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| Andreas Andorfer Regional President Greater China Bosch Automotive Aftermarket Robert Bosch Mr. Andreas Andorfer has more than 15 years of experience within Bosch Group gained in various senior roles across the divisions of Bosch in Europe as well as in Asia Pacific.
Mr. Andreas Andorfer was appointed as Regional President of Bosch Automotive Aftermarket in Greater China since March, 2016, responsible for overall business in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. | |
| Ilhami Arslanoglu Vice President Asia Pacific Automotive Sector DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation Since the beginning of 2012, Ilhami Arslanoglu has headed the Asia-Pacific activities of DHL’s Automotive sector as Vice President for Customer Solutions & Innovation. He brings 20 years of logistics industry experience gained in various roles and functions. After helding various positions at CEVA ,Ilhami joined DHL Supply Chain in 2007 as EMEA’s Vice President and then moved to DHL Global Customer Solutions in EMEA as VP, Sub Industry Sector Automotive. Ilhami holds a bachelor degree in Business Administration from the Corporate State University in Mannheim, Germany. | |
| Edwin Chow Head of Automotive Asia Pacific DHL Global Forwarding Edwin Chow is the Automotive Sector Head for DHL Global Forwarding, Asia Pacific Region. Based in Shanghai, Mr Chow brings nearly 20 years of experience in the logistics industry. In his current role, he leads, manages and grows DHL Global Forwarding's Automotive Sector across the Asia Pacific Region. Edwin has personally been involved in a large number of implementation and execution involving Tier suppliers having raw materials and semi-finished products coming into China, or components from China moving to Europe/USA. | |
| Paul De Kramer Regional Customer Manager Asia Pacific Automotive Sector DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation Since the beginning of 2010, Paul de Kramer has supported DHL’s Automotive developments in Asia Pacific as a Regional Project Manager and most recently since 2013 as a Regional Customer Manager in DHL Customer Solutions & Innovations taking care of two of DHL’s top 100 customers. He brings 14 years of logistics industry experience gained in various roles and functions. Having started his career in the International Supply Chain freight and forwarding industry, he has been always actively engaged in the automotive logistics industry throughout his entire career. Paul joined Exel which later became DHL Supply Chain back in 2003 based out of the Netherlands, then he joined DHL Global Forwarding Asia Pacific in 2010 based out of Shanghai and finally in 2013 moved into his current role. | |
| Xiaodong Guan Vice President Transport, China Cluster DHL Suppply Chain China Honored with Master of Science degree in logistics from University of Salford, Guan once served as Excel branch manager and GEFCO general manager. He joined DHL Supply Chain in 2010 and was appointed as Vice President of Transportation & Distribution, China Cluster since beginning of 2016. With 15 years’ experience in logistic industry taking variety of roles and functions, Guan is professional in Third Party Logistic, Supply Chain Management, Logistic Management and Warehousing & Transportation Management, etc. Guan is also in committee of Shanghai Logistic Association, devoting to interaction between industry and progress of communication. | |
| Sylvia Hill Industry Expert & Supply Chain Consultant Sylvia Hill is a Logistics & Supply Chain Consultant who brings more than 30 years of experience in the Automotive Logistics industry.
She first joined Delphi 1981 and she remained within the Delphi Chassis Division until 1999. In 1999, Sylvia went to Canada with General Motors as a director of the International Product Center and remained there until she accepted the appointment as a Director of Delphi PC&L, Asia Pacific. After this position, she moved back to the US to take a global role as Supply Chain Director including responsibilities to develop a global PC&L plans for the group. | |
| Hans Hygrell Vice President VCCS China Volvo Cars Corporation Hans Hygrell serves as the Vice President of Customer Service for Volvo Cars in China. He brings 20 years of experience from various positions in the Customer Service business with the major part of his career being related to the aftersales Supply Chain. He has always had a strong customer and business focus which shows in the way that Volvo Cars now services their dealers globally. | |
| Thierry Le Floch Vice President, Head Components Manufacturers & Tires DHL Customer Solutions and Innovation Thierry joined DHL in 1991 and since then he has held various sales and regional and global customer management positions within DHL. In 2007 he became Vice President within the Global Customer Solutions EMEA Engineering & Manufacturing sector. In 2010 he moved to the Customer Solutions & Innovation, Automotive sector as Global Head of the Components Manufacturers & Tires sub sector. In this role, he drives the development of a sub sector's business vision and strategy to identify market transitions in key customer supply chains and develop integrated strategies that leverage all DHL assets. He works closely with the DHL Automotive BU’s to tie strategy to operational excellence as well as broaden DHL leadership to institutionalize a strategy discipline throughout the Sector. | |
| Helmut Ott Head of Supply Chain Management Asia AUDI CHINA 奥迪（中国）Enterprise Management Co., Ltd Mr. Helmut Ott has headed Audi China Logistics since January 2015. He started his career at Audi Ingolstadt in 1998 with an education and he assumed tasks in Controlling and various in logistic and supplier management. Due to his former experience in China from 2009 to 2011 he brought many experience to Beijing for his current position. Before returning to China he was engaged with the global sourcing and localization strategy of Audi brand. | |
| Mei Yee Pang Vice President Innovation, Solution Delivery & Service Management Asia Pacific Mei Pang leads the DHL Asia Pacific Innovation Center (APIC). Under Mei’s leadership, a team of innovators seed ideas to link businesses and relevant partners; bringing innovative solutions to life. She is also responsible for Solution Delivery and Service Management for DHL’s top customers. Prior to her appointment in July 2014, she was Partner at DHL Consulting and head of office for Asia-Pacific. She led a team of consultants in Singapore and has a keen focus on improving supply chain effectiveness for DHL’s customers in Asia. She has a keen interested in all trends that have an impact on logistics. Mei holds an MBA from Manchester Business School and is a CPA since 2002. | |
