DELEGATION BIOS

Robert W. Roche
Director, Acorn International
Chairman, The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai

Robert is an entrepreneur, attorney and investor who has lived in Japan and China for more than 25 years. He moved with his family to Shanghai from Nagoya, Japan in 2004. He is the founder and director of Acorn International, China’s largest TV shopping company with over 2,000 employees, which listed on the NYSE (ATV) in 2007. He is also the founder and Chairman of Oak Lawn Marketing, the largest TV direct marketing company in Japan with over 750 employees, of which a 51% stake was sold to NTT Docomo, Japan’s largest mobile phone operator. After arriving in Shanghai, Robert pointed his entrepreneurship towards the green sector and cofounded the URBN Hotel, the first carbon neutral hotel in China.

Robert was first a member of the Steering Committee and later named a member of the board for the USA Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Robert has also played a leading role in overseas American business communities since 1990, including serving as the Chairman of the AmCham Shanghai Board of Governors for the 2010 calendar year. Previously he also served on the AmCham Shanghai Board of Governors in 2008 and was the chair of the AmCham Shanghai Entrepreneur’s Committee from 2006-2007. Before moving to China, Robert was a Governor of the American Chamber of Commerce Japan from 2000-2004. He was recently named to President Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.

Robert was a member of the Shanghai American School Board of Trustees for two years and a board member of the Nagoya International School. Additionally, Robert was one of three non-U.S. based members of President Obama’s National Finance Committee. He is fluent in Japanese and has intermediate-level competency in Mandarin Chinese.

Phillip E. Branham
Chair, 2010 Washington, D.C. Doorknock
Co-Founder and President, B & L Group, Inc.

Mr. Branham has over 40 years of national and international experience in management, engineering and construction. He has lived and worked in various areas of China since 1997. His business and civic activities include serving as Chairman of the 2004 American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, Past President of the American Society of Plant Engineers in Tucson AZ. and on the International Advisory group for Xuhui and Luwan District in Shanghai.

Mr. Branham enjoys public speaking and working with universities, his international speaking engagements include universities and students from over 12 countries around the world. He is an invited speaker for Keynote speeches at manufacturing industry events and for major US corporations.

Brenda Lei Foster
President
The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai

Brenda Lei Foster assumed the newly created position of President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai in September 2005. Prior to assuming this position she was President and CEO of ULU Group, Ltd., a firm specializing in emerging technologies in the Asia-Pacific region. Ms. Foster has also held the positions of Executive Advisor to the Governor of Hawaii for International and National Affairs, Director of the State of Hawaii’s Office of International Relations, and Executive Director of Hawaii’s World Affairs Council, the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council.

A nationally and internationally respected expert in Asian Affairs with a B.A. and M.A. in Chinese studies from the University of Washington and an M.B.A. from the University of Hawaii, Ms. Foster is a member of several national organizations including the Council on Foreign Relations (NY), the Pacific Council on International Policy (LA), the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the Asia Society, and the U.S. Committee on the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific. Ms. Foster is also on the Board of the USA Pavilion at the Shanghai 2010 World Expo.

Matthew Chervenak
Founder and CEO
General Biologic

Mr. Chervenak is founder and CEO of General Biologic, a Shanghai-based data, consulting, and advisory firm focused on China’s healthcare industry. Since founding GB in 2002, Mr. Chervenak has worked with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and investors to set and achieve goals in China’s rapidly growing healthcare space. He led the creation of SOURCE, China’s leading pharmaceutical data service, the China Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Review, a widely read newsletter, and an audio interview series with China’s healthcare business leaders. Mr. Chervenak has written extensively and is a regular speaker at conferences both in China and the United States.

Previously, Mr. Chervenak worked as a consultant in New York City and conducted molecular biology research at U.S. government and academic institutions.

Benjamin H. Kinnas
Senior Vice President and General Manager
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Shanghai Branch

Ben is General Manager of Wells Fargo Bank’s Shanghai branch. He is concurrently regional manager for trade finance in the Asia/Pacific region. Ben and his family arrived in Shanghai in June 2005, but he began traveling to China in 1992 while serving as general manager of the bank’s Tokyo branch. After a nine-year assignment in Japan, Ben was reassigned to Hong Kong in 1996 where he assumed his current regional responsibilities. He is an experienced emerging markets banker that advocates trade and sensible and appropriate financial markets reform and liberalization in these emerging markets.

