Liang Qu

Lead organic and inorganic initiatives to grow the North America Foodservice business

Lead strategy development of newly created North America Foodservice business unit

Lead team of 50+ encompassing functions from sales to risk management, operation, IT and HR to integrate newly acquired Aalst Chocolate Company into Cargill. Key activities include: 1. Ensure smooth Day 1 transition 2. Design post Day 1 operating model and key business processes 3. Organization design 4. robust value creation plan in place 5. Go-to-market strategy development and execution

- Report to Managing Director, Cocoa & Chocolate Asia Pacific - Spearhead both organic and inorganic growth initiatives in Asia Pacific, including strategy development, greenfield investment, acquisition, joint venture and commercial partnership - Lead of regional project management office, managing and monitoring regional portfolio of projects to ensure delivery of financial target as per FY25 strategy

Execute acquisitions, divestitures, JVs, mergers and minority investments from ideation to completion and post-completion.

Deal origination and execution in the education, fintech and consumer sector

Execute all type of transactions (acquisitions, divestitures, JVs, mergers, minority investments) from early stage of the process (ideation) to completion and post-completion. (integration, disentanglement etc.)

Provided profound analysis on bankability of energy infrastructure projects in North America.

Core member of the deal team to originate, evaluate and execute joint ventures with Asian State-owned enterprises (SoEs)

Product Management for propylene derivatives

Selected among 30,000 candidates in China as the first batch trainee in 2009. Development program designated for fresh graduate with rotational assignments in sales, marketing, R&D and supply chain.