Mark Giorgini, GMS, brings to The China Blog a broad-based understanding of global HR issues. His expertise is built on a wide range of experience—who else do you know who has appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court, written for two magazines, lectured at a top 10 Chinese university, and can converse in Chinese (well barely), and has transferred between icebreakers in the Arctic Ocean by swinging on a rope? (Now, that's mobility in action!)
Mark currently calls Shenzhen, in mainland China, "home," but he grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and moves between these two vastly different cultures with an ease that illustrates what it means to be a “global” executive.
After more than 20 years in the energy, banking and insurance industries, Mark is now the managing principal and chief HR Consultant for China HR Insight, Ltd, a personal consulting firm, through which he led a successful internationalization effort at China’s largest stock exchange-listed real estate company during an organizational transformation period.
Some other career accomplishments (to date) include:
- Leading the Human Resources, Information Technology, Public and Legal Affairs areas in establishment of a $3 billion (USD) Sino-Foreign greenfield joint venture clean-energy company, the first of its kind in China.
- Heading the establishment of relationships with the Chinese government for a major infrastructure project, which was ultimately completed on-time and under-budget.
- Leading and participating in multiple Chinese joint ventures through all phases of implementation.
- Being invited to be the first non-Chinese Board of Directors member for the first HR professional association in south China.
- Coaching a major provincial Chinese university’s "Students in Free Enterprise" (SIFE) team to a national third place finish with a project to create a meaningful, sustainable, free enterprise project in rural Guangdong province.
His education includes degrees in journalism and political science (Drake University, Iowa); a Juris Doctor (University of Minnesota); and a Master of Arts in Industrial Relations (University of Minnesota).
With all this, he still finds time for a host of additional activities, including service on the Worldwide ERC® Board of Directors; lecturing on HR issues in an international MBA program offered by Sun Yat-sen University in conjunction with MIT's Sloan School of Management and teaching at the Northwest Polytechnic University in Xi'An, China; speaking at various global HR conferences as well as being a faculty member for Worldwide ERC®'s Global Mobility Specialist (GMS™) designation program; and membership in the Minnesota State Bar Association and the United States Supreme Court Bar Association.