< Previouswww.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1720Gustavo Lopez GhoryVice President Product Supply & Global ManufacturingProcter & GambleJim SerstadPrincipal/Managing Director AsiaTompkins InternationalSPEAKERSPEAKERGustavo is an executive with more than 35 years of experience in the Consumer Goods Industry at Procter and Gamble.His career began at the Manufacturing floor in Latin America and advanced to different capacities in Manufacturing, Process Development, Marketing, Human Resources in several geographies. Vice President Product Supply since 2008. Led the North American Product Supply Organization; the Global Feminine Care PS Team; the Global Supply Network Operations; the India, Middle East and Africa Product Supply organization as well as Global Manufacturing.Pioneering creation of Work Systems that deliver operational excellence in more than 130 plants worldwide; Designing & delivering centralized Planning capabilities; delivering breakthrough product/technology innovation in global markets; instilling customer centric organizations and creating the India Middle East and Africa Supply Chain organization are some of his contributions. He actively works in defining the path forward into the 4th Industrial Revolution and the role of the Industry, Governments and Educational institutions and Investors.Member of the Advisory board of the Supply Chain Institute - University of Tennessee, USA (2009-2012) and the Board of the Foundation of Education of the Americas, sponsors the Fundacion Corazon Humanitario – Colombia, and collaborates with e World Economic Forum.Jim Serstad is an expert on Asia supply chain with a focus on China distribution strategy, Asia network design, and real estate solutions. With 16 years of experience as an expatriate in China, he held roles in both operations and consulting, including the management of Tompkins International’s efforts to support clients’ growth and profit initiatives across a range of industries. He takes a highly analytical and quantitative approach to client problems, beginning with strategy through to supply chain execution. Jim’s project experience includes: - Complex scenario modeling and financial pro forma analyses for market entry and growth strategies in F&B, apparel, and manufacturing. - Network design experience includes China domestic, Asia regional, and global network projects in F&B, apparel/luxury, retail and other industries. - Sourcing/Manufacturing: supplier management, QMS implementation, supplier RFP management in apparel, toys and electronics manufacturing. - Manufacturing consulting and start-up management focused on set-up of new foreign ventures in China. - Due diligence and acquisition management of a Flextronics/Ericsson JV factory by PRI Holdings. Recent clients which Jim has served include: Starbucks, Coach, Daphne, Wyeth Nutrition, e Children’s Place and Roca Bathroom Solutions. He is a frequent speaker on China supply chain, distribution and network design. www.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1721Justin SmithChief Security OcerPivotal SoftwareSPEAKERJustin Smith defends against hackers. He did it for Microsoft. He did it for Google. He’s even spoken to US intelligence agencies about best practices.Justin has been one of the most respected experts in the enterprise software industry for nearly two decades, focusing exclusively on cloud security for the last 10. He’s been accountable for the R&D of security services at both Microsoft and Google, and was an early contributor to the gold-standard security protocol used to protect RESTful programming interfaces.Justin was a founding team member for a cloud startup acquired by Ericsson, and in his current role, oversees the security of the Pivotal Cloud Foundry, the world’s leading open-source cloud runtime. If you use the internet, a smartphone, a tablet or gaming consoles anywhere in the world you’ve probably been exposed to Justin’s work.He’s been a featured speaker at events all over the world, and has been published in multiple global tier-one media.Justin splits his time between San Francisco, CA, and Atlanta, GA, where he’s raising a young daughter and plotting world domination.The question is: Are they searching for you at all?Learn more about how to build and measure your Country or Place Brand in the digital world.www.bloom-consulting.comIf you want to knowwhat the world thinks about your place,just Google yourself.Nation Branding and Place Branding specialistsIntelligence about Countries Regions and Citieswww.