AZ China Staff
Jenny Chen
Jenny has been with AZ China since September 2007.
Jenny has a Master degree in Electro-Chemistry and a Bachelor Degree of Commerce in International Business. Originally from Henan Province, she studied and worked in Canada for many years. She was involved in international trading operations and in sourcing products from China for the Canadian market, developing and maintaining good relationships with Chinese suppliers.
She has an in-depth knowledge of the Chinese carbon market. At AZ China she is working on the Chinese raw material market for the aluminum industry as a market analyst.
Lolly Luo
Lolly was AZ China's first employee, and joined us on completion of her degree in Robotics and Instrumentation at Dalian University. Although Lolly's skills as an engineer are excellent, her greatest skill is her Customer Service attitude and her ability to work with a variety of clients on a wide range of equipment and machines.
Charlene Qu
Charlene is a specialist market researcher, and has worked with foreign and Chinese companies researching markets in China for export. Charlene studied at the PLA University in Henan Province, completing her Information Systems and IT degree in 2003. Charlene speaks fluent Italian and English and was previously the Technical Manager for an Italian consulting firm. Charlene is working on developing our knowledge base in the Chinese aluminium market, the crude oil industry and the Chinese energy situation.
Sara Medici
AZ China Business Manager, graduated at Ca' Foscari University, in Venice (Italy). Knowledge of Italian, French, English, Chinese, Russian. Sara has been living and working in China for more than five years. She has a deep understanding of the Chinese industrial and social reality.
She was engaged in outsourcing projects for the Italian market. Sara has been visiting and inspecting many Chinese industrial sites, verifying factories, products and equipment compliance with western quality standards.
Janet Zhu
Born in Shanghai, Janet was brought up in an English speaking environment with her parents involved in academia and business.
Janet was involved in Licensing Merchandises in her early career, and also spent years in business consulting in China. Janet has several years experience running her own business, supplying packaging material to the US market. Janet's previous clients including Vitamin World, Orly, ICQ, Super Pharm, Nippon Animation.
Janet understands the Western ways of doing business, yet retains her Chinese roots. Janet was also involved in the Global Sourcing project with Alcan, before co-founding AZ China.
Paul Adkins
Paul has an MBA from University of Newcastle in Australia and has many years experience in sourcing, supply chain and operations.
Paul previously worked for Alcan and Alcoa, Philips, and Compaq in Australia. During that time, he spent many years based in Sydney but trying to source low cost components from China and elsewhere.
At the end of 2004, Alcan appointed Paul to set up its Global Sourcing office in Beijing. Upon completion of that project, Paul has elected to stay in Beijing, where he can assist other Australian and Western manufacturers to successfully source from China.