Russell S Johnson: BA/MBA Harvard University. Mr. Johnson has been involved with manufacturing industrial products in China since 1980. He has worked with State Owned Enterprises (SOE), Township Village Enterprises (TVE) and private companies, implementing quality control procedures, improving manufacturing processes and instituting accounting controls. By entering into manufacturing in China at such an early stage his firm, by necessity, developed a strong capability in supply chain management and logistics. From a foundation based on precision machining and fabrication of stainless steel and injection molding of high-performance, engineering thermal plastics (and the tooling to support them), Mr. Johnson's firm has developed an array of products that meet or exceed the highest international standards. In conjunction with his work in Chinese manufacturing, Mr. Johnson has created multi-tiered distribution in the United States: selling a product line consisting of 1500 SKUs via catalog, and more recently over the Internet, directly to 5000 end-users nationwide, as well as selling to distributors and OEMs. In 2000, the catalog division was sold and the company refocused on wholesale distribution. The firm supplemented its Chinese manufacturing base with vendors of electrical, silicone and rubber components in the United States and Europe.

Mr. Johnson has been an adviser to the Harvard Business School's Asian Research Center on manufacturing in China, lectures widely on Chinese business and economic development, and assists Western firms on sourcing and manufacturing. In recent years, his interests have broadened to include marketing and distribution within China. (Click for Speeches)
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Li Qinren: BS in Physics, Anhui University. Mr. Li worked first for Tiajing Electronic Instrumentation Plant from 1964 to 1971; then for the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) from 1971 to 1996 in various capacities, including Chief Engineer for Marine Navigation Instrumentation and Head of Business Development on such diverse products as gyroscopes, electronic meters and missile guidance systems. From 1987 to 1989 he worked with a team of engineers from MIT at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, Massachusetts developing a new generation of aeronautic gyroscopes.

Since 1996, Mr. Li has been in charge of China Array's stainless steel business, where, among other tasks, he initiated, implemented and managed quality control and supply chain systems for the company. He now serves as General Manager of China Array Wuhan Plastics overseeing all aspects operations at the Wuhan, China plant. He also continues to manage Quality Control at the plastics and stainless steel factories. He is fluent in Chinese and English.
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Carl Olson, Vice President Sales & Marketing, spent 23 years in various capacities at GE Plastics in the development of high performance thermoplastic. During his last 15 years at GEP he was an Applications Development Engineer for high performance thermoplastics including, among others, UltemTM (GEP’s flagship HPTP), Supec PPS, Valox PBT and Lexan Polycarbonate. Mr. Olson’s emphasis while at GEP was in the area of Commercialization and Marketing of HPTP covering Aerospace, Medical Devices, E/E, Foodservices, Automotive, Bottling and other key markets. Subsequent to GEP, he served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at two separate HPTP molding companies directing their expansion into the medical and biomedical industries, the commercial building elevator market, as well as the automotive and aerospace industries. In addition to traditional sales and marketing, Mr. Olson developed strategic partnerships with suppliers to expand market share, and pioneered the use of comprehensive informational, interactive web sites: a tool he would continue to perfect in his capacity of Marketing Manager for Plastics Technologies Laboratory Inc. (PTLI), one of the premiere plastics testing labs in the world—see hppt://www.ptli.com. While at PTLI, Mr. Olson helped developed testing programs for resin producers, compounders, additive suppliers and processors. He developed preferred supplier partnerships with 20 customers, including the leading transnational automaker.
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Michael Caropreso serves as a consultant to China Array on a variety of mold design and injection molding processing issues. Mr. Caropreso established Caropreso Associates, a Becket Massachusetts based consulting firm, after nearly 30 years with GE Plastics. He is a specialist in low-pressure injection molding technologies with a particular focus on structural foam, gas assist and counterpressure processing. The firm delivers increased productivity by offering process and design seminars, in-house training, tooling and part reviews, early application development from a processing point of view, counterpressure control modules plus quality troubleshooting. Michael developed an affordable and portable Counterpressure Control Module. The CCM is a hardware device that helps make plastic molded parts lighter, more attractive, and cheaper to produce. It has been installed in plants throughout the world and has been featured in industry publications such as MoldMaking Technology and Plastics News.
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Cai Shorun: BS/MSE Wuhan University. Mr. Cai is an electrical engineer with a specialty in high voltage electricity. In 1982, Mr. Cai joined the Research Department of the Wuhan High Voltage Institute under the Electricity Ministry of the Peoples Republic of China. In 1993, he became manager of New Technology with the mission to develop new products for the high voltage industry. Among his other achievements was the development of the production and sales of a line of oxygenation lighting arresters. In 1999, he founded the Yangweibai Plastics Molding Company in Wuhan, China: a full service injection molder and mold maker, where he continues to serve as Chairman of the Board.
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Xiao Xinhuan: BS in Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan College; Post Graduate study in Economic Management, Wuhan University. Mr. Xiao started his career at the prestigious Wuhan Iron and Steel Company in the Cool Rolling division. Since 1981, he has been involved with the design and production of molds and tooling for the plastics industry: Director of Production at the Wuhan Chenhong Mold Factory (1981-1990), Director of the Mold Department at the Shenzhou Yaohui Electronic Company, a Hong Kong joint venture (1990-1996), and Manager of the Mold Department at the Wuhan High Voltage Institute (1996-1999). Since 1999, he has served as Manager of Yangweibai Plastics Molding Company in Wuhan. Mr. Xiao’s technical and managerial experience in molding making for a variety of industries and applications over the last 25 years has given him an in depth understanding of the mold production process from design through implementation.
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Lin Hanbin: In addition to studying engineering at the Wuhan Technical Institute, Mr. Lin received a year’s training in Germany in the design and construction of molds. Over the last 25 years he has held management positions of increasing responsibility in Production and Sales at the Wuhan Chenhong Mold Factory (1980-1994) and the Wuhan High Voltage Institute (1994-1999). He currently holds the dual position of Manager of Design, and of Sales and Marketing at Yangweibai Plastics Molding Company. Mr. Lin’s experience in design, production and sales, as well as his international training, has provided him with an excellent perspective on the Chinese and world plastics markets.
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Song Yi: BA International Trade and Economics, Wuhan University of Technology. For the past 15 years, Mr. Song's firm, Wuhan Best Partners, has served as foreign agent for China Array: handling domestic and international logistics, finance, invoicing, payments, currency exchange, and negotiations on a host of issues. The firm has clients in the US, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Mr. Song's previous work experience includes nine years in the Wuhan Office of the prestigious China National Cereals, Oils & Food Stuffs Corporation (COFCO). (Fortune Magazine (Chinese Edition) in its April 2006 edition listed Frank Ning, COFCO’s Chairman, as one of the 25 most influential business leaders in China.) At COFCO Mr. Song handled international trade with Africa, the Middle East and the United States.
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Jim Allison is China Array’s public relations and marketing communications consultant. He is president of AH&M, Inc., a leading business-to-business public relations and marketing communications agency, headquartered in Pittsfield, Mass., USA Jim founded AH&M in 1988 and brings to China Array over 25 years of global business communications experience.

