award”. She received the National Book Award in the non-fiction section for "A Sensation of Independence: A Political Biography of David Marshall" in 1986 and the National Book Award for "The Dynamics of One Party Dominance: The PAP at the Grassroots" in 1978. Ambassador Chan has served as a member on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the International Council of the Asia Society. She received from the Government of Singapore The Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 1999 and the Meritorious Service Medal in 2005. Ambassador Chan was educated at the University of Singapore and Cornell University.
Keynote Speaker
Jack Perkowski ‘70
Managing Partner, JFP Holdings Ltd. Founder, ASIMCO Technologies Author, Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion Dollar Business in China”
Upon graduation from Yale and the Harvard Business School, spent eighteen years on Wall Street, rising to Head of Investment Banking at PaineWebber. Well before others recognized the significant role that China would play in the global economy, spent three years investigating opportunities in Asia and China, leading to the founding in 1994 of ASIMCO Technologies, one of the most important players in China’s automotive components industry. Headquartered in Beijing, with 12,000 employees throughout the country, ASIMCO is a unique foreigninvested company that was established specifically to serve the China market. The Company has gained a reputation for developing local management and integrating a broad based China operation into the global economy. ASIMCO has twice been named one of the “Ten Best Employers in China,” ranking third in the most recent survey conducted by Hewitt Associates and 21st Century Business Herald. Widely recognized as an expert on doing business in China, have authored Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion Dollar Business In China, as well as numerous articles on China, its economy and developing a business in the country. A frequent speaker on all matters relating to China. Provide timely insights into ongoing developments in the country on www.managingthedragon.com. In 2008, was named by China Auto News as one of “30 Outstanding Entrepreneurs in China’s Auto Components Industry Over the Country’s 30 Years of Economic Reform,” the only foreigner to receive such distinction.
Asia Today: The Current State of Asia and How It Came to Be LC 101 10:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
In the past few decades, Asia has risen to prominence in the global political and economic arena. The Asia Today plenary session features four distinguished leaders from government, business, and academia who will present their perspectives on the forces that have shaped today’s Asia and the role that Asia plays in today’s global financial and political systems
Tom Barry CEO Founder, and Founder, Zephyr Management CEO Zephyr Management
President and and CEO CEO of of Rockefeller Rockefeller && Co. Co. President President of of T. T. Rowe Rowe Price Price New New Horizons Horizons Funds, Funds, Inc Inc. President
Prior to founding Zephyr, Mr. Barry was President and CEO of Rockefeller & Co., the investment management arm of the Rockefeller family, from 1983 to 1993. Previously, Mr. Barry was employed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. from 1969 to 1982. Among other responsibilities, he was President of T. Rowe Price New Horizons Funds, Inc., then the largest mutual fund specializing in small capitalization companies. Mr. Barry received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1969 and an undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1966 where he majored in Latin American Studies.
Pierre Landry Yale Professor of Political Science; Director of
Undergraduate Studies of International Studies Major
Pierre-François Landry, Associate Professor of Political Science, received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2000. He has been affiliated with the Research Center for Contemporary China since 1997. His research interests focus on Chinese politics, comparative local government, and quantitative comparative political analysis. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled "The CCP and Local Elites in Post-Deng China". Articles in progress include "Explaining Party Membership in Urban China" and "GPS sampling for social science survey research in China" based on an experiment in spatial sampling methodology that relies on the Geographical Positioning System to survey populations that are difficult to enumerate.
William C. McCahill
Vice Chairman, JL McGregor & Company Senior International Business Advisor, WilmerHale
With a distinguished career in the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service and with China and government experience dating back to 1976, William C. McCahill, Jr. is an authority on Chinese government and politics. As former Charge d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Mr. McCahill played a key role in concluding the 1999 WTO U.S.-China Bilateral Trade Agreement. Before joining JL McGregor & Company, Mr. McCahill was the senior international business advisor of the law firm WilmerHale, where he helped foreign companies overcome the challenges and complexities of doing business in China. He holds an AB from Boston College and completed graduate studies in Sanskrit, South Asian studies, and the history of religion at Harvard University.
Yuen Pau Woo
President and Co-CEO Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Mr. Woo is President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is Canada's representative on the Standing Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) and is responsible for PECC's annual State of the Region report. Mr. Woo is on the management board of the National Centre of Excellence in Immigration Research at UBC and Simon Fraser University (Metropolis BC), and is an advisor to the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Centre and the Asian Development Bank. He is also on the International Advisory Council of the Asia Society in New York. In December 2008, Mr. Woo was appointed by the Premier of British Columbia to the province's Economic Advisory Council. He was educated at Lester B. Pearson College, Wheaton College, the University of Cambridge, and the University of London.
LC 211 2:30-3:30 p.m.
