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President, CEO and Founder of a U.S. consulting and trading corporation specialized in China’s telecommunication sector and initiated by China’s Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications (MPT) former positions: Co-founder of Diva Communications, Berkeley, California, first company to develop wireless local loop (WLL) systems Ph.D., M.S., Electrical Engineering Dept., Stanford University, California
Doctor of Engineering (Ph.D.), Structure born Sound, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Bachelor of Science, Electronics Department, China University of Science and Technology Dr. Li speaks fluent English, German,
Mandarin Chinese He joined the Nestl¨¦ Group in Switzerland in 1972 as international operational auditor with assignments in Europe, North America and South Africa. After 4 years of solid introduction to Nestl¨¦¡¯s operations in various countries, his subsequent career brought him to the Far East (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines) where he continuously progressed into senior positions in Sales and Marketing Management. In between these transfers, he spent some 3 years at Nestl¨¦ Headquarters in Switzerland with business development responsibilities for Far Eastern countries. During 1992-1995, he was Head of Nestl¨¦ in Pakistan and during 1995-1998 Head of Nestl¨¦ in Korea. In mid 1998, he moved to Beijing and took over the responsibilities for Nestl¨¦ in China as Chairman and CEO of Nestl¨¦ (China) Ltd. and, in mid-2000, his responsibilities were further expanded as Head of Nestl¨¦ in the Greater China Region where in 2007 Nestl¨¦ employed over 13,000 permanent staff and operated 21 factories and one R&D Centre (2nd to open in 2008). He also was nominated as Consultant to the Yunnan and Shaanxi Provincial Governments and was Vice President of the Beijing Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment. Upon his retirement from Nestl¨¦, he maintains an active interest in global business activities, in particular in Asia/Greater China Region as well as Europe. He has been invited to serve as a Senior Advisor by various organizations and as an ¡®Executive-in-Residence¡¯ at IMD, International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne/Switzerland. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the B¨¹hler Group in Switzerland and of three Nestl¨¦¡¯s joint ventures in China, namely Shanghai Totole Food Ltd. and Shanghai Totole First Food Ltd. in Shanghai and Haoji Food Ltd. in Sichuan Province. He speaks
German, English and French and has a basic knowledge in some other
languages.
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24, 1991 -July 13,
1992 -August 2,
1992 -November
26, 1999 Languages:
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