William J. Amelio
CHAIRMAN
William J. Amelio is the President and CEO of CHC Helicopter. Mr. Amelio joined CHC Helicopter in August 2010. Prior to joining CHC Helicopter, Mr. Amelio served as President and CEO of Lenovo Group Limited. Mr. Amelio joined Lenovo in 2005 and managed the integration of China’s first successful acquisition of a foreign company. Lenovo was transformed from a $2.9B China local competitor to a $16B Global PC powerhouse with addition of the IBM PC company. Mr. Amelio is an execution-oriented executive who brought a disciplined management system to the company. He established a culture built on trust where diversity of ideas has become a competitive weapon.
Prior to joining Lenovo, Mr. Amelio served as senior vice president, Asia-Pacific and Japan, for Dell Inc., from 2001 to 2005, with responsibility for strategy and operations across the region. During his tenure, sales more than doubled in the Asia-Pacific and Japan regions and service levels improved significantly.From 2000 to 2001, Mr. Amelio was executive vice president and COO of NCR Corp.’s retail and financial group. From 1997 to 2000, he was president and CEO of Honeywell International’s transportation and power-systems divisions and head of the turbocharging-systems business at Allied Signal, Honeywell’s predecessor. Under Mr. Amelio’s leadership, the turbocharging-systems business doubled its revenues to more than $1 billion, implemented Six Sigma and SAP, and successfully integrated acquisitions. From 1979 to 1997, Mr. Amelio held a wide range of senior management positions with IBM, including general manager of operations for IBM’s personal computing division.
He and his wife, Jamie, and their six children currently reside in Austin, Texas. Mr. Amelio has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and an honorary doctorate in engineering from Lehigh University. He also has a master’s degree in management and is a Sloan Fellow of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Jamie Amelio
CEO
Jamie C. Amelio is the founder and CEO of Caring for Cambodia, a non-profit organization directed toward educating children and training teachers in Siem Reap, Cambodia. While vacationing in Cambodia in 2003, Texas-native Jamie Amelio expected to be wowed by the temples of Angkor Wat. Instead, it was a 9-year-old girl panhandling for a few dollars who would change her life.
A few weeks later, Jamie established Caring for Cambodia, which now supports 5,800 students in 10 schools in Siem Reap. It is run mostly by volunteers. With 3,000 supporters worldwide, CFC guarantees well-equipped classrooms, locally trained teachers, a meal for every student, uniforms, basic health and hygiene care — and often a bicycle.
Jamie is no stranger to helping children. When living in Los Angeles, she served on the Board of Directors of Vistas for Children, and founded Junior Vistas for Children. In both 2005 and 2010 Jamie was awarded the prestigious Golden Hand Service Award by the Cambodian government, and named as a 2010 Classic Woman of the Year by Traditional Home Magazine. She is also the author of Stumpy the Crocodile, a children’s book about helping neighbors in need. After living in Asia for ten years, Jamie, her husband Bill, and their six children now live in Austin, Texas.
Christopher Graves
DIRECTOR
Christopher Graves heads one of the world’s leading public relations firms and serves on the board of its parent company, Ogilvy & Mather. Prior to being named Global CEO, He served as CEO of Ogilvy PR in Asia Pacific where it is the largest, most award winning public relations network. Graves joined Ogilvy PR after 23 years in business news including 18 years with Dow Jones & The Wall Street Journal. He was one of the founders of the Wall Street Journal Report (a broadcast now celebrating its 23rd year),
Vice President in charge of news and programming for CNBC Asia, Vice President in charge of news and programming for CNBC Europe, Managing Director of Business Development (EMEA & Asia) for Wall Street Journal Online (WSJ.com), and Managing Director of Far Eastern Economic Review magazine which won magazine of the year twice in Asia during his tenure.
Chris is a frequent public speaker and moderator, appearing as a guest host on CNBC Squawkbox and at such events as the Clinton Global Initiative, World Economic Forum, Global Entrepolis @ Singapore, ADASIA, 3G World Congress, World Islamic Economic Forum, Boao (China’s most influential forum), serves as chairman of the Asia Marketing
Effectiveness Festival, and many more. He has hosted, debated with, or interviewed such heads of state as Tony Blair, Lee Kuan Yew, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Goh Chok Tong, and many of the ministers of China, India and other countries.
Graves is a contributing author of the McKinsey book “Korea 2020.” In 2010, Graves was elected to the Council on Foreign Relations, the most influential foreign policy think tank in the US. He serves on the board of directors of Caring for Cambodia, which builds and runs schools there. Awards include Asia Pacific PR Professional of the Year (2007), Asia Pacific Consultancy of the Year 2008, an EMMY nomination and more than a dozen awards from The New York Film and Television Festivals and the Asian Television Awards.
