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Christian Hell
Technical Director
Photonic Sense GmbH

Christian graduated from the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg and has a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry. He joined Photonic Sense in 2004 and has mainly been focused on material analytics and the Czochralsky crystal growing process.
Photonic Sense is dedicated to manufacturing highest quality germanium and silicon material and precision components for infrared optics applications. Their advanced production and measuring technologies and equipment guarantee consistent and cost effective processes and outstanding product quality. As a reliable and flexible partner they help customers to increase their production efficiency with short lead times, support of Kanban principles and high precision blanks to save manufacturing cost.

Donna Vareha-Walsh
Director Metals Business Unit
Indium Corporation

Donna Vareha-Walsh is director of indium Corporation’s metals business unit. She is responsible for sourcing and sales of critical raw materials such as indium, gallium, germanium, tin and silver for Indium Corporation’s manufacturing operations, as well as the trading and reclaim business. Donna is based at Indium Corporation’s headquarters in Clinton,NY.
Donna has more than 15 years of metals market experience from numerous roles and responsibilities, including Director of Global Procurement for a global premium alloy company and Director of Metallurgical Operations and Procurement for a global tungsten based business. Additional experience includes finance responsibilities ai a Business Unit Controller, sales expertise as Director of Sales and a News Business Development Manager, and participation in the metals recycling and scrap/reclaim Markets.
Donna earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Duquesne University and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds certificates in leadership development and manufacturing excellence. She has a Lean Green Belt.

Xu Genbao (U.S.)
General Manager
China Triumph International Engineering Co., Ltd.

He is a distinguished expert for China’s Thousand Talents program and Float Glass Key Laboratory. Moreover, he is a distinguished guest professor for China’s Green Building Material Key Laboratory and a part-time professor in the Material Science Department of the University of Science & Technology Beijing, as well as a member of SEMI China. He has gained considerable and invaluable experience in the R&D and industrialization of production equipments of solar battery and semiconductor. He dedicates to the research of thin film growth theory and various technologies in thin film production, technologies and industrialization of PV and semiconductor.

Wang Junhai
Marketing Director & Assistant to Chairman
Zhuhai SEZ Fangyuan Inc.

Mr. Wang joined Zhuhai SEZ Fangyuan Inc in 2007 and has been engaged in the production and sales of gallium metal since then.
Zhuhai SEZ Fangyuan Inc., which was founded in June 1996 and was mainly engaged in alumina trade in the early period, started to do industry business in 2000, when it established Shanxi Xinfangyuan Resin Material Co., Ltd. to focus on the production of resin used to absorb gallium. From 2004 to 2011, it established several gallium metal plants and one high-purity arsenic plant and made some contributions to supplying raw materials for the development of domestic gallium arsenide industry. Zhuhai SEZ Fuangyuan Inc. will be committed to providing high-quality raw materials for the development of the domestic gallium industry in the future.

Xiong Tian
Strategic Sourcing & Business Development Manager
Neo Performance Materials, Inc.

With a bachelor's degree in materials physics and a master's degree in applied chemistry, Xiong Tian once worked in Beijing Easpring Material Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Jiya Semiconductor Material Co., Ltd. Currently, he is the manager for strategic sourcing and business development of Neo Rare Metals Business Segment under NEO Performance Materials, Inc. and mainly deals with businesses and cooperation related to gallium, indium, tantalum, niobium and rhenium via China. Headquartered in Toronto, the company has offices in Greenwood Village, Colorado, US, and Beijing, China. The company which has three business segments (Neo Chemicals and Oxides, Neo Magnequench, and Neo Rare Metals) is engaged in the production, processing and development of rare earth and zirconium-based engineered materials, magnetic powders, and rare metals including gallium, indium, rhenium, tantalum and niobium.

Liu Yan
Sales Director
Zhuzhou Keneng New Material Co., Ltd.

Responsible for sales of all products of Zhuzhou Keneng New Material Co., Ltd., Liu Yan, with rich experience and professional knowledge of global product operation, has been working in minor metal industry for 11 years and is familiar with the whole industrial chain. Founded in January 2001, Zhuzhou Keneng New Material Co., Ltd. is a national high-tech enterprise which specializes in production of minor and rare metals (indium, gallium, bismuth, tellurium, tin and all their related products), semiconductor materials, luminescent materials and so on, and in recycling of valuable scraps. By doing these, the company establishes the industrial chain (raw material-material-products-valuable wastes-raw material) and realizes the reuse of resources.

Huo Chengsong

Huo Chengsong, who is the Member of the Board and General Manager of GRINM Electro-optic Materials Co., Ltd. now, graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1998 and obtained the master degree. As a professor-level senior engineer, Mr. Huo has been taking part in the R&D of advanced infrared materials for a long term, being a major researcher in the fields of CVD ZnS and CVD ZnSe materials. He has undertaken and participated in more than 20 national key scientific research projects, won first prize of ministry-level for two times and second prize for two times, published over ten scientific papers and obtained more than 20 patents.
As a subsidiary related to advanced optoelectronic material researching of General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals (GRINM), a central enterprise managed by State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, GRINM Electro-optic Materials Co., Ltd. is a major R&D center and production base of advanced semiconductor materials and infrared optical materials in China. It is also a national high-tech enterprise and a technology center for enterprises in Hebei, being awarded titles of the small giant in Hebei in science and technology, R&D institute (A grade) for industrial enterprises in Hebei and others. Its main products include infrared germanium single crystal, low dislocation germanium single crystal, gallium arsenide crystal and gallium phosphide crystal, which are widely used in the field of optoelectronics such as windows, lenses and prisms for LED illumination and infrared detection imaging systems. The company's technology has reached the leading level in China and the quality of its products is best worldwide.

Huang Shicheng
Executive Vice General Manager
Guangxi Crystal Union Photoelectric Materials Co., Ltd.

Working as an engineer and with a Central South University master degree, Mr. Huang was granted with a Liuzhou city level award on excellent talents. Since 2009 Mr. Huang has been working on ITO target material related fields, including research, production and management. Under his leadership, his team successfully realized mass application of TFT big size ITO target materials, and carried out six ITO projects related to government application or industrialization. He has four patented property rights and published one professional article.