Kishan Bulusu is the founder and CEO of Botprise and has more than 20 years of leadership experience at both entrepreneurial and established companies.  He holds key executive leadership role at CloudFarbix Software where he leads their Global Sales and Business Development.

Mr. Chen is the former president of HYSTA. He is co-founder and former Vice Chairman & President of VanceInfo, one of the largest China based IT services firms. He oversaw strategy and daily operations between 2001 and 2010. 
 

Dr. Cheng is China Country Director for R20: Regions of Climate Actions, Chaired by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Together with R20 team, members and partners, Dr. Cheng is working with Chinese Central Governments, Subnational Governments, Technology, Policy and Investing Partners to identify and implement the effective low carbon projects in China. He founded Azolar.com, an international multi-facet Internet solar platform to promote international solar business, with other leading partners in solar business. 
 

Mrs. Chiu Bryant is Executive Director of GlobalSF, appointed by San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee and tasked with stimulating economic growth and job creation through bilateral trade and investment between China and San Francisco. 
 

In the past 20 years, he has held various management positions in consulting industry both in the US and China. His consulting expertise is mostly in working with clients on developing strategic organization structures, business processes, and human resource systems.

Ms. Jenny Hsui is a founder of ChinaVest Limited, the first Venture Capital company established in China in the early 1980s   She is one of the most experienced private equity investors in China. With more than 20 years of hands-on business experience in Greater China, Ms. Hsui has seen the development of modern China from its early days in the late seventies to today.  

Tim Kochis has over 42 years of experience in the personal financial and investment planning profession, most recently as CEO and the Chairman of Aspiriant until 2012. He was a founder of Kochis Fitz, one of its predecessor firms and before that, Tim was head of Personal Financial Planning for Deloitte and, before that, for Bank of America.

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Sean Randolph is Senior Director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a public-private partnership of business, labor, government and higher education that works to foster a competitive economy in California and the San Francisco/Silicon Valley Bay Area.

Dr. N. Bruce Pickering is Vice President of Global Programs at Asia Society, overseeing cross-Center program initiatives throughout the organization's global network. Appointed in July 2012, he is based in San Francisco, where has served as Executive Director for Northern California since 2003. 

Mary Teagarden, Ph.D., a professor of global strategy at Thunderbird School of Global Management, is a world-renowned thought leader and educator in the areas of global strategic management and strategic human resource management. 

Jeff Wu has leveraged his 20-plus years of product development, P&L management, globalization strategy, corporate marketing and operation experience in large and small enterprises as the Chief Executive Officer of Symbio, a global leader in innovative IT services.