Xiaoping Chen is the Manager and CEO of Wuhan Chemical Industries Supply and Marketing Co. He has been working for multinational businesses in China for his whole career.
Xiaoping Chen graduated from Hubei University.
K.L. Wong is a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Ltd. He is in charge of Merrill Lynch's investment banking businesses in Hong Kong, including assisting clients with strategic and corporate finance advisory and execution. He is the leader of the Merrill Lynch team advising the Hong Kong Government on the privatisation of MTR Corporation and the team leader in advising the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited in relation to the proposed merger between The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and The Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited.
Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in 1993, he worked in CS First Boston (H.K.) Limited, Standard Chartered Asia Limited, Chemical Bank and Export Credit Insurance Corporation Limited.
K.L. Wong is a graduate of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Indra Nooyi is the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, the world's fourth-largest food and beverage company. She is the fifth CEO in PepsiCo's 42-year history. Prior to being named CEO on Augst 14, 2006, she had been serving as president and CFO since 2001.
According to the polls Forbes magazine conducted, Nooyi ranks fifth on the 2007 list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. In addition, Nooyi has been named the #1 Most Powerful Woman in Business in 2006 and 2007 by Fortune magazine.
Prior to joining PepsiCo in 1994, Nooyi worked at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Motorola and ABB.
Indra Nooyi received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Madras Christian College and immediately entered the PGDBA (Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration) program at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. She also received a master's degree in Management from the Yale School of Management.
Anil K Rajvanshi has been the director of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) at Phaltan, Maharashtra, India since 1981. NARI is a private non-profit NGO working in rural India. It does pioneering work in the areas of agriculture, renewable energy, animal husbandry and environmentally sound sustainable development.
Rajvanshi is also the trustee and honorary secretary of NARI. He has concentrated his efforts for last 25 years on how to use modern science and technology to achieve environmentally sound rural development. Rajvanshi's research has spanned a whole spectrum of areas affecting the lives of rural population including cooking and lighting, small power generation, water purification and effluent treatment through the use of renewable energy in environmentally sound way.
Anil Rajvanshi was born and raised in Lucknow, India. After obtaining B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur in early 1970's, Dr. Rajvanshi went to USA to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the University of Florida at Gainesville, U.S.A. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1979 with specialization in solar energy and then taught at the University of Florida for two and half years before returning to India in 1981 to join NARI.
Martin Tang is currently chairman of global executive-search firm, Spencer Stuart, in Asia.
Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Tang ran another international executive search firm in Hong Kong. He was an executive director of Techno-Ventures (Hong Kong) Ltd., a leading venture capital firm from 1986 to 1988. Early in his career, he was with the Bank of America in San Francisco and Taiwan. He then worked as an executive director of the publicly listed South Sea Textile Manufacturing Co., Ltd., in Hong Kong and Indonesia.
Martin is a trustee of Cornell University, a member of the MIT Corporation and the 112th president of the MIT Alumni Association. Martin has been appointed by the Hong Kong government to a number of positions, and is currently a member of the University Grants Committee and the Professional Services Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.
Martin Tang holds a B.Sc in electrical engineering from Cornell University and an M.Sc from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Prem Das is Director of the Office of Technology Licensing & Industry Sponsored Research at Harvard University. Prior to joining OTL, Prem was Associate Director of the Office of Industrial Affairs at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and was Director of Business Development for Cadus Pharmaceuticals of Tarrytown, NY from 1996 until 1999. He worked with a start-up biotechnology company for several years prior to joining Cadus, first as Director of Research and subsequently as President and acting CEO. He has also worked as a business development consultant in the biochip area.
Prem Das received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the Chemistry Department at MIT and has academic research expertise in several areas of modern biology.
Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman is a Professor of Textile Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Most recently, his group's research has resulted in the realization of the world's first "Wearable Motherboard" or Smart Shirt. This invention led to the startup of the company, SensaTex, in which he serves as Chairman.
Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman received his Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University, in 1984, and the M.Tech and B.Tech degrees from the University of Madras, India, in 1978 and 1976, respectively.