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Symposium on improving China business strategy
MEDIA ADVISORY
16 July 2013
Symposium on improving China business strategy
A Wellington perspective on doing business in China will feature in an upcoming symposium co-hosted by Victoria Business School, New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre and Wellington City Council.
Two visiting China business experts, Associate Professor Yuhuang Zheng (Tsinghua University, Beijing) and Patrick Chovanec (Managing Director and Chief Strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management, New York), will talk about the latest academic research and insights on marketing in China and attracting investment from China.
This will be followed by panel discussions featuring Wellington experts on China:
• Gerard Quinn, Chief Executive, Grow
Wellington
• John McKinnon, Executive Director,
Asia New Zealand, former New Zealand Ambassador to China
• Tony Alexander, Chief Economist, BNZ
•
Vallen Han, Asia Marketing Director, New Zealand Post
• Rhys Griffiths, Velvet Marketing Manager, Deer
Industry New Zealand
• Ian Douglas, founder of The
Village Goldsmith, and co-founder of The Inspired Collection
Speaker information
Yuhuang
Zheng
Yuhuang Zheng is Associate Professor
of Marketing at the School of Economics and Management,
Tsinghua University, Chair Professor for the Marketing Case
Analysis Executive Program, and teaches the
Tsinghua-CEIBS-Harvard, Tsinghua-IFM-HEC, China CEO, and
many other executive programmes. He also provides consulting
and executive training services for many large corporations
and institutions such as Bank of China, Beijing
International Airport, BMW, and China
Mobile.
Patrick
Chovanec
Patrick Chovanec is Managing
Director and Chief Strategist at New York-based Silvercrest
Asset Management, which manages $13.5 billion in investments
on behalf of wealthy families and selected institutions. His
insights into the global economy have been featured by both
Chinese and international media, he has worked for several
private equity funds focused on China, and advised numerous
investment funds, Fortune 500 corporations, and
governments.
Wellington China Business Symposium
2013: Improving China Business Strategy Venue:
Icon, Level 2, Te Papa, Wellington
Date:
30 July 2013,
2–5.30pm
Cost: $59+GST by 5pm,
16 July or $79+GST – media welcome to attend free of
charge
Register at the event website: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/china-symposium-2013
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