Dezan Shira & Associates Appoints Four New Partners to the Firm – Updates

Dezan Shira & Associates is delighted to announce the appointment of four new fairness associates, bringing the company now to eleven fairness associates in total.

This year’s appointees consist of David Niu, Cathy Gong, Thomas Zhang, and Phoebe Yan, all of whom are primary groups significant to the firm’s foreseeable future progress and strategic strategies. This current partnership enlargement aims to thank and acknowledge our senior leaders for their important contributions about their lots of many years.

Get to Know Our Four New Fairness Partners 

David Niu is primarily based in Beijing, China, retains a master’s degree in finance with the University of Wales and has extra than 20 a long time of encounter in the HR and advisory market. Considering the fact that becoming a member of the organization in 2014, David has aided mature our HR, Payroll, and Personal Tax abilities. In the past a few yrs, David played a essential job in building our payroll, executive look for and recruitment, HR advisory and PEO services teams in China, and during Asia. He is on top of that spearheading the advancement of asiaadmin™, our customer portal for Asia multi-region HR and Payroll administration.

David’s appointment recognizes HR as a single of the quickest developing business models in the business and marks the relevance of both of those HR and technological know-how providers, as essential advancement drivers and as important factors to the continued driving of our business in the many years forward.

Cathy Gong is centered in Shenzhen, China, is an accounting and monetary pro with the two CPA and CMA accreditations and has more than 20 a long time of working experience training and controlling in the field of finance. Cathy designs and manages the firm’s inside finances, which includes tax compliance, economic reporting, business evaluation, and inner management issues, and also directs consumer ERP, accounting and finance digitalization projects from the finance viewpoint. This function significantly parallels her leadership of the firm’s interior finance-side digitalization, and how we produce services to our accounting clientele through Asia.

Prior to joining Dezan Shira, Cathy was the head of finance for two big multinational production companies.  Cathy is a Chinese Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Accredited Administration Accountant (CMA), a graduate of Hunan College of Accounting, and is a member of IMA.

Thomas Zhang is dependent in Shenzhen, China where by he directs the Engineering IT and IS groups, who present secure, safe and successful IT infrastructure and customized application programs for clientele and the firm’s personal around the world network of places of work. Less than Thomas’ course, the company’s IT functions have transformed from a fairly fundamental internal aid assistance in 2013, to possessing robust abilities in IT advisory, data safety, compliance, cloud and infrastructure design and style, techniques administration, system regulate, and other spots. Right now, Technology Products and services is 1 of the firm’s main client providers and an crucial progress driver and aggressive toughness of the company.

Thomas joined the firm in 2013 and has 20 years of IT practical experience, including keeping earlier positions as an data security specialist and IT Supervisor in a multi-national corporation. Thomas retains numerous IT sector certificates for compliance, stability and infrastructure (CIPT, EXIN ISO, EXIN DPO, ISACA CDPSE, CISSP, CCSP, CISA, CCNP, Microsoft 365 Protection Administration, MCSE, and MCDBA), and has a diploma in English Language Research, a BSc in Computer system Networking, and an MBA with Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Phoebe Yan is dependent in Dalian, China exactly where she manages the IS workforce, which offers tailored software units and IS consulting expert services to clientele and supports business operations across Dezan Shira & Associates’ network of offices around the globe.  Beneath Phoebe’s management, Engineering Services and Information and facts Devices has fast grown into a main customer services, and integral part of our assistance choices. Phoebe has also played a crucial function in enabling the organization to continue on its inside transformation and digitalization, such as ERP, accounting, payroll, office automation and more.

Phoebe Yan joined the firm in 2010 and has a lot more than 12 years of working experience now in the IS industry. She specializes in Microsoft Dynamics 365 / AX ERP implementations, Electrical power Platforms, and other applications progress working with ASP.Web and SharePoint. Phoebe holds a bachelor’s degree in Software package Engineering with Dalian University of Technological innovation and is a licensed PMP (Challenge Management Professional).