George Tong has nearly 14 years of experience in China’s IT outsourcing industry. Since November 2005, he has been the general manager of the globalization services unit and senior business development director at Beyondsoft, overseeing the unit’s general operations including research and development, product delivery and business development. Beyondsoft is a top ten IT outsourcing company in China, providing IT consulting, application development and maintenance, testing, enterprise resource planning and business process outsourcing services to global clients including Microsoft, Google, IBM, HP, Adobe, McAfee and so on. Prior to this, he was sales director at VanceInfo from April 2002 to November 2005. George can comment on market demand, the China IT outsourcing outlook and competitive positioning of major local players in China such as VanceInfo, NeSoft, HiSoft, Beyondsoft, Longtop, Camelot and iSoftStone with regard to their market share, advantages and disadvantages. He can also discuss the competitive positioning of the above-mentioned ITOs with major Indian firms including Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro regarding their business landscape, customer focus and core competencies. He is conversationally fluent in English.