Monday, May 29, 2006

The Team

  • The Management Team
    Vida Zhang Fargis – President
    Bing Wei Edwards – President, US Operation
    Pearl Lin Ulrich – Vice President
    Xiaohua Song – Treasurer
    Crystal Lu – Fund Raiser/Grant Writer
    Dong Ling Li – Web Master
    Boying Hao – China Program Coordinator

    The Contributors
    Helen Wang
    - Founder and CEO of e-Mobilizer
    Jackie You Kazmerzak – Co-founder of CAEA
    Laurent Guinand - President and Founder of GiraMondo Associates LLC
    Lisa Spivey – Director at a cross – culture training and consulting company
    Liwei Huang– Director of Marketing at an Aviation Financing Company
    Paul Fargis – Former President of The Stonesong Press in New York

  • The Advisory Committee
    Carlo Schmed - General Manager of Crowne Plaza International, based in Jinan, Shandong, China.
    Beth Fargis-Lancaster - Executive Producer of Vassar College and New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater, based in New York.
    Laurent Guinand - President and Founder of GiraMondo Associates LLC, based in Washington, Laurent, a native of France, developed innovative tools derived from strategy consulting to enhance the wine tasting experience and is currently writing a book on the economics of wine.
    Linda C.Y. Pei - President and Founder of Women's Equity Fund, the only women's equity fund in the world, based in San Francisco
    Lisa Spivey –Cross-cultural training coach fluent in Mandarin. Lisa conducts training for executives of American corporations of Chinese etiquettes/culture for their China operations, and is based in San Francisco.
    Pamela Yatsko - author of New Shanghai (published by John Wiley & Sons in 2000). Pamela was the Bureau Chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review, and stationed in Shanghai in the late 1990s. She is currently a full-time freelance writer based in San Francisco.