UCC's foreign-based staffs are most indigenous, experienced, highly educated men and women with knowledge of local industry and considerable access to information and decision-makers. They are supported by senior professionals from UCC's offices around the world.

Up to today, UCC has grouped around itself a team of senior experts experienced in the fields of market research, information analysis, financial analysis, legal consultancy, and industrial technology and dedicated to the development of cooperative relations with people of various types of businesses. For example, UCC has employed many senior research fellows at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the most authoritative research and high ranking administrative advisory organization directly under the State Council for offering the most authoritative viewpoints about the Chinese economy and social development since its founding time.

At the same time, senior engineers, and technicians or experts from difference industrial sectors to be surveyed will join hand in the designing and planning of our projects and all of the research work. For example, Mr. Yan Qiguang was born in Guangdong province in 1945. He graduated from Central China University of Technology in 1967 with a B. S. technology and worked in Beijing Internal Combustion Engine Group Company until 1999 as chief engineer at the group.

The senior automotive engineer has been working in the Chinese automotive sector for over 30 years with rich experiences in dealing with foreign companies which did business with Chinese counterparts, such as acting as chief negotiator of the Chinese party to import sets of automotive machining center, foundry machinery and other machinery processing equipment from GM, Loramendi of USA, Spain respectively. He also went to those countries for visits to those machinery suppliers and inspection of the machinery and equipments purchased.

Then, Mr. Yan joined UCC in 2000 as one of the senior engineers and advisors on auto sector.

He is also professor at Tsinhua University and member of experts committee at Chinese International Engineering Consultancy Corporation (CIECC) under National Development and Reform Committee (NDRC), the highest executive administrative organ under the State Council. He can speak perfect English and has mastery of auto engineering sciences and technical terms and other terminology related to auto industry.

Because of his three decades long work experience in the auto sector and his reputation, he has been setting up a wide and extensive PR networks in the Chinese auto sector where many of the officials and experts are his colleagues or students.

In order to motivate its invaluable executives and partners to contribute more to the growth of the firm, UCC has adopted new type of income distribution systems such as ESOP and ESO during the past decade. These institutional innovations prove incredibly effective and successful. UCC also has adopted an outsourcing strategy when it finds it most economically feasible undertaking various consulting projects in China.

UCC Chinese Co-Director Dr. Thomas Yin was celebrating the great success of Sino-Argentine Mining Seminar with his former client and current Spanish Co-Director Victor Herrero in November 1995.

Brief Introduction to UCC’s Founding Team

Thomas Yin, Business Advisory Partner, Chinese Co-Director

Thomas Yin was born in Sichuan Province and educated in China. He graduated from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Graduate School in the 1990s with a M. A. Economics and Ph. D Economics respectively. During his post graduation program, he participated in two important programs, including one-year English language training at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences-University of California at Los Angeles English Training Center in 1987-1988, and one-year Economics courses study at Nanjing University-Johns Hopkins University Center For Chinese and American Studies in 1988-1989. He used to work in CASS as a research fellow for three years.

Since he changed to work in the business field, Mr. Yin fulfilled his duties brilliantly and accomplished many results on academic research and market survey in a Spanish company. Meanwhile, he received specialized training, such as sales promotion training by Hong Kong lecturer from Hong Kong Longmax International Co., in November-December 1993, and overseas work training in Madrid, Spain in October-December 1994.

Mr. Yin speaks fluent English. He is a great master of public relations in dealing with Chinese government department officials and industry associations. He gained much experience in integrating academic research and Chinese market studies. He wrote many articles on the above topics and had them published on Chinese newspapers and books.

Victor Herrero Amigo, Business Advisory Partner, Spanish Co-Director

Mr. Herrero was born and educated in Spain. He graduated from EAP, European School of Management, Paris with a B.Sc. in European Business Administration and Law Department of University of Zaragoza, Spain with a B.LB in 1992.

Before he came to China, Mr. Herrero worked in several multi-national companies such as those British, French and Spanish companies as part-timer or assistant.

In 1994, Victor was selected by the Spanish government to come to China to work in a Spanish company, first as a senior consultant for Spanish government organizations and corporations who are interested in the Chinese market in the first year, and then as a deputy commercial manager responsible for the representation of Spanish companies who are interested in doing turn-key projects in the Chinese infrastructure sector in the second year.

Since 2001, Victor participated in the EMBA Executive Master in Business Administration, Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) (USA & HK) and received its EMBA in 2003.

Mr. Herrero gained much experience in working for Spanish clients and Chinese clients.