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Stanley Chao
Stanley has bridged the U.S. - Asia gap for numerous Fortune 500 and start-up firms. Stanley built a $500MM USD business in Japan from scratch while reporting to Masayoshi Sohn, CEO and President of Softbank, and John Tu, President and co-founder of Kingston Technologies. As Director for Philips Electronics, Stanley built the SE Asia and China network including sales, production and sourcing. Stanley earned an MBA from UCLA, engineering degrees from Columbia and University of Pennsylvania and is fluent in Mandarin and Japanese. Stan has extensive International experience and is well versed in operations, sales, product development and marketing. Stanley's recent book Selling to China has been published in leading periodicals and advisors major companies and governments globally.

Tom Magee
Tom has advised over 100 CEO and management teams on corporate strategy, finance, performance and program management and transactions. He has worked with many leading corporations like HP, Cisco, VISA, Nokia, Kaiser, McKesson, CV Therapeutics, and EPRI. He has held Board, CFO, Acting COO/CFO roles for small and mid market firms including numerous acquisitions and exits in the US and Europe. Tom held executive and management positions with EY Capital Advisors in Palo Alto, Senior Fellow EY/Cisco, VP Finance/M&A for a $1.3BN public firm and Accenture Strategic Services and British Petroleum among others. He has an MBA from UCLA and BS in Bus Economics, summa cum laude, from Fordham University.