With its tremendous economic growth, Asia is one of the world’s most dynamic markets for entrepreneurs. The Internationalization of Entrepreneurship discussion presents two professors who have studied the rise of entrepreneurship in Asia. Professor He and Professor Liu will deliver a comparative study of the internationalization of small and medium size entrepreneurial firms in China and India. They will also discuss the changing role of marketing in Asian countries.
Ben Liu
Professor of Marketing, Lender School of Business, Quinnipiac University
Ben Liu
Quinnipiac
Professor Ben Liu has Lender a Ph. D. in Marketing Professor of Marketing, School of Business,from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a Quinnipiac Master of University Art in Religion from the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, a Professional Managers’ Program degree from Tunghai University. He speaks Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese. He is currently a professor of Marketing at the Lender School of Business at University. His professional positions include: Managing Director at Teamwood Corporation, Taiwan; Purchasing Supervisor at General Instrument Microelectronics; Marketing Manager at ATW Electronics; and Export Manager at Chang-Shing Iron Works.
Professor Liu researches in the areas of Cross-cultural, Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty, Trust, Internet Marketing, New Product Strategy, Buyer-Seller Negotiations, and Industrial Marketing. He teaches Marketing Management, New Product Development, International Marketing, International Business, Promotion Management (including Integrated Marketing Communication), Marketing Research, Marketing Strategy, Negotiations, Business Marketing. Professor Liu is a member of The International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), The Institute for Operation Research and Management Science (INFORMS), American Marketing Association (AMA), Association for Consumer Research (ACR), Academy of Marketing Science (AMS), and Strategic Management Society (SMS).
Xiaohong He
Professor of International Business, Lender School of Business, Quinnipiac University
Xiaohong He is professor and the founder of International Business Department at the School of Business, Quinnipiac University. Professor He received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Dallas in International Management Studies. Professor He has published many articles in refereed academic journals and has written books. Her research areas are multinational corporations, international monetary system, global entrepreneurship, globalization, etc. Professor He teaches International Business and has received the Excellence in Teaching Award at Quinnipiac University.
LC 102 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Rich Kuslan HGS '83 Editor, Asiabizblog
Rich Kuslan writes about Asian business and law, with a special focus on China. His writing seeks to interpret 25 years of experience working with, buying from and selling to, as well as managing, Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and American businesses. As a consultant, he has trained executives at major multi-nationals, such as GE Medical Systems, Timken, Corning, Lucent, United Technologies and others, in English and Mandarin. He has been invited to speak on numerous panels, including the American Bar Association, International Law Section national convention, and is an editor of the ABA, China Committee, Year in Review. Rich is a practicing attorney licensed in New York and Connecticut.
Peter von Loesecke
CEO and Managing Director of The MBA Tour
Peter von Loesecke is the Managing Director of The MBA Tour LLC, a company dedicated to helping graduate business programs recruit applicants from all over the world. The MBA Tour has over 150 international and US university clients and organizes recruiting over 50 recruiting events in 30 different countries. Mr. von Loesecke is an expert on global business education trends and how that drives the global demand for business education. The Yale School of Management is one of his clients. Prior to buying The MBA Tour, Mr von Loesecke worked 13 years as a management consultant for Temple Barker and Sloane (Now Mercer Management), Arthur D. Little, and Applied Value. He worked with an international client base in the medical, chemical and transportation industries. He is a graduate of Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and Cornell’s Johnson School of Management. He is a veteran of the United States Navy submarine service.
Alice Young
Partner, Chair, Asia Pacific Group, Kaye Scholer, LLP Associate Fellow, Davenport College Trustee, Asia Foundation Trustee, Aspen Institute Director, Mizuho Trust & Banking (USA
Alice Young is a Partner and Chair of the Asia Pacific Practice at Kaye Scholer LLP International Law Firm. She advises multinationals and entrepreneurs on their business activities and investment considerations in the United States and throughout Asia, including complex cross-border transactions and sensitive legal and governmental strategies. She also assists clients in identifying potential Asian partners and resources. She represents clients in a wide range of disciplines, including joint ventures, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, finance, trade, foreign ownership issues, regulatory matters, trademark and copyright, employment, tax, private placements, real estate, manufacturing projects, licensing, high technology, telecommunications, retailing, commercial lending, restructurings, and general business negotiations. She has been lead advisor on projects in China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, India and the Philippines. She has been in private practice for over thirty years.
LC 211 3:45-4:45 p.m.
