Map Data: Taishan, China
Google Earth, Google Maxar Technologies
Business models hang in the balance of their regulatory environments. Changes in policy can force opportunities and threats for your new market activity. BYG Advantage uncovers key differences in rules between target foreign markets and your local market. We leverage our awareness of these differences to inform your growth strategies.
We help you navigate voids in policy coverage and prepare yourselves for different cases of policy evolution. Fast moving and disruptive startups do not always have time for their own government relations. BYG Advantage gives them this edge, helping reduce associated risks to long term success.
We keep you on top of policy. BYG Advantage keeps your expansion strategy informed by potential changes in related regional rules. We help you streamline your efforts to maximize your growth while minimizing threats from disruptive policy changes.
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John Fargis is a senior executive with over twenty-five years of general management experience in the China market. He has run Asia for a range of US and European software companies. Google purchased three of these companies. John is the Co-founder and Principal for BYG Advantage, focused on market acceleration with international technology firms across APAC, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. John’s management experience includes bridging dozens of technology companies into new global market opportunities. Until recently he was also an adjunct professor at the Hult International Business School Shanghai campus where he taught courses on Emerging Markets, Leadership and Chinese History. He is an independent director on the NASDAQ listed technology company, Ispire. (ISPR) and a Board of Managers at the Oakwood Friends School.
John first went to China as a Henry Luce Scholar in 1993 when he worked in Shanghai. He was the first foreigner in the modern era, allowed permission to work in a Chinese reform school. Prior to this assignment he had worked for four years as a New York City, special education schoolteacher in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
John has a B.A. with Honors in Medieval Studies from Wesleyan University, a Masters of Special Education from Hunter College and a Masters of Law and Diplomacy with a focus on international business and Chinese history from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. After resideing for decades in China, John currently lives in New Paltz, New York, not far from where he grew up.
