Simon Learmount is deputy director of the MBA program and director of admissions at the University of Cambridge's Judge Institute of Management in Britain. Mr. Learmount earned his MBA from Cambridge in 1996. Back then, the B-school was very different. It enrolled only 47 MBAs in a three-year program. Now it lasts just one year and enrolls 105 students.

Mr. Learmount also holds a joint degree in modern history and French, and a PhD from Cambridge in corporate governance. After earning his MBA, he worked at the Japan Development Bank in Tokyo and joined the B-school faculty in 2000

Gopika Spaenlé heads marketing of the INSEAD MBA Programme for Asia-Pacific and is based out of the Singapore campus.? She also works closely with the admissions team, located at INSEAD’s other campus in Fontainebleau, France.

After receiving her MBA in 2002 from IMD, Gopika Spaenlé joined Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland as part of a selective management program in marketing and sales. After starting in a global marketing role, she was recruited to Novartis Australia in Sydney where she worked in a sales and product management capacity. During her tenure as a product manager at Novartis Australia, she was responsible for a new product launch in the neuroscience field. The product was launched in April 2005, achieving 120% of the sales budget within three months and surpassing several key marketing objectives.

Before that, Spaenlé served as an Associate Director of Marketing and Business Development at the Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ-listed), a 700-person strategic research and consulting company based in Washington, DC. where she was responsible for strategic identification of prospective clients, qualitative and quantitative analyses of the market, positioning of new products and services, and in-person negotiations with senior executives at hospitals throughout the United States and in England.

Spaenlé holds a Master’s degree from Oxford University and a Bachelor of Arts (Magna Cum Laude) from Amherst College, Massachusetts. During her career, she has worked in five countries on four continents.

Seda Mansour is Assistant Director of Admissions and Director of International Initiatives in the MBA Admissions Office at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Mansour, who has worked at Stanford Business School for nearly 10 years in both Admissions and the Registrar’s office, conducts information sessions for the Graduate School of Business around the world each year. She also reviews applications along with the rest of the Stanford MBA Admissions team, which aims each year to build a class of 375 women and men with diverse interests and geographic backgrounds. At Stanford, she has had extensive experience in developing corporate and governmental relationships in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

In addition to her career at Stanford, Mansour spent 10 years in international and cross-cultural management, including three years at Uniscape, Inc., an enterprise globalization software company, where she served as manager of international vendor and business development.

Thomas Caleel began his career at Heritage Finance & Trust, a private financial group based in Geneva, Switzerland. As director of the Moscow Representative Office during 1995-1998, he established and built the company’s presence in this rapidly growing market. Caleel also participated in a variety of private equity transactions across several former Soviet Republics.

Between 1998 and 2001, Caleel was a co-founder of BCI Private Capital, a holding company in Denver, CO. Through BCI, he served as managing director of international development for Caleel+Hayden, a start-up manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of premium skincare products. During his time at Caleel+Hayden, sales grew from zero to over $20 million annually, and the firm grew to 180 employees across 20 countries. While at BCI, Caleel participated in the acquisition or founding of several new product lines and new businesses and served as the interim CEO of a Russian-Swiss technology venture that delivers medical information to remote disaster areas as well as mobile phones.  Caleel currently serves as an advisor to another BCI portfolio company, Harrow Sports, a specialty sports equipment and apparel manufacturer.

After earning his MBA from Wharton in 2003 with a major in finance, Caleel worked at Cagan McAfee Capital Partners, a silicon-valley based venture merchant banking group. Caleel served on the board of directors of several CMCP portfolio companies, both public and private, and completed private placement transactions across the life sciences, recycling, alternative fuels, and energy sectors. 

While a student at Wharton, he was a leadership fellow, co-chair of the ethics committee, a graduate assistant in the MBA Admissions Office, a member of the dean’s graduate student advisory committee, and received the 2003 Wharton Way Leadership Award. Caleel earned a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994.

Pearl Mao is currently MBA Director, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. Prior to this role, she was Director of Career Services of the school. Pearl had extensive business and managerial experience with leading MNCs in China and abroad. Pearl recevied her MBA from Thunderbird in the US.

Ms. Yang is a Vice President in the Asia Growth Capital Group, focused on growth capital investment opportunities in China. She is based in Beijing.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Ms. Yang was an Associate at A.T. Kearney in Beijing, where she engaged in consulting projects for clinets in the financial service, pharmaceutical, IT and other sectors. Prior to that, Ms. Yang was a Senior Business Analyst in A.T. Kearney for three years.

Ms. Yang received her MBA from Harvard Business School, and her bachelor's degree in International Finance from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

李剑威于2007年加入富达国际风险投资。他主要专注于电信，媒体和高科技行业的投资机会。

在加入富达之前，李剑威是波士顿咨询公司(Boston Consulting Group)的一名战略咨询顾问，为不同行业的领军企业在战略和运营方面提供富有成效的咨询服务。他服务过的客户包括两家全球领先的移动电话运营商，全球最大的媒体集团之一，中国四大国有银行中的两家，全球最大的铝业集团之一以及中国最大的家电零售企业之一。李先生在电信，金融服务，高科技以及零售行业有丰富的咨询经验；同时在一些专题上有较为深入研究，包括定价，市场进入/增长策略，技术评估，信息战略规划，兼并收购目标的识别与筛选，金融业的风险管理，零售业的地域扩张与门店布局，等等。

李先生拥有北京邮电大学管理工程硕士/学士学位以及计算机辅修学位。他也是GARP认证的金融风险管理分析师(FRM)以及IBM认证的商业智能解决方案专家。

Kevin Jiang is a Consultant with Bain & Company in Shanghai. Prior to that, Kevin has been working in the US in business and management positions.

Kevin received his MBA from Kellogg School of Management in 2007

Ellen H. Kim is Assistant Director of Admissions at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill.

Growing up in a Korean-American household, Ellen had extensive experience in education and non-profit sector with a strong interest in Asia. Prior to Kellogg, she helds a number of administrative and admission roles in various educational institution and non-profit organizations.

Yuan Gao is a Senior Marketing Manager at Dell China in charge of alliances and partnership marketing such as Intel and Microsoft. Previously, he was a consultant with PWC and co-founder of a startup.

Yuan received an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, a M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School and founding director of Tuck's Center for Global Leadership. He is also the faculty co-director for Global Leadership 2020, Tuck's executive education program that focuses on global management and is taught on three continents.

Vijay Govindarajan (known as VG) is an internationally renowned authority on strategic innovation, industry transformation, and global strategy and organization.

Charles Gregson先生于2005年四月正式成为美通社的CEO。自1974年1月成为联合商业媒体公司（美通社母公司）的内部法律顾问以来，Gregson先生曾先后担任多个管理职位，并领导联合商业媒体公司旗下的北美业务部门、资金和证券经纪部门、消费金融业务以及市场研究、图片库服务、媒体关系、全国报纸和广告出版业务。现任联合商业媒体公司的执行总监。在担任了9年时间的美通社董事和董事会主席、2年时间的代理CEO之后，Gregson先生于2005年4月正式成为美通社的CEO。Gregson先生同时还兼任Garban-Intercapital的主席以及Provident Financial的代主席。