China CIO Alliance
Board of Directors
Jin Ren
Chairperson
Ms. Jin Ren is a seasoned IT/Digital leader who has extensive international automotive experiences in both auto OEMs and auto suppliers. She is currently the Head of Product Creation & Industrial Digital and Innovation for Volvo Cars APAC. Over her four-years at Volvo Cars, she has greatly pushed forward the company’s digital transformation progress, data-driven business, and innovation to accelerate the company’s transformation to a software and mobility service company.Prior to Volvo Cars, Ms. Ren was the CIO of Johnson Controls (JCI) APAC. During her 11-years tenure, she had partnered closely with JCI’s large family of joint ventures, wholly owned entities, as well as entities via M&As, and led the successful implementation and deployment of many enterprise level IT systems and infrastructures and was instrumental to JCI’s fast growth in APAC.Prior to JCI, Ms. Ren worked in United States for more than 10 years, as an IT manager for Ford Motor Company and rotated in multiple departments, and as a senior consultant delivered the dealer connect system for Daimler Chrysler etc., through which she has gained a lot of business and IT experience in the automotive industry.
Noel Law
Co-Founder & Co-Chair
Noel Law is a co-founder of the CCA. Noel has 29 years of experience in business strategy and technology solutions in North America, Europe and Asia. He is currently Head of Greater China for the Third Bridge Group and previously founder and Managing Director of OPO Global, an executive consultancy. Prior to that Noel served as Managing Director of Unisys China, and Regional CIO for Celanese. Noel had also founded his own software company and worked as IT solutions consultant.
As a volunteer Noel Co-chairs the China CIO Alliance, serve on AmCham IT committee and coaches young business executives on leadership and strategy issues.
Eric Dieny
Co-Founder & Co-Chair
Eric Dieny is a co-founder of the CCA. He was born in France and has been residing in Greater China since 1982.
Currently Eric is a Partner in the Shanghai office of DHR Global, a top 5 US executive search firm. His core activity is in Advanced Technology, Industrial and Private Equity. Prior to joining DHR DHR Global, Mr. Dieny was President and Principlal Owner of EMS Consulting, a boutique executive search firm with offices in China and Taiwan, for 10 years.
Joan Lin
VP of Program
Joan Lin works as Vice President IT, Asia-Pacific region in Trane Technologies since 2020. She is responsible for the Digitalization strategies, IT Operational leadership, and strategies Execution delivery across Trane Technologies Asia Pacific businesses. Joan sits in both Asia businesses and global IT executive team to influence & drive business value added digitalization and IT offering, she continuously develops her team to define, deliver appropriate technologies and world class services in the organization with the ultimate goal of enabling business growth and excellence.
Before joining Trane Technologies, Joan had experience of serving in Kohler as Asia Pacific Senior IT Director, Asia Pacific IT director in Avery Dennison, and held Regional Business CIO role with various business units in Dupont and Eastman Kodak. Joan held various work experience and leadership positions in China, US and Canada. Joan has a track record of leading the transformation in M&A, divestiture, Digitalization, end-to-end processes and IT integration, IT value identification and delivery to business success, IT capability and organization build out, Digital Marketing capabilities build out, as well as CRM and ERP implementations etc.
Joan holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and EMBA from Washington University in St. Louis.
Susan Jin
VP of Membership
Susan Jin leads Adient IT in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Adient is the worldwide leader in automotive seating with unmatched global reach and scale.Susan is responsible for overall Adient IT management in APAC region, strategy to execution. Strong partnership with business leadership, support and enable business (wholly owned entities and Joint Ventures) in China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India.
Remi Te
VP of Partnership
Remi Te is the CEO of Wegotec, a strategy consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations to leverage technologies to support their Business Growth and to improve their competitive advantage.Remi has spent over 15 years in IT Leadership positions and has been based in China since 2006. Over his stay in China, he has been known to build IT Organizations and driving Digital transformations across Asia-Pacific for multiple Business Units within Emerson Electric and Nidec Corporation. As the IT Business Partner, he acted as the main bridge between the technical and business communities to deliver competitive advantage from IT Investments.Aside from his current job. Remi is also active in the Tech community in Shanghai advising startups on their business models and their technologies. Remi holds a Computer Science Master's degree from Epitech and a Global Executive MBA degree from Ceibs.
Ercan Aydemir
VP of Leadership Development
Ercan is the head of IT and Business Solutions for Goodyear Asia Pacific.Seasoned IT professional with over 20 years of experience across multiple IT domains, he has had global responsibilities in Corporate, R&D, PMO and Infrastructure services.In addition to his IT responsibilities, Ercan leads the “beyond tires” mobility strategic efforts across the Asia region.Ercan has worked in China, Europe, and the USA.