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1723Mary BoydDirectorEconomist Corporate Network, Shanghai, EIUTariq Ahmed NizamiFounder & CEOCEO Clubs NetworkSPEAKERSPEAKERMary Boyd is responsible for program development and client servicing in Shanghai. She also provides research and conceptual support on China for Economist Corporate Network programs.Before joining the Economist Group, Boyd was in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, serving on assignment in Hong Kong, ailand, Taiwan and China (in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing).Since leaving government service, she has researched and published on economic development and governance issues in China, and has undertaken consultancy work for the World Bank and other international institutions, as well as multinational companies. She has written for a number of Economist Intelligence Unit publications, including Country Report, China Hand and Business China. She co-authored the Economist Intelligence Unit report Taking on the Competition: Domestic Companies in China.Boyd has an MA (area studies) and an MSc (public policy and management) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and has also completed language studies at Nanjing University. Her research interests include local governance and decentralization policies and public-sector reform.Nizami is CEO of the largest business networking club in the world, which has presence in 24 countries with more than 16,000 exclusive elite CEOs & High Executives members worldwide. CEO Clubs is the platform for International business people to meet in the local business community to explore & connect business opportunities between elite exclusive members worldwide. He has more than 30 years’ experience heading an International Holding company which has interest in Real Estate, Gold & Diamond, Oil, Trading, Travel, Entertainment, Media, Hospitality, CEO Clubs Network, Medical, Charitable Institution, Fashion, Education, Financial and Information Technology. He has received more than 22 International Awards & Appreciations including United States Presidential Medal 1989 and Middle East Award “Master Class Entrepreneur of e Year” by GCC Chamber of Commerce & Industry in 2012. He is also the United Nation Global Compact initiative representative in UAE and a UN-UAE Steering Committee Member.PANEL III One Belt, One Roadwww.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1724Michael NgCofounder & CEODataGrid InternationalZheng ShengfaVice General ManagerZhejiang Plante Electric Vehicle Co., LtdSPEAKERSPEAKERMichael graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and completed Harvard Business School’s OPM program. His career started at Morgan Stanley specialized in hedge fund technology. He established AMKO SOLARA and committed himself in the next generation of lighting technologies. Under his leadership, AMKO SOLARA exceled in energy efficient lighting within an industry once dominated by global players. Today, AMKO SOLARA is recognized as the renowned integrator of IoT and Big-Data analytics, and also the leading infrastructure investor in smart city/streetlight public-private-partnerships. e latest installation in Dubai is the world’s first smart streetlight with Artificial Intelligence by IBM Watson. Michael is active in many communities, holding positions as the Managing Director at the Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association and Board Director of the Global Lighting Association. His participation at the WTO Environmental Goods Agreement negotiations enabled more communication and cooperation between policy makers and global lighting manufacturers. Michael is a Board Director and Ambassador for LonMark International, a global organization of control and IoT platforms. He also serves as Deputy Secretary for the Harvard Club of Taiwan, the Founder and Curator of TEDxDachi in Taipei, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.Zheng Shengfa acts as the deputy general manager of Zhejiang Plante Electric Co., Ltd., responsible for the daily management of the company, implementing efficient execution and meticulous management. He has served in the domestic well-known automobile manufacturing enterprises for decades, and has a very rich experience in automobile manufacturing and management.www.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1725Richard QuestAnchor & CorrespondentCNNTom ManningChairmanChina Advisory BoardMODERATORSPEAKERQuest is CNN’s foremost international business correspondent and presenter of Quest Means Business, the definitive word on how we earn and spend our money. Based in New York, he is one of the most instantly recognizable members of the CNN team. He has regularly reported from the G20 meetings and attends the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland each year. He has covered every major stock market and financial crisis since Black Monday in 1987 and has reported from key financial centers globally including Wall Street, London, Sao Paulo, Tokyo and Hong Kong. He is also the established airline and aviation correspondent at CNN. He has interviewed all of the major airline executives including Delta CEO Richard Anderson, Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker, AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes and Emirates CEO Tim Clark. His coverage of breaking news which has spanned two decades, has seen him report on a range of stories from the death of Yasser Arafat, the Lockerbie Pan AM 103 crash to the death of Michael Jackson. Prior to joining CNN he worked at the BBC where he was the North American business correspondent based on Wall Street for 12 years. He is a brilliant speaker on business and management issues, full of energy, humor and insights as well as a world class facilitator.Manning is a Fortune 500 board director, corporate advisor, and educator who served as the CEO of companies in Asia, Europe and the United States. In Hong Kong for 17 years, he served as CEO of Cerberus Asia, Indachin, Capgemini Asia, and EY Global Consulting Asia, and Bain & Company (Partner). He is on the adjunct faculty of e University of Chicago Law School, teaching corporate governance, private equity, U.S.