Dr. Weckesser co-founded Sino-Consulting (SCI) in 1988. He negotiated the original joint venture with the Osaka Gas Company in Japan on behalf of the University City Science Center in Philadelphia. He has overseen SCI’s development into an internationally recognized consulting firm providing strategic market entry and sales services to companies interested in the China market. Headquartered near Philadelphia, SCI has three offices in China, as well as a full service rep office in Tianjin in alliance the Science & Technology Commission, and business networks throughout the country. Dr. Weckesser has worked with such multinational companies such as Eaton Electric, Kodak, General Cable, Alcatel, Unisys, Sanyo, Teleflex, Rockwell, Lonza, PQ, Sartomer and numerous middle market companies including Waukesha Bearings, Pennsylvania Crusher Corp, Gundlach Corporation, Ellwood National Crankshaft, Electralloy, Wasik Associates, Martin Engineering, K-Tron, Akron Brass, Latrobe Steel, and dozens more. He has also overseen dozens of policy research studies for Japan’s prestigious Ministry of Economics Trade & Industry (METI), and for the Japan Quality Assurance Institute, the premier ISO certifying agency in Japan, in areas such as technology transfer, entrepreneurial development, information technology, etc.
Dr. Weckesser was awarded Tianjin’s 2003 Haihe River Prize, (along with the President of Motorola (China), the President of Toyota (China), and others) for his long term contributions to Tianjin’s development. He was also recently appointed as Economic Consultant to the Tianjin Free Trade Zone and Tianjin Airport Industrial Park. He has been a featured speaker at such forums as the The Wharton School China Business Forum, the Columbia School of East Asian Studies, Drexel University’s eMBA program, Beijing Venture Capital Alliance, The China Institute, the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association, the International Wireless Packaging Consortium (IWPC), and many others. He is the author of “The China Challenge” in The Chemical Industry and Globalization (2006), American Chemical Society, “China’s Rapid Progress Up the Value Chain” in The Future of the Chemical Industry (2009), American Chemical Society, “The Japanese Pharmaceutical Market”, Medical & Healthcare Guide, 8th & 9th editions (MLR Biomedical information services, 1992, 1993, New York), and editor of numerous proprietary research reports.
Prior to joining SCI, Dr. Weckesser was Associate Provost at Temple University in Philadelphia where he wrote Temple’s patent policy and created its technology transfer program. He is a founding board member of the Japan-America Society of Greater Philadelphia, and board member of the Global Interdependence Center. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 in Political Science from the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Carol Heiberger, CEO, Rollout Success Consulting
Carol Heiberger’s experience – most of it in new product development – includes strategic planning, new business development, marketing and finance. She has extensive experience in working with small businesses as well as large, complex organizations, in both the domestic and international arenas. She has worked for municipalities, not-for-profits, telephone and electric utilities, large corporations and a university. Her extensive work with engineering and operations personnel in the telecommunications industry gives her a high comfort level with technical and front-line workers. Over the past five years, her expertise has expanded to include the education, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries. Carol got her bachelor’s degree from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and her MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She formed her own Philadelphia-based consulting firm, Energy and Telecom, in 1996. RolloutSuccess.com concentrates on capabilities that are not industry specific.In addition to her consulting work, she has served as an instructor for the Strategic Business Planning Course at Wharton’s Small Business Development Center and as an assistant adjunct professor for the MBA program at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.
Adam Schran, Chief Executive Officer, Ascentive
Adam is a lifelong entrepreneur, adventurer, and tech aficionado. He is the Founder and CEO of Ascentive, and has been dedicated to growing the company’s products and markets for 8 years. Additionally he was a principal shareholder and the Executive Vice President of Profusion LLC, a search engine technology company acquired by Intelliseek, now a part of Nielsen Netratings. Adam graduated from Haverford College in 1998 with an honors degree in computer science with mentorship from one of the Internet’s forefathers. He is an avid traveler and aviation enthusiast, and has lived in Germany and Switzerland. He is also currently a member of the Manhattan Software CEO Roundtable and a judge for the Wharton Business Plan Competition.
Jeremy D. Anderson
Jeremy D. Anderson is a Senior Associate in the Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP’s Business Law Group. He represents clients in a variety of areas including corporate litigation, commercial litigation and patent litigation. Jeremy also advises corporations, alternative entities, directors and stockholders on their rights and obligations under Delaware law. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and matters involving corporate governance, appraisal and indemnification.
Jeremy has lectured frequently on the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act and the Delaware Limited Partnership Act. In 2008, Jeremy was part of the Delaware legal delegation to Taiwan where he spoke on corporate control, fiduciary duties and the business judgment rule at the Taiwan Corporate Governance Association Annual Conference, the Securities & Futures Investors Protection Center and the Judges & Prosecutors Training Institute.
Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP is one of the nation’s leading intellectual property and business law firms, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware with additional offices in Washington DC and California.
Carlos Garcia, Founder and CEO, Human Network Labs
Carlos Garcia brings a combination of 25 years of entrepreneurial leadership, technological expertise, and international business experience to Human Network Labs. This new startup specializes in solving the challenges of indoor location by creating the first infrastructure-free peer-to-peer localization technology operable worldwide with person-level accuracy. The new technology directly addresses solutions for asset tracking, child finding, way finding, object hyperlinking, advertising and social networking markets deployable today without requiring infrastructure. He has served previously in a number of early-stage technology companies in the gaming, music, communication and media industry.
Jeffrey Babin, Managing Director at Antiphony and Management Consulting Consultant
Jeffrey Babin has more than 20 years of experience developing business strategies for emerging companies as well as Fortune 500 clients. Jeffrey is a Managing Director and founder of Antiphony Partners, LLC, a strategic consulting firm that specializes in helping companies create sustainable value through innovation. Prior to Antiphony, he served as CEO of Corporate Technology Ventures, a company he founded and grew into one of the nation’s premier medical software publishing companies. He serves as a Senior Lecturer and Associate Director in Engineering Entrepreneurship at the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) at the University of Pennsylvania, and as Associate Director of the National University of Singapore’s College in BioValley (a cooperative educational exchange program with SEAS).
Jeffrey was a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship for the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and currently holds an appointment as a Lecturer in Marketing. He is the India Country Manager for the Wharton Global Consulting Practicum, is the Wharton Venture Initiation Program Advisor, and is an Entrepreneurial Fellow for the Weiss Tech House. Jeffrey is a founding member of the Mid-Atlantic Angel Group Fund, a $4.2MM seed and early stage investment fund. Jeffrey earned a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA
