Discover Your Path to China

Joseph Andersen is the Director of International Government Relations for Alibaba Group, serving as the company’s advocate for Alibaba Cloud and related technologies in the US and internationally. Prior to joining Alibaba Group, he led the government affairs function for Brocade Communications Systems focused on technology issues related to cloud adoption, IoT, smart cities, data center modernization, cybersecurity, and procurement. Before Brocade, he worked as the Director of Environment & Sustainability for the Information Technology Industry Council, the Director of Technology & Innovation Policy for the Telecommunications Industry Association, and the Director of Global Government Relations for Nortel Networks.  Joseph graduated from George Washington University Law School, studied international law at Oxford University, and did undergraduate work at Brigham Young University. Having also been active in local politics, Joseph has served as a city council member, an acting mayor, and on numerous boards and commissions. He lives in Leesburg, Virginia with his wife and three children. 

Associate Professor, Music Dance Theatre. Professor Boothe has been the Artistic Director of the renowned BYU Young Ambassadors since its first visit to China in 1979. He served as director of Light of the World, the 2002 Spectacular presented by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the new LDS Conference Center. Featuring a cast of 1500 singers, dancers and musicians, Light of the World was presented in 17 performances during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. Over 300,000 participated in the audience. In July of 1997, he was the director of the Sesquicentennial Celebration Spectacular, Faith In Every Footstep, featuring a cast of 6,000 performers in BYU’s Cougar Stadium. more

BYU Career Director for Humanities and Family, Home, & Social Sciences. Linda Evans is the full-time Career Director over 2800 Humanities and Social Sciences students at Brigham Young University. She graduated with her B.A. in American Studies and minor in Ballroom Dance from BYU, and earned her M.A. in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University. She developed her Personal Branding presentation while working as a Career Counselor at Columbia University. Linda also has an Advanced Diploma in Coaching from New York University. She was born in China, grew up in Seattle, came to Utah for college, lived in Washington, DC and New York City for graduate school, and moved back to Utah in 2017.

Former Senior Advisor to the Chief Human Resources Officer, Huawei Technologies. Dr. Brad Hall is the former Senior Advisor to Huawei’s Chief HR Officer and Huawei’s Senior HR Professional. His specialty is improving the overseas performance of global companies and their leaders. more

President & CEO, World Trade Center Utah. Miles Hansen is the President and CEO of World Trade Center Utah, an organization dedicated to promoting prosperity across the state by attracting investment and increasing exports. Hansen was most recently the Director for Gulf Affairs at the National Security Council in the White House. Prior to that, he served as a staff aide to the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs. As a diplomat, Hansen was the energy and economic officer at U.S. Consulate General Dhahran in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province where he served as a liaison with Saudi Aramco and advised U.S. government and private sector leaders on the Saudi energy industry and economic reform agenda. He also served tours focused on Iran at U.S. Embassy Yerevan, Armenia and the Iran Regional Presence Office at U.S. Consulate General Dubai. Before joining the State Department as a Thomas R. Pickering Fellow, Hansen started his career in Utah as a Special Assistant in the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. more

Hansen is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Brigham Young University. A speaker of Russian, Farsi and Arabic, Hansen has firsthand experience in more than 70 countries and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Director, BYU Management Society (Taiwan). Philip Ho, a graduate from BYU Provo with a master degree in Organizational Behavior, is also the Vice President of Human Resources at several multinational companies, i.e., Citibank Taiwan, DFS Ltd, Warner Lambert Pharmaceutical Company and Abit Computer. For the last thirty years, Philip Ho has been a senior administrator in corporations with various industries. He will be sharing not only a wealth of experiences at the conference but also bringing a number of ideas and projects to generate internship and job opportunities from Taiwan and, hopefully in the Greater China region to the event. Brother Ho had served as a bishop, a stake president, a temple president in Taiwan and also an Area Seventy for Asia Area of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, NYU Shanghai Global Network Assistant Professor, NYU. Dr. Hunsaker is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at NYU Shanghai, with an affiliation with the Department of Management and Organizations at the Stern School of Business, NYU. His research focuses on emotion in negotiation, particularly the expression and perception of anger during the negotiation process. He has also conducted work in the areas of apology, fairness, ethics and overconfidence. He is proficient in BeGaze eye-tracking software, which he has used in conjunction with his negotiation research. He has presented his research in Asia, Europe, and North America, and teaches college courses on negotiation, organizational behavior, and principles of management.

As the Senior Government Consultant for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Bureau in the Hangzhou Yuhang District of Zhejiang Province, James is responsible for various research, policy, and economic development projects. He has lived in Asia for over 10 years working in the retail, consulting, and now government sectors. He holds a BA in Chinese from BYU, an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management, and a Ph.D. from Zhejiang University in Entrepreneurship Management. James met his wife while she was attending law school at BYU and they are the parents of four children with one on the way.

Manager, 1421 Consulting Group. 1421 Consulting Group (1421) is specialized in supporting Western companies setting up and growing their business in China. Via our one-stop service model, we are able to balance the initial investment needed to discover opportunities and open the Chinese market with expected returns of investment. We use our strong knowledge and network for assisting companies in China. The combination of our Western colleagues with vast experience in China, and our Chinese colleagues with strong understanding of the Western needs and desires, makes us able to assist you in the best possible way.