Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) Taiwan General Manager Elbert Man’s people-centric outlook on life and work is a perfect match for the pharmaceutical industry. Man emphasizes transparency, respect for boundaries, and healthy debate as essential to fostering high-performing teams, a philosophy that has helped him advance through several country manager roles at international pharma companies. Outside…
Pfizer Taiwan Country Manager Cellina Yeh says that her career of more than 30 years has been marked by a pattern: the offer of a new position every few years and her initial reluctance to accept it. Nevertheless, intrinsic motivation, curiosity, and an insistence on pushing herself outside of her comfort zone have brought Yeh…
Upon arriving in Taiwan for master’s degree studies in 2001, CW Chin did not expect that the two years he planned to spend on the island would become two decades. With Taiwan as his home base, Chin’s journey from MBA graduate to Managing Director of Corporate Development & Public Affairs at Applied Materials has been…
Since Westin Tashee Resort General Manager Jan-Hendrik Meidinger arrived in Asia 23 years ago, he has consistently striven to understand others without making assumptions. His 30 years of experience spanning six countries has taught him about what truly matters in the complex and ever-changing hospitality industry, and he takes joy in coaching new talent. From…
International Community Radio Taiwan (ICRT) General Manager Tim Berge has had the opportunity to both witness and report on the enormous changes that have taken place in Taiwan since he first arrived on the island several decades ago. Ever modest, Berge says that his foray into broadcast journalism was just one of a series of…
As Senior Director of Government Affairs & Policy, Johnson & Johnson’s Serena Chow must juggle the interests of many different stakeholders. Yet during her more than 30-year career in the pharmaceutical industry, she has picked up quite a few tricks of the trade, skills she says were developed with the help of J&J’s abundant resources….
BoonHuey Ee, general manager of Merck Healthcare Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, is a Merck veteran with more than two decades’ experience in the healthcare industry. Ee has acquired in-depth knowledge of local and regional markets and had extensive exposure to various complex healthcare environments from her various managerial roles across the Asia-Pacific region. As…
Costco’s Senior Vice President of Asia Richard Chang is a well-known fixture of the international business community in Taiwan. A former college and professional basketball player, Chang emphasizes the important skills future leaders can develop from playing sports and focuses on the practical lessons young people can learn from their college experience and early career….
Cindy Chen, regional head of the Adecco Group Taiwan & South Korea, is a veteran of the company and the human resources industry. From her first position as consultant to the manager of the company’s staffing business up until her current role as head of the Northeast Asia region, she has maintained a philosophy of…
William Brent Christensen began serving as Director of the American Institute in Taiwan in August 2018, but that was by no means his first Taiwan assignment. During his three-decade-long career as a foreign service officer, Christensen has served in Taiwan on three separate occasions, including a stint as a consular official in the 1990s and…
