Our Team

David McHardy Reid PhD is Thomas F. Gleed Chair Professor of Business Administration at Seattle University. He has over two decades of China experience. An international business expert, he is a visiting professor at ESCP-EAP in Paris and Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland. From 2000 to September this year he was Director of the Center for International Business at RIT in Rochester New York. For five years prior to October 2000 he held the Malayan United Industries Chair of International Business at Curtin University-the largest business school in Australia and the decade prior to that he was based in Hong Kong. He has published around 100 papers and three books: two for The Economist on Japan and Thailand and one for the Financial Times on Korea, as well as articles in management journals, mainly on international strategy. In the last decade and a half Dr Reid has been researching the strategies of foreign companies in Asia, and has met with and interviewed over 400 CEO's and other senior officers in: Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Burma including over 100 recently interviewed in China. For several years, prior to relocating to Seattle he held a board appointment of an engineering company and influenced its market entry strategy into China. At the beginning of 2006 he was appointed as a consultant to SHIFF (Shanghai International Fashion Federation). In mid-2006 he was invited by the First Minister of Scotland to become a consultant in the GlobalScot network of support to Scottish companies developing international market positions.

Robert Kapp, PhD