OGL China team

  Dashiell  is the founding managing principal at Xanadu Enterprise. He is a senior  executive who brings more than 20 years of leadership and management  experience at U.S. corporations and private companies. He has guided  clients to support improved outcomes for China-market entry strategies  and operations management. As a former global vice president and  managing director at Home Depot China, Dashiell held extensive  operational and strategic responsibilities for identifying market  opportunities, establishing business operations, and managing government  relations. A native of Shanghai, Dashiell is multilingual and able to  interpret the meaning and nuance of Mandarin to bring local insights to  international business executives. His perceptions allow him to help  clients navigate the intricacies of the ever-changing China business  landscape. Dashiell previously worked in executive positions at Sears,  Roebuck and Co., and led teams in managing manufacturing and supply  chains for SMEs. He currently works with SMEs to Fortune 500 companies  looking for capital for strategic market entry in China. Dashiell likes  nothing better than to share his expertise and ongoing analysis of the  China market place with clients. Dashiell graduated with a Bachelor of  Science in electronic engineering from East China Normal University. He  is fluent in Mandarin, Shanghainese, and English. 

Chris  is a founding principal at Xanadu Enterprise. Chris leverages his deep  consulting background over the last 20 years for his clients in consumer  products, retail, technology, automotive, and specialty products and  services. A breadth of experience in China, Chris has led, managed, and  executed projects resulting in value-chain transformations, China market  entry, cost reductions, and service-level enhancements for clients  across a number of industries. Chris provides insights to clients from  his on-the-ground experience running businesses as well as workforce  creation and management. Prior to Xanadu Enterprise, Chris worked in  senior managerial positions at multi-national companies in consumer  goods and retail, with a special focus on China operations, business  development, and global supply chain optimization. He has a keen sense  of China’s laws and regulatory environment, understanding how they are  changing and the impact on clients allowing them to address these  concepts in their planning processes. He is regularly tracking and  evaluating the latest changes in China’s policies and politics. Chris is  uniquely positioned to offer his experience of China and how executives  can position themselves to work in this environment. Chris graduated  with a Bachelor and Masters of engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong  University. Chris deploys his bi-cultural and bilingual approach for  clients to guarantee they have feasibility and flexibility for future  opportunities. Chris is fluent in Mandarin, Shanghainese, and English.

Doug   has spent his career researching, writing, teaching and advising  companies about two topics: organizational development, where he has  focused on issues of leadership, organizational culture and corporate  social responsibility; and the Chinese economic reforms, where he has  focused on the intersection of economic and political forces that lead  to successful economic development models. From 2014-19, Guthrie was a  Senior Director at Apple, based in Shanghai China, where he led Apple  University efforts on leadership and organizational development in  China. Prior to joining Apple, from 2010-14, Guthrie was Dean of the  George Washington School of Business, Vice President for University  China Operations, and Professor of International Business. Prior to his  time at GW, from 1997-2010, Guthrie held faculty positions at NYU’s  Stern School of Business, where he was Professor of Management and  Director of custom Executive Education, and NYU’s Faculty of Arts and  Sciences, where he was Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director  of the University’s Office of Global Education. He has held visiting  Professorships at several business schools, including Kellogg, Harvard,  INSEAD, Stanford, Columbia and Emory. He served as Director of the  Business Institutions Initiative at the Social Science Research Council  (1999-2003) and was Academic Director of the Berlin School of Creative  Leadership (2008-11). His research has been recognized by numerous  grants and awards.

For  over three decades, Diane has had a ringside seat at what can only be  described as an economic revolution. Arriving in China’s Anhui Province  in 1985, she didn’t understand what economic reform was—let alone what  it looked like. Diane’s unique and diverse skill set was developed in  the cauldron of a forever-changing landscape as China marched forward  with reforms at a scale and speed never before seen in history.  Diane  has previously held C-suite positions in global corporations such as Liz  Claiborne and Adidas as well as executive roles in start-ups. During  the ‘90s, she guided multinational corporations in the first stage of  market entry, most notably identifying partners, markets, and teams.  Currently, she serves as the Managing Director of Xanadu Enterprise, a  bilingual, bi-cultural China market-entry firm that provides a range of  consulting and operational services to support companies in various  stages of entering and operating in the China market. Her breadth and  depth of experience enables her to assist both first-to-market as well  as established firms.