Michael C. Fillios
Honorary Board Advisor
Michael Fillios is a global business technology executive with significant IT transformation, change leadership and operational experience. He is a twenty five veteran in industries spanning pharmaceutical, automotive, engineering, software and management consulting including 10 years at a startup software and consulting company focused on business technology management.
Michael is currently the Vice President, IT and Divisional CIO at Packard E/EA, Delphi’s largest division, based in Shanghai. As a member of the Divisional Executive Committee, he has global responsibility for all IT operations as well as for IT in the AP region as a member Asia Pacific Growth Board. Prior to his appointment as Division CIO, he led the Office of the CIO with responsibility for Strategy, Enterprise Architecture and IT Business Operations.
Steffen Mueller-Urbaniak
Honorary Board Advisor
Steffen Mueller-Urbaniak was named Director of IT Business Operations for the Americas for Ford in January 2011. He became the Director of Ford Asia Pacific IT since July 2014. In addition to overseeing IT in Asia, his responsibilities also include global IT strategy for Manufacturing in Ford.
Steffen was previously responsible for IT for Marketing, Sales & Service and Communications in the U.S. Prior to that he held various positions in IT and Product Development both in Europe and in the U.S. Through these varied experiences he has developed a broad understanding of Ford’s automotive business as well as the IT strategy and solutions that support it. His stated professional passion is to help improve the business by bringing people, technology and processes together.
Steffen holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He joined Ford of Germany in 1989 as an IT system analyst supporting CAD and CAE. He relocated to the U.S in 1998 and lives in Shanghai, China since 2014.
Esteban Remecz
Honorary Board Advisor
CIO, Global VP Information Technology at Iochpe-Maxion S. A.
In 1997 Esteban joined ZF Friedrichshafen AG and has since worked in International assignments specializing in IT strategic leadership issues worldwide. Previously based in Shanghai in ZF HQ as Regional CIO with responsibility over 108 ZF Legal Entities in the Asia Pacific Region.
Today he is the Global CIO for IOCHPE MAXION a global leader in Automotive Structural components and the World Largest Manufacturer of Steel and Aluminum Wheels.
His duties include:
- Corporate IT Definition, Development and Deployment (IT DDD) as well as Corporate IT Governance to support IOCHPE-MAXION’s Global Digitalization Strategy focusing on IoT in industry 4.0 leveraging on new and existing Best Practices for the Automotive Industry.
- Leading the Due Diligence Process for the strategic acquisitions and Mergers as well as establishing the Integration Process to obtain aggregate value and competitive advantages through ICT.CURRENT MEMBERSHIP COMPANIES:
Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.
LightWAN Technology
LightWAN Technology is recognized as a leading provider of fast and secure virtual network services. According to esteemed industry analysts such as IDC, LightWAN Technology held the top market share in China's SD-WAN service market for three consecutive years, from 2021 to 2023. The company has developed a global SD-WAN backbone network. Utilizing the link redundancy technology, it achieves second-level failover by rerouting network traffic to a quality route when a path failure occurs. By leveraging Chinese standard cryptographic algorithms and robust end-to-end encryption technology, it ensures efficient, stable, and secure data transmission. Key products offered by LightWAN Technology include a mobile software client (compatible with Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, among others), SD-WAN gateways, virtual SD-WAN gateways, SD-WAN orchestrators, an SD-WAN backbone network, and a commercial encryption system. LightWAN Technology provides group-level networking solutions to numerous major Chinese central enterprises, including China Communications Construction Co., Ltd., China Electronics Technology Group Corporation Limited (CETC), State Power Investment Corporation Limited, China Energy Engineering Group Co., Ltd., China Tourism Group Corporation Limited, PetroChina, SINOPEC, CNOOC, China Merchants Group, BGRIMM Technology Group, China National Complete Plant Import and Export Corporation Limited, China Foreign Economy and Trade Trust, and China Travel Service.
S8fe.ai
S8fe.ai is offering a PAAS product to help enterprises comply with sovereign cybersecurity, data and personal information protection laws. By integrating both technology and compliance expertise in a turnkey solution, we enable growth with simplicity.
S8fe.ai PAAS product is built around a Data Platform and an AI Platform. Out Data Platform enables data collection, storage and usage in accordance with local regulations. Our AI Platform empower companies to generate business value from their own data while protecting their IP, preventing their data and machine learning models from leaving the safety of their controlled cloud environment.
Starting with China, one of the most challenging regulatory markets, and the second largest economy, S8fe.ai turnkey PAAS simplifies compliance and brings peace of mind.
