ABOUT 9SPACES
9SPACES helps multinational companies find China's best technical, management, sales and professional talent.
Whether you're just exploring the China market and its possibilities for your company or a seasoned multinational and "Sinophile" 9Spaces has resources to help you expand your market reach in China through your biggest asset: PEOPLE!
9Spaces services include:- Human Resources Offering
- Webinars, seminars and private briefings to understand the China HR market
- HR transactional services to complete HR outsourcing of the entire process:
- Translation service
- Advertising programs to generate candidates
- Screening, interviewing and hiring
- Background checks
- Post your jobs on one of the fastest growing job boards serving the China professional market
- Search a database of bi-lingual, multinational candidates in technical, professional, management and sales roles
- A network of Chinese based recruiters with geographic and vertical market expertise. Are you a China based recruiter? Join our network.
- Online Salary Survey information
- The online salary survey is provided through a joint marketing relationship with PayScale
- What will you pay for your staff?
- What are you worth as an employee to a multinational?
- Market Research Offering
- We can provide you with market research referrals
- Find existing research reports from in country experts
- Are you a market research firm? Add your company to our database!
- Professional referrals
- Looking for a Law Firm to incorporate your Company or an accounting firm to understand in country
- Are you a professional firm? Add your company to our database!
- HR Briefing Service. If you need to understand the dynamics of the market, HR laws and how to hire in China Click Here!
- Search for candidates
- Post a job
- Review our Expert research, from people that are actually on the ground in China with experience in your vertical market. That's why 9Spaces has assembled podcasts and white papers by these experts.
Leadership Team
Dave Parker CEO and Founder
Over the last 20 years Dave's career success has included both product and service industries, selling both tangible and intangible products in the technology market including hardware, software, and wireless. For the last 10 years he has held executive positions in IT services, software distribution and hardware development companies as well as developing Asian joint ventures. Companies have included License Online (sold to SNX), Board Member for Classmates.com (sold to UNTD), Cauldron Solutions (sold in 2006), and Digital Marketing (sold in 2004).
Dave also served as an Entrepreneur in Residence for Mitsui & Company's IT investment group in Cupertino, CA. He is also on the Board of Directors for Guidant Financial Group and a Co-Founder and Board Member at OneAccord Corp. His non-profit Board roles have included the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA), and Seattle's Union Gospel Mission.
An Alumnus of the University of Washington, Dave has been recognized by the World Technology Network for Innovation in the Software Industry, Forbes "Best of the Web" and the Puget Sound Business Journal's "40 under 40". He is a frequent speaker on business and entrepreneurship.
Weihua David DongCTO and Founder
David Dong is a leading software engineer with over 10 years experience in software development and management in the industries of social networking, eCommerce, online media, wireless services, and internet portal.
Mr. Dong was the Strategic Development Lead with Classmates.com, an online social networking connecting people and their past together. He played a major role in re-plat forming the application to be more scalable to meet new business needs, and in defining as well as implementing new service features for business growth. Mr. Dong was a principle engineer in Openwave, where he was a key member for company's cutting edge wireless location service product. Prior to Openwave, he was an active player in Loudeye's online media syndication product.
Mr. Dong's professional internet experience starts with ESPN.com. As one of the original members, he co-developed the first fully functional online sport site ESPN.com. After that, working with three other engineers, he helped launched one of the biggest and mostly visited online news site – ABCNews.com. Mr. Dong has extensive and in-depth knowledge in internet and IT industries. A native Chinese and fluent in both English and Chinese, he believes the real future of internet is "interneting" people together around the world. In 2001, as an oversea Chinese scholar, he was invited by Chinese government to visit high tech develop zones in Beijing and Tianjin. In 2004, he was invited by a local company in Shanghai as their senior consultant for the business and technical development.
Weidong ChenVP of Marketing
Weidong Chen, a Beijing native from China, had more than 6 years marketing and strategy experience at Sprint Corporation in Marketing Communications, e-Business, Corporate Strategies and Global Development since 2000. Before joining Sprint Corp., he also worked in the corporate finance and marketing research areas at Jefferson Davis Associates, Inc. and Alliant Energy.
During his tenure at Sprint, he worked closely with the global advertising agencies to strategically pushing the brand awareness and development of Sprint PCS. He also worked in local telephone group to make transition from call-center based service to the cost efficient web-based service model targeting Sprint's local business customers. Later, he worked in global development group, working with Qualcomm, Lucent, Gemplus, CDG, government agencies and industry groups to push global CDMA2000 advocacy efforts, especially in China market.
He acquired B.S. degree from Xiamen University (China) in Biology in 1992. In U.S., he studied at Fordham University and the University of Iowa, and acquired MBA degree at the University of Iowa's Henry B. Tippie School of Management in 1998.
David JohnstonBoard Member
Dave comes to the Board of 9Spaces after a highly successful sixteen-year career in early-stage venture capital investing. David joined The Phoenix Partners, one of the Pacific Northwest's oldest and most respected venture capital firms, in 1991, and most recently served as Managing General Partner and Chief Investment Officer. At Phoenix, he was responsible for all aspects of the partnership's operations.
David was individually responsible for investments that resulted in nine initial public offerings and five profitable exits through acquisition. David was actively involved the raising of hundreds of millions of dollars in private capital and over $1 billion in public equity by his portfolio companies. David's investments have included aQuantive (AQNT), DTS, Inc. (DTSI), Niku (NIKU, acq. by CA), Relegence (acq. by TWX/AOL), Launch Media (LAUN, acq. by Yahoo!), Spinner.com (acq. by AOL), Widevine Technologies and Verdiem.
David previously served in a sales and marketing capacity for database software vendor Microrim.He received his BA in Political Science from Whitman College.
Joseph J. BorichAdvisor of 9Spaces
Executive Director Washington State China Relations Council
Prior to his current position, Mr. Borich was a Foreign Service Officer. He entered the Foreign Service in 1972 and was closely associated with the China field throughout most of his career, serving under every president from Nixon to Clinton in a China-related capacity. His last assignment was as Consul General in Shanghai from October 1994 through June 1997; he previously helped open this Consulate General in 1980. He also served as Director of the Taiwan Coordination staff in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Department of State, and prior to that as the last Deputy Chief of Mission in the former U.S. Embassy in Mogadishu.
Sidney RittenbergAdvisor of 9Spaces
Sidney Rittenberg has known every Chinese leader of his generation: Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, the notorious Gang of Four, Deng Xiaoping, and the present president and premier.
The Army trained Sidney in Chinese Studies during World War II, and sent him to China. He later joined the UN Relief Program, met and formed a friendship with Zhou Enlai, and in 1946 accepted the invitation to help train Chinese journalists working in English. He became a leading translator for the works of Mao Zedong, and was the only American citizen accepted into the Chinese Communist Party, until the Cultural Revolution.
Sixteen of Sidney's thirty five years in China were spent as a prisoner in solitary confinement on charges of being an American spy. He was freed in 1977 and declared a true friend of China. His family became a myth and a legend, giving them easy entrée to China's leaders – a great advantage for their consulting work.
Sidney has appeared on virtually every major TV and radio comment program, and frequently gives seminars on the China business. He has been a professor of History at the University of North Carolina, where an endowed chair has been announced in his honor. He is currently a visiting professor of China Studies at Pacific Lutheran University.
Sidney's 35 years in China are chronicled in The Man Who Stayed Behind, a book Sidney co-authored with senior Wall Street Journal writer Amanda Bennett.
