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- Academic: Chinese speaking Dutch Professor of Innovation and Strategy with decade long China research
- Author: Pioneers, Hidden Champions, Change Makers and Underdogs: Lessons from China’s Innovators (MIT Press, forthcoming); Business ecosystems in China: Alibaba and competing Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi and LeEco (Routledge, 2018)
- Thinker: Selected on the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 next generation business gurus
- Grief informed trauma therapist
- Writer, grief advocate, and educator
- MA, LICSW (Masters Degree in child development and Masters Degree Social Work)
- Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- Former director of Asian affairs at National Security Council (NSC)
- Member of the American Council on Foreign Relations
- Lane-Swig Senior Fellow and Managing Director at the Washington Institute
- Senior Director for the Near East and North Africa at the US National Security Council from 2005-2008
- Co-chair of Mitt Romney’s 2012 State Department transition team
- Diplomatic advisor to the Romney presidential campaign in 2012
- Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice from 2004-2005
- Managing Director and Chief Strategist at New York-based Silvercrest Asset Management
- An expert in global economy
- Featured by both Chinese and international media including CNN, BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes
- Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019
- British Conservative Politician
- Strategic Advisor to C10 Labs, the MIT Media Lab based AI Venture Studio
- She served President George W. Bush in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and on The National Economic Council
- After 9/11 she was also assessed Terrorism Risks to the Economy and Pentagon procurement from tech startups
- Her most recent bestseller, The Infinite Leader, won the International Press Award for the Best Book on Leadership for 2021
- Leading expert on e-commerce and the Internet in China and emerging markets
- Former Vice-President at Alibaba Group (2000-2008) as the company grew from an apartment into the world’s largest e-commerce company
- Entrepreneur, e-commerce consultant and director of award-winning documentary film, Crocodile in the Yangtze: the Alibaba Story
- Randy spent 28 years with the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations, most recently serving as the Chief CIA representative in China
- Randy previously spent more than a decade as Managing Partner for Asia of the Mintz Group, managing the Group’s activities across Asia
- Asia Chairman to Milken Institute, an independent American economic think tank
- Chairman Constellar Holding Ltd, a Temasek portfolio company in the exhibition and convention business
- Served as Vice Chairman Asia and Operating Partner for Temasek, a global investment firm headquartered in Singapore