Nan Bulger

Executive Director, CEO at The Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals Association
Consulting Founder [Pro Bono], Creation of Intelligence Pathways LTD, [no ownership interest] at Intelligence Pathways LTD, Sofia, Bulgaria, Boston, MA USA
Global Lead, Marketing/Strategic Planning, Market & Business Intelligence, Analytics at Philips Healthcare, Royal Dutch Philips, North Andover, MA & Amsterdam, NL
Sr. Director, Strategic Planning & Portfolio Management/ Market Intelligence and Insights at Covidien {formally Tyco Healthcare]
A visionary strategist and strategic and competitive intelligence professional with a customer focused, consultative, collaborative, and respectful but “roll up your sleeves and get things done” style. Equipped with flawless communication skills offering a stellar record of performance by driving competitive market position and growth via development and management of global targeting, market potential penetration programs and the creation and implementation of “go to market” plans and programs. A gamer changer strategist and intelligence expert well versed in developing a myriad of operational improvements focused on bottom line share increases. These include, but are not limited to, the development and management of end to end integrated strategy to AOP transformation processes, supporting metric based decision tools, best practices operations and organizations centered on strategic planning, long range planning, market competitive intelligence, business intelligence, market analytics and insights disciplines. Extensive proven experience in profitability analysis, complex sizing and segmentation, brand management, win loss, CRM programs, predictive driver based forecasting, market research programs and customer insights activities across the global marketplace. Talented at building cohesive and creative teams. An inspirational international speaker and motivator.

Alexander Lo

General Manager of CRIF’s Business Information, Greater China

He is responsible for developing the Business Information business in Asia. CRIF is a global company which supports and creates value for financial institutions, businesses and consumers. It employs 2,100+ staff, and serves 3,100+ financial institutions worldwide.
Prior to CRIF, Mr. Lo was the Managing Director of Thomson Reuters, Corporate Services Asia, and General Manager of D&B Hong Kong and Taiwan. Both of them are the world’s leading sources of business information. Also managed Hong Kong's Commercial Credit Bureau directly, and Consumer Credit Bureau thru the directorship in TransUnion Limited.
Mr. Lo has rich background in IT and statistics with 25+ years of global business experience. Prior to joining D&B, Mr. Lo worked in General Electric (GE). First assignment in GE Medical was to build the Asia sales team to grow its Medical IT business. Since then, he was assigned various regional positions in GE Medical and GE Plastics.
Mr. Lo graduated from University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada with a Bachelor of Science degree, Specialized Honors in Computing & Information Science, and Minor in Statistics. He also holds an Executive MBA from University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Glen Brynteson

CEO at Market Awareness
and VoiceoftheBusinessAcademy.com

Glen Brynteson built his first professional services firm into a multinational consultancy by building unique solutions to clients’ unmet needs. Fifteen years later, Mr. Brynteson has never stopped working to get closer to his customers to better understand their challenges and to identify solutions that work to complement the decision-making process. As CEO of Market Awareness, he provides strategic leadership for a company based on a dedication to personally serving the unique Voice of the Business(VoB) needs of companies seeking to outperform and outmaneuver their competition.
A seasoned strategic intelligence professional in his own right, Mr. Brynteson launched Market Awareness in response to his own constant and unmet need for reliable, data-driven insight into his clients’ perspectives and perceptions. Since launching this one-of-a-kind VoB intelligence product, Market Awareness has been met with overwhelming support at all levels of client organizations, and for clients of all sizes in industries including life sciences, healthcare, professional services, information technology, and manufacturing. As the demand for VoB intelligence grows, he works to maintain the company’s signature dedication to quality and service while constantly innovating to provide deeper, more powerful solutions to the real intelligence challenges facing real companies.
In 2012 Market Awareness' customers were asking for intelligence training solutions to rollout to their national and international teams. Seeing a massive gap in the intelligence education arena, Mr. Brynteson assembled an experienced team to create interactive training solutions based on their extensive experience on implementing those intelligence solutions for organizations.
Intelligence training solutions began being created and designed on everything organizations care about regarding intelligence. VoiceoftheBusinessAcademy was launched in 2012 and online courses are SCIP Endorsed and SCIP Certified.

Tom Tao

assistant professor of management in the college of business and economics at James Madison University

Dr. Qingjiu (Tom) Tao is an assistant professor of management in the college of business and economics at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA. He received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management and International Business from University of Pittsburgh in 2004. He served on the editorial board of JCIM (Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management) from 2003 to 2009.
His research on alliance portfolio and competitive intelligence has been published in Strategic Management Journal and Competitive Intelligence Review. He was one of the pioneers in introducing the concept of Competitive Intelligence into China at mid 1990s.
His groundbreaking work on a survey of competitive intelligence practices has been cited by many CI researchers. He has spoken at the Wharton School, Dartmouth, University of Tokyo, University of Michigan, AutoUni—VW and testified as an expert before the congressional US. -China Economic and Security Review Commission on China’s auto industry.

Yu Chen

account manager of Digimind

Yu CHEN, graduated in Shanghai International Studies University, bachelor degree in French literature. In 2011, he got the Master degree in Management of Information System from Enterprises Administration Institute in Grenoble (IAE de Grenoble). Working as account manager in Digimind, he advises companies on how to automate their competitive intelligence process in order to increase efficiency, productivity and quality results in terms of unstructured data collection, analysis and sharing. Digimind is a leading SaaS competitive intelligence and social media monitoring company with a 16 years history of software creation and innovation.

Olivier Maugain

Director, Data Analytics
Deloitte & Touche Financial Advisory Services Limited
Prior ChinaChief Executive Officer at AsiaAnalytics - formerly SPSS China
Prior Consulting Director at SPSS China Co-Founder & COO at SPSS China Alliances Director & Opco COO at Solvento Technology Group
A French citizen born in The Netherlands, he grew up in Germany and studied Business Administration in Switzerland and Hungary, graduating from the University of St. Gallen. During his doctoral research about the multicultural R&D teams, he examined the performance the world's most preeminent particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.

He moved to China in 2003, where he has successfully developed various entrepreneurial ventures in software distribution. As co-founder and now CEO of AsiaAnalytics (formerly SPSS China), He is one of the pioneers in the Chinese analytics scene. He has worked on projects delivering solutions for market research, CRM, marketing, product development, operations optimisation, etc. His industry experience ranges from automotive, cosmetics, consumer packaged goods (CPG), and fashion, through retail and e-commerce to hospitality and telecommunications.

Ashok Antony

Head of competitive intelligence
Tata Consultancy Services
Ashok has more than 10 years of experience in the field of competitive intelligence and analysis.
In his previous role he has supported strategic planning team of a leading insurance firm with competitive intelligence across Asia, UK and US geographies with specific focus on China, India and South East Asia.
Currently he leads a research team providing market and competitive intelligence services to leading clients. He has previously presented at leading conferences in Asia on various topics such as IT/ITES Outsourcing trends, credit crisis and insurance industry

Xue zuhua

Mr.xue is the Director of BAOSTEEL intelligence center, He charged this department for more than 10 years..

Carole Brückler

Carole Brückler is the Director of Deallus' Asia-Pacific operations. Previously she led the established European business. She has extensive experience across many therapy areas including CNS, Vaccines, CVM and respiratory fields and has supported strategy across the entire product lifecycle and at Franchise level.

Carole is experienced in facilitating and leading project review meetings, delivered to a multi-disciplinary franchise team with the objective of generating recommended business actions. Carole has also significant experience in facilitating wargames and workshops, supporting global and national strategy. Carole has also lectured at multiple CI in Pharma industry conferences on the challenges of conducting CI in the vaccines area specifically, most recently in Parsippany in September 2010. Prior to joining Deallus, Carole worked in preclinical R&D, both in a synthetic organic setting, as well as an analytical setting in support of asthma treatments at GSK. Carole completed her PhD in Chemical Biology at the University of Edinburgh, having research and developed solid-supported reagents for the synthesis of nucleoside pro-drugs and tri-phosphates. Carole is a joint inventor and patent holder of this technology. In addition to her academic qualifications and professional credentials, Carole speaks German, French and Luxembourgish.

Jean-Marie Rousseau

Jean-Marie Rousseau has worked over the last twelve years in regional innovation strategies, specializing in R&D valorization, territorial intelligence as well as social and human capital issues within the knowledge economy.

Appointed by the European Commission, firstly within DG Regional Policy (2000-2003) and then DG Research (2003-2006), he has been responsible for important initiatives such as the ‘Regional Programs of Innovative Actions’ and the ‘Regions of Knowledge’ Program, while bringing a major contribution to studies such as ‘Constructing the Regional Advantage’ by leading a European experts’ group.

