Our association with Day Consultants adds another 30 years of China expertise with notable depth in copyright and trademark issues, motion pictures, digital content, and software in China . Until earlier this year, Mark Day, its Founder and Managing Director, had served Chief Representative in China and Regional Legal Counsel, Asia-Pacific for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPA). He remains MPA's legal counsel on China litigation and other matters. Mark is also working closely with Microsoft Corporation and ISAN-IA under the International Standards Organization in Geneva and others in the media, entertainment, and software industries to develop the use of anti-counterfeiting technology for global application. His involvement with China goes back to his early Chinese language and history studies at the University of Queensland in his native Australia , in the 1970s. He was among the first foreign students to study in China when the universities reopened after the cultural revolution, entering the Beijing Languages Institute for postgraduate language studies in 1979 and then, from 1980 to 1983, at Nanjing University. After that, from 1984, when Australia reopened its consulate in Shanghai , he served for a number of years as a Trade Commissioner for Australia there. He moves among his office in Sydney, another in Shanghai , and our office in Beijing .

Our association with Dynamic Strategies Asia, LC (DSA), a Japan-focused consultancy, ensures a complementary array of services for companies entering or operating in the Japanese market. DSA Principals have decades of experience working with corporations and business associations on business and policy issues in Japan. The firm specializes in corporate affairs counsel, external strategies to effectively deal with legislation and regulation. DSA also provides a wide range of related business, market intelligence, and due diligence services. All members of the DSA staff are fluent in Japanese and are living or have lived in Japan. This link is also useful for Western companies expanding into China through regional headquarters in Japan, or through their Japanese subsidiaries. A member of our Beijing staff is also fluent in Japanese. Dynamic Strategies' offices are based in Tokyo and just outside Washington, DC, in Bethesda, MD.

Emerging Markets Advisory Services provides complementary services to companies involved in major projects in China, strategic positioning for the Chinese market, and related issues management. It draws upon the 35 year experience of its Founder and Managing Director, Colin Russel, operating at the most senior levels of the private sector and government in the region, with a particular focus on infrastructure, technology, natural resources, and distribution services. Notably, among other activities, Colin has served as Trade Commissioner for Canada (1972-88); Director for China, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ottawa (1994-1997); and as Consul General for Canada in Hong Kong (1997-2001). He is also presently an independent non-executive director of Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings, Hong Kong and of Cheung Kong Life Sciences International Holdings, Hong Kong. Colin maintains offices in Hong Kong and London.

DDA's working association with Emerging Markets Advisory Services is further enhanced by Colin's service on our International Advisory Board.

Interlink Capital Strategies, established in 1994 as Interlink Management Corp., is a Washington DC based consulting firm specializing in emerging market finance and business development. Its managers are experts in international project financing, trade financing, raising private equity, business development and marketing with a Washington insider's expertise on how to access government programs and political support for international business transactions. Interlink has successfully arranged billions of dollars of financing and used government advocacy and strategic industry relations to structure transactions world wide.

Originally founded by Tim Bridgewater and Neil Bush, brother of US President George Bush, to focus on business between the U.S. and Asia, it expanded, in 1998, into domestic private equity and is now invested directly and indirectly in approximately 60 U.S. companies through a publicly-traded Small Business Investment Company, More America Capital Corporation (NASDAQ symbol: MACC). Interlink Solutions was set up in 2003 to provide sales, marketing and business development support to U.S. companies seeking to expand overseas, as well as foreign companies seeking to enter the U.S. market. Summit Ventures International, which specializes in U.S. government advocacy, became part of Interlink in 2004.

DDA's working association with Interlink is further enhanced by the service of Lew Cramer, an Interlink principal, on our International Advisory Board. Lew was formerly Director General of the US Commercial Service, which overseas the commercial offices in US Embassies and Consulates in China and elsewhere around the world.

Dr. Jana Matthews, one of America 's leading experts on entrepreneurial leadership and the management of fast growing companies, works with CEOs all over the world to help them unlock their company's growth potential. The author of seven books - several translated into Chinese - Dr. Matthews has a doctorate from Harvard, has grown three companies, and is President and CEO of The Jana Matthews Group . She first came to China in 2004 at the invitation of the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the US Department of Commerce (DOC) to speak about entrepreneurship and venture capital at special Entrepreneurial Forums in Shanghai , Beijing , and Xi'an . A highly effective speaker, consultant and teacher, Dr. Matthews consistently receives high ratings from CEOs and Executive Teams in China and elsewhere around the world as she teaches them how to develop a culture that supports growth, attract and retain the right people, develop a plan for growth, and change their roles as the company moves from one stage to another. She regularly returns to China as Visiting Professor in Peking University 's prestigious International Executive MBA Program. DDA is Dr. Matthews' partner in China .

Sinova Advisors Ltd. provides complementary services to companies and investors in regard to China 's rapidly developing innovation environment and the new R&D capacity and technologies now coming out of it. Drawing upon over 40 years of combined experience in China, and other skills learned in the high tech and financial services sectors in the U.S. and Europe, Sinova offers a broad range of services including technology scouting across China, custom research and reporting, due diligence on company-specific technology, business plans, and management systems. Many of these services have been specially designed for western VC and private equity firms, and other private and institutional investors active in the China market. Sinova's headquarters is located in the Zhongguancun section of Beijing , China 's Silicon Valley .

DDA's working association with Sinova Advisors is further enhanced by the service of its founder, Marin T. Tintchev, on our International Advisory Board.