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On Thursday June 13th, a unique conference about PayPal’s e-business in China will take place on EMLYON’s Asian Campus in Shanghai. PayPal is an international online payment service belonging to the group Ebay and with Patrick Dupuis, EMLYON alumni as Global CFO of PayPal.

Two guest speakers from PayPal are invited to this fascinating conference: Patrick Foo, Head of Cross-Border Business and Liuliu Lu, Head of Large Merchant Business.

Patrick Foo, Head of Cross-border Business, PayPal China

As Head of Cross-border Business, PayPal China, Patrick Foo is responsible for supervising merchant services, merchant marketing, SMB business and consumer business of PayPal China and increasing the company’s presence and capabilities to capitalize on the explosive growth of cross-border e-commerce in China.

Patrick comes to PayPal with more than 20 years of management experience in Asia, and spent the last 15+ years in regional senior leadership roles at American Express. He has led the Greater China markets in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and his last position at the company was Chairman and General Manager for American Express Taiwan and China.  A leader with an entrepreneurial bent, he has spent the last two years establishing the China business for a web-based education software provider.

Patrick holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics & Mathematics from the National University of Singapore.

Liuliu Lu, Head of Large Merchant Business, PayPal China

Liuliu Lu is the Head of Large Merchant Business, responsible for acquiring and growing PayPal China’s Large Merchant portfolio for the cross-border business. Prior to this, she worked as Head of Consumer Business, responsible for growing PayPal’s consumer portfolio in China, leveraging import buying from PayPal’s overseas merchants.  She also worked as Head of Marketing for PayPal China, in charge of the overall branding and marketing strategy and activities for PayPal China.

An experienced marketing professional with 15 year of successful track record in financial services industry, Liuliu used to work for American Express Company and MasterCard Worldwide in the United States, prior to joining PayPal China 2 years ago.  Liuliu has worked in Global Marketing and Country Marketing roles, with experiences ranging from branding, marketing strategy, financial services product development, to lifecycle management and loyalty platforms.

Liuliu Lu graduated from Peking University with a BA degree in Economics; and from Stanford University with an MA in Sociology.