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• President & CEO of Ken Miller Capital, LLC (“KMC”)
• Former Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets and Credit Suisse First Boston
• An active member of the Council on Foreign Relations

• President of Harves Investment Group
• Founder of The Wade Group
• Former Senior Vice President and Head of China Operations at Green Tech Automotive

• President and Chief Executive Officer of Barbara Franklin Enterprises
• An expert in corporate governance, auditing, and financial reporting practices
• The 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce for President George H.W. Bush

• 63rd Superintendent of the US Naval Academy, the nation’s premier leadershipdevelopment institution
• Over 4000 flight hours and command- level leadership at the Squadron, Air Wing, and three higher- level organizations culminating with command of the US FOURTH Fleet.
• Having commanded six times in the military, he has tremendous applied-leadership experience at the highest levels of military and government as well as specialization in strategy and policy development and international affairs.
• Ashore, he had over a decade of service in the Pentagon on multiple tours of duty with the Navy Staff as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During these tours he specialized in strategy and policy development, international affairs, as well as personnel management.

Aliza KNOX was named the IT Woman of the Year (Asia) in 2020, in the top 100 Women in Tech 2021 (Singapore), the AWA Singapore International Business Woman of the Year in 2015, elected to Chief Executive Women (Australia) in … Continued

• Navy SEAL combat veteran
• Successful entrepreneur and expert in leadership and organizational management
• Undergraduate degrees in Finance & Economics, MBA, degrees in English & History from Oxford University
• TV personality
• Philanthropist

• Managing Director of Allison+Partners’ Global China Practice
• Specialist in complex communications challenges from foreign business in China
• Former President and Chief Executive Officer of Wolf Group Asia (WGA)

• Resident Scholar at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
• An expert in international business issues, including competition and cooperation between state and non-state economic entities
• Managing Partner of ChinaLine, LLC

• Author of China Goes West: Everything You Need to Know About Chinese Companies Going Global (Palgrave Macmillan)
• An expert on global branding, and how Chinese companies are reshaping international business
• Managing Director at Frontier Strategy Group
• Member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations

• Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS
• Founding Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS
• Former President, UNSC (Jan 2001 and May 2002)
• Former Permanent Secretary (CEO), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
• Honorary International Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Visiting Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University