| Christian Schmidt Senior Manager Parts Logistics BMW Brilliance Automotive Mr. Christian Schmidt has held various leading Aftersales positions for BMW AG and BMW Brilliance Automotive since 2001. He started his role in BMW in the Central AS Parts Distribution Planning worldwide before moving to Malaysia to be responsible for South East Asia Aftersales Central Parts Logistics. Christian went back to Germany where he managed a number of senior roles in Aftersales. Since October 2015, he moved to China to be now responsible for Aftersales Parts Logistics China at BMW Brilliance Automotive in Beijing. Mr. Schmidt holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration (Diplom Kaufmann) of the University of Passau (Germany). | |
| Bruno Selmoni VP Road Freight & Multimodal ASEAN & South Asia DHL Global Forwarding Bruno Selmoni is VP, Head of Road Freight & Multimodal ASEAN & South Asia for DHL Global Forwarding. In this position, he is responsible for the management and development of the Road Freight and Multimodal activities in ASEAN & South Asia. He started with Danzas more than 30 years ago, which has since been integrated into DHL. During his career he reached international experience in forwarding and logistics in Europe and Asia acting in various positions among others as Head of DHL Rail Europe, VP DHL Global Forwarding Strategy Development and Competitive Intelligence, VP DHL Global Forwarding Strategy Africa & South Asia Pacific, VP Road Freight & Multimodal Asia Pacific. | |
| Andreas Subbe Director Logistics SCMA Asia Pacific Continental Automotive Holding Over the last 17 years, Andreas has held a variety of international positions with Mannesmann Group, Siemens VDO and Continental in Europe, NAFTA and Asia. Since January 2013, he has overseen Continental’s supply chain activities within a network of 26 plants and trading locations in ten Asia countries. He leads a corporate team in Shanghai, Yokohama and Bangkok to support the plant network. Andreas graduated in mechanical engineering from RWTH Aachen University of Technology. | |
| Fathi Tlatli President Global Automotive Sector DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation Fathi joined DHL CSI from the beginning in 2004 as Vice President for the Engineering & Manufacturing as well as Aerospace sector in EMEA. In 2009 he moved to the Global Automotive Industry, and as President he is now responsible for the strategy, the development and the global customer management program for the CSI Automotive sector group at DHL. He has held several positions including: business development and regional management, global sales and customer supply chain management. He is also professor of Cross-Cultural Management and International Marketing at the ICHEC Brussels Management School. Fathi is the author of several managements books. | |
| Fathi Tlatli (Copy) President Global Automotive Sector DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation Fathi joined DHL CSI from the beginning in 2004 as Vice President for the Engineering & Manufacturing as well as Aerospace sector in EMEA. In 2009 he moved to the Global Automotive Industry, and as President he is now responsible for the strategy, the development and the global customer management program for the CSI Automotive sector group at DHL. He has held several positions including: business development and regional management, global sales and customer supply chain management. He is also professor of Cross-Cultural Management and International Marketing at the ICHEC Brussels Management School. Fathi is the author of several managements books. | |
| Stephen W.Dyer Ph.D Bain & Company Stephen Dyer is a partner based in Bain & Company’s Shanghai office and a key member of the firm’s Industrial Goods and Services and Performance Improvement practices leadership team in Greater China. Prior to his over 20 years consulting carrier in automotive and various sectors, he managed research and development for industrial technology firm specializing in active vibration control of rotating machinery. In his consulting work, Dr. Dyer has led corporate and market strategy, cost and operational optimization studies related to alternative energy automobiles. Dr. Dyer is a co-author of the book Masters of Innovation and has published many technical journal articles and inventor of several patents. He received B.S. (Brigham Young University), M.S and Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering and MBA from University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. | |
| Ma Zengrong Executive Vice President Chinese Automotive Logistics Assocation of CFLP Zengrong Ma, a senior engineer and special researcher at the China Logistics Institute, holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in logistics engineering from Beijing Jiao Tong University. He is Executive Vice-President of the China Automotive Logistics Association of CFLP (Chinese Federation of Logistics and Purchasing) and Director of the China Logistics Equipment Committee of CFLP. | |
| David Zhang Asia Pacific Integrated Supply Chain Director Delphi David has overall responsibility of the end-to-end supply chain, including material and production planning, logistics and trade compliance for the Asia Pacific region. He has over ten years experience with Delphi in several key roles which have included logistics, production control, purchasing and program management. Prior to Delphi, David was Supply Chain Director for Jebsen Industrial, where he was responsible for the architecture of the supply chain and logistics for four divisions under Jebsen Industrial. He holds a Masters in International Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. | |
| Lencos Zhang General Manager Automotive Business Development DHL Supply Chain Lencos Zhang is General Manager for Automotive Business Development, who joined DHL Supply Chain China in 2008. He started his career as an assistant in Civil Aviation University of China in 1999. Before DHL, he used to be WND Commercial Manager at Maersk Logistics, Logistics Sales Manager at Schenker and several roles at stated owned New Jinqiao Logistics. Lencos has comprehensive knowledge & project experience of business development, commercial & solution in Automotive inbound-to-manufacturing and aftermarket logistics. Lencos acquired Bachelor Degree of Engineering and Master Degree of Management. | |
