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We Deliver Results! • Companies seeking to expand into new markets or around the

globe…

• C-level executives wishing to increase leadership team

effectiveness…

• Boards preparing their companies for growth, merger or

acquisition…

• Investors determining if a target company is right for them…

2015 Associated Asia - Talent Management 1

Business Assessment Services 3

The Associated Asia Difference 4

Business Readiness 6

Business Effectiveness 7

Due Diligence 8

Talent Management 9

Biographies 10

Contact Us 12


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Business Assessment Services are for organizations who require an analytical baseline and strategic roadmap for long-term success. The services help identify deficits and business values critical to profitable growth. Business Readiness For organizations undergoing change, a multi-faceted review of business preparedness compares a client’s specific goals and values to its operations and leadership team. The evaluation helps prepare clients for outside capital investment, expansion of a business category, manufacturing shift, or geographic change. Business Effectiveness For organizations seeking support with their business investment, benchmarking, identifying new business opportunities, business expansions, strategic alliances, or succession planning. This in-depth competitiveness check-up of organizational objectives and executive capabilities identifies core competencies, gaps and provides recommendations for effective and efficient solutions. Talent Management For any company wishing to evaluate their executives. These services benchmark core competencies against company values and goals. This process applies proven assessment methodologies to measure, assess and map leadership teams. It examines the organization and its executives to determine their combined ability to deliver on target. Due Diligence For organizations needing a comprehensive investigation of their business, preparing them for capital investment investigation, mergers, acquisitions, or pre-market offerings. The development of the due diligence binder includes, but is not limited to, its people, compliance, fiscal responsibilities, technology, intellectual property, products, services, markets, channels, and future opportunities.

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Business Assessment Services

The Competitive Edge Associated Asia Investments Limited has reached all corners of the globe with a client history that reads like a Who’s Who of global brands, domestic and foreign governments, FORTUNE 500s, leading manufacturers, publishing empires, as well as start-ups and seasoned companies. Our business services have helped companies expand their markets, launch new products, get rebranded, obtain strategic investments, build their technology portfolio, commercialize their intellectual property and prepare for mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings. But, our focus has always been to deliver a truly personal client experience. Insight Whether Business Readiness, Business Effectiveness, Talent Management or Due Diligence, our work takes place within a complete, end-to-end review of your organization, its business and market.

Benefits • We understand our client’s business • Talent Management evaluations, assessments and recommendations provide the greatest possible depth of insight into

our client’s unique leadership talent opportunities and challenges. Customized Approach Our processes customize the criteria, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), scope and deliverables of each assignment

Benefits • Clients receive focused solutions • Reports are individually prepared • All assessments are customized to a client’s specific organizational needs and goals


The Associated Asia Difference

Alignment We design assessment goals and evaluation protocols specific to the requirements of our client needs. These cover an organization’s strategy and overall business plans. From our Leadership Competency Model to our Global Effectiveness Assessments, our clients acquire up-to-date and accurate guidelines that are critical to future hiring, and training and development to support the success of their leadership team.

Benefits Our clients receive an objective, measurable basis for aligning their leadership team Assessments are based on a client’s market and their ability to support their own initiatives Customized strategic direction helps to ensure long-term success.

Accuracy and Consistency of Fit Our Corporate Role Definition goes beyond evaluating individual leaders. It provides a fresh look at the roles themselves: at the defining factors and expectations framework for the role, and makes recommendations for better definition and alignment within the organization. Benefits

Supports more effective recruitment, training and development. Provides client specific direction to support greater executive and corporate satisfaction Offers improved success by offering more consistent and accurate matching of leadership talents with leadership

requirements.

