Karina Steinmetz has moved to Shanghai as Senior Manager R&D Satellite for Porsche China. Prior to this, Steinmetz held various positions at Porsche in Germany.Maximilian Dietz is the new Director Industrial Engineering for eMobility China at Schaeffler in Jiangsu. Among other things, Dietz is responsible for Industrialization, Production Technology and Cost Engineering for Schaeffler’s eMobility […]
Stéphane Leroy is taking over sales for China and the Asia Pacific at Bombardier. Leroy has been with the Canadian aircraft manufacturer for 20 years. He has already spent eight years in Asia. Leroy will retain his position as Vice President, Sales, Specialized Aircraft. Andy Jones is to become President for the Asia-Pacific market region […]
Kuno Gschwend is now Managing Director of Swiss Centers China. Swiss Centers supports companies from Switzerland on the Chinese market and operates five locations on the East Coast. Gschwend is based in Shanghai. He was previously Deputy Managing Director at Swiss Centers. Meng Li has moved from Schneider Optical Machines to the China subsidiary of […]
Shawn Siu will become Executive Director of the troubled real estate group Evergrande. He replaces Lai Lixin. Evergrande is teetering on the brink of insolvency, which is also leading to a staff replacement. Siu comes from the group’s car division.Webb Ding will become Managing Director of the China subsidiary of Swiss biopharma specialist Oculis on […]
Dennis Tak Yeung Hau is stepping down from his post as Group Vice President of Tencent Music Entertainment Group. He cites private reasons for his decision. CEO Ross Liang is taking over some of his responsibilities for the time being.Randy Jernejcic will be CEO of the first hospital opened by US hospital operator University of […]
Global consulting firm Alix Partners has promoted four senior executives of its Greater China offices at the start of the year: Stephen Yu has been named Managing Director of the Shanghai office. Yu joined the firm in 2012 and leads Digital Forensics and Discovery Services in Asia Pacific. Julia Zhao became a Director in Shanghai. […]
Ferdinando Sorrentino is to become the new head of automotive supplier SEG Automotive, based in Stuttgart. Sorrentino succeeds Peter Sokol and Frank-Lorenz Dietz, who have left the company. He is to increase the market presence in China.Daniel Zhang Yong has resigned from the supervisory board of Weibo. The CEO of Alibaba Group Holding had left […]
Jin Bing becomes the new Chief Financial Officer of Kuaishou. China’s second-largest short video platform suffered heavy share price losses last year following Beijing’s crackdown on tech companies. Jin previously headed finance at live-streaming website Joyy and online learning platform Zuoyebang.Dirk Erlacher, CEO and one of the founders of robotics company Agilox, will relocate to […]
Jingwei Jia has left Swiss reinsurer Swiss Re. After 15 years with the company, and most recently six years as CEO of Greater China, Jia left the Zurich-based group at the beginning of January. His interim successor is Jonathan Rake, previously CEO for the Asia Pacific.Elvis He is the new Head of Technology, Media and […]
Michael Müller, the former governing mayor of Berlin, will henceforth report on China, Japan and the Middle East in the SPD Foreign Affairs Working Group. The allocations were determined on Wednesday in the working group of the parliamentary group.Roland Palmer becomes Alibaba’s new general manager for the UK, Netherlands and Scandinavia. Palmer was previously head […]