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