Charles Yin is the Executive Chairman of Worldwide City Holdings (WCH) headquartered in Beijing and Hong Kong. He focuses on investing in companies with sustainable advantages and advising CEOs and board members at Fortune 500 companies and emerging multinationals in China and around Asia. Mr. Yin is actively involved in NPO activities and founded the China-Japan CEO Forum (cjforum.org) and World Leaders Center (wlc.cjforum.org), an invitation-only discussion roundtable for CEOs and chairpersons of leading companies in Japan, China and the rest of Asia. He is the author of a bestselling book Winning in China: 10 Principles and 50 Tips.
Mr. Yin has over 30 years of experiences in China (Beijing, Shanghai), Asia Pacific (Singapore, Hong Kong), Japan (Tokyo) and the U.S. (New York City), leading changes and making strategic investments in tech, health care, consumer products, luxury goods, retail and logistics companies.
Mr. Yin is a well-known and powerful figure among the CEOs and boards of many Fortune 500 companies and emerging Asian multinationals conducting business in China and Asia. Through the years, Mr. Yin has helped companies, governments and NPOs to achieve significant successes and overcome numerous C-level challenges. Mr. Yin sits on the advisory board and advises the CEO and board for Asia’s leading tech, healthcare, premium brand, consumer product and logistics companies such as Sony, Takeda, Shiseido, Meiji, Yamato and serves as board of trustee for two NPOs and Japan’s #1 globally ranked MBA school IUJ.
Mr. Yin is also one of the most sought out keynote speakers focused on corporate strategy, organization transformation, digital transformation, leadership development, cross-border M&A, post-merger integration, joint venture management, crisis management, innovation and negotiation in China, Japan and Asia.
