CARRINGTON DAY (HONG KONG) - Key Persons


Andy Leyland

Job Titles:
  • Supply Chain Expert

Jim Marron

Job Titles:
  • DIRECTOR, INDUSTRY & BUSINESS ANALYSIS / Industry
Industry and business analyst in the mineral resource sector since 1980, on the ground in China since 2001, conducting studies into most aspects of the mineral and processing supply chain, involving a wide variety of metals, chemicals and agribusiness. Committed to helping people develop insights into their industry and market.

Mark Clulow

Job Titles:
  • DIRECTOR, BUSINESS DATA / Executive Search and Strategic Leadership for the International Mining & Minerals Industries.

Peter Akell

Job Titles:
  • CEO / Managing Director Carrington Day, Non - Executive Director Lynch Group, Chairman Global Mining Association of China ( GMAC ), Convenor of GE Morrison Institute

Peter Arkell - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • CEO / Managing Director Carrington Day, Non - Executive Director Lynch Group, Chairman Global Mining Association of China ( GMAC ), Convenor of GE Morrison Institute
Peter Arkell is the Managing Director of Carrington Day, a consulting company that assists international companies doing business in China and Chinese companies to go abroad. Peter first came to China in 1996 and has lived here since 2004. He calls Shanghai home, where his China head office is located. He is a prominent member of the mining sector in China, being the Chairman of the Global Mining Association of China (GMAC), the international mining community's peak representative body, and founding Chairman of the Oriental Mining Club. Peter is also a Member of the Melbourne Mining Club International Advisory Board. He was appointed for 2019-2024 to the panel of mediators of the Shenzhen International Mediation and Arbitration Centre of China Mining. He is an active member of the international business community in China, having been a Member of the Board of Directors of the AustCham Shanghai since 2008 and had been Chairman from 2012 to 2016 when he retired from the Board. He is a non-executive board director of Lynch Group, an ASX listed agribusiness which is Australia's largest integrated flower grower and wholesaler. It is the largest premium grower in China with four farms and export and wholesale operations in China. Peter is also convenor and non-executive director of the GE Morrison Institute, an Australian not-for-profit company that taps into the wealth of knowledge of those with deep on the ground experience in China to better inform the discourse in the West of doing business in and with China.

Thomas Arkell

Job Titles:
  • DIRECTOR NEW BUSINESS / Commercial
  • DIRECTOR, NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / Commercial
  • Members
  • New Business Development Director

Xie Wenli - CFO

Job Titles:
  • DIRECTOR, FINANCE
  • Finance Director
Xie WenLi (Lily) has been the Finance Director of Carrington Day since its earliest days and is a senior member of the management team. Before joining Carrington Day she had been a business owner in her hometown of Xi'an. Her start-up logistics business became very successful and was serving the north-western provinces of China. Xie Wenli (Lily) is the Finance Director of Carrington Day, a consulting company that assists international companies doing business in China and Chinese companies to go abroad.