Taiwan

Alex leads our Greater China team and oversees the delivery of all our client projects in Mainland China and Taiwan. He has developed and executed revenue-generating market entry strategies for clients across a wide range of sectors, established partnerships and won ‘design-ins’ in the renewable energy, life sciences, materials, software, power electronics and automotive fields. Originally from the UK and brought up in Belgium, Alex has lived in Asia for more than 10 years and is a fluent Mandarin speaker. He has an BA in Chinese studies from Sheffield, an MA in International Business from Nottingham and an MBA from the University of Manchester.

Leland is the Taiwan Director for one of our major clients – The Arizona Commerce Authority – heading its FDI and trade initiatives in Taiwan. He was previously a consultant advising Facebook, Shanghai Media Group, GenMobile, WATCHA, SBIE2 Advisors and Foxconn’s EV consortium, MIH. He led GSMA’s Asia operations for seven years, was part of the Terayon executive team when Motorola acquired the firm for $140M, and a member of eOn Communications’ IPO team. Leland has an MBA and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA. He was a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs, served in the US Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and is fluent in English, Mandarin and Taiwanese.

Sam enables western technology clients to grow their business in Taiwan and source capital from the country. He also helps western governments to attract Taiwanese FDI and has drafted specialist sector reports for government representative offices. Originally from Taiwan, he has spent his career working across Taiwan and the UK and was previously Science & Innovation Analyst for the British Trade & Cultural Office in Taipei, conducting market analyses and managing inbound investment missions. Sam's background is in IT, specialising in software development, testing services, hardware component design and manufacturing.