Brandon Hughes – Managing Director & Founder

Regional Expertise: China, Asia-Pacific, Europe, United States

Industry Expertise: Strategy, Market Intelligence, Foreign Affairs

Education:

• MBA – Columbia Business School
• L.L.M. – Tsinghua University
• B.S. International Business, UNLV
• Certified Project Manager

Languages :

• Mandarin Chinese
• English
• Italian

Brandon Hughes brings more than a decade of experience on international projects across China, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and the United States. Types of projects include global go-to-market strategies, China / U.S. market entry, luxury automotive & E-mobility trends, and foreign affairs.

Brandon’s brings extensive experience from private, academia, government. Brandon served 8 years as a United States Army Officer leading operations & intelligence efforts in Afghanistan and Europe. He is the first U.S. Army Officer to hold a degree from the famed Tsinghua University in Beijing.

In the news

“There’s just so much uncertainty now with media and tech companies in China that it doesn’t make a lot of financial sense to maintain such a large presence when you run into so much red tape,”

Yahoo is the latest US tech company to announce its China exit — Quartz (qz.com), Yahoo is the third major US tech platform to exit China in the past month (Yahoo Finance), (November 3, 2021)