About Global Chamber

The people who decide where the network goes next.

The Global Council is Global Chamber’s compass — senior leaders drawn from every region who set the direction, open doors between continents, and carry the network’s name into rooms most members would otherwise have to enter alone.

Why it matters to you

What a council is actually for.

Why it exists

Somebody has to see what is coming.

Markets move faster than any single chapter can watch. The council reads those shifts from eight regions at once and points the network at them, so members are not the last to find out that a door has opened somewhere.

What it gets you

Reach that outranks the room you are in.

Council members are ambassadors, not figureheads. When a member’s growth depends on a relationship at that altitude, this is the level the introduction is made from.

How it is built

Every region has a voice in it.

The council is drawn across the map rather than out of one headquarters, so the direction it sets answers to Lagos and Shanghai as much as it answers to Phoenix.

Led by

The co-chairs of the Global Council

  • Dr. Sanjeev Khagram

  • Francis Tesmer

Two co-chairs, and a council drawn from every region behind them. They are the reason a member’s question about a market on the other side of the world reaches somebody senior enough to do something about it.

The council

The leaders sitting on it.

Council members represent their own regions and open the network’s doors in them.

Dr. Sanjeev Khagram

Dr. Sanjeev Khagram

Distinguished Research Scholar, Stanford University Hoover Institution

Dr. Sanjeev Khagram is Vice Chair of the Board at Altos Bank and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution (link). He's also the co-leader of the Global Chamber® Global Council, an advisory board of global leaders supporting the success of Global Chamber®. Dr. Khagram is a world-renowned scholar and practitioner in globalization, sustainable development, leadership, strategic management, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He has been a serial entrepreneur and investor across the private, governmental, and civic sectors.

Linzi Boyd

Linzi Boyd

Linzi Boyd is an inspirational businesswoman who has successfully launched, developed, and sold multiple businesses throughout her career. She was able to start her first business at 18 and before the age of 25, had built up and sold two of her own companies. In 1991, Linzi became the Managing Director of her first business, Accent Ladies and continued to open a second business four years later. Both businesses were greatly successful and her second business, Stride was later sold to Caterpillar group.

Colin Christie

Executive Director, Global Chamber Manila

East Asia and Australia

Tarun Chopra

Tarun Chopra

Tarun Chopra is a highly accomplished global executive, distinguished by his unique experience of living on four continents and working across six. He is an award-winning transformational leader known for driving corporate growth through strategic insight, innovative perspectives, and a commitment to positive change.

Chris Yap

Chris Yap

CEO and Founder, Gabtech Global

Chris Yap is the CEO and Founder of Gabtech Global, a rapidly growing remote staffing company that scaled from two team members to one of the Inc. 1000 Fastest-Growing Companies in America. With a background marked by resilience and an unwavering commitment to impact, Chris has built a global organization that empowers businesses through talent, systems, and sustainable growth practices.

James Huang

James Huang

James Huang is a seasoned and visionary leader in the commercial real estate industry, with over 25 years of experience in brokerage, investment, management, and advisory services. He was the founding president of eXp Commercial, the commercial company of eXp World Holdings, a global cloud-based real estate company that offers 24/7 access to collaborative tools, training, and socialization for real estate professionals.

Membership

Grow where the council is already looking.

One membership reaches every region the council covers — and the people in them who can act on it.