INTRALINK LIMITED - Key Persons
Alan has over 30 years experience working in and with North America and Asia. Originally from the UK, he was based in Japan for 16 years, and prior to joining Intralink, he spent five years with a Toyota-group spinout coordinating multi-vendor projects for international automotive OEMs.
Alan established Intralink America Inc. in 2008 when he relocated to Silicon Valley. He is now responsible for promoting Intralink's services to North America-based technology companies, VCs and government agencies, as well as consulting global corporations on strategic innovation and business development initiatives.
Job Titles:
- SVP, Managing Director, Greater China & SE Asia
Alex heads up our Greater China & Southeast Asia team and oversees the delivery of all our client projects in those regions. Since joining Intralink, he has developed and executed numerous revenue-generating Asia market entry strategies for clients across a wide range of sectors. He has established partnerships and won design-ins in the renewable energy, life sciences, materials, software, power electronics and automotive spaces.
Originally from the UK and brought up in Belgium, Alex moved to China in 2006. He graduated with a BA in Chinese from Sheffield, an MA in International Business from Nottingham and an MBA from Manchester, and prior to joining Intralink he worked for a Sino-Dutch joint venture in China. He is a fluent Mandarin speaker and based in our Shanghai office.
Job Titles:
- EVP, Head of Business Development, EMEA
- Head of International Market Expansion
Alex leads our EMEA Business Development team, and has commercial oversight of our all our Europe and Middle East client engagements. As a Japanese speaker, he was formerly based in our Tokyo office where he developed and implemented market expansion strategies across a range of sectors, including semiconductors, telecommunications, and enterprise software.
Alex read Japanese, Chinese and Economics at Oxford and also Advanced Japanese at Sophia University in Japan. He has worked in and with Asia for the past 30 years, including for Sony's International Marketing Division in Tokyo.
Alex is a failed stand-up comedian.
Before joining our board as non-executive chairman in July 2023, Andrew worked for 25 years in downstream operations for Shell International Petroleum Company, managing various commercial distribution and marketing activities around the world: in Malaysia, Canada, the USA and Europe. He moved from Shell to work in business payments and was CEO Europe and latterly President of Corporate Development for FleetCor, a US Fortune 500 business, operating in more than 30 global markets. After retirement from FleetCor in 2019, Andrew has held a series of public and private company chair roles across a range of businesses, mainly in software and manufacturing. He is Executive Chairman of Aryza Group, an international insolvency and loan management software organisation, headquartered in Dublin RoI.
Andrew is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Directors and a Life Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts & Commerce.
Charles Cielo oversees the Intralink Japan Med Tech and Life Sciences team, directing the delivery of life science, IVD, medical device and pharmaceuticals-related projects in Japan. He has experience in discovering, cultivating and closing up to USD million deals in these spaces, including transactions such as technology platform and drug licensing, RUO product sales, research and clinical research service provision, and strategic partnerships.
A bioengineer by training, a scientist by vocation, and a businessman by trade, Charles worked in multinational Big Pharma prior to joining Intralink. He currently specialises in helping overseas healthcare companies find their place in the unique and sophisticated Japanese healthcare ecosystem. Charles is proficient in three languages and has been living in Japan since the year 2000.
Chris joined the Intralink Board in July 2023 having spearheaded Mobeus' investment into our company. He has also led investments into international public policy advisory firm Access Partnership, specialist HR consultancy Lace Partners and B2B demand generation agency Inbox Insight. Chris joined Mobeus in 2010 and was made partner five years later. He sits on the Executive Committee and Investment Committee and is jointly responsible the company's origination and investment activities nationwide.
Chris was named as one of Real Deals' Future 40 mid-market investment leaders in 2022 and Future 40 Diversity and Inclusion Leaders November 2020.
Job Titles:
- Director, International Corporate Development
David leads our Digital Media Practice, overseeing our global specialists who assist western adtech, martech and broadcasting companies wanting to develop and implement Asia expansion programmes.
