William Zhao

Commercial development and negotiation for a major investment in downstream petrochemical industry. Full economics and commercial terms. Investigation into oil and gas E&P opportunities for the country of Yemen. Development of comprehensive strategy for E&P.

• Managed a small oil and gas start up with negotiated shareholdings in major oil and gas projects in Africa including upstream E&P, mid stream gas processing and downstream LNG, gas utilization projects. • Grew the business through advisory, financing fees and equity shares to an potential exit value of $400 MM within a year. • Managed relationships between local government, central government and international partners. • Definition, development and implementation of CDM/JI projects for Asia, MENA and A

• Managed relationships between three major shareholders of a new crude oil exchange. • Negotiated and executed joint ventures in upstream and downstream crude trading ventures. • Participated in major acquisitions of both upstream projects and equity shares in companies in the range of $2 billion. • Evaluated transactions, including full due diligence and negotiated major oil and gas contracts, including Technical Services Agreements, Production Sharing and Joint Venture Agreements in MENA, Central Asia an

• Managed and advised agencies on income generation and renewable energy projects. • Developed regional enterprise resources centers to aid local business and NGO managers in organizational development and market access. • Oversaw construction projects with over 300 local staff and international contractors.

• Managed all portions of business from product development to product marketing and finance. • Managed design and marketing teams to define new product features. • Managed release stages of new product launches and achieved product launch in record 6 months time.

• Managed marketing, operations, R&D aspects of the product line IP Streaming services, including P&L responsibility. • Managed over 50 software developers and external contracted programmers. • Managed multiple product lines and oversaw their operation, finance, marketing and sales. Hit revenue targets consistently.

• Managed worldwide forecasting for the Workstation Division with annual revenues of $1 billion. • Managed over 120 various members over various entities. • Increased forecasting accuracy by 60%, resulting in more than $50 million in cost of sales savings. • Negotiated with different departmental interests between marketing, manufacturing and finance.

• Contract negotiation for Asia and Eastern European countries. • Managed all aspects of advertising and market communications, consulting, licensing and global marketing.

Economics and policies for oil/gas Upstream, electricity and renewable.

Finance focus and MIT Media lab association to work on innovations for technology development paths.