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Jenny Yao has over twenty years of international management experience in the life science and healthcare industry
Before joining KPMG, Jenny was an Associate Director of Operations at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. Jenny was involved in setting up a new hospital in Shandong Province, China before doing her MBA at Imperial College London.

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Helen Chen is a Managing Director of L.E.K. Consulting based in Shanghai. She is the head of the China office and sat on L.E.K.’s Global Leadership Team, the firm’s governing board, since 2012. Helen has over 25 years of consulting and industry experience in the U.S. and Asia, and has resided in China since 2000.

Helen is the head of L.E.K.’s China life sciences practice, with extensive case work and industry experience covering the full biopharmaceutical and medtech value chain, ranging from early research services to post-market product positioning and sales force effectiveness.

She is a frequent speaker and author on the opportunities and issues in the China healthcare and life sciences, and has been quoted by publications including BioCentury, BioWorld, In Vivo, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Forbes Asia.

Prior to joining L.E.K., Helen held senior management roles at a number of technology companies in the U.S. and China. She was an associate director of finance at Genentech and a sales planner at Abbott Laboratories. She is on the organising committee for the Medtronic Sequoia Fund, and was on the Board of Pharmaceutical Management Sciences Association from 1995 to 1997.