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Philippe Snel
Managing Director of DaWo Law FirmPhilippe Snel has been active as a business lawyer in China for more than 20 years and started his China practice in 2001. Since 2004 he is permanently established in Shanghai. As one of the few senior foreign lawyers in Shanghai, he has assisted numerous foreign investors to estab-lish, develop and operate their businesses in China. Philippe mainly advises in the fields of corporate law, compliance and technology transfer. He is a regular speaker on all issues related to Sino-European business relations and his opinion in this regard is regularly solicited.
Additionally, Philippe teaches Intellectual Property & Technology Law at the Shanghai Normal University (Finance & Business School) and is active in several professional and educational organizations such as the Benelux Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai (BenCham), the Lycée Français de Shanghai (LFS) and Sinnolabs, a business accelerator for European technology companies in China.
Philippe is a member of the Brussels Bar (Nederlandse Orde der Advocaten Brussels) since 1997. He is fluent in Dutch, French, and English. He is also conversational in Mandarin and German.
Jan Van Loon
WHITE CAVIARJan is a strategic consultant based in Shanghai who over the past 15 years brought unique problem-solving approaches to a range of local and international clients in brand strategy and operationalization, portfolio planning, customer service and brand innovation. His prior working experience as an insight and innovation specialist at Procter & Gamble enables Jan to go beyond just understanding consumers and allows him to translate insights back into superior product and brand experiences.
Jan brings with him an exceptional combination of international and local sensibilities to the work in China (and beyond) to unlock insights that cannot be uncovered by the sort of superficial research that has become standard in China.
Jan's 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 for many years to instill brand growth.
Jan 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.