2022 Chair and Vice Chairs Elected!

AmCham China is pleased to announce that Colm Rafferty has been elected as Chair of the Board of Governors for 2022, with Gloria Xu and Brent Young elected as Vice Chairs. All three will serve one-year terms, commencing January 1, 2022. As per the Constitution, the three Officers were elected by the full 2022 Board of Governors.

“Next year will a pivotal year for our members and the Chamber,” said incoming Chairman Colm Rafferty. “With the pandemic still around, economic uncertainties developing and many high-profile political events taking place, the American business community in China will seek our support. With such an impressive Board, two other dedicated Officers in Gloria and Brent, the 60-person strong full-time Chamber staff, and a highly engaged membership base, I’m confident that we will be up to the task.”

Following the conclusion of the 2022 Board of Governors Election, AmCham China announced the following seven individuals have been elected for two-year terms, to serve on the 2022 and 2023 Boards (in alphabetical order):

Allan Gabor (Individual member)

Su Cheng Harris-Simpson (Individual member)

Jeremy Huff (Morgan Stanley)

Fernando Vallina (ExxonMobil)

Gloria Xu (Dow Greater China)

Brent Young (Intel)

William Zarit (Cohen Group)

Existing board members, who will join them on the 2022 Board, are:

Sherry Carbary (Boeing)

Greg Gilligan (Fidelis Investments)

Roberta Lipson (United Family Healthcare)

Jian Lu (LinkedIn)

Jeffrey Que (Johnson & Johnson)

Colm Rafferty (Vermeer)

Erin Zhang (Goldman Sachs)

The new Board and Officers will take up their appointments on January 1, 2022.

Colm Rafferty is Vice President – Developing Markets and Chairman – China for Vermeer Corporation. Vermeer is a global manufacturer of innovative solutions used to help connect people to the necessities of life, to help manage precious natural resources, and to help feed and fuel the world. Vermeer products are used in a variety of applications from underground utility infrastructure development, to precision mining, to solar field installation, waste material processing, and agricultural mechanization. Prior to joining Vermeer, Colm worked with Cummins and Alibaba.com. He holds a bachelors degree in East Asian Studies from Brown University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Colm has served on the Board five times previously, of which four times were as Vice Chair. In 2019, he received the Chairman’s Service Award.

Gloria Xu is Vice President, Dow Greater China and serves as Dow’s corporate representative with government, trade associations, and other key external stakeholders. Prior to this role, she was General Manager, Public & Government Affairs, Greater China, responsible for the company’s policy advocacy, government engagement, and strategic communications in the Greater China region. She has previously worked with DuPont, Standard Chartered Bank, Alibaba.com, and China Daily. She holds a bachelors degree in English language and literature from Nanjing University.

She was elected Vice Chair of AmCham China in China in 2020 and was a board member in 2017-2020.

Brent A. Young is Vice President and Head of China Corporate Strategy for Intel Corporation where he is responsible for Intel’s overall corporate strategy in China. Young has worked for Intel since 2006 where he has held various strategy, sales, product marketing, and chief of staff positions. Prior to joining Intel, he spent five years in software engineering and technology evangelist positions at two Silicon Valley- and Boston-based software startups. He is on the board of Star market listed Montage technology and an active startup investor/advisor. He holds both bachelors and masters degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

He has served on the AmCham China Board since 2020, and was Vice Chair in 2021.

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Author: Norris Tangen