Jim has worked with many of world’s leading multinationals in virtually every major industrial and high-tech business sector. His background includes communications support for such market leaders as GE Plastics, GE Silicones, GE Advanced Materials, Dow Chemical, Dow Corning, Warner-Lambert Company, Cabot Corporation, M.A. Hanna Company, PolyOne Corporation, and Conoco Phillips.

Jim specializes in global strategy development, strategic counsel, media relations, brand reputation management, new product/technology launches, copywriting, and special events and assignments. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications from the University of Massachusetts, and a Master of Arts degree in Cinema Studies from Ohio State University.
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Li Guohui is a Member of the Board of Directors of China Array Wuhan Company, LTD. His education credentials include a BS Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology. MBA Wuhan University, Post MBA Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: Mr. Li was the recipient of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore Gold Medal for the outstanding accounting student and the Singapore Association of The Institute of Charted Secretaries and Administration Gold Medal for the outstanding finance student.

Mr. Li currently works as a Financial Analyst in Hong Kong. In addition to being a Director of the company, he serves as a consultant to China Array on a variety of issues. Formerly specializing in Supply Chain Management, Mr. Li held various positions with firms assisting companies from the United States, Europe and Africa with production, procurement and shipping issues within China. He is the former manager of Chang Jiang International Forwarding Agency, a worldwide freight forwarder. He is fluent in Chinese and English.
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Gu Yaoling is a Member of the Board of Directors of China Array Wuhan Company, LTD. Mr. Gu Yaoling has enjoyed a successful 35 year career in business and law in China. A former executive of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation, Mr. Gu is the founder of and senior partner in the law firm of Yao Liang Law, a fifteen member firm with offices in Shanghai and Beijing. He is a former managing partner of the King & Wood law firm. Mr. Gu's firm specializes in mergers and acquisitions, shipbuilding, foreign investment and loan underwriting, and assists in the management of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation Eastern China Real Estate Holdings. He is a member of the People's Republic of China Arbitration Committee, the sole arbitration forum for international disputes in China. He is fluent in Chinese and English.

Yao Liang Law Office is a partnership law firm, having offices in both Shanghai and Beijing, founded by Mr. Gu Yao Liang and a number of experienced lawyers. With a view to providing first class legal services to its clients, Yao Liang Law Office has been adhering to high standards of qualification of its staff and efficient service to its clients. Lawyers at Yao Liang all have excellent academic backgrounds and extensive experience in their respective practice areas. With more than 40 staff members working in the two major economic and financial centers of China, namely Shanghai the nation's commercial capital and Beijing the nation's political capital, Yao Liang serves both MNC and local clients in a broad number of areas with, however, an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, intellectual property and information technology, maritime and other dispute resolution, most of which contain a cross-border element.
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