Confirmed Presenters (updated Nov. 1, 2006)

• Janet Carmosky, Founder/President, China Prospects Inc.
• Steve Dickinson, Attorney, Harris & Moure PLLC
• Frank T. Gallo, President, Calypso Consulting Inc. &
  Senior Adviser, Hewitt Associates LLC
• Steve Ganster, Founder/Managing Director, Technomic Asia
• Larry Hotaling, Principal & Managing Director, Global Diligence Ltd.
• Shafique Janmohamed, VP - Supply Chain Management, United Plastics Group Inc..
• Frances Moore-Jones, VP - Products, Townsend Polymer Services & Information.
• Ann Liotta, Corporate VP - Human Resources & Organizational Development, Nypro Inc.
• Howard Rappaport, Global Practice Leader - Thermoplastics, Chemical Market Associates Inc.
• Peter K. Shelton, Partner, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP
• Yanping Wang, Associate & Attorney at Law, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP
• Jonathan J. Woerner, VP - Asia Operations, Milacron Inc.
• Xinyu Frank Zhao, Compounding Engineer, Ticona Engineering Polymers

She not only has years of experience as an advisor to international firms -- as a strategy consultant at Coopers & Lybrand Shanghai, as an executive at a private equity fund, and as director of the public relations agency Burson-Marsteller in Shanghai -- but also brings the perspective of a senior executive of an operating business. She has been a revenue-responsible senior manager in China-based sourcing, retail, Internet and systems integration businesses. Moreover, with both formal education in Chinese history (B.A. in Chinese Studies, University of Pennsylvania) and the experience of spending 18 years married to a PRC-born businessman, she has spent decades living fully immersed in the society, economy and culture of mainland China during its years of rapid growth. As a result, she is well-qualified to comment on enterprise, sector, and psychological aspects of the U.S.-China economic relationship. She speaks frequently and her written work has been published in The Economist, Harvard Business Review, China Business Review and numerous trade publications.

As an associate professor of law, he taught a program on cross-border contract negotiation and did extensive research in the practical application of intellectual property law in China. On the Chinese side, Dickinson was the first attorney invited to teach in China by an independent Chinese Bar Association and he continues to lecture frequently in China regarding international law issues. Dickinson has also served as a guest lecturer (in Chinese) for the intellectual property law program at the Beijing University School of Law. He also contributes to the firm's China Law Blog.

The retired president and managing consultant for Watson Wyatt, China, he has more than 30 years of management and human resources experience in both China and the United States. He has worked with commercial companies as well as with nonprofit and governmental organizations. Clients have included various sized organizations in diverse industries - from Alcoa, Cabot Corp., and Mitsubishi to China Construction Bank, China Mobile, Sinopec and TCL.

Gallo is a professor at the Beijing Capital University of Economics and Trade. Since 2003 he has been the chair of the HR Forum of the American Chamber of Commerce.

For most of the 1990s, he was with the Hay Group in Boston, New York and Atlanta. Prior to Hay, Gallo was an HR executive at Wang Laboratories, where he specialized in the design and measurement of reward programs. For six years he was president of Gallo Associates Inc., a management and marketing consulting firm.

Gallo holds a bachelor's degree from Hofstra University and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the Center for Applied Social Science at Boston University.

Ganster also is the author, with colleague Kent Kedl, of the recent book "The China Ready Company." Both Technomic Asia and the book offer a descriptive model and a prescriptive methodology for executives to objectively determine whether or not their company is "ready" to pursue a China initiative, and how best to do so.

Ganster has broad industry experience including automotive, building materials, consumer packaged goods, chemicals, healthcare, packaging and many other industrial sectors. Prior to joining Technomic in 1978, he worked for rotary screw compressor maker Sullair Corp., a division of Sundstrand Corp., in international marketing and sales. Ganster has a bachelor of arts degree in economics and English literature from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and an MBA from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management in Glendale, Ariz.

His Asian experience has included serving as executive vice president of international for Flextronics Enclosures Systems, a unit of Singapore-based contract manufacturer Flextronics International Ltd. In that role, he had responsibility for 4,000 employees and US$350 million in sales of telecom infrastructure and computer equipment. Hotaling has worked in Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, India and China. Within China he has identified and closed acquisitions in Guangdong and Jiangsu Provinces, established a large, greenfield factory in Suzhou, has recruited management teams and managed various operations.

Via Global Diligence, Hotaling offers strategic and tactical planning, financial modeling and task-force execution for U.S. companies wishing to enter the Chinese or Indian markets. The firm's activities have included establishing legal entities, identifying and valuing acquisition candidates, establishing factories and management teams, developing supply chains, creating strategic partnership agreements as well as sourcing and design centers, and overseeing various manufacturing programs.

Global Diligence has become increasingly active in India, where it helps clients to establish sourcing and design centers as well as alliance partners. Hotaling assists Western firms with identifying reliable product, part and mold/tool design services on the subcontinent. When not in China or India, Hotaling now resides in Naples, Fla.

