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A UNIQUE CROSS CULTURAL TEAM
Joanne Cheng
Intercultural Consultant
Director/ Producer
Joanne Cheng is a seasoned bilingual intercultural
marketing consultant/TV producer & director specializing
in creative communications for the Chinese and American
markets.
Ms. Cheng began her communications career in 1987 in her
home town Beijing China where she first worked as a news
reporter and later writer/director /anchor for "Center
Stage", an English speaking entertainment show in
China Central Television (CCTV) Beijing, China. In the
US, Cheng founded her own company East-West Corridor Communications
in 1993 and has since offered niche services in Chinese
American marketing, Public Relations and TV reporting
to an extraordinary array of clients from advertising
agencies, Fortune 500 corporations to major broadcast
networks. Joanne has personally produced, directed translated
and narrated many bilingual multimedia marketing materials.
Cheng also worked as a licensing agent who sold the copyright
to three of Mario Puzo's novels and TV films titles to
Mainland China.
Joanne also produced and consulted for ABC 20/20, MTV/Asia
and PBS on the China/Chinese culture related stories.
Joanne has produced and directed CHINA GOLD RUSH a documentary
film on modern China broadcasted on PBS/WLIW21 in 2000.
Ms. Cheng was educated in both China and the US, with
a BA in English/Journalism from Beijing, China, and MA
in Communication Arts from Maryland, USA.
David Temple
Marketing
Consultant
David Temple is CEO at Global Education Marketing,
Inc., which promotes educational products and services
worldwide. He has more than 20 years of educational and
training experience and 7 years of search marketing. David
optimized his first site in 1998 with US Internet.
In 1999 David produced and presented a seminar series,
"Surviving the Internet" with ShopNBC. In 2000 he was
the VP Business Relations, at Subjex, an artificially
intelligent dialogue based search engine. In 2002 David
was the VP of Business Development, China Webplus, a B2B
and B2C e-commerce solutions and Internet/intranet development
company. David introduced the company at an early ecommerce
show in Beijing . He enjoyed China so much he stayed and
taught. David was a visiting professor and lecturer in
Guangzhou at Dr. Sun Yat Sen University, Lingnan College,
South China Normal University and in Beijing at the University
of Mining and Technology and the University of Architechure
and Engineering. Most of his students were International
MBA candidates but he also taught middle school and kindergarten
with his wife which they thoroughly enjoyed.
David
was a Search Marketing Consultant at Findlaw.com
and SEO Manager at TopRank
Online Marketing prior to founding Global Education
Marketing, Inc. He was on the Search Engine Strategies
"Global Search Landscape" panel, and will be presenting
at the next eComXpo. David currently blogs about the China
search marketing at Multilingual-Search.com.
Brandt Fredriksen
Artistic Director
Brandt Fredriksen is in charge of EWCC's programming
for all music exchange programs between the US and China.
Director and founder of the Silver Bay Music Festival
that combines teaching and performances, Music educator/teacher,
Piano Faculty,Manhattan School of Music-Preparatory Div.
Master classes at universities and conservatories throughout
the United States, China and Greece.
Pianist
Graduate of Indiana University and The Juilliard School;
Doctoral of Music Degree from SUNY at Stony Brook; Winner
of the Munz Award, Artists International Competition;
Performances at Weill Hall, Merkin Hall, Hunter College,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Major Universities throughout
the United States. Recordings with Fleur de Son, Guild
and Elfin Music.
Daniel
Durning
Design
Consultant & Media Producer
Daniel Durning is an artist, educator, and new
media designer. He is a full time Assistant Professor
of computer graphics and animation in the Fine
Arts Department of the New
York Institute of Technology. Daniel has worked in
production since 1984, where he developed his skills in
the art departments of many film, video, animation and
multimedia production companies. He has designed and art
directed numerous high-end commercial projects for various
companies throughout the years including an Oscar award
winning film, interactive animated CD-ROM and the early
website development.
His
most recent project was developed in conjunction with
MOMA's new ground breaking internet radio station WPS1
where he can be heard as host of his own radio show
Art and Technology, Discussions with Visual and Sound
Artists. Daniel Durning is dedicated towards promoting
digital art and animation in New York City. He has been
a member of the Board of Directors of NYC
ACM SIGGRAPH, where he has organized numerous events
for the NYC computer graphics community.
Client list includes: American Heritage, Disney, IBM,
Bristol Meyers, Squibb, Franklin Institute, Merrill Lynch,
GE Capital, TIAA, Lifetime Television, Fox Television.
George
Zhao
Trade Mission Manager
George Zhao was born in Shandong, China and currently
lives in the United States. He worked for 7 years at the
China International Travel Service (CITS) where he was
a Tour Manager. George has managed trade missions, government
and business conferences, trade shows and sightseeing
tours. During his time there he led over 10,000 people
from more than 50 countries all around China and to more
than 20 other countries. George also provided interpretation
and translation services.
George graduated from Liaocheng Teachers University where
he excelled at the javelin, discus and decathalon. He
attended Guandong Public Administration Institute where
he received his Masters of Philosopy and was an assistant
professor and lecturer. George received his Masters of
Business Administration at the University of North London
where his area of focus was cross cultural marketing.
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