Gardner’s organization also creates for cable and satellite operators in the United States and its territories the tools they use to market Fox’s networks to their subscribers.  Fox Cable Networks represents one of the television industry’s most diverse portfolios of global, national, regional, local and personal programming services.Gardner leads distribution efforts for multiple Fox channels including CCTV International, a 24-hour English-language channel which serves as a window to China. Gardner works closely with China’s powerful media ministries to strengthen China Central Television’s (CCTV) television and internet products around the world.   Their mission is to make CCTV China’s first brand to penetrate the world’s 200 most recognizable brands. This year, Gardner’s group will generate nearly $2 billion in revenue, up from $500 million six years ago.    Prior to joining Fox Cable Networks, Gardner held positions at Atlanta-based Cox Communications.

Gardner earned his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and holds a Masters of Business Administration degree in marketing and finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of  Business.

Neil Morganbesser is a Senior Managing Director in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Bear Stearns, located in Los Angeles, from where he runs West Coast and Asian M&A for Bear Stearns.  Morganbesser has extensive experience with a wide variety of transactional and other advisory assignments, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, sales and divestitures, restructurings, special committee assignments, unsolicited acquisitions and hostile defense.

Morganbesser regularly speaks on M&A to industry conferences and the general media, and in 2005 he has been featured on the Bloomberg TV series “The Deal Makers” and in FactSet Flashwire Weekly’s “What’s Happening Today in M&A” and has spoken to the Los Angeles Venture Association.

Prior to joining Bear Stearns in May 2001, Morganbesser was part of the Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring Group at Morgan Stanley (in New York from 1993-1998 and in Los Angeles from 1998-2001) and prior to that was a corporate attorney at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

Morganbesser graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude in Applied Mathematics/Economics from Harvard University (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1986 and J.D. and M.B.A. degrees (Order of the Coif, with honors) from Stanford University in 1990.

Sheng serves as the senior executive in charge of operations, supply chain management, IT, customer intelligence, and alliances.  Sheng has established a strong network of nimble suppliers in China who provide high-demand products in volume with consistently high quality at attractive terms. Sheng has also partnered with suppliers to develop and introduce new products.   Annual revenues have increased four-fold from $5 million to $20 million since Sheng made his first business trip to China 3 years ago.

Prior to Eforcity, Sheng was a senior Business Process and IT consultant with Price Waterhouse. Sheng  established an IT department at Eforcity and developed proprietary technology to scale its operations, be very responsive to customers, closely track customer and inventory trends, and maintain fiscal and operational control. 

Sheng is a graduate of the Haas School of Business in 1997 with a Bachelors of Science degree.

Schechter has been a speaker at USC, UCLA, and the California Centers for International Trade Development (CITD) on the subject of doing business with China.  He has been a speaker at business seminars hosted by the Chinese government in several cities in China, and at a seminar by a leading business magazine in Beijing.  He has been interviewed by Chinese newspapers, magazines, and on CCTV-9 “Biz China” television news show on the “People in the Biz” segment.

Schechter earned his undergraduate degree from the U.C. Berkeley - Haas School of Business and holds an M.B.A. and Master in Real Estate Development degree from the University of Southern California.