Brent Nelson Smith
DIRECTOR
Mr. Smith is a co-founder and Managing Partner of LevelOne Capital Limited, providing financial advisory, consulting, investment and business services throughout Asia, and Executive Chairman of its subsidiary Vietnam Venture Group Limited. He was previously with DBS Bank Ltd, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, where he was Managing Director and Group Head of Corporate and Investment Banking, based in Singapore (2003-2007). At DBS, he was responsible globally for the bank’s corporate, SME and investment banking activities, syndicated finance and private equity. He was a member of the DBS Group Management Committee, the Wholesale Banking Executive Committee, the Project Council, Asset and Liability Management Committee, and the Private Equity and Mezzanine Finance Committee.
Prior to DBS, he was the Managing Director, Group Head – Communications & Core Technologies of Pacific Crest Securities, responsible for the firm’s investment banking and corporate finance activities across the sector for this technology and communications focused investment bank. Previously, Mr. Smith served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Strategic Development for MegaPath Networks, a US-based communications technology provider.
Mr. Smith previously spent 14 years in Mergers & Acquisitions advisory and Investment Banking at J.P.Morgan & Co, where he completed assignments in New York, Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and San Francisco. In Asia, he held positions of Co-Head of M&A Asia and Head of Real Estate Investment Banking. His last position at J. P. Morgan was as Managing Director & Co-Head of Communications Services, Investment Banking.
Mr. Smith holds an MBA in Finance from UCLA Graduate School of Management and an AB Degree in Engineering and Economics from Brown University. He is a Senior Advisor to Baker International Group. He serves as a Director on the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, on the Boards of the Singapore American School, Caring for Cambodia, Propel Insurance, on the Advisory Board of the Center for Global Management at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School, and previously on the Boards of the Singapore Maritime Foundation and the Asian Bankers Association.
Elizabeth King
DIRECTOR
Liz King has an MA from UC Berkeley in Educational Psychology and a BA from Middlebury College. She has been involved in the field of education for 17 years as a teacher, tutor, curriculum developer and consultant–working in San Francisco, Washington DC and Singapore. She has been a volunteer with CFC since its founding, and played a central role in the development of its Teacher Training Project. Most recently, she worked with the Center for Inspired Teaching, a Washington, DC-based non-profit focused on teacher development. Additionally, she is furthering her graduate studies through the CFC-Lehigh University Partnership.
Cuong Do
DIRECTOR
Cuong Do serves as Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer for the pharmaceuticals company Merck & Co., Inc. (known as MSD outside the United States). As chief strategy officer, Mr. Do is responsible for both developing and executing enterprise-wide strategy and further building connections between the current and future business plans of Merck’s franchises, divisions, and functions.
Prior to joining Merck, Mr. Do served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Business Development at TE Connectivity, one of the world’s largest providers of products and solutions that connect and protect the flow of power and data in virtually every industry. Mr. Do also served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for Lenovo, a global leader in personal computers. He previously was a Director with McKinsey and Company where he helped to build the company’s healthcare, high tech and corporate finance practices.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, U.S. and a Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He currently or formerly serves on the boards of Callidus Biopharma; Wuxi AppTec, Shanghai; Fugoo; Profectum Foundation; Celebrate the Children; and the National Youth Science Foundation and is a member of the Tuck MBA Advisory Board.
Michael O’Neill
SECRETARY
Mr. O’Neill was appointed Chief Legal Officer for CHC Helicopter on February 15, 2011. Previously, Mr. O’Neill served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for the Lenovo Group, the global personal computer maker, where he was responsible for all legal, contracts, government affairs, and security for the company. Prior to his work with the Lenovo Group, Mr. O’Neill was the General Counsel for international practices for Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP, where he was responsible for the legal and administrative matters of the firm outside of the United States. Before that spent 16 years at Honeywell Inc. in a succession of Legal roles for the Company including General Counsel for Europe, Middle East and Africa located in Brussels Belgium.
Mr. O’Neill earned his JD and M.B.A. (Finance) from the University of Baltimore after completing his B.A. in Business Administration/Economics from Belmont Abbey College. Mr. O’Neill also completed George Washington University’s Postgraduate Masters Program in Government and Technology Contracting and Duke University’s Postgraduate Corporate Counsels Program.
Joanne Leong Neidow
TREASURER
Resides in New York City with her husband Chris and their two children.
