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Our Core Team
Rainbow Ho - South China
Bing Zhang - Los Angeles
Samson Chen - Shanghai
Eriks Berzins - Los Angeles
Gary Pickett - Los Angeles
Chris Desmond - Los Angeles
Jess Foster - Los Angeles

 

   
Rainbow Ho, Project Manager, came to GroupChina from DD Industries, a China manufacturing company where she was intensively involved in almost all facets of the business. Languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, English.
    
Bing Zhang, China Sourcing, Los Angeles has supported the company's procurement services for more than two years. Bing is a native of Heilongjiang Province, China. Languages: Mandarin, English.
    
Samson Chen, Sourcing Project Manager, Shanghai. Education: California State University, Los Angeles. Languages: Mandarin, Shanghaiese, Cantonese, English.
    
Eriks Berzins, Logistics Manager, GroupChina, U.S. GroupChina U.S. Education: B.A., Diplomacy and International Relations, Occidental College. Languages: English and Spanish.
    
Gary Pickett, Mechanical Engineering, brings over twenty years of broad mechanical design and experience with criteria establishment, cost estimating, analysis (stress, fluids, vibrations and kinetics), detail design, specification writing, project managment, and vendor liaison. He is knowledgeable in industrial specifications (SAE and ANSI) and manufacturing processes (machine shop lathe and mill, welding, and sheet metal forming.) Education: BS, Mechanical Engineering, California Polytechnic University, Pomona.
    
Chris Desmond, Adminstration and Project Management. Education: BA, Fordham University.
    
Jess Foster, President, Chief Financial Officer & Co-Founder, serves as the very hands-on chief executive of GroupChina. Jess immerses himself intensely in all manufacturer selections and all new project start-ups. He has brought to GroupChina over 20 years of operational, financial, and marketing experience with a U.S. Fortune 1,000 company as well as a number of medium sized companies. Jess is a CPA and alumnus of Deloitte & Touche and the U.S. Navy (having served as Engineering Officer of the USS Weiss.) Education: MBA, University of Southern California; B.A., Vanderbilt University. Languages: English, and some familiarity with Mandarin, Vietnamese, Spanish, French, Russian and German.
   
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