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The Associated Asia Difference

Business Readiness supports organizations undergoing change. This includes start-ups getting ready to launch operations, small to medium enterprises looking to expand into a new market, introduce a new product, change product lines, expand a business category, explore a change in manufacturing, or examine a geographic change. In many situations, Business Readiness is the first step before starting on a campaign to bring in outside capital. Identifying weaknesses or gaps in the organization before external discovery is critical. In today’s fast paced business environment, it is important to understand how changes may impact an organization as the results may be local, regional or global. Business Readiness helps senior executives, business owners and boards of directors determine how prepared their organization is to meet the upcoming changes. The key components of Business Readiness include: Readiness Discovery A diagnostic process that examines the organization’s structure, goals, objectives, values, and business plans Readiness Examination A preliminary look at the organization and leadership team through a series of proprietary AAIL tests and one-on-one management interviews Readiness Assessment A multi-faceted review of business preparedness comparing the Examination results to the specific goals and values identified in Discovery


Business Readiness

Business Effectiveness is for businesses wishing to determine if their operations and teams are executing according to plan and if they are competitive in their own market. The service provides a detailed analysis of the business’ operations. A comprehensive “how are we doing?” inventory of standard operating procedures, sales, marketing, and the results. AAIL collaborates with the senior executives and leadership team to examine the organizational processes. It determines the effectiveness of these actions and any gaps. What is uncovered often shows that the organization is not getting what it expects. This service helps companies to benchmark their operations and shows where issues exist. It helps identify new business opportunities, business expansions, strategic alliances, or with succession planning. This in-depth competitiveness check-up of organizational objectives and executive capabilities identifies core competencies, gaps, and provides recommendations for effective and efficient solutions. The key components of Business Effectiveness include: Effectiveness Discovery If the Business Readiness Discovery has not been completed, a diagnostic process that examines the organization’s structure, goals, objectives, values, and business plans. If it has been conducted, then this phase adds an overview of the organization’s sales, marketing, market space, competitors, partners and strategic alliances Effectiveness Examination A comprehensive inspection of the organization’s ability to deliver. Conducted through a series of proprietary AAIL tests, one-on-one management interviews , and group interviews of critical teams and operational groups Effectiveness Assessment A multi-faceted benchmark of how a business is performing according to its own plan, the goals and objectives identified in Discovery and identified in the Examination. It is specific to the company’s organizational structure and will show how it measures up and competes


Business Effectiveness

During the Due Diligence process, AAIL works with the senior executives and leadership teams to prepare and deliver the company’s Due Diligence Binder. This presents an in depth look at an organization’s essential components and prepares it for any major capital funding round, merger, acquisition or initial public offering. AAIL works with strategic partners, accounting and legal entities to offer a greater return on your investment (ROI). This binder covers every aspect of the business; starting with its inception and brings all documentation up to date. By examining every component of an organization’s life, gaps are discovered. AAIL examines the organization to support growth and inspire business evolution. The key components of Due Diligence include research and documenting covering all aspects of: Corporate Organization From the beginning, the legal structure and entity organization is researched and documented Operations Covering day to day processes, how the company does business, the identification of standard operating procedures, production, manufacturing, inventory controls and any business processes Financial Review Accounting, aged receivables, balance sheets, investor relations records, and capital investments Compliance Identification of tax jurisdictions, taxes (income, sales, use, property), corporate reporting and securities filings Human Resources Employee documentation, policies, contractor interaction, personnel standards, labor reporting and taxes Sales & Marketing All guidelines and agreements for sales, marketing, resellers, vendors and business development Intellectual Property Copyrights, trademarks, issued technology patents, filed patent applications, and trade secrets