Akira Odani
President, Odani Research Co. Professor of Marketing, SUNY Delhi
Owner, founder and president of Odani Research, LLC, a marketing research and consulting firm specializing in facilitating business between Japan and the United States. Founded in Mamaroneck, New York, in 1980, its clients include Toyota Motor Corp., Sony Corp., Hakuhodo, Inc., Dentsu, Inc., Toshiba, Matsushita, SBC, Revlon, and KPMG. Expert on Japanese business practice and international marketing for American corporations Lecturer in marketing, market research, and best practices for trade and business organizations Secretary of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Marketing Committee and a Board member of Margaretville Hospital, New York.
John Jiang
President, CEO, Founder, Level Nine Group
Jianxin Jiang is a business executive with fourteen years of experience in information technology and information risk management. Before establishing his own consulting firm in 2007, he was a director with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), advising large financial services clients in IT internal control and regulatory compliance. Jianxin Jiang joined PwC in 2003 as a senior manager in its Global Risk Management Solutions practice. During his tenure with PwC, he was instrumental in the formation of a national team, and acted as a co-leader focusing on assisting financial services clients in integrating controls enabled by technology into their business processes to mitigate risk. His areas of expertise include: Internal Controls and Operational Risk Management, IT Risk Management Framework (CobiT), Structure, and Governance, Sarbanes Oxley, Basel II, and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Compliance and Program Management Jianxin holds a B.S. from Nanjing University, China, and an M.S. from the University of Chicago. He matriculated as a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University.
LC 102 3:45-4:45 p.m.
Dr. Zhiwu Chen Yale Professor of Finance
Dr. Chen is Professor of finance at the School of Management at Yale University. Before joining Yale, Dr. Chen was Professor of finance at the Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Chen is well known for his leading research in the academic world of finance. His research covers a wide range of topics, with a focus on stock valuation, investments, and financial options and futures markets. Dr. Chen won the prestigious Merton Miller Prize in 1996 for his research on demographic changes and their impact on financial markets. He also received the Chicago Board Options Exchange Competitive Research Award in 1996 for his research on the Japanese stock market and related derivatives products. He has also been active in portfolio management since early 1992. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in finance in 1990, a M.Ph. and M.A. in 1988, all from Yale University. He earned his M.S. degree in systems engineering from the Changsha Institute of Technology in 1986, and a B.S. in computer science from the Central-South University of Technology in 1983, both universities in China.
Mark W. Heaphy Partner, Wiggin and Dana
Mark Heaphy is the chair of Wiggin and Dana's Information Technology and Sourcing Group. His practice focuses on the sourcing and procurement process, from initial RFP through implementation and beyond. Mark has experience in financial services, healthcare, insurance, life-sciences, manufacturing, telecommunications and utilities. Mark helps clients structure, negotiate and document domestic, near-shore and off-shore, commercial relationships related to complex, global, outsourcing strategies and the development, distribution, customization, implementation, support and management of technology solutions. Mark graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the College of William and Mary in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and international relations. In 1993, he earned a Master of Arts degree in international relations from Yale University and, in 1996, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association's sections of International Law and Practice, Intellectual Property Law, and Science and Technology.
Dr. K. Thomas Liaw
St. Johns Professor of Economics and Finance Dr. Liaw holds his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He is the author of several books on investment banking and financial markets. His recent book publication is The Business of Investment Banking: A Comprehensive Overview, second edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006. He also recently published an article on China’s accession into the WTO and China’s financial markets. In addition, Dr. Liaw has published in the areas of capital markets, insurance, banking, repurchase agreements, and risk management. He is an associate editor for Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies. Dr. Liaw’s principal areas of teaching and research interests include asset management, capital markets, risk management, and investment banking. His current projects include risk management for financial institutions, equity and fixed-income trading strategies, and China’s financial markets. He served as president of the Chinese American Academic and Professional Society for 2005. He is a director of a bank. Dr. Liaw serves as an advisor to financial firms. He speaks on various subjects of investment banking and capital markets at academic institutions, executive programs, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, the World Bank symposium, Harvard China Review conference, and Information Management Network conference.
Raghav Nandagopal
General Partner, Exigen Capital Raghav Nandagopal is a General Partner of Exigen Capital with focus on investments in Financial Services, Media, Communications and Government sectors. Raghav has over 20 years of operating, technology and investing experiences with over 9 years in the PE industry. Prior to Exigen Capital, he was the Senior Vice President of Bank of America Capital Advisors ($3.2B under management) and a senior member of the Investment Committee. He joined BoA through the acquisition of U.S. Trust where he served as the Co-CEO of the PE funds and head of direct investment programs.
Prior to U.S. Trust, he was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company. Currently Raghav serves on the boards of Exigence Insurance Solutions, ExpertMarkets, Execue, and is an advisor to Cava Capital. He has also been a long time board member of the CT Venture Group (Stamford Chapter), Angel Investor Forum. He holds a BS from University of Madras, MBA from the University of Bombay and an MS from Penn State, and has also completed executive programs at MIT and Carnegie Mellon.
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