Medalsoft
www.medalsoft.com
With over a decade of industry experience, Medalsoft specializes in providing tailored digital transformation and AI/GenAI solutions for global Fortune 500 companies. As a pioneer in the GenAI/OpenAI field, we successfully launched one of the first enterprise-grade GenAI platforms, SERVICEME, delivering unprecedented value and transformative power to global users.
SupplyOn
SupplyOn empowers you to drive efficient, resilient and sustainable supply chains – through intelligent collaboration and visibility solutions in the best, enabled industry community.
SupplyOn connects you with your business partners worldwide and ensures the long-term success of your supply chain. Be a part of this dynamic company network that connects more than 140,000 businesses worldwide and use it to quickly adapt to market changes and supply chain dynamics.
Sia Partners
Sia Partners is a next-generation management consulting firm and pioneer of Consulting 4.0. We offer a unique blend of AI and design capabilities, augmenting traditional consulting to deliver superior value to our clients. With expertise in more than 30 sectors and services, we optimize client projects worldwide. Through our Consulting for Good approach, we strive for next-level impact by developing innovative CSR solutions for our clients, making sustainability a lever for profitable transformation.
Covisint
OpenText is one of the top ten software companies in the world. OpenText Covisint, a subsidiary, focuses on cloud management for automotive supply chain collaboration, providing businesses with collaborative management and tracking that spans the entire procurement supply chain. This includes everything from foundational EDI integration to inbound logistics pull, outsourcing, VMI, claims, and in-transit logistics visualization. It also covers supplier qualification, sourcing, allocation, contract management, and quality management and tracking of production materials throughout the entire production lifecycle, supporting global procurement, logistics tracking, collaborative manufacturing, collaborative design, and visual risk control needs.
OpenText Covisint entered China in 2005 and currently has over 1,800 direct clients in the Asia-Pacific region. It officially joined OpenText in July 2017.
KEVINS
www.kvs-tech.com
Founded in 2006, Kevins is headquartered in Shanghai, with branches in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, Xi 'an, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Singapore. Our business mainly covers the following four sectors: IT private cloud construction, enterprise intelligent operation and maintenance, enterprise application software development and intelligent buildings.
Meanwhile, Kevins has successively obtained a series of certificates, such as certificates of high and new technology enterprise, ISO9001, ISO 20000, ISO27001, ITSS, intelligent building Grade II. Besides, Kevins is a core agent of numerous international manufacturers: Cisco Gold agent, F5 Gold agent, Palo Alto Diamond agent, DELL EMC Gold agent, HP Commercial Gold agent, etc.
With a high integration of innovative delivery methods and industry common solutions, Kevins has established a comprehensive customer service system, providing comprehensively efficient, professional, advanced and easy-to-use tailored information technology services for customers in various fields and industries.
Brave Ambition Technologies
Brave Ambition Technologies is a leading provider of technology outsourcing and recruitment solutions, dedicated to delivering exceptional talent and IT services to businesses around the globe. Backed by a wealth of industry experience, we have quickly established ourselves as a trusted partner for companies seeking high-caliber IT professionals. Our firm combines deep expertise in both recruitment and technology outsourcing, ensuring that every client receives personalized, effective solutions tailored to their unique business needs.
We understand the fast-paced, dynamic nature of the tech sector and the challenges it presents, which is why we offer flexible, scalable outsourcing options designed to align with both your technical requirements and budgetary considerations. From short-term project needs to long-term IT staffing, our approach is customized to provide top-tier talent while maintaining cost efficiency.
At Brave Ambition Technologies, our mission is to empower businesses with world-class IT professionals who not only meet technical demands but also integrate seamlessly into your organizational culture. We prioritize fostering strong relationships with our clients, ensuring we deliver tailored services that drive business growth and innovation. By leveraging our extensive network and resources, we provide a level of service that reflects the highest standards of excellence in the IT outsourcing industry.
Keyrus
Keyrus is a global consulting and technology company that focuses on making data matter, truly matter, from a human perspective.
Since it’s not only the data itself that matters, but the opportunities we can develop by leveraging it, we are constantly working at understanding what our clients are trying to achieve. We explore and measure behaviors. We understand and translate. We make sense of the realities data represents to shape better, impactful, real-life decisions. Our value proposition is founded upon five major groups of services, each comprising multiple offerings:
• Automation and artificial intelligence
• Human-centric digital experience
• Data & analytics enablement
• Cloud and security
• Business transformation & innovation
Relying on the accumulated experience of more than 3500 people and present in 26 countries on 4 continents, Keyrus is one of the foremost international experts in data, consulting, and technology.
Keyrus is ready to help you design an actionable data strategy that will deliver your business objectives and drive commercial successful.
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