EPWS Power Breakfast:

Business Risk in China

with Bryan Pruden

Monday, July 12, 2010

Bryan Pruden will discuss his experiences working with MNCs on risk mitigation and white collar crime investigations in China as well as his experiences working with Chinese law enforcement. He will touch on major risks facing MNCs in China, such as intellectual property theft, fraud, corruption and implications for US law and supply chain integrity. Ample time will be left for questions and interaction.  For more information about CBI Consulting please go to http://cbiconsulting.com.cn/

SPEAKER’S BIO:
Bryan Pruden is a Manager, Investigations and Consulting, with CBI Consulting, a security and investigations firm engaged in a wide range of discrete corporate inquiries in the Greater China region. CBI management, consultants and investigators support a wide range of risk mitigation and corporate investigation initiative for multi-national companies operating in Greater China. Bryan has consulted on, designed and managed a wide range of programs, including brand protection/anti-counterfeiting, fraud investigations, physical security, key employee background screening, compliance due diligence and a wide range of tailored risk mitigation programs. His current projects include FCPA compliance background investigations, managing a team of investigators carrying out IP enforcement raids on behalf of a US-based consumer products company, managing a program discovering and investigating counterfeit solar panels and heading up a business intelligence initiative for a US-based biotechnology company. Bryan is a member of the Associated of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), International Trademark Association (INTA), Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals and is on the Investigations Committee of the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC). He received a BA with honors in International Relations from the University of California, San Diego and a graduate degree from the Johns Hopkins SAIS-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. He is fluent in written and spoken Mandarin and wishes he could understand Shanghainese.

Event Details:

• Date: 12 July 2010 (Monday) 

• Time: 7:30am-9:15am  

• Cost: 150 RMB for members, 250 RMB for non-members; includes breakfast buffet.
  

• Venue: The PuLi Hotel, 1 Changde Rd., 200040 Shanghai, (21) 22166970, easy access to Metro line 2 and 7, Jing’An Temple Station

Directions to the PuLi

• This event requires RSVP until 12pm one day prior to the event, otherwise a “walk-in” fee of RMB 50 will be charged.
• RSVP by sending email to info@epws-shanghai.org

• cancel your reservation one day before the event: no fee
• make a reservation and not cancel a day ahead: fee event is due and you must pay the fee in order to attend other EPWS events