Board

James was born in Shanghai, raised in Japan and studied at Harvard Business School. He worked in Hong Kong for 6 years and Japan for 8 years as senior vice-president of Jardine Matheson. Before setting up Intralink in 1990, he was a divisional managing director of a UK-listed company with extensive manufacturing, marketing and international sourcing interests. Over 20 years he has built Intralink into a specialist organisation delivering results for industrial, consumer and technology focused companies in four of the most important economies in Asia - China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. He was a trade advisor to the British Government for over 10 years.

Greg was brought up in Japan and educated in the UK. After reading Japanese at the University of Sheffield, he worked in Japanese local government and then the airline industry before joining Intralink as its general manager in Tokyo in 1996. He spent 10 years working in the company’s Tokyo office, growing the team from two to ten and delivering work for clients across a broad range sectors. In 2001, he set up the company’s operation in Shanghai, followed by similar operations in South Korea and Taiwan. In 2005, he relocated to Shanghai and three years later to the UK. In 2010, he was appointed group CEO and in 2011 led a successful debt-financed management buy-out.

Today Greg leads a team of over 100 full-time employees across 14 offices in Europe, Israel, Asia and the United States. The company continues to support western companies expanding in East Asia, Asian companies wishing to collaborate with innovators and tech companies in Europe, America and Israel, and government agencies seeking to promote international trade and investment.

Greg is a fluent Japanese speaker and is based in the company's UK-based head office.

Alan has over 22 years experience working in and with North America and Asia. Originally from the UK, he was based in Japan for 16 years, and prior to joining Intralink, he spent five years with a Toyota-group spinout coordinating multi-vendor projects for international automotive OEMs.

Alan established Intralink America Inc in 2008 when he relocated to Silicon Valley. He is now responsible for promoting Intralink's services to North America-based technology companies, and government agencies.

Jeremy graduated from the Australian National University with a specialist degree in Asian Studies. He has worked in and with Asia for 21 years, including work with the Japan Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

Jeremy has managed Intralink’s offices in China, Korea and Japan and worked in the mobile communications and digital broadcast sector, licensing and selling base station/transmitter/backhaul/network and handset software, components and systems to operators, OEMs and systems integrators.

Simon is Founder and Chief Executive of JSB Energy Partners Limited. He was formerly Chairman and Chief Executive of Stifel Europe. Stifel acquired Oriel Securities in 2014, which he founded and launched in 2002. Prior to this role, Simon worked at HSBC Investment Bank, Cargill Financial Markets and Hoare Govett. He has over thirty years' experience in financial services, helping companies and investors to be successful. He is an investor in a number of businesses. Simon graduated from Imperial College, London with a degree in Chemistry and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell (KPMG).