Ahmet Tombul has been working and living in China for more than 15 years. He is the managing director from Vauman. The team at Vauman develops all sorts of custom solutions for their clients like mobile apps, WeChat solutions and web based application for B2B and B2C.

Johannes Hofberger has been working and living in China for more than 6 years. He is a Senior Manager with the Digital Solutions Unit of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Digital Solutions delivers proprietary software to centralize, simplify, standardize and automate PwC operational processes for all service lines across the Greater China area.

David von Schwerin has been living in Shanghai for 13 years, working in the logistics industry. He currently manages the strategic sales and marketing activities in Greater China for Röhlig Logistics, a family-owned German 3PL provider providing global solutions for air freight, sea freight and contract logistics.

In October 2016, Dr. Sigrid Winkler was appointed Executive Chamber Manager at the German Chamber of Commerce in China | Shanghai and is in charge of the membership organization at the Chamber. Dr. Winkler joined the German Chamber earlier in spring 2016, initially as Project Manager Social Responsibility where she was responsible for the More than a Market initiative. Dr. Winkler holds a PhD in Political Science from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and a bachelor’s degree in Chinese Studies from Vienna University. Before joining the German Chamber, she was Head of Office of the Austrian Academic Exchange Agency (OeAD) in Shanghai. Previously, Dr. Winkler managed international business development projects in China and Eastern Europe for Business Upper Austria, the economic agency of the regional government of Upper Austria. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on EU-China relations, and since 2002, she has been regularly coming back to China for shorter and longer-term stays.