Based in Tokyo, he has helped international advertising platforms and other software startups land their first deals with organisations including Yahoo! Japan, Rakuten and Dentsu.
He has a background in advertising and technology, having worked for both a big media firm and a cutting-edge augmented reality startup.
David is originally from Montreal and speaks English, French and Japanese. He studied International Business in Canada before moving to Japan. When not helping western companies win deals, he enjoys spending time with his two children, attending Asia League ice hockey games and cooking tacos on Tuesdays.
Job Titles:
- Head of International Trade & Investment
Job Titles:
- SVP, Head of Medtech & Life Sciences
Graham heads our global Medtech & Life Sciences practice, and is responsible for business development teams in EMEA , North America and Singapore, and for the overall sector strategy. He has wide-ranging experience across the sector and a 30-year track record of helping European companies develop global sales, licensing and sourcing strategies - in recent years focused specifically on Asia.
Based in the UK, Graham has a degree in chemistry from Bristol University and extensive professional experience in chemicals, automotive, packaging and plastics in addition to medical technology and life sciences.
Greg was brought up in Japan and educated in the UK. After reading Japanese at the University of Sheffield, he worked in Japanese local government and then the airline industry before joining Intralink as its general manager in Tokyo in 1996. He spent 10 years working in the company's Tokyo office, growing the team from two to ten and delivering work for clients across a broad range sectors. In 2001, he set up the company's operation in Shanghai, followed by similar operations in South Korea and Taiwan. In 2005, he relocated to Shanghai and three years later to the UK. In 2010, he was appointed group CEO and in 2011 led a successful debt-financed management buy-out.
Job Titles:
- Head of International Corporate Development
- SVP, Head of Corporate Development Services, EMEA
Huw heads up our Oxford-based Corporate Development Services group across the EMEA region and is responsible for the delivery of innovation, investment, business development and market research initiatives for our Asian corporate clients in Europe. A fluent Japanese speaker, Huw lived in Japan for 20 years before moving back to the UK in 2015. He was previously the Managing Director of our Tokyo office where he oversaw our operations in Japan and implemented and delivered entry strategies for western technology companies expanding into the country with a specific focus on the semiconductor, automotive, industrial, and telecoms spaces.
Prior to Intralink, Huw worked for the Sanyo Semiconductor Company in Japan in both technical and commercial roles, and at a Japanese start-up in the field of security and biometrics where he sold into corporate and government clients across North America and Europe. At the weekends, when not coaching his son's football team or indulging in a kick-about himself, Huw enjoys escaping to the mountains of Eryri in his native North Wales for hiking and recharging.
Job Titles:
- Director, International Corporate Development
Jeremy graduated from the Australian National University with a specialist degree in Asian Studies. He has worked in and with Asia for 21 years, including work with the Japan Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
Jeremy has managed Intralink's offices in China, Korea and Japan and worked in the mobile communications and digital broadcast sector, licensing and selling base station/transmitter/backhaul/network and handset software, components and systems to operators, OEMs and systems integrators.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Association of American State Offices
- EVP, Regional Managing Director, APAC
Jonathan oversees Intralink's operations across APAC from our Seoul office. Originally from the UK, he moved to Korea in 2004 and after completing his Masters at Seoul National University, he was awarded the Korean Government Scholarship to do his Ph.D. on South Korean industrial policy.
He heads up our Energy & Environment Practice and has helped dozens of energy-related companies with their Asia strategies, from licensing their technologies to large industrial conglomerates to building out local manufacturing facilities and supply chains.
Jonathan is chairman of the Association of American State Offices in Korea and sits on the board of GBxAsia, linking UK technology founders & investors across Asia Pacific.
Job Titles:
- Head of Delivery, International Corporate Development
- VP, Head of Delivery, Corporate Development Service
Kris heads our Corporate Development delivery group in North America, managing projects that help corporate clients build new businesses and close partnerships at startup pace. He previously worked in pre-commercial business development with an R&D startup and in investment attraction and export promotion for JETRO, and he holds a Master's of Science in biomedical engineering from the University of California Irvine.
