Managing Director -- Dasym Media (Los Angeles)
Director & Legal Representative -- Dasym (Shanghai) Business Information Consulting Co., Ltd

Charles Coker is the Managing Director of Dasym Media, the Los Angeles subsidiary of the Dutch TMT investment group Dasym Investment Strategies, as well as a Director of Dasym’s Shanghai office. Dasym’s Los Angeles and Shanghai offices act as a bridge between the Chinese entertainment market and Hollywood and Europe, and are active in cross-border media, fund management, content brokerage and Sino-US/European film & TV projects. Coker served as a producer of the Sino-US co-production film Skiptrace (2016). The film starred Jackie Chan and grossed over $135 million at the Chinese box office. In addition to his duties at Dasym, Coker served from 2013-2017 as a director of the U.S./U.K. independent film company Exclusive Media — Rush (directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth), Ides of March (starring George Clooney), Woman in Black (starring Daniel Radcliffe), End of Watch (starring Jake Gyllenhaal) and Snitch (starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson).

Prior to joining Dasym in 2012, Mr. Coker practiced law in Shanghai and Los Angeles with leading international law firms, where he advised entertainment and media companies (e.g., Lucas Film, 20th Century Fox and NBA China), as well as independent producers, on their China strategy and operations, including Sino-foreign co-productions. He also represented clients in the U.S. and China (e.g., Intel, Walmart, Platinum Equity and The Gores Group) on private equity and venture capital investments, China foreign direct investments and fund formation issues. In addition,

Coker has authored numerous articles and been a guest speaker on the topic of investing in China and foreign-invested RMB funds for The China Business Review, the China Venture Capital Association and the Hong Kong Venture Capital Association.

Coker received his law degree from the Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) and his bachelor and master degrees from the University of Southern California. He was also a Fulbright Scholar to Austria. Mr. Coker also served on the faculty of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1995-2005.

Janet Yang is a Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated producer with deep professional and personal roots in China. She is currently in production on an animated feature for Netflix,Over the Moon, a contemporary story inspired by the Chinese moon goddess. Yang’s many film and TV credits include The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Dark Matter, and Shanghai Calling. Yang won a Golden Globe and Emmy for her HBO film, Indictment: The McMartin Trial. She began her career by bringing Chinese cinema to North America and then represented Hollywood studios to broker the first sale of U.S. films to China. That led to her joining Steven Spielberg for Empire of the Sun. The Hollywood Reporter named Yang one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood.” She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, serving on the Executive Committee of its Producers Branch, as well as committees on International Outreach, Diversity and the Academy Museum; the Committee of 100; and National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

Richard Drobnick is the founding director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the Marshall School of Business, which has been supported by the U.S. Department of Education since 1990 as one of its 33 national resource centers on international business. From 1994 to 2005, Drobnick served as USC's inaugural Vice Provost for International Affairs.

Drobnick was the founding Secretary General and a member of the Steering Committee (1997- 2011) of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), an association of presidents of 42 leading Pacific Rim research universities. From 2006 to 2011, Drobnick launched and led APRU's Pacific Rim activities on "Sustainability and Climate Change" and "Public Health". Presently, he serves as APRU's Senior Strategic Advisor on its "Sustainability and Climate Change" and "Global Public Health" activities.

Drobnick specializes in Pacific Rim economic and business issues and U.S. and Pacific Rim trade policies. He is the author of numerous articles regarding international economics and business, as well as the co-author of Neither Feast nor Famine: Food Conditions to the Year 2000 (D.C. Heath, 1978) and co-editor of Small Firms in Global Competition (Oxford University Press, 1994).

Drobnick is a member of the United States Asia Pacific Council, which is the organizing institution for the United States National Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Executive Committee of the Advisory Council of the Asia Society