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Bettina Schoen-Behanzin entered Freudenberg Group in October 2012. As Regional Representative Asia she has been leading the Regional Corporate Center, based in Shanghai, China and is providing guidance and support for strategic planning and business development for the Freudenberg Business Groups in the region. From March 2008 to September 2012 she served as Managing Director of Wittur Elevator Components, China. She assumed the role of Managing Director of Rittal Electro-Mechanical Technology, China from 2000 to 2008, after having been the General Manager of Rittal in China as well as Sales and Marketing Manager of Rittal in Singapore. She had joined the Rittal Headquarters in Germany in 1992.

Bettina Schoen-Behanzin has acquired a Master degree in Sinology, Business Economics and Political Science at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany. Furthermore, she did Post-Graduate Studies of Chinese and Economics at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Speaking Chinese fluently, Bettina Schoen-Behanzin has around 25 years of working experience in Asia, mostly in China, leading operational business as well acting in corporate functions. From April 2014 to April 2016 she served as Director of the Board of the German Chamber Shanghai, being reelected in April 2016 and April 2018 as President of the Board of the German Chamber Shanghai. In 2019, she was the first German woman to receive Shanghai Municipal Government’s Magnolia Gold Award.

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Mrs. Wu Min works as Head of Technology of Nokia Shanghai Bell, and has over 15 years of experience in Telecommunication Industry. She started her career from a system engineer in Nokia after graduated from New York State University at Stony Brook. And with strong self-learning capabilities, she’s taken multiple roles step by step in the career path, like Innovation project manager, Solution Sales expert and then the current role of Head of Technology. Her expertise areas cover wireless telecommunications, cloud & service platforms, big data analysis, and AI/ML, etc. With a good business acumen, she’s also been actively involved into technology & market strategy consulting to the high-level management of Nokia and local operators like CMCC and CTC. She is now the member of “Nokia Global Women Leadership Forum” and “European Chamber Cross-Industry Mentorship Initiative”.

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Olivia Jingshu Ji is an excellent business leader and serial entrepreneur, and the recipient of “The Youngest COO in China” award from Business Week Magazine. She has also gained similar recognition from other global social media. She has abundant management experience in the innovation of technology and product development, market creation, capital operation, and more.
Olivia was recognized as one of the “Global Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs” at the 2017 Global Conference on Women and Entrepreneurship founded by Jack Ma. As the founder and President of Glue Up (Formerly EventBank), she has guided Glue Up to become an outstanding global ToB SaaS company with ToB clients across 60 countries, 14 regional offices around the world, and excellent teams consisting of technical expertise from 20 countries. In 2017, Glue Up won the “Greater Washington Innovation Awards” hosted by the most authoritative IT research firm—Gartner.
Olivia completed her Masters course in Economics at The University of Sydney and was a recipient of the “Vice-Chancellor's Achievement Awards 2018” as an outstanding alumni. Due to a great enthusiasm for public welfare, she co-founded the Beijing Hefeng Art Foundation with elites from the fields of finance and art in order to aid art education in rural areas. Moreover, she founded the Olivia Jingshu Ji Prize—the first scholarship that is named after a Chinese person in Australia.

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Ms. Yao Yao, a core member of the management team in China, has extensive experience in the field of digitalization. She has established a high-end digital transformation and delivery team around the retail, automotive, finance, and other industries for the world’s top retail enterprises, large national banks and financial organizations. She has provided services such as digital strategy consulting, digital experience, large-scale legacy system transformation, middle-platform construction etc. She has created an IoT smart logistics system, a high-performance mobile development platform, a big data central control marketing data platform, and a middle platform for a global localization business, to accelerate the realization of value of the digital transformation for top customers in the industry.
Yao Yao has also long been focused on the establishment of the organization’s digital talent system and promoted the construction of organizational culture and the nurturing of leadership. She has also actively promoted the development of women in science and technology and workplace equality; cooperation with external organizations; and the female leadership training system pioneered by Thoughtworks to the external female executive community. Furthermore, she has repeatedly launched initiatives in women’s development forums such as the United Nations and consulates. In 2020, she was selected to be on the Forbes Women in Science and Technology list and represented Thoughtworks to receive the UN Women’s 2020 Asia Pacific “Women Empowerment Principles” (WEP) award.

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Ines Liu is a Senior Manager at Dezan Shira & Associates' Beijing office and a member of the International Business Advisory team. She advises foreign investors on market entry strategy, corporate structuring, cross-border tax issues, and FDI-related legal and tax considerations.

Before joining Dezan Shira & Associates, Ines acquired extensive auditing and assurance experience working at PwC, and managed investor relations for China-based U.S. IPOs while working at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. She has also practiced in specific areas of auditing, financial and corporate communications, and general accounting and management consulting.

Ines holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA from Macquarie University Graduate School of Management in Australia.