Our Advisors
One of ChinaSF’s distinguishing characteristics from similar initiatives in other states and cities, high-caliber private support from the San Francisco and Chinese business community.
ChinaSF has established two advisory boards, one in China and one in San Francisco to provide strategic guidance, networks, and connections to ChinaSF. We have world-class representatives from business, academic, government and non-governmental sectors. The quality of our growing Advisory Boards, together with our active strategic partners will help foster networking and information-sharing opportunities between the prominent business men and women doing business in China and North America.
The ChinaSF Advisory Board
Board Co-chairs:
Phil Ting City of San Francisco Assessor Recorder
Michael Cohen Strada Investments
Members:
Jesse Blout Farallon Capital Management
Richard C.Blum Blum Capital Partners
Kofi Bonner Lennar Urban
Cedric Chao Morrison and Foerster LLP
Hong Chen The Hina Group
Howard Chen K&L Gates
David Cheng Nixon Peabody LLP
Vivien Chou Sutherland Management Company
Carmen Chu San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Dennis Conaghan San Francisco Center for Economic Development
David Coulter Warburg Pincus LLC
Dixon Doll DCM
Mark Edmunds Deloitte
Steve Falk San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
James Fang San Francisco-Shanghai Sister City Committee
Robert Garrett Union Bank
Arthur Gensler Gensler
Henry Hsieh Fluor
Kenneth Jarrett APCO Woldwide
Kewen Jin Charles River Laboratories
Regis Kelly QB3
C. Richard "Dick" Kramlich New Enterprises Associates
David Lonergan BlackRock
Jennifer Matz San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Kelly Fehr HOK
Maggie Mui Wells Fargo Bank
David Nieh Shui-On Land
Tim Paulson San Francisco Labor Council
David Perry David Perry & Associates
William Perry Former Secretary of Defense
Bruce Pickering Asia Society Northern California
Rebecca Quah CB Richard Ellis
Gary Rieschel Qiming Ventures
Ken Ren China Constructino Bank International
Woon-Wah Siu Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Dr. Zhengrong Shi Suntech Power Holdings
George Shultz Former Secretary of State
John (Jack) Wadsworth Morgan Stanley
Fred C. Wang Salon Films, Ltd
Jim Wunderman Bay Area Council
Melinda Yee Franklin United Airlines
Simone Yew Wilmer Hale
Peter "Dicky" Yip Bank of Communication
Shirley Young Committee of 100
Strategic Advisors
Members:
Steve Burrows ARUP
Janie Fong East West Bank
Joe Gillach Noribachi
Tom Gold UC Berkeley China Initiative
Jeffrey Heller Heller-Manus Architects
George Koo Deloitte & Touche LLP
Chris Lehane Fabianni &Lehane
Jeff Nead Glodow Nead
Eve O'Toole Holland & Knight
Anton Qiu TRI Commercial
Peter Ragone PWR LLC
Greg Scott ChinaBio
Orville Schell Asia Society Center on US - China Relations
Skip Whitney GVA Kidder Mathews
Alexis Wong AGI Capital
John Yin Electronic Arts Asia
Jimmy Zhang Synergenics