UPG, a contract manufacturer and injection molder with $170 million in annual sales, operates 11 plants — three in China (all in Suzhou, with 140,000 square feet of combined manufacturing space), three in Mexico, a small facility in Europe, and four U.S. plants. The firm opened its first China plant in 2001.

Prior to joining UPG, Janmohamed served as managing director and relationship manager for Citigroup/Citibank Chicago, where he managed a multibillion-dollar portfolio of largely Fortune 100 companies in the Midwest. He has also worked at Continental Bank in Chicago and served in the U.S. Air Force.

Janmohamed holds a bachelor of science degree in finance from Utah’s Brigham Young University and an MBA in finance and investments from Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.

Since joining the Houston-based consulting company in 2002, Moore-Jones successfully launched the Plastic Market Monthly China edition, the China Plastic Review and the Asia expansion of the Plastic Buyer Profiles online database. She also oversees the firm's Market Share Reports for detailed competitive intelligence.

Moore-Jones assists clients strategically in Asia by helping them to identify and research acquisition targets, plastic suppliers, buyers, distributors and traders throughout the region.

Working in the chemical and plastics industries since 1992, she spent eight years with ICIS-LOR, an information provider to the chemical and plastics industries, as sales and marketing manager for the Americas. Following that, as a director at SalvageSale, she developed a profitable chemicals and plastics online marketplace for product resulting from insurance claims.

Moore-Jones holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the Jones School of Rice University in Houston.

Prior to joining Nypro, Liotta was VP of human resources and corporate services for Avid Technology Inc., a $400 million global manufacturer of digital editing and professional audio systems. She gained global experience working for such companies as Eastman Kodak Co., Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc., Motorola Inc. and Data General. Liotta holds a bachelor of arts degree from Boston College.

Rappaport collaborates with CMAI's European, Asian and Middle East offices to contribute to the Monomers Market Report, Global Plastics & Polymers Report and World Polyolefins Analysis, as well as various single-client studies for CMAI's proprietary services division. With 25-plus years of plastics and polymers experience, he also helped develop CMAI's first Plastics Processors Conference in 2004. In 2005, he led efforts to publish the World Plastics & Polymers Review, a multiclient study reviewing the world markets for polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, EPS, PVC and PET resins.

Prior to joining CMAI, Rappaport held various plastics industry management-level positions in commercial development, business management, product management, sales/marketing, and customer service. Pas company affiliations included American Hoechst - Huntsman Chemical, Webster Industries, Cain Chemical - Occidental Chemical, Himont - Montell Polyolefins, and Westlake Polymers.

Shelton provides day-to-day representation to multiple privately held businesses. Other general corporate counsel services he provides include contract drafting and negotiation; and counsel on joint ventures, partnership agreements, and shareholder agreements. As co-chair of the China Group, he assists clients with China-related transactions and business matters. Shelton has traveled to many regions in China with and on behalf of clients.

He received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Colorado in 1984 and his law degree from Cleveland State University in 1993.

A prolific author, Wang published several books and articles regarding Chinese commercial law, contracts and property law while she lived in China. She is a frequent speaker on legal translations and various aspects of doing business in China.

She earned a bachelor of laws degree with honors at the Political Science & Law University of China in 1991, and then three years later earned a master of laws degree in civil and commercial law from Renmin University of China in Beijing. In 2000 Wang received a juris doctor degree from the University of Kansas School of Law.

Woerner also serves as chairman of two Asian joint ventures -- Ferromatik Milacron India Ltd., which is that country’s largest manufacturer of plastics machinery; and Milacron Plastics Machinery (Jiangyin) Co. Ltd., a Chinese venture formed two years ago with Jiangnan Mould & Plastic Technology Co. Ltd. The Chinese JV shipped its first injection press from the Jiangyin plant in April 2005.

Woerner began his career in 1967 with General Motors Corp.’s Automotive Components unit, and was managing director of Mexican operations when he left that post in 1995. He then joined interiors group of Magna International Inc. as VP of operations, and held that job for seven years, till joining Milacron in Batavia, Ohio, near Cincinnati.

Throughout his career, Woerner has helped launch new facilities in the United States, Mexico, Great Britain, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic and China, and has closed or restructured plants in the U.S., U.K. and Germany. He also led the acquisition of a $600 million U.S. public company, and has served on the boards of joint-venture firms in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, India and China.

Woerner earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from General Motors Institute in 1972, and his MBA from Wayne State University, also in Detroit, five years later. A six-year member of the U.S. Army Reserves, he also has served as a global leader in implementing the Six Sigma process while at Magna.

Zhao has a Ph.D. degree from Rice University in Houston and a master's degree from East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai, both in chemical engineering. He has won the Science & Technology Progress Award from the Ministry of Education of China, the Promotion of Chemical Technology Award from the former Ministry of the Chemical Industry of China, and the Science and Technology Progress Award from the city government of Shanghai. Zhao has published more than a dozen articles in scientific and professional journals, and speaks frequently at international conferences.

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