Head, Corporate Finance China, PwC, Shanghai, China

Linda Cai is the head of PwC Corporate Finance China with approximately 20 years of experience in lead M&A advisory. She serves both multinational and domestic clients in consumer products, industrial products, agriculture, healthcare, infrastructure and energy. She holds a Master of Commerce degree in Finance from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is also a charterholder of CFA®.

Global, Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Leader, PwC, Shenzhen, China

Director for China and Drucker Relationships, Peter F. Drucker School; former Associate Researcher, Shenzhen University; stars Alumna, Shenzhen, China

Virginia Cheung is the Director for China and Drucker Relationships at the Peter F. Drucker School of Management and a former Associate Researcher at Shenzhen University. She holds a PhD in Management and an EMBA from the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School at Claremont Graduate University. Virginia specializes in integrating Western and Eastern thought leadership, with a focus on leadership, management, and effective societies. Her comparative research explores alternative management philosophies, with a unique emphasis on bridging Peter Drucker’s management principles and Confucianism.
She co-authored "Creating the Organization of the Future" and its Chinese counterpart with renowned Peter Drucker Chair Professor Bernard Jaworski. Virginia also holds a Master’s in Law and Economics from the University of Hamburg and a degree in Economics from the University of Bradford. In addition to her academic career, she has held leadership roles at Phoenix Satellite Television and Siemens AG and served on the boards of Chinese high-tech startups. Her cross-cultural expertise and industry experience enable her to deliver innovative, practical management solutions that address global challenges. Virginia is passionate about advancing management thinking by fostering collaboration across disciplines, industries, and cultures.

Co-Founder and Financial Journalist, The Market, Zurich, Switzerland

Mark Dittli is a journalist and author in Zurich, specializing in financial markets and global economics. He is Co-Founder and Financial Journalist of The Market, a new financial media platform that was launched in April 2019. The Market publishes in-depth analytical and background articles as well as interviews on companies, global industry trends and macroeconomic issues. From 2012 to 2017, Mark was the editor-in-chief of Finanz und Wirtschaft, Switzerland’s leading financial newspaper. Prior to that, he was the editor of the international section of Finanz und Wirtschaft and has spent five years as the U.S. correspondent of the paper in New York, covering economic and monetary policy as well as company issues. Mark has studied business economics in Zurich, journalism in New York and is a CFA charterholder. He is currently pursuing a Masters degree in history at the University of Zurich. Mark is married, has two children and lives in Zurich.

John LO, CFO, Tencent, Shenzhen, China

Founder and Executive Chairman, stars Foundation, Weinfelden, Switzerland

• 2014 – present: Executive Chairman and Founder of the stars Foundation Board, Weinfelden, Switzerland
• 2008 – 2014: Chairman and Co-Founder of the stars Foundation Board, Weinfelden, Switzerland
• 1994 – 2016: Member of the Board of UBS Wolfsberg and Congress Hotel Seepark AG
• 1994 – 2014: CEO, UBS Wolfsberg. Emphasis on Business Development, i.e. initiating, supervising, and conducting UBS Briefings, UBS Health Forum, UBS Arts Forum, UBS Study Trips, UBS Think Tanks, Wolfsberg Podium (www.wolfsberg.com)
• 1981 – 1994: Various responsibilities for UBS Management and Executive Development, Member and Chairman of the Board of UBS Art Collection
• Concurrently: Member of the Board of various companies and foundations in Switzerland

Art Collector, Business Leader, Former Swiss Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, North Korea and Mongolia, Mauensee, Switzerland

Uli Sigg in his career traversed very diverse fields: from journalism to industry to diplomacy as Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea and Mongolia to venture capital investing and to art. He served on various boards of global companies.He currently is a member of the Advisory Board of China Development Bank and an active investor and board member in several tech ventures. Of his extensive interactions in more than forty years with  the PR China, two are of historic significance: to establish 1980 the first industrial joint venture between the PRC and the outside world which marks the beginning of the PRC‘s epochal globalization process; and to form the singular collection of Chinese contemporary art that can represent the story line from its beginnings in the 70ies to the present -  and then restituting 1500 works back to China, to the M+ Museum in Hongkong. He also established 1997 the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) for Chinese contemporary artists living in Greater China, now transformed into the SIGG PRIZE. He is a member of the M+ Museum Board, the International Council of New York Modern Art Museum MOMA, International Advisory Council of Tate Gallery, London and member of the Board of Kunstmuseum Zürich.

China Central Tax Leader, PwC China, Shanghai, China

Alan Yam is a Partner of China Tax and Business Advisory Services at PwC China based in Shanghai and is the China Practice Leader for Automotive Industry and Consumer and Industrial Products for tax practice. He began his career in Hong Kong in 1990 and was seconded to Shanghai in 1994. He has been a Partner since 2000.

During his professional years, Alan has developed extensive experience in providing tax, restructuring and business consultation to many major US and European multinational OEM and Tier 1 automotive clients investing in China. He has been seconded to work for two years as the tax manager at a major US automotive entity with multiple 50/50 JV in China.

Alan was voted as a top tax advisor for three consecutive years for Mainland China and Hong Kong in surveys conducted by the International Tax Review. In the recent International Poll Survey for 2008 announced by International Tax Review, Alan was the only China tax advisor named by respondent tax directors as being highly regarded.

Alan received his Bachelor of Business Administration (Professional Accountancy) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and he obtained his Master of Business Administration from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in Illinois. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants.