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Lucy Lei
Managing Partner Greater China at Eric Salmon & PartnersLucy Lei conducts leadership advisory work in executive coaching & facilitation, team performance workshops, executive assessment, leadership development, change management, strategy setting and organizational design. Apart from leadership advisory services, she also conducts searches for CEO and senior executives and board members, in various business sectors with a focus on industrial and consumer goods.
Prior to Eric Salmon & Partners, Lucy spent 25 years of her career path in corporate life. She has worked for various MNC companies in Belgium, Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore, to build up a strong track record and experience as a senior executive. Lucy was CEO Asia and Group Board Member for a Belgian family business, General Manager Asia for a Nasdaq listed company, VP Greater China for a Hong Kong listed MNC and two BU head roles for a German MNC. This strong business background has led Lucy to bring expertise to our global leadership advisory practice and to work with organization across industries.
Her coaching clients include many C-level executives in China & Asia. She also designs and conducts workshops using Team Coaching and facilitation methodology integrating knowledge of executive coaching, organizational design, team dynamic, leadership dynamics with her business executive experience.
Lucy is ICF accredited executive coach and holds many other credentials for leadership and team dynamics programs. She holds MBA from Antwerp University, Master’s degree in International Economic Law from Shanghai Maritime University, Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Dalian Maritime University. She graduates from Australia AICD Board Governance program.
Lucy is part of the Executive Board at the Benelux Chamber of Commerce Shanghai since 2014, past President of IPWS (International Professional Women’s Society), visiting professor at Dalian Maritime University and corporate mentor for SISU MBA. She is also one of the initial group of mentors for the Mentor Walk Organization in Shanghai since its inception in 2014.
At Eric Salmon & Partners, Lucy is Managing Partner for our China Practice and also the Global Practice Leader for our Global Team Performance Practice.
Languages: proficiency in English and Mandarin, intermediate in French
Areas of expertise: Executive search for C level across sectors with focus on Consumer Goods, Industry and Finance. Executive Coaching & team coaching, Executive Assessment, Leadership development.
Gina Li
Cross Culture Management and Communication Consultant and CEO of Beach Creative TechnologyGina is a Cross-cultural Business Consulting Strategist CEO & Co-Founder of Beach Creative Technology — Smart IoT Product Development and Design She won the prices:
- INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR 2019 ( IPWS )
- APEC CHILE 2019 ENTREPRENEUR OF CHINA
- Global INNOVATION THROUGH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
Gina has the ability to interpret needs and ideas between Chinese and Western cultures into a unified vision. She is not simply a translator but someone who is able to understand the context, background, reasoning of one and help them achieve their goals.
Having started a couple of companies on her own in various industries, Gina realized that being an entrepreneur is not just making sure you encompass a strong mentality and endurance but also having the knowledge, experience, objectivity to things is paramount.
Jan Van Loon
Insight Strategy and Consulting at White CaviarFounder & CEO of White Caviar, a Commercial Information Consultancy in Shanghai Master of Science in the Tropical Molecular Biology, Free University of Brussels Graduate in Clinical Chemistry, Industriële Hogescholen Antwerpen
Jan is a strategic consultant based in Shanghai who has been living in China since 2004 experiencing the changes that are taking place firsthand, putting him in the unique position to bridge the cultural boundaries between East and West.
Jan holds a degree in Clinical Chemistry and Master of Science degree in the Tropical Molecular Biology His work and dissertations focused on ‘the study of Para Influenza virus’ at the UZ of Antwerp and ‘Interaction of marine snail venoms with human membrane receptors’ during his Master of Science program at the Free University of Brussels.
Jan brings with him an exceptional combination of international and local sensibilities to the work in China His distinctive way of deconstructing and understanding behavior from first principles and building it back into a business friendly framework has been at the forefront of his success with clients He is applying these very same principles in the way he lives through cultural changes and is closely observing the 2019 nCov outbreak and places this against the response against SARS in 2002 2003 the Sichuan earthquake of 2008 and Fukushima disaster in 2015.
Cécilia Vermeulen
General Manager at Benelux Chamber of Commerce ShanghaiCécilia Vermeulen is the General Manager of the Benelux Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, the BenCham. For 7 years in Shanghai and with a mix background in public and private sector, she is now serving her community with BenCham. She has launched an experts panel program to help BenCham companies to thrive through the coronavirus crisis.