Chairman, P1.cn (Beijing, Taipei, Stockholm)

Henrik Byström has a long and distinguished career in international business and management. He has experience and a proven track record as CEO, senior management positions and consulting from a number of industries as well as in government related organizations and diplomacy.

He is also an accomplished entrepreneur, currently being the Chairman of an early stage SNS company in China. He is a recognised expert in business and development in Asia, having lectured in many Universities and also acting as advisor to the committee that wrote the Official Swedish Asia Strategy adopted by parliament.

Mr Byström has over 30 years of international business experience. He has worked and lived in Sweden, France, Philippines, Pakistan, Hong Kong and Mainland China. He has been responsible for operations covering all of Asia including the Middle East.  In this work he has led and developed a number of complex organisations and faced many challenges. He has shown endurance and commitment leading very competent organisations to great success under challenging conditions.

Over the past 20 years Mr Byström has led over 200  assignments involving mainly SMEs seeking new overseas markets in Asia. The assignments represent a wide range of industries but Information Technology and other high tech industries clearly dominated.

Mr  Byström has worked 17 years for multinationals, 7 of those as an CEO and country manager in Asia, He has been Trade Commissioner for Sweden in Hong Kong and Taiwan and was for 7 years SVP ASIA at the Swedish Trade Council, where he also headed the SME programmes. For the past two years he has been an entrepreneur in the internet business.

P1.CN, which Mr Byström chairs  is a Social Community by invitation only for exceptional people. The site encompasses all the standard features of successful SNS like a feed where members share news comments and pictures, a blog section for members blogs, a magazine with editorial material about life style issues like fashion, food, night life, travelling. The site caters to about 5% of Chinas urban population. Presently the site has some 1.7 million members with a very rapid growth. There is a very elaborate revenue generating business model. Location based services constitute an important part of the business model and membership value provided.