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Christopher Thomas 唐睿思 Chairman, Integrated Insights Integrated Insights董事长 |
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讲师简介 / Speaker Bio Christopher Thomas (“Chris”) has spent twenty years working in Silicon Valley, China, Japan, and Europe at the intersection of semiconductors, strategy, finance, and government policy. He has delivered exceptional results as a leader in the world’s top consulting, technology, investing, academic and research institutions. Chris is the founder of Integrated Insights, an advisory firm serving the Boards, Chairpersons and CEOs of global companies. He is a non-resident Senior Fellow in Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at the Brookings Institution and serves as delegation lead for the US-China Track II Dialogues on the Digital Economy. He is a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and serves as Board Director of the TMRW Foundation. He regularly briefs politicians and regulators globally on technology policy. Chris spent ten years as a partner at McKinsey & Company, leading the Asia Semiconductor Practice and the Digital Strategy service line. While at McKinsey, Chris founded the CEO Circle, a gathering of C-suite executives from Chinese, American and European companies in the technology industries. McKinsey ranked Chris in the top 10% of partners in 3 of his last 4 years at the Firm. Prior to McKinsey, Chris spent a decade at Intel. He was the General Manager of Intel China, the largest semiconductor business in China. He owned the region’s $5 billion- plus P&L and grew revenues by more than 50% within 3 years. Chris also held multiple executive roles at Intel’s Silicon Valley headquarters. These included Chief of Staff to Intel’s Chief Sales, Marketing and Strategy Officer, where he advised on all key decisions for Intel’s global salesforce. During his Intel career, Chris delivered more than $20 billion in revenue and $10 billion in gross margin to the company. Chris began his career as a private equity investor at The Blackstone Group in New York City and has served as a Board Director and Chair of the Audit Committee at Velodyne, the inventor of LiDAR. In 2021, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China recognized Chris as a national-level foreign expert in science and technology. Chris has published more than twenty articles across artificial intelligence, semiconductor, high tech, China, and policy topics. He received an MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar; a Master of Arts in Political Science from Stanford University; and a Bachelor of Science in Economics, summa cum laude, from the Wharton School. |
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