Job Titles:
- Head of International Trade & Investment
Michal heads up Intralink's global marketing team. He's a double Master's degree holder: in Korean Philology (UAM Poznan) and in International Business and Marketing (HUFS Seoul). He lived in Seoul 2008 - 2017 where he was working extensively in the digital advertising space with the top Korean ad agencies and brands. He also has experience in managing projects related to ESS, electronics, enterprise software and retail.
Michal speaks fluent Polish, English and Korean, and is based in Intralink's head office in the UK.
Michal is responsible for our Engagements in Europe and heads up our Industrial & Materials practice. He spent 12 years in Korea, where he was formerly Project Director at Intralink's Seoul office, working in industrial, energy and software applications.
Prior to this, Michal was a manager at a large Korean software company, a consultant with Samsung Electronics' appliances division, and a manager at a Korean tier-2 manufacturing company supplying LG Electronics.
Michal is fluent in Korean, English and Polish. He studied linguistics and international relations in Poland and Korea, and holds an Executive MBA from Atlanta Georgia State University and Poznań University of Economics. Michal enjoys wilderness hiking, Cross-training, and Wing Tsun - a Chinese martial art. He is also training to become a certified dog behaviourist.
Job Titles:
- SVP, Head of Corporate Development Services, Japan Group Sustainability Officer
Noel heads up our Corporate Development and Business Development Consulting Unit in Japan.
Since founding the practice with Intralink CEO in 2015, he has played a key role in building the unit into a strategic lynchpin, personally winning new business with over 30 Japanese corporate accounts in the process. He continues to influence global strategy and service development. He concurrently holds the post of Group Sustainability Officer where he is responsible for Intralink's Net Zero and Sustainability strategy.
Originally from the UK, Noel first moved to Japan in 1997. He has a first in Japanese language and studies from Southampton University and an MBA from INSEAD. Prior to joining Intralink, Noel worked in presales and consulting roles for Vodafone Global Enterprise and Verizon Business. In his spare time, Noel likes to exercise, play video games and enjoy nature.
Job Titles:
- VP, Business Development, North America
Oren heads up our global Software and Cloud practice and is engaged in business development for all three of Intralink's service offerings in North America - working with our Market Entry, Corporate Development, and Trade & Investment clients. Since moving back to the US, Oren has run business development programmes for software and hardware-based innovators in fields as varied as information security, telematics, video streaming, smart factories, construction machinery, electric mobility and renewable energy. Previously a member of Intralink's Tokyo team, he secured deals for clients in the EV mobility, construction machinery, solar energy, enterprise software and cybersecurity spaces.
Originally from New York City, Oren lived in Japan for 7 years and has worked in Japan/East Asia business development for over 20 years in both government and private sector settings. He graduated with a BA in International Relations and a minor in East Asian studies from Tufts University and is a fluent Japanese speaker. After years of being away, he is now back to enjoying the fresh seafood and cold winters of New England.
Peter is responsible for the group's financial and legal matters including compliance, reporting, investor relations and M&A.
Before joining Intralink in August 2023, following Mobeus' investment in the business, Peter has held Finance Director and CFO roles for 12 years in a variety of international consulting businesses including The Renewables Consulting Group and ERM. Earlier in his career, he trained in accounting practice providing audit, tax and advisory services for a client portfolio with a focus on international business.
Outside of work, Peter enjoys spending time with his family and unwinding on the golf course.
Job Titles:
- Director of Finance
- Data Processing Officer
- Data Protection Officer
Rebecca is an AAT and ACCA-qualified finance director with over 30 years of experience in the field. She heads up Intralink's global finance team and is responsible for the company's financial consolidation. She also carries out the company secretary duties and oversees human resources.