Ben serves as Vice Chair of AmCham Shanghai’s Financial Services Committee, is an active member of the Shanghai Bankers Association and also serves on the finance committee of the Shanghai American School. He also supports youth health and education charity programs in China. Ben is an active member of the World Affairs Council in the United States. Ben has a double undergraduate major from University of Maryland and spent two additional years at Sophia University in Tokyo, after which he began his banking career in the United States.

Marie Kissel
Director, Government Affairs and Public Policy
Baxter Asia-Pacific

Marie Kissel was appointed to the position of Director, Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP), Asia Pacific, for Baxter International on May 22, 2006. She is located at Baxter’s Asia headquarters in Shanghai, where she reports to the President of Baxter Asia Pacific, and to Baxter’s VP for Global GAPP. In this position, Marie provides overall Asia Pacific coordination and leadership to Baxter’s government affairs and market access function. As a global, diversified healthcare company, Baxter applies a unique combination of expertise in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to create products that advance patient care worldwide.

Marie was previously Senior Manager, Trade Policy, for DaimlerChrysler Corp. in Washington DC, where she managed company policy for all trade and WTO related issues and coordinated/developed company positions on trade agreements with international government affairs teams based in the US, Europe and Asia. From 1998 thru 2001, Marie headed Asia-Pacific Government Affairs for DaimlerChrysler, based in Singapore. During her Singapore assignment, Marie was elected Chairwoman of the Asia-Pacific Chambers of American Commerce (APCAC) and led AmCham Singapore trade missions to India and Vietnam. Previously, she worked at the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, the US-Japan Business Council and at the US Department of Commerce. At Commerce, she served as Country Desk Manager, Japan Office, and in Import Administration. Marie was part of the Import Administration team awarded the Bronze Medal for Outstanding Federal Service by US Secretary of Commerce.

Marie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government/International Affairs and Japanese Language from University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, and Master of Business Administration from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird), Arizona, USA. She is a native of Princeton, Indiana, USA.

Stephen A. Maloy
General Counsel – Asia Pacific
General Electric Company

Steve is General Electric’s senior legal officer in the Asia-Pacific Region. He has served in that role since 1983, and has been located at various periods in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Steve also served conjointly with this role as General Counsel – GE Medical Systems Asia from 1987-1991 and as National Executive – Malaysia and Brunei from 1991-1993. In 1990, he was responsible for the establishment in Singapore of GE Pacific Pte. Ltd., the holding company for most GE investments in Asia, and continues to serve as a director of the company. Steve also serves as the Vice Chairman of GE China Co. Ltd, GE’s holding company for China. Since October 2009, he has also served as Executive Director – Law and Policy for GE Healthcare China. Over the last 25 years Steve has also been actively involved in the negotiation of many GE investments in China, India, Southeast Asia and Australasia. Steve joined GE directly after finishing law school in 1976 and prior to moving to Asia, worked at various times in GE’s International Trading Operation in New York where he specialized in countertrade, barter and export trade issues, as well as with the Corporate Employee Relations Operation, the Lighting Business Group and the Office of the General Counsel.

He is a graduate of the Cornell Law School (Ithaca, NY) and holds an A.B. (cum laude) in Economics and History from Colgate University (Hamilton, NY). Steve is a member of the bar of the State of Connecticut, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of International Trade and several U.S. District and appellate courts.

Christian Murck
President
The American Chamber of Commerce People’s Republic of China

Christian Murck joined AmCham-China in April 2010 as President. He is also the independent director of J.P. Morgan Chase (China) Ltd. From 2001 to 2010 March, Chris served as Vice Chairman-Asia, Chief Executive Officer-Asia and Managing Director of China for APCO Worldwide. On 2002 Chris was elected Chairman of AmCham-China’s Board of Governors and re-elected the following year. Before joining APCO, he was the Managing Director and Senior Country Officer of The Chase Manhattan Bank for 5 years.

He was previously based in Taipei, where he ran Chase and its predecessor institutions’ Taiwan operations from 1991 to 1996 and was Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan in 1995-1996. From 1980 to 1991, he worked in the international division of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company in New York.

