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Andrew S. NEVIN, Ph.D.
Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Andrew brings 20 years of leadership experience on four continents running, investing in, and consulting with over 50 companies at all stages of development and in many industries, including education. Immediately prior to founding LanguageCalls in 2005, Andrew was the President and General Manager of United Family Hospitals, China's leading international healthcare group. Andrew began his career in 1987 at McKinsey & Company in Toronto. Andrew is also Chairman of Math Resources, a Canadian-based e-learning company focused on mathematics (www.mathresources.com) and a Director of the Ivy Group, a Beijing-based chain of bilingual kindergartens (www.ivyacademy.cn). He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, and studied philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Andrew's first degree is in Computer Science and Mathematics. Andrew is passionate about languages and is fluent in French and Mandarin and has studied German and Japanese.
   Lloyd DILL
Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Lloyd is the former President of International Communication Techniques, a company specializing in language training. In addition to LanguageCalls, he is also the co-founder of USA-based V-Links Inc and former Vice President of Sales and Marketing. His previous work experience also includes a term as the General Manager of US-based Clear Messaging LLC. Lloyd is fluent in English and French.
   HU Qiong
Vice President, China Operations

Founder and General Manager of Yi-learning, one of the leading online education companies in China, Hu Qiong brings many years of experience in research and development, management, human resources, training and e-learning, including serving as the former Sales and Marketing Director of Oztime Beijing Online Education. She has successfully implemented more than 50 e-learning solutions, including one of the largest e-learning systems in the Mainland for China Telecom.
   Dr. Hanif KANJI
Chief Financial Officer

Hanif Kanji brings a unique combination of skills ranging from finance, insurance, business administration, entrepreneurship, healthcare and management with which to spearhead the financial function of LanguageCalls.

Having practiced as a medical doctor in the field of general surgery in the late 1980s, he quickly made a transition to a career in investment banking which spanned eleven successful years with major international banks in London, New York, Paris and Hong Kong in the areas of corporate finance and derivatives. In the year 2000, Hanif turned to entrepreneurship and has consistently applied his strengths in change management, financial analysis and engineering, process reengineering, business development, and team building including the restructuring and reengineering of a then loss-making e-health subsidiary of a Hong Kong listed company, which he turned around to profitability in nine months - well ahead of schedule.

Hanif earned his medical degree from Cambridge University in the UK and an MBA from the Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania, USA.

A British national, Hanif was born in Switzerland to parents of Indian origin and grew up in (the former) Zaire, before moving to the England to complete his schooling. He grew up speaking four languages by the age of five: Swahili, Lingala, Belgian French and Katchi (the Indian dialect his parents speak). Having forgotten the first two, Hanif eagerly awaits the development of SwahiliCalls so he can regress into his childhood. He also has a good working knowledge of German but is still recognized as a complete non-native Indian when he tried to speak his family dialect of Katchi.



 
  Chris LONSDALE
Director

A successful entrepreneur and published author, Chris advises senior leaders and management teams throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Chris’ clients include AIA, The Apparel Group, The Coca-Cola Company, Boots Healthcare International, DHL, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, The City University of Hong Kong, DuPont, East-Asia Heller, Hayco, Hewlett-Packard, The Hong Kong Tourism Board, Ingersoll-Rand, Motorola, NFO Worldwide, Rockwell Automation, Seagram Asia-Pacific, Swire Beverages Ltd., The Western Academy of Beijing, and a number of international financial institutions and leading investment banks. Chris’ focus on business and communication is built on almost 30 years of experience in this field. In the early 1980’s Chris declined a place at Harvard University in order to accept an invitation into the New Zealand-China Exchange Program and immerse himself in the language, culture, and nascent modernization of China. As a result, he is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese. While in China Chris translated a book of Chinese Folktales which sold for many years. He has recently published The Third Ear (www.the-third-ear.com), a new book expanding on his unique approach to learning languages.
   JIANG Taiwen, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer

Jiang Taiwen has more than ten years of experiences in software development and technical team management. He is one of the originators of XOOPS, a leading web portal system. To this day, he continues to lead developers and project managers for the award-winning XOOPS. Prior to joining Tahu Group, Jiang Taiwen was the R&D Director for Advanced Era of Science Inc. Canada. Prior to that, he was a very successful software architect and development lead for Blue Bamboo Ventures, a Beijing-based American investment company.
Dr. Jiang's achievements extend to the fields of environmental protection and energy conservation. He has received academic and industrial awards for his work on application control and optimization in the petroleum and chemical industry. He has received academic and industrial awards for his work in a National Key Science and Technology Project named :Applications of control and optimization technologies to petrolume and chemical industry.
In his spare time, he devotes himself to open source development and management, as well as education related NGO activities. He has served as Technical Director of Kaifu Student Website (or 5xue), which is a leading educational portal website owned by Dr. Kaifu Lee. He is the Maintainer for XOOPS Project and Founder of Chinese XOOPS Community.
Jiang Taiwen received his B.S., Master’s and Ph.D from Tsinghua University, Beijing and spent five years on technical research and development at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada.