Jane Chin is a microbusiness entrepreneur/coach and career transition strategist. Dr. Chin applies strategic thinking techniques to help professionals and companies identify the core nucleus of a problem and where viable solutions may reside. She integrates professional development with personal mastery, and writes about fear of success, addiction to approval, backstabbing coworkers, answering the question "what should I do with my life", and various Achilles heel of career professionals. Jane Chin is currently writing a book to help career professionals achieve high performance.
Jane Chin received her B.S. in Microbiology from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry (Oncology) from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Jusheng Peng is the Manager and CEO of Wuhan Zhongsheng Construction Engineering Group Co., Ltd.
Peng was born in to a poor farm family in rural China. He started his business from scratch and has been in the construction engineering business for 20 years.
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.
Shaohua Zhang is Vice General Manager of Wuhan Huixin Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. Founded 15 years ago, his business manages restaurants and invests in education and real estate.
Shaohua Zhang was rewarded by the Chinese government as one of the most promising entrepreneurs in the real estate business who contributed tremendously to the development the Chinese economy.
Shaohua Zhang graduated from Hubei University with a Bachelors degree in Economics.
Jie Wang is the Chief Engineer at Hubei First Electric Power Construction Engineering Company. He has worked in more than 30 different countries for the company.
Jie Wang is a graduate of Wuhan University where he majored in Electric Engineering.
Wei Chen is the President of Hainan Tropical Birds Park. Previously Wei Chen worked in investment banking and big enterprises as investment consultant. About 10 years ago, he invested in and created Hainan Tropical Birds Park which is considered to be one of the best ecological parks in China.
Wei Chen majored in Chinese Literature at Hubei University starting in 1984. He did graduate studies in Chinese culture in Guangxi Normal University in 1988 and holds a PhD in Economics in North East University.
Shuo Liu is the General Manager of Wuhan Golden Pond Entertainment Co., Ltd. He has been running and managing the company for almost 10 years.
Shuo Liu graduated from Wuhan University with a Bachelor degree in Public Management.
Vithala R. Rao is the Deane W. Malott Professor of Management at the Johnson School at Cornell University.
Professor Rao's interests lie in the development and application of analytical models for marketing research and marketing strategy. His publications have dealt with such topics as dynamic pricing; product positioning and product design; application of multidimensional scaling and conjoint models for the analysis of consumer preferences and perceptions; market structure analysis; brand equity; acquisition; and evaluation of subsets of multi-attributed items. He has consulted for various industrial firms and is currently engaged in research on issues associated with preannouncement strategies, price bundling, choices of bundles, resource allocation, and competitive reactions.
Since joining the Johnson School in 1970, he has published nearly 100 articles and five books; most recently (with Joel Steckel) The New Science of Marketing (1995) and Analysis for Strategic Marketing (1998). He received the Johnson School's Exceptional Research Award in 2000-01.
Vithala R. Rao received his PhD from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Khanjan Mehta is a senior research associate in the College of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. His professional interests include innovative system integration, high-tech entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship.
Mehta teaches junior and senior electronic/system design courses at Penn State. He has developed a hands-on course called Sensor and Controller System Integration, which exploits the power of virtual instrumentation to accelerate the idea evaluation and product development processes. He has led social entrepreneurship ventures in Kenya, China, and Tanzania.
In addition, Mehta is involved with the Mashavu Project. Mashavu enables medical professionals around the world to connect with patients in the developing world using modern technology and communications infrastructure.
Khanjan Mehta has an MS in Electrical Engineering from Penn State and a BE in Electronics Engineering and a diploma in Industrial Electronics from the University of Mumbai, India.