Chris graduated from Yale and then taught for two years at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He subsequently received a doctorate in East Asian Studies at Princeton University, and was a Mellon Fellow at Columbia University before becoming a banker. During his doctoral research, he spent two years as a Research Fellow at the University of Kyoto in Japan. He is a current trustee and former Chairman of the Yale-China Association.

James Rice
CEO
CSM nv China

James Rice serves as Vice President of the Dutch food company CSM nv and CEO for the company’s operations in Greater China. He joined the company in March 2010 and has been in China since 1987. His career in China included roles as Plant Manager, Sales Director, and General Manager with a leading consumer products companies. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and on the Advisory Board of the University of Southern California Global Executive MBA Program, and as the Harley-Davidson Group Shanghai Chapter’s Road Captain. James earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

CSM is the world’s leading Bakery Supplies and Lactic Acid business. CSM operates worldwide and generates annual sales of €2.6 billion and has a workforce of 8,430 employees in 25 countries.

Francesco Sirna
Chief Financial Officer
Citi China

Frank is the Chief Financial Officer of Citi China, responsible for all Finance functions across the China-wide franchise, including four operating Legal Vehicles.

Frank began his career as an auditor with KPMG, joining Citi in 1989 in Milan, Italy. He has held various senior positions in Finance in the Corporate and Consumer Banks at country level and at the regional level. He has spent his Citi career in the Emerging Markets, working in Milan, Madrid, Bangkok, Miami and now Shanghai. Prior to moving to China Frank was located in Miami, Florida as Regional CFO for 18 countries in Latin America, including the operations in the Caribbean, Central America and Andean Regions, with responsibility for all Citi franchises in these countries.

Frank is a U.S. Certified Public Accountant with undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin.

Timothy P. Stratford
Partner
Covington & Burling

Tim Stratford is a partner in the firm’s Beijing office and a member of the International Trade, Intellectual Property and Government Affairs Practice Groups. Mr. Stratford’s practice is focused on advising international clients doing business in China, as well as on assisting Chinese companies seeking to expand their businesses globally. As a former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, Mr. Stratford will be the most senior former US trade official to join the US business community in China. He is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese.

During his tenure at USTR, Mr. Stratford was responsible for developing and implementing U.S. trade policy toward Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Mongolia. He worked closely with senior US and Chinese officials from numerous government departments and agencies to address problems encountered by companies engaged in bilateral trade and investment, and co-chaired a number of important bilateral working groups and dialogues established under the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade and the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue.

Prior to his work at USTR, Mr. Stratford worked professionally in China for more than 25 years, including as General Counsel for General Motors’ China operations, where he was a member of its senior management team in China and oversaw the company’s legal and trade policy work in the region. Mr. Stratford also served previously as Minister-Counselor for Commercial Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, and as Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.

Steven Tseng
Chair
AmCham Shanghai Tax Committee

Steven Tseng is an active member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and the chair of its Tax Committee. Steven served as the lead partner/ lead economist for several hundred global transfer pricing, business transformation, valuations and post merger integration projects around the world. Steven’s clients cover almost all industries including energy, financial services, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, machinery, consumer goods and non-profitable associations. Steven is a frequent public speaker and contributor of articles on transfer pricing, valuations and globalization. Steven has also conducted several technical trainings for the tax authorities on transfer pricing throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Steven was KPMG’s Asia Pacific Regional Managing Partner of Global Transfer Pricing Services as well as its China Transfer Pricing Leader. He led over 450 full time transfer pricing specialists in the region from 2005 to 2010. Prior to moving to China in 2005, Steven was the partner in charge of Financial Advisory Services of KPMG in Finland and a member of its Executive Board. Before KPMG, Steven worked for the Federal Reserve Board (DC), PricewaterhouseCoopers (DC, Tokyo, Boston), and Goldman Sachs (New York). He obtained an MBA from Dartmouth and is also an accredited senior appraiser (ASA) of the American Society of Appraisers.

Benjamin Wang
Chief Operating Officer, The Jinlin Group
Chairman, AmCham Southwest China

Benjamin Wang is the Chief Operating Officer of the Jinlin Group, based in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. He also serves as the Chairman of the Coffee Beanery Chengdu, Ltd. Since 2005, he has served as the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Southwest China. He holds a Bachelor of Chemistry from the Shanghai University of Science and Engineering’s Huadong Chemistry Institute as well as an MBA in international trading and management from the California State University, San Francisco.