16 & 17 November 2022 Shanghai - China Asia - Congresses - Awards - Workshops

Committee Members

Daryush ARABNIA

President & CEO

TAIKISHA - GEICO

Loganathan CHINNASAMY

EGM - Virtual Engineering

GENERAL MOTORS

David CUI

General Manager, Automotive OEM Services

PPG

Min DAI

Director - Painting Engineering Division, Assistant to General Manager

SCIVIC (China Automobile Industry Engineering Corporation)

Carl DOEKSEN

Global Robotics / Automation Director

3M

• Carl Doeksen is the Global Robotics & Automation Director at 3M Headquarters in St. Paul, MN where he leads teams to accelerate full robotic, and fixed automation, solutions for 3M’s industrial customers around the world. Prior to joining 3M, Carl spent 4 years at Honeywell’s Sensors & Signal Processing Laboratory.
• Carl has a BS in Finance from the University of Minnesota, an MBA from the University of Minnesota, and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA) as well as a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt (DMAIC and DFSS). He has held multiple International Leadership positions for 3M (UK, DE, CN) and has spent most of his career in international operations.
• He’s active in the Robotics Industry, serving on the Board of Directors of the Robotics Industry Association (RIA/A3) as well as the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) Marcom and Suppliers Committees.
• Carl and his wife Kelly have two young daughters and they currently live in Austin

Ian FOSLIEN

Global Portfolio Leader, Robotics & Automation

3M

• Global Portfolio Leader, Robotics & Automation | 3M
• Ian Foslien is the Global Robotics & Automation Portfolio Leader at 3M Headquarters in St. Paul, MN where he manages strategic partnerships, marketing, & business development teams to help 3M’s manufacturing customers around the world to automate their abrasive processes. Ian has also had prior leadership roles within 3M’s Automotive Aftermarket, Personal Safety, and Corporate Strategy organizations.
• Prior to 3M, he worked as an Innovation Manager at Visteon Corporation, helping to develop and commercialize new technologies for Automotive OEMs.
• Ian has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
• Ian and his wife, Jessica, live in St. Paul, MN with their young daughter.

David HAN

Automotive Sales Manager

SAMES-KREMLIN

Masafumi HATTORI

Business Development Manager

GRACO

Tim HAYES

International President

SURCAR

Jiang HONG

Group Chief Technology Officer

NIPPON PAINT

Stephen LI

Lead Center Manager of Paint Process Automation

ABB

Fengxue MA

Vice President Paint

GEELY

Jieli MA

Head of R&D

ARCELOR MITTAL

Dejan NESTOROVIC

Director ME Paint APAC

VOLVO CARS

Akira NISHIMURA

Technical Head of Material Engineering

TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE

Daniel REN

Manufacturing Engineering Director

NIO

Reiner SCHMID

President & CEO

DURR PAINTSHOP SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Yang SHEN

APAC ME

STELLANTIS

Chris STEPHENSON

Deputy General Manager

MONTAPLAST AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEM

Yeli SUN

VP of Painting Process

CHANG’AN AUTOMOTIVE

Eric SUN

Head of Paintshop China

BMW BRILLANCE

Marguerite WU

VOME Chief Engineer (China Paint)

FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Xin WU

Vehicle System Chief Engineer

SAIC - GM

Wenping XING

Paintshop Department Director

JAC MOTORS

Chun XU

Deputy chief engineer, Body Assembly Manufacture Engineering

SAIC MOTOR

Fucheng YAN

Asia Product Director

AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS

Tao YU

General Manager

DONGFENG DESIGN INSTITUTE

Antonio ZAZA

CEO

FIDIA AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING SYSTEMS

Gavin ZHU

Paint Chief Engineer, VME China

FORD

Jack ZOU

Vice President

BASF