Craig Belnap is an energetic business executive with extensive broad-based experience leading businesses in the US, Asia and Europe. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, with shameful French, Craig has an extensive background in global operations, business management, and human resources. He is deeply experienced with Joint Ventures, well versed in Mergers & Acquisitions and enthusiastic about enhancing the competitiveness of global enterprises by developing long-term organizational, operational, and financial capabilities.
Craig joined Alcoa in 1995 and has run global operations with assignments in the US, China and Switzerland. In the late 90’s, Craig held the position of Operations Director for Alcoa’s Equipment Manufacturing division with sales throughout the world. In 2000 he transferred and moved his family to Shanghai, China where he was General Manager of the Foil Manufacturing business and then Managing Director of Operations for Rolled-Products in China. In 2003, he was asked to establish a Human Resource function for Alcoa in Beijing, China, which now serves 24 locations in 9 countries in Asia Pacific. For the past 5 years, Craig was the President of Alcoa Architectural Products (AAP)—a $350M business with operations in the US and France. Early in his career, Craig worked in the US aerospace industry in roles such as engineering and new product design.
Craig is a “Leaders for Manufacturing” Fellow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained two Masters Degrees, one in Management and another in Materials Science and Engineering. He attended Brigham Young University for his Undergraduate Studies. Additional notable events include being interviewed by Forbes Magazine on the development and launch of EcoClean™ and featured in CHO World (A Chinese Publication) in Feb 2007 on the topic: “Alcoa: Building Diversity, Developing Women Leaders”
Kris Wustrow is the Managing Director of Our Team In China, an action-oriented consultancy helping American firms with their China strategy, specifically market entry, marketing, sales, sourcing and production assurance. With offices in Atlanta and Shanghai, and a soon-to-be-opened office in Beijing,
Kris holds an M.B.A. in finance from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, a business school ranked in the world’s top 100 programs by The Economist magazine’s Intelligence Unit. He also earned his B.A. in both political science and history from the University of South Carolina. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, Kris graduated from Wade Hampton High School.
For nearly four years, Kris has been living and working in China, first studying both Chinese language and Chinese consumer behavior and now with Our Team In China, LLC. He is conversational and functionally literate in Mandarin Chinese and passed a national Chinese written examination. Prior to his living abroad, Kris served in various management, consultant and specialist positions for multi-national corporations such as Siemens, P&O Nedlloyd, Merrill Lynch, as well as for other smaller, start-up enterprises. At the age of 35, his vast industry experience ranges from political campaign management and governmental lobbying to publishing to finance to supply-chain optimization.
John has more than 30 years of experience in sales, marketing and engineering. That includes executive experience with leading-edge Fortune 500 high-technology companies, and pre-IPO companies where he was an officer of the company and member of the senior management team. He has held P&L responsibility and managed direct and indirect sales channels in North America, Europe and Asia. His teams have consistently enabled profitable revenues, improved customer satisfaction, and increased market share.
John was the Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Enpirion, Inc. and led a successful turn-around in achieving profitability. As the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Galvantech, his strategy and management led the company to record sales and a successful acquisition by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Prior to Galvantech, he was the Vice President of Sales at Equator Technologies Inc, where he captured the company’s first publicly announced design-win with Tektronix, and also managed the due diligence activities for private equity placement from Sony, Canon, Hitachi and others. Previous management positions include Director of Worldwide Strategic Sales at AMD and similar positions at Sharp Microelectronics and Avex Electronics.
Mr. Corbitt holds a BSEE from Florida International University and began his career in biomedical engineering, working with implantable pacemakers at Cordis Corporation in Miami FL. Then he followed his interest in radio communications and designed digital pagers with Motorola in Plantation FL, before making a career change to sales, and joining Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Mr. Corbitt has been a frequent author and been published in Electronic News, PC Magazine, Upside, Business Geographics, Electronic Business, TechLINKS, and EDN. He is a volunteer with the High Tech Ministry, and active with the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), Executive Sales and Marketing Association (ESMA), The Indus Engineers (TiE), and the Kettering Executive Network (KEN).
