Executive Directors
In every market, someone who already knows the room.
An executive director is not a listing. They are a business leader who lives in the market, runs the chapter there, answers their own email, and makes the introduction that would otherwise take you a year of cold outreach. Here is every one of them.
Names come straight from the chapter directory, so this page is never out of date. Each one links to their chapter, where the full contact path is printed.
Regional desk
Africa
Fifty-four countries, a young and fast-growing workforce, and an AfCFTA-wide market — the continent where new trade lanes are opening fastest.
Regional desk
East Asia + Australia
From Seoul and Tokyo through Southeast Asia to Australia and New Zealand: the world’s deepest manufacturing and logistics network, and its fastest-growing consumer class.
Colin Christie
Executive Director
Regional desk
Central Asia ex China
South and Central Asia — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Central Asian republics — where scale, talent and new corridors between Europe and Asia meet.
Regional desk
China
Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau: the second-largest economy on earth, and the market that most rewards a local introduction.
Regional desk
Europe
A single market of highly developed economies, dense standards regimes, and the shortest path between North American and Asian trade.
Regional desk
Middle East and GCC
The Gulf and the wider Middle East — capital-rich, diversifying fast, and the natural hinge between Europe, Africa and Asia.
Amr Abdul Salam Almekhlafi
Executive Director
Regional desk
South + Central America
Latin America and the Caribbean: nearshoring destinations, resource depth, and the closest growth markets to North America.
Christian Aguirre
Executive Director
Chapters
Regional desk
North America
The United States and Canada — the largest single consumer market, and for most members the base from which they go global.
Christopher Herring
Executive Director
Chapters
Mi Jeong Hibbitts
Executive Director
Doug Bruhnke
Executive Director
Your market
Every name here started as one conversation.
Whether you want to work with the director in your market or become the one who runs it, it begins the same way. Tell us where you do business.