He previously benefited from an important background (for twenty-five years) in support programs of SMEs’ management in Europe and Africa with the French government (Chambers of commerce and industry and Ministry of Industry), and then the International Trade Center (Geneva) and the United Nations Development Program (New York).

He is currently working as an independent consultant in Brussels in Territorial Intelligence and Regional Innovation Strategies and yet actively contributed to many reports for international institutions and national or regional governments all over the world, including Europe, Mediterranean countries, South-America and Asia. His last significant missions were mostly run in China for comprehensive surveys in terms of differentiated economic policies, meso-economies and territorial intelligence, on behalf of European national governments and in cooperation with the central Chinese government and local authorities.

Liu lvyin

Dr. Liu is Associate Research fellow of State Information Center(SIC, China). Member of National Science & Technology medium and long term Plan Expert of China_EU Information Society Project. The research fields include High=tech industry competitive strategy, Competitive Intelligence, Informationization and economic & social development. As project head, she has taken up the research tasks of High-tech service and e-Commerce from National Development and Reform Commission, China-EU Information Society Project. With a long and rich research experience in the field of High-tech industry developing strategy plan, Competitive Intelligence, Information Analysis, Liu Lvyin is good at information analysis and c onsulting in the strategy and plan formulating.

Sun chengquan

Sun chengquan is the Chief expert of strategic intelligence for Chinese Academy of Sciencess.Mr sun was the pre-Librarian of Lanzhou Branch of the National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences.And he was the pre-Director of The Scientific Information Center for Resources and Environment, the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Shen Guchao

Guchao Shen, Professor, Pre-director of Department of Information Management, Nanjing University (2002-2010 ). Education: MLS, SUNY at Buffalo; Doctor of History, Nanjing University. Teaching & Research area: information retrieval, competitive intelligence. Publications: Collecting and Using of Business Information(Nanjing Univ. Pr, 2000); Information Retrieval (Textbook Series for 21st Century, Higher Education Pr.,2002); Information Retrieval on Internet: Tools, Methods, and Practice(Higher Education Pr.,2004); Theory and Practice of Competitive Intelligence(Science Pr., 2008), etc. Projects: 50 consulting reports in the areas of telecommunication, metallurgical industry, civil aviation, etc. Other posts: Board of Directors of China Science & Tech. Society, part-time researcher of Information Resources Research Center, Wuhan University.

Lisa Dai

Lisa Dai has been worked in information industry for more than 7 years. She joined Dow Jones, a global leading finanical and business information provider, as Senior Relation Manager in early 2008, and worked with the information professionals in global and local corporations, bankings, governments and research institutions.Before that, she was the account manager in LexisNexis, a global leading legal information provider, provided information solutions to Law schools professionals, lawyers and corporate councils.

Benjamin Feng CHEN

Dr. Benjamin Feng CHEN is research fellow of Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China(ISTIC), and founder member of China Consulting Association for Science and Technology. Dr. Chen received his Management Ph.D Degree at Peking University in 2002 after finishing his doctoral dissertation titled “Studies on Competitive intelligence Oriented Business Strategic Management ”.In June 2006, Dr. Chen finished his postdoctoral research major in technology foresight after two years. As one of the leading series on informatics research field, his book “Competitive Intelligence and Strategic Management” was published by Scientific and Technical Publishing House in November, 2004 and over 30 papers have been published on the core periodicals. Moreover, Dr. Chen has been teaching postgraduate students the courses of “Competitive Intelligence” and “Competitive Strategies and Advantages” at ISTIC and Antai School of Management of Shanghai Jiaotong University and giving lectures and trainings to more than 30 companies, for example, China Network Communications Group Corporation, Guangdong Mobile Communications Corporation, Shougang Group etc.

Xue zuhua

Mr.xue is the Director of BAOSTEEL intelligence center, He charged this department for more than 10 years..

zhu shenglei

Mr.zhu shenglei,Director of intelligence at Shanghai Automotive industry Corporation(Group).

Lily Liu

20 years IT working experience. Working as market promotion director of local enterprise of world leading Meaning-Based Computing (MBC) technology provider Autonomy. Undergoing the sales and promotion of unstructured information products in China. Creating values in market development over spectrums of telecom, political authorities, security, media and traditional technological environments. Five-year experiences in the business application systems as “Intelligent Analytical System of Enterprise Competition Information”. Held the post of Senior Consultant in Institutes of Competitive Intelligence, Sales and promotion of “Intelligent Analytical System of Enterprise Competition Information” and our service includes the training and consulting to the clients who use our products.