Due Diligence

Talent Management specializes in applying proven leadership assessment methodologies as well as qualitative and quantitative analysis. These processes are leveraged to determine executive leadership strengths and weaknesses. These detailed assessments and evaluations show how a team’s combined ability will be able to deliver as needed to meet client specific operational and strategic goals. Talent Management offers clients the support needed to clearly define current and future management and corporate goals . The various processes can uncover weaknesses and offer best case scenarios for improvement. Reports offer detailed methods as to how leadership teams can support the achievement of the identified objectives. The resulting reports deliver executive evaluations measured against desirable core competencies; all critical for ensuring long-term organizational success. The key components of Talent Management include: Talent Management Discovery A diagnostic process that brings clarity to the most critical leadership challenges and opportunities within a client’s organization Leadership Competency Model Develops a standardized criteria for hiring new executives and provides for continued leadership development Corporate Role Definition Defines key top-leadership roles and aligns them with organizational strategy and goals Individual Leadership Assessment Identifies if executives are up to current and future leadership challenges Global Effectiveness Assessment Determines the capacity of an organization’s leadership structure and management style to compete internationally


Talent Management


Lore Devra Levin

Founder, Chairman Serial global entrepreneur, Levin has helped businesses to build their company value with strategic alliances and in-depth due diligence investigation necessary to attract outside investments. While working with leading consumer electronics and consumer product manufacturers in Asia such as Procter and Gamble, Nestle, Jacob Suchard, Jaguar, Acer, Winbond, First International Computer, and DLink, Levin handled cradle to grave product launches and branding/rebranding campaigns. She has built corporate and product sales growth through strategic alliances worldwide. As a veteran executive, Levin has mentored hundreds of startups offering entrepreneurs and executives guidance in their path from founding companies to pre-IPO or acquisition. Over the years, has been an active evaluator and mentor at STARTech Early Ventures, i2E in Oklahoma, North Texas Regional Center for Innovation and Commercialization for the Texas Emerging Technologies Fund, World's Best Technology Showcase, DallasBlue Executive Network Group, and many others. Earlier in her career, Levin founded and co-founded several successful startups. In the USA, she founded Unique Communications and built the agency into an award-winning defense intelligence and marketing contractor. Clients included the US Federal government and several branches of the US Armed Forces. Global commercial brand clients included Anheuser Busch, AT&T, Frito Lay, Fujitsu Systems and Mobil Oil. In Asia, she built Associated Asia Investments Limited into a 15-country Asian news bureau with clients including top consumer electronics brands, leading trade publishers and the governments of Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, and Singapore. Levin is on several corporate boards of directors and continues work with a global client footprint in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Levin earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Communications Design at the State University of New York at Buffalo and received her mentor certificate from STARTech Early Ventures in Dallas, Texas.


Lawrence L. Allen

Partner, Talent Management Lawrence Allen leads Associated Asia’s Talent Management Practice. Leadership advisor and international business leader Allen lived and worked in Asia for over two decades, fulfilling the senior leadership needs of Fortune 100 global companies in the must-win markets of China and others in the Asia Pacific Region. Before returning to the U.S. in 2012 Allen served four years as Partner-In-Charge, Beijing Office for Heidrick & Struggles: a top-three senior retained executive recruiter. There, he developed his passion and expertise for helping organizations become more globally capable and competitive through improved leadership. Representative Clients included: Nestlé (China), Ltd., John Deere, PCC, Armstrong, TRW, Lafarge, among others. Allen built his executive search practice on nearly two decades of successfully growing businesses for the world’s leading companies, among them: Nestlé, Hershey and Warner-Lambert. He has served in diverse functional and end-to-end roles including: Managing Director, Asia Pacific for Libbey Glass; Country Business Manager, China for The Hershey Company; and Regional Director of Operations, Far East for Conair Corporation. He lead several start-ups throughout his career: Libbey Glass's Beijing plant construction and in-country operations start-up, establishing Hershey's China WFOE and in-country operations, and Conair's Vidal Sassoon-branded appliance APAC launch. Allen is author of Chocolate Fortunes: The Battle for the Hearts, Minds and Wallets of China’s Consumers, a China business book that chronicles the quarter-century battle between the world’s chocolate companies for the hearts, minds and taste buds of China’s emerging consumers. Allen earned his Masters Degree at Thunderbird School of Global Management and is a regular contributor to the Thunderbird International Business Review.

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