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It is very obvious that the staff at China Care Home worked hard to care for Lily before we brought her home and gave her a lot of attention and care. Lily is very sweet and loving. We still have concerns about her health, but we’re taking it one step at a time. >>>

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Guy Russo, President
Mr. Russo is Managing Director of the Kmart retail chain owned by Wesfarmers Ltd in Australia and New Zealand. Formerly with the McDonald’s Corporation, which he joined in 1974, Mr Russo served as Managing Director and CEO in Australia and President of McDonald’s in Greater China. Based in Asia over 2007 and 2008 Mr Russo consulted with private equity interests as well as public companies with commercial interests in China. Over the course of his long business career Mr Russo has vigorously pursued his passion for life-saving children’s charities. He has served as Chairman of Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) in Australia and as a board member of the charity in Hong Kong, and in 2006 Mr Russo ushered in the establishment of RMHC in China. Mr Russo has also served on the Business Council of Australia as well as on the Board of Diabetes Australia. Together with his family, he currently resides in Melbourne.

Matt Dalio
Matt Dalio is the Founder of China Care Foundation, Inc. and president of its board of directors. His passion for China began when he lived for a year in Beijing, China at the age of eleven. Even at a young age, he was able to see the difficulties suffered by many special-needs Chinese orphans, and in 2000 at the age of 16, he founded an organization that would aid in giving these children a better future. Mr. Dalio is a graduate of Harvard University and is current an MBA candidate at Stanford Business School.

Ellen Eliasoph
Ellen Eliasoph is partner in the Washington and Beijing offices of Covington and Burling, LLC.  She has spent more than 25 years in China, Hong Kong and Japan and, as former managing director of Warner Brothers, China, has worked on many cutting-edge transactions in the media and entertainment industries, as well as with many leading companies and policymakers throughout the Asia-Pacific region.  Her particular areas of expertise include the creation and operation of joint venture enterprises, the creation, protection and exploitation of intellectual property-based products and services, and the translation of sophisticated business and legal concepts across national borders.

Tim Huxley
Tim Huxley is the CEO of Wah Kwong Maritime Transport Holdings Ltd., a leading independent shipowner based in Hong Kong. Born in England, Tim has spent his entire career in the shipping industry, starting work as a shipbroker in 1982 after graduating from Edinburgh University. Having lived in Hong Kong since 1989, Tim has served as Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association together with several other industry bodies and is a regular commentator on shipping issues in the press and on television. Prior to joining Wah Kwong, he spent twenty four years working for Clarksons, the world’s largest shipbroker before establishing his own company, Mandarin Shipping Limited.

Dana Johnson, MD, PhD
One of the world's foremost experts on health and developmental issues affecting the institutionalized child, Dr. Dana Johnson is the Director of the International Adoption Clinic at the University of Minnesota. He is a Professor in that university's Department of Pediatrics and the Director of its Division of Neonatology. Dr. Johnson has published dozens of journal articles and received numerous research grants. He serves as a Medical Consultant on International Adoptions to multiple agencies across the United States, is a Consultant to the Level II Intensive Care Unit International Mission of Hope, Calcutta, India, and is on the Board of Directors of Adoptive Families of America. He has three children, one adopted from India.

Peter Lighte
Mr. Lighte is Vice Chairman, Global Corporate Banking, JP Morgan Chase Bank. Prior to assuming his new title, he was the founding Chairman of JP Morgan Chase Bank (China) and has been associated with the bank in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Mr. Lighte previously lived in Beijing as founding representative of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, during which time he served as President of the American Chamber of Commerce. He has served on the board of the London City Ballet, has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Princeton Alumni Council, Director of the Matilda Child Development Centre (Hong Kong) and JPMorgan representative to the Hayward Gallery in London. He is on the Corporate Advisory Board for Hope and Homes for Children (UK) and is a Member of the Advisory Board of China Institute Executive Summit. Peter holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University in East Asian Studies and is the father of two daughters, adopted from Hangzhou and Luoyang.

Stephen Chipman
Stephen Chipman is CEO of Grant Thornton LLP, the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd. He has served the Grant Thornton organization for 29 years in offices in Europe, the United States and Asia. Before becoming U.S. CEO in 2010, he served two years as CEO of Grant Thornton China Management Corporation, leading the development and growth of services in China. Educated in Plymouth, England, at Plymouth College and Plymouth Polytechnic, he launched his career with Grant Thornton in 1981 in the UK. Mr. Chipman currently serves on the Governing Board of the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) and the Board of Directors for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is an active member of The Economic Club of Chicago. He also serves on the Chicago-based Ravinia Festival Board of Trustees, a role that fits perfectly with his passion for music. He resides with his wife and two adopted daughters from China, Samantha (12) and Emma (9) near Chicago in Wilmette, Illinois.

Chapman Taylor
F. Chapman Taylor is a senior vice president of Capital International Research, Inc. a global investment management firm that is part of the Capital Group of Companies. Chapman has an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and he also holds a BS in physics and theology from Tulane University. Chapman serves on the boards of For Love of Children (focused on at risk children in Washington DC), L'Arche Greater Washington DC (A community made up of people with disabilities and those who come to share their lives with them) and Karya Salemba Empat (an Indonesian scholarship fund). He has been married to Grace Boey Taylor for 19 years and they live in Washington DC with their three children.

Jenny Bowen, Founder and CEO
Jenny and her husband, Richard, parents of Maya, adopted from Guangzhou and Anya, adopted from Yixing, joined with fellow adoptive parents to form Half the Sky in 1998. A former screenwriter and film director, Jenny wrote screenplays for major Hollywood producers and was writer-director on several independent films.  Half the Sky brought the Bowen family to China, but, after living in Asia for 5 years, the Bowenshave returned to live in Berkeley, California. Jenny continues to be a regular commuter to Half the Sky's Beijing office, as well as its many sites.