Topic: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in Asia
Speaker: Jay Boyle, Shanghai Chapter Co-Chair
Presentation:
- General macro economic overview in China
- Recent developments due to the monsoons and the flooding, and how it is affecting the economy
- Covid-19, the response and what we are currently seeing
Speaker's bio:
Jay Boyle is the founder and managing partner “ECFO Service Ltd,” and founder and managing director of a software startup “Decision Modeling Systems LTD”.
Jay’s experiences in Asia over the past 25 years span start-ups, turnaround and pre and post transaction work in manufacturing, sourcing, service, food and beverage industries. He specializes in providing a cross functional approach to financial, accounting, strategic and operational support to companies building businesses in Asia. Jay implements controls, diligence, ERP, product costing programs, develops strategic Initiatives, and designs expansion plans and advises on merges acquisitions and divestitures.
A “jack of all trades,” Jay has over 35 years of business, manufacturing, industrial rigging, salvage, logistics, start-up, accounting and finance roles. He was a cofounder and later the controller of Kuhl Clothing a US outdoor brand and served as start-up and later CFO for Dura-Line China, TJC, The Jordan Company’s first private equity investment in China. Dura-Line was a telecom duct systems provider that built China’s first fiber networks in the 1990’s. Since ECFO’s founding in 2001, Jay has provided ongoing advisory to over 120 companies and has worked on over 50 transactions.
Jay has been a lecturer at the University of Arizona Thunderbird Graduate School of International Business and has published articles on doing business in China.
Jay holds a Masters of Business Administration from The Thunderbird School of Global Management of Arizona State University, a Bachelor of Science from State University of New York at Fort Schuyler, and a US Merchant Mariner’s Third Mate’s Unlimited Oceans Tonnage License.
Jay co-chairs The FENG Shanghai chapter. He is a member of AmCham and the Asia and Transformation and Turnaround Association.
