" Over the last 10 years I have had the privilege to work together with Ian Zhu. Ian is an extremely professional person with high competence, intelligence and capabilities, high dedication, integrity and loyalty. Having been living and working outside China, as well as working with colleagues located around the globe, with his excellent English language skills, Ian has very good understanding of differences in thinking and cultures, and how that influence business reasonings and decisions. Ian is also very result oriented, still with good strategic vision, being able to see the Full value chain. Through systematic attention to details, making in-depth cost analyses, company ownership reviews, quality audits, supply chain evaluations of potential new suppliers, Ian was able to implement, together with the different teams around the world, high cost down on high spend values, helping our company in competitiveness and profits. Ian is a good people manager, something he has shown being responsible for local teams as well as teams located outside China. He is a good listener and coach, being warm-hearted and having patience at the same time leading with own examples, with goal setting but also managing more directly and firmly when needed. I can warmly and strongly recommend Ian both as a professional and a person. "

Bengt Mellquist, Purchasing Director, SKF Group