Rebecca had started her career in finance at Oxford Instruments and had worked across many industries, including agriculture, sports & leisure, retail and food & beverage, before joining Intralink in 2015.
She is based in Intralink's Oxfordshire headquarters.
Job Titles:
- VP, Deputy Managing Director, Japan
Richard heads up our Government Services group, maintaining client relationships and ensuring consistent delivery across all our offices in Asia. He is also involved in energy, materials and industrial projects, so works with clients on projects related to hydrogen, batteries and smart materials.
Richard has an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College and has spent most of his career in Japan in International trade roles and is a fluent Japanese speaker. He is President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan and enjoys the beach and barbecuing in his spare time.
Job Titles:
- Head of Medtech & Life Sciences
- VP, Business Development, Medtech & Life Sciences
Sol leads our medtech and life science business development in North America. He has worked with Intralink clients across industries including diagnostics, biopharma, medical devices, food & agtech, software, semicon and wireless. While in Asia, he served as director of operations for Greater China and led project initiatives covering the China, South Korea and Japan markets.
Sol has a degree in molecular biology from the University of Virginia and first came to China in 2002 where he studied Chinese at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He joined Intralink Shanghai in January 2007 and relocated to Boston in 2017. In his free time, he enjoys cycling and running.
Job Titles:
- VP, Director of Operations, China
Stewart heads our Electronics & Embedded Software Practice, managing an international team of specialists who help western tech companies to develop and implement growth strategies in Asia. Based in Shanghai, he runs business development programmes for clients in fields including fabless chip design, semiconductor IP, EDA tools, fab operations, HPC computing, and next-gen materials. He's secured deals for clients with large Chinese and Taiwanese corporations including Huawei, Alibaba, Uni-President, and NIO, as well as many other contracts with companies in the semiconductor, cloud computing, automotive, AdTech, and smartphone industries.
Originally from the UK, Stewart is fluent in Chinese and has lived in China for well over a decade. He studied Chinese & Management at Sheffield University, gained an MA in International Trade from Nanjing Southeast University, and has a mini-MBA in sustainable development from AmCham Shanghai. In his spare time, he likes to play tennis and badminton - he's a qualified coach - and to escape the city to hike in the great outdoors.
Job Titles:
- Head of International Market Expansion
- SVP, Head of Business Development, North America
Tommy has worked in and with Asia for his entire career. He received a degree in East Asian Studies from Dickinson College and worked in China for ten years. He spent seven years with Intralink Shanghai, during which he secured millions of dollars in revenues for clients across a range of sectors including automotive, CE, semiconductors and industrial.
Tommy relocated to Silicon Valley in 2017 to drive the growth of our North America business, and during this time has built a strong network of entrepreneurs, VCs, and accelerators.
Job Titles:
- Director, International Corporate Development
Job Titles:
- SVP, Managing Director, Japan
Will heads up our Japan team and oversees the delivery of all our client projects in Japan. Since joining Intralink in 2008 Will has delivered deals for clients across sectors including telecoms, automotive, healthcare and quantum computing. As the head of the Intralink IPR team, Will is also responsible for licensing, patent acquisition and tech transfer projects across Asia.
Will has lived in Japan since 1997. He graduated from Sydney University with a BSc (Biochemistry) and LLB (Hons). In a previous life he was a litigation lawyer and co-founded an ed-tech startup. He is a fluent Japanese speaker and based in our Tokyo office.
Job Titles:
- VP, Chief Representative, China
Since joining Intralink, Zhao has worked with numerous clients to identify and secure partners across multiple sectors including consumer electronics, telecoms, medical device, RTLS, retail design and sports equipment. She has also successfully conducted investment site surveys for US investors, investment promotion initiatives, and has acted as interim general manager for MNCs' China entities.
Zhao Le has a degree in Marketing from Dalian University and an MA in Business Management from Kingston University in the UK, and prior to joining Intralink she worked in broadcasting, retail and PR. She is fluent in English and based in our Shanghai office.