Our people
Qun Wang
I am the co-founder of GuanxiConnect. My purpose today is to enable and help the West to better understand China and for China to better understand the West by building cultural bridges.
I am a culturally intelligent leader, China expert and a certificated Chinese Language teacher.
I specialise in Chinese Culture and language.
At GuanxiConnect, we want others to learn, benefit and improve from our combined personal cross-cultural experiences of studying, working and living in both China and the West. By doing this, the value created is to not only mitigate the risk of business failure through a lack of understanding of cultures but also to bridge cultural gaps between China and the West.
Dr Yang Chu
I was born in Shandong province - the hometown of Confucius in the east of China and raised in the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang autonomous region in the northwest of China. It’s fair to say that I was made in China but assembled in the West. I have spent two-thirds of my life growing up, studying and working in China and the other third living, studying and working in the UK.
I am a Risk Management Professional and combine GuanxiConnect with a highly successful career with a top FTSE 100 company.
I realise that the world is facing an unprecedented risk now; as long as the West does not properly understand China and China does not properly understand the West. Compared with many other business risks that I work to manage; the cultural risk is a much bigger one. In my professional view, if this can be successfully managed, this presents a huge opportunity for the World. That’s what has motivated me to co-found GuanxiConnect.
I have benefited greatly from both China and the Western World in my career journey and life so far. In China, we have an old saying: “Receiving drips of water when in need and I shall return the kindness with a spring”. Reciprocating an act of kindness is our nation’s fine tradition. This is a fantastic opportunity for me to give back for what has been given to me.