Asia Tomorrow

8/14/2019 Asia Tomorrow

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Tom BarryCEO Founder, Zephyr ManagementPresident and CEO of Rockefeller & Co.President of T. Rowe Price New Horizons Funds, Inc

LC 101 10:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Tom BarryCEO and Founder, Zephyr ManagementPresident and CEO of Rockefeller & Co.President of T. Rowe Price New Horizons Funds, Inc.

Asia Today: The Current State of Asia and How It Came to Be

Prior to founding Zephyr, Mr. Barry was President and CEO of Rockefeller &Co., the investment management arm of the Rockefeller family, from 1983 to1993. 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 fundspecializing 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 hemajored in Latin American Studies.

Pierre-Franois Landry, Associate Professor of Political Science, received hisPh.D. from the University of Michigan in 2000. He has been affiliated withthe Research Center for Contemporary China since 1997. His research interestsfocus on Chinese politics, comparative local government, and quantitativecomparative 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 inChina" based on an experiment in spatial sampling methodology that relies on the Geographical PositioningSystem to survey populations that are difficult to enumerate.

With a distinguished career in the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Serviceand with China and government experience dating back to 1976, William C.

McCahill, Jr. is an authority on Chinese government and politics. As formerCharge d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Mr. McCahill played a keyrole 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 thechallenges and complexities of doing business in China. He holds an AB from Boston College and completedgraduate studies in Sanskrit, South Asian studies, and the history of religion at Harvard University.

William C. McCahillVice Chairman, JL McGregor & CompanySenior International Business Advisor, WilmerHale

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 EconomicCooperation Council (PECC) and is responsible for PECC's annual State of theRegion report. Mr. Woo is on the management board of the National Centre ofExcellence in Immigration Research at UBC and Simon Fraser University(Metropolis BC), and is an advisor to the Shanghai WTO Affairs ConsultationCentre and the Asian Development Bank. He is also on the InternationalAdvisory 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, WheatonCollege, the University of Cambridge, and the University of London.

Yuen Pau WooPresident and Co-CEOAsia Pacic Foundation of Canada

Pierre LandryYale Professor of Political Science; Director ofUndergraduate Studies of International Studies Major

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 shapedtodays Asia and the role that Asia plays in todays global nancial and political systems


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Ben LiuProfessor of Marketing, Lender School of Business,

Quinnipiac University

Professor Ben Liu has a Ph. D. in Marketing from the State University of New

York at Buffalo,

a Master of 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

Quinnipiac 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 HeProfessor of International Business,

Lender School of Business, Quinnipiac University

LC 211 2:30-3:30 p.m.

With its tremendous economic growth, Asia is one of the worlds 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 international-

ization of small and medium size entrepreneurial rms in China and India. They will

also discuss the changing role of marketing in Asian countries.

Ben LiuProfessor of Marketing, 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, globalentrepreneurship, globalization, etc. Professor He teaches International Business and has

received the Excellence in Teaching Award at Quinnipiac University.


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Rich Kuslan HGS '83Editor, 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 LoeseckeCEO 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 Cornells Johnson School of Management. He is a veteran of the United

States Navy submarine service.

Alice YoungPartner, Chair, Asia Pacic 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 throughoutAsia, 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.

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John JiangPresident, CEO, Founder, Level Nine Group

LC 211 3:45-4:45 p.m.

Akira OdaniPresident, Odani Research Co.

Professor of Marketing, SUNY Delhi

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.

Owner, founder and president of Odani Research, LLC, a marketing research andconsulting 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.


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Dr. Zhiwu ChenYale 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. HeaphyPartner, 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 inphilosophy 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 LiawSt. 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 Chinas accession into the WTO and Chinas 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. Liaws 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 Chinas 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 NandagopalGeneral 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.

LC 102 3:45-4:45 p.m.


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Yale Asian American Cultural Center

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