Executive Team
David X. Liu
David Liu has a rich educational and business background in the
People's Republic of China. David's extensive experience in China
Trade includes positions with Hong Kong-based import/export corporations
as General Manager for Sino Place Ltd. in California and International
Project Director for Tri-Circle Corp. in Canada. David was Chief
Consultant for Cal Capital Inc., another company headquartered in
Hong Kong, specializing in feasibility studies for American entrepreneurs
seeking to enter the China market
and he worked as Chief Representative in China for Verso Technologies, a public company in Georgia. David is currently the President
and co-founder of Shanghai Component Outsourcing
International Ltd. His educational background includes a Ph. D. degree from Fudan University in Shanghai and a Ph.D. from Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University in Syracuse , New York.
Lewis B. Shanks
Lewis Shanks was born in Washington, D.C. in 1943 and commands
more than 30 years’ international business experience specializing
in China Trade and emerging socialist economies. After two years
of military service in Vietnam, Lewis obtained an undergraduate
degree in Business Administration at Southampton College and went
on to receive his MBA with a concentration in International Business
from the University of Connecticut. His early work experience included
positions as Marketing Manager for IRM, a Japanese market research
firm, and Vice President of China Division at WJS, Inc., one of
the first American import/export representation companies which
pioneered entry into the China market as early as 1972. After introducing
such Fortune 500 firms to the China market as Johnson & Johnson,
TRW, Rockwell, Spiegel, Physio Control, Norton, Unocal and Englehard
Industries, Lewis assumed responsibility for the development of
import/export programs for US-based firms, large and small, and
in a wide variety of industries. He was subsequently was positioned
as Manager, Far East for Unocal, where he was instrumental in further
developing the company’s long term interests in China, the
Philippines and South Korea. Lewis later became an independent consultant
specializing in the development of trade between China and newly
emerging Russian firms during the 1990’s. He has generated
close to $700 million in international business transactions throughout
his career and spent more than four years in China during his 60+
trips to the country. As one of only 52 Americans in Beijing at
the time of the death of Mao Tse Tung in September of 1976, Lewis
maintains a unique perspective regarding China’s development
in the world market from a closed society to the manufacturing powerhouse
it is today. Lewis presently assists Shanghai
Component Outsourcing International Ltd.
in the areas of market development and client liaison in their USA
affiliate
office, Shanghai Outsourcing USA.
Leo Y. Zhou
A native of Shanghai, China, Leo Zhou is a business professional
with a rich technical background and broad entrepreneurial history.
Beginning his career in 1983 as a software engineer with the Computer
Center of Shanghai Ship and Shipping Research Institute of the Ministry
of Communications, Leo's technical expertise in the design of ship/harbor
management systems played an important role in the many award-winning
research achievements credited to the SSSRI during his tenure. Leo
then progressed to the position of Electronic Engineer and Manager
of Facility Supplying Department Shanghai XIN HUA Control Engineering
Company, Ltd. where his technical proficiency was further augmented
and his managerial skills became finely honed. In 1995, as founder
and General Manager of Shanghai LiJin Industry Company, Ltd., Leo
Zhou's technical specialty as an LED Control System Integrator was
a key element in developing complex control systems for power plants.
Today, as co-founder and General Manager of Shanghai Component Outsourcing,
Ltd., Leo Zhou's rich work history, technical expertise and hands-on
managerial style have placed Shanghai Component Outsourcing, Ltd.
on a dedicated path toward bringing the benefits of outsourcing
to small and medium-sized western manufacturers. Leo's academic
history is equally impressive, beginning with a Bachelor of Science
in Computer Science from Shanghai Marine University. As a graduate
student, Leo furthered his studies in computer science at the Electronic
and Communication Department of Japanese National Electric and Communication
University in Tokyo.
Alfred Brand
Born in Vienna/Austria in 1960, Alfred has accumulated over 20 years of knowledge and direct experience in international business development. After graduation from the Vienna Business College, Alfred initiated his business career in 1982 by specializing in barter trade with Eastern European countries where he was responsible for Sales and Purchase contracts of several million Dollars per year. It was then when Alfred first visited China and other Asian countries importing to the European market. He also worked for the largest European based Russian Joint-Venture as a Sales Director, and managed his own trading company in the 90's developing business with the Far East, Russia and Europe . In 1999 Alfred decided to go "West" to expand his educational credentials. He studied Business Administration at Hawaii Pacific University graduating with distinction in two short years. He then went to live in Brazil and helped Austrian companies with their business expansion to South America before he returning to Europe in 2004. Today, Alfred manages Shanghai Component Outsourcing International's market development and client liaison program in their Europe affiliate office.
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