Our management team

Roger Schwendeman,
Founder & Managing Director

Coming from an unusual hybrid of business, fine art and information technologies, Roger is the right-brained passion for products and the left-brain drive for our proprietary systems. Roger has a comprehensive perspective on the industry, having traveled extensively throughout China and SE Asia. Having lived and worked in China for more then ten years in 1997, he has first hand knowledge of where to source top-quality product. He has also lived and worked in such diverse environments as New York, Beijing, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpor, Warsaw and Bangkok which enabled him along the way to gain critical insights into the many different business practices, societies, and cultures needed to function effectively in an international arena. Roger is a Mandarin Chinese speaker.

Paul Nicholson ,
Director of Finance

Born in Manchester in the U.K., Paul holds in B.A. in Economics and an MBA from Manchester University. He started his career in merchant banking before moving into the private sector in general management roles for various industries as well as forming his own company in the UK. After being in retirement for seven years, he arrived in China in 2000 and set up his own company which was subsequently sold to the local partners. He has also worked as a consultant for foreign companies doing business here in China.

Ellen Ma,
Manager Account Services