Appointments

Will Hwang

Country manager, Taiwan and Hong Kong

Adobe Systems

Mr Hwang will handle strategic planning and multi-regional business development in Taiwan and Hong Kong. He has previously held positions at Oracle, BEA Systems, TriOne, Candle, IBM and the Institute for Information Industry.

Andrew Morris

Director

Robert Half International

Mr Morris was most recently senior manager at the Mount Waverley branch in Australia. He has also spent time in Malaysia, and offers clients and candidates a regional perspective on Asia-Pacific recruitment trends.

Ivan Fu

Paralegal

Withers

Mr Fu is a Putonghua speaker and obtained his licence to practise law on the mainland last March. He trained at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing and the City University of Hong Kong. He has worked in the people's court in Jiangxi province.

Ian Strutton

Director, Manpower Professional

Manpower Services (Hong Kong)

Mr Strutton has more than 20 years' experience in the employment industry, including recruitment and human capital management, 12 years of which have been in Hong Kong.

Christopher Romine

Executive chef

China World Hotel, Beijing

Mr Romine has been with Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts since 2002, having previously worked in Malaysia and the Philippines. He is responsible for the overall operations of the hotel's restaurants and banquet kitchens.

Sidney Kwok

Director, Greater China

United Airlines

Mr Kwok will oversee United's passenger operations and service on the mainland and in Hong Kong. He joined United Airlines in 1998 as business manager and division controller, Pacific South, in Hong Kong before becoming general manager, China, in 2000.

Natalie Chan

Partner, audit

KPMG China

Ms Chan is an audit partner of KPMG Guangzhou, and previously worked in the Hong Kong office. She has extensive audit and due diligence experience and has been involved in audit and advisory assignments for financial institutions on the mainland.

Jean Li

Partner, tax

KPMG China

Ms Li started her tax consulting career in Shanghai in 1997. She advises on investment planning, transfer pricing, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder transfers, liquidation, and operational structures from tax and legal perspectives.

Eric Cheung

Partner, audit

KPMG China

Mr Cheung joined KPMG Hong Kong in 1999 and moved to KPMG Beijing in 2006. He has provided audit services to state-owned enterprises and multinational companies in China, in the oil and gas, petrochemical, industrial and consumer market industries.

Anthony Chau

Partner, tax

KPMG China

Mr Chau started his tax advisory career in the corporate tax department of KPMG Sydney. Moving to Hong Kong in 2000, he specialised in China taxation, customs duty and business advisory. In 2007, he moved to the tax department of KPMG Chengdu.

Charles Shao

Vice-president of host service and IT support

WealthCraft Systems

Mr Shao joins WealthCraft from Chery Automobile in Wuhu, where he was IT operations director, reporting to the VP of Chery Group, supervising a team of 60. Before joining Chery in 2006, he was technical manager at WiseTone in Shenzhen.

Kevin Leung

Principal, financial valuation group

American Appraisal China

Mr Leung, the new head of American Appraisal China's Beijing office, is experienced in the valuation of intangible assets for financial reporting. He also has expertise in business enterprise valuation.