-China relations, and innovative solutions. He serves as a director of Dun & Bradstreet, a leading provider of corporate information, where he is Lead Director; CommScope, a leading telecommunications technology company; and, Clear Media, a leading Chinese media company. He is an advisory board member of e Demand Institute, affiliate partner of Waterstone Management, and Chairman of e Chicago Philharmonic. In 2013, he founded e China Advisory Board, a group of China-experienced executives who provide strategic assistance to corporate clients.Manning served as a director of China’s Bank of Communications, Gome Electrical Appliances, AsiaInfo-Linkage Holdings, and iSoftStone. He was an advisor to the World Economic Forum on its Global Agenda for China and a founding director of the Chicago-China Development Corporation. A graduate of Harvard College and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, he is a frequent speaker and op-ed contributor on China, governance, innovation, and private equity across many forums, including Chief Executive, Global Finance, Industry Week, NPR, Financial Times, WSJ, IHT, Journal of Private Equity, and Pepperdine Law Review. PANEL IV Rise of the Robotswww.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1726Amirsan RobertoCEO & FounderWiredInHubert WoVice President & GMARRISSPEAKERSPEAKERAmir`s journey as an entrepreneur took him across 4 continents, 15+ countries in 10 industries, finally realizing the emerging power of IoT, Digital and lately, AI. Since his first startup (Roberto&Co.) in Shanghai that merged, he cofounded a knowledge sharing application called Wonder.Wiki. He then founded WiredIn Inc to reinvent self-branding in a highly competitive market while Robotics and Digital are about to replace repetitive jobs. He acts as a China strategic consultant for WayRay that got funded (18 Million USD) by Alibaba.Dr. Wo serves as Vice President of R&D for ARRIS International, and GM for ARRIS Shenzhen. He helped establish the R&D Center in Shenzhen, which now employs more than 200 people, and has facilitated the transfer of many advanced technologies from USA to China, particularly with advanced communication systems involving CPE, HSD, VOIP, SDV, Service Assurance/Network Management Systems, and Triple Play Services, etc. e DOCSIS CPE products, jointly developed with ARRIS in USA, captured #1 market share in the world with 2016 over 50% share and revenue over $1B.Prior to joining ARRIS, Dr. Wo Spent 28 years in AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked on various advanced communication systems, and led the Access Products localization effort in China, which contributed greatly to the success of capturing market opportunities and business growth around the world.For many years’ Dr. Wo has been an official reviewer for IEEE Spectrum magazine. He is governing board member of the IEEE Industrial Society, specializing in Robotics, Automation, Control Systems, Power Electronics, Nano Machine, etc. He served as President of IEEE/IES in 1992 and 1993, and helped expanded IEEE activities in China and Asia, where he made IES one of the most global societies in IEEE. He has chaired many IEEE International Conferences/Symposia/Workshops around the world. Mr. Wo was a recipient of IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, the Outstanding IEEE/IES Leadership Award in 2010 and the Outstanding Innovative Entrepreneur of China Award 2015.www.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1727Jane LiStrategic Advisor & Operating PartnerDiversis Capital LLCSPEAKERPeter Fuhrman is Chairman & CEO at China First Capital, a Greater China-focused international investment bank and advisory firm. Founded in 2008, China First Capital serves a distinguished group of clients, including industry leaders in China, both private sector companies and SOEs, financial sponsors, as well as global corporations actively expanding within China. Peter’s insights and analysis on China, its economy, capital markets and private equity industry are frequently cited in international media including e Wall Street Journal, e Financial Times, e Economist, e New York Times, e Washington Post, Bloomberg, AVCJ, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, China Daily. His Chinese-language articles also appear in Caijing, 21 Century Business Herald, and Forbes China. Peter first came to China in 1981, part of the first intake of American graduate students. He later completed his Master’s Degree at Cambridge University and worked in Europe and the US, first as a journalist and editor in Europe for Forbes Magazine, then back in the US, as CEO of a California venture capital company, as CEO of an entertainment finance company during its IPO process, and then as founder and CEO of an enterprise security software company that exited through successful trade sale. He relishes the experience of living and working in China. In her over 20 years of experience in the high tech and investment industry, Jane Li has built a strong and successful track record in executive management, strategy development, including M&A strategies, and in marketing and sales leadership. She is an independent director and member of the compensation committee of Semtech, strategic advisor and operating partner for Diversis Capital, on the advisory board for Zadera Storage, and on the growth and acceleration board of Skytap. She also has unique international expertise and Asian/China insights via her extensive executive management experiences with global companies headquartered in US, Japan and China.Jane most recently served as the COO for Huawei Enterprise USA (IT, Cloud, Mobility). Her responsibilities included strategy development and execution, sales, channel development, channel marketing and operations. Before moving to Huawei Enterprise, Ms. Li served as General Manager for Huawei Symantec USA. Her responsibilities included strategy development and execution, marketing, sales, business development, product management, application engineering and customer services for the North American Region.Prior to joining Huawei, Ms. Li was Executive Vice President and General Manager for Fujitsu Compound Semiconductor Inc. (FCSI). At FCSI, Ms. Li managed sales, marketing, business development, operations, customer service, and quality for North America, South America and other international regions.Peter FuhrmanChairman & CEOChina First CapitalSPEAKERPANEL V The Future of FDIwww.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1728Boštjan SkalarExecutive Director & CEOWAIPASPEAKERWAIPA is the umbrella organization of worldwide investment promotion agencies established in 1995 in Geneva with UNCTAD’s initiative. Previously, he served as a Director of Slovenian Public Agency for Promotion of Investment, Internationalization, Entrepreneurship and Tourism (SPIRIT). He is also a former Consul for Economic Affairs in Turkey. He studied in the Faculty of Economics in Maribor where he graduated in marketing. He has effectively managed companies in the automobile sector, the printing industry, worked with cladding materials and worked in the real estate sector where his travels took him to many countries. He has over 20 years of management experience and is one of the global leaders in investment promotion with a private-sector focus.www.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1729Denis MerkwirthVice PresidentConway AdvisoryDr. Laurence C. SmithProfessor & Chair of the Geography DepartmentUCLAMODERATORKEYNOTE SPEAKERSmith has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, essays and books including in the journals Science, Nature, and PNAS, and won more than $9M in research funding from the National Science Foundation and NASA. His research interests include the Arctic, hydrology, satellite remote sensing technologies and climate change. In 2006-2007, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow by the John S. Guggenheim Foundation and in 2007 and 2014, his work appeared prominently in 4th and 5th Assessment Reports of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). More recently, he assisted the National Academy of Sciences with a major report on abrupt climate change, NASA with a new satellite mission to monitor global water resources, and the World Economic Forum with issues of Arctic development. He is frequently invited to give keynote speeches and in 2012, 2014, 2016 was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In 2015, he was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).Denis Merkwirth has been active in the field of foreign direct investment (FDI) for more than 10 years.Denis joined Conway in 2011 after four years at KPMG, where he formed part of a global network of FDI specialists (Global Location & Expansion Services) assisting companies from various industries with their international expansion projects by providing location analysis, site visit and incentives negotiation support. He also supported companies with the implementation of shared services and process optimization programs in the areas of procurement, finance and accounting.In 2017, he took over the leadership of Conway Advisory. Denis develops strategies and action plans and manages lead generation programs for investment promotion agencies worldwide to effectively attract and retain foreign investors. He also publishes articles on investment trends, participates as a speaker at major FDI events and delivers trainings to economic development audiences.Denis has a Master’s Degree in Economics from the Free University in Berlin and the Carlos III University in Madrid. He is a bilingual native German and Russian speaker and is also fluent in English and SpanishPANEL VI Water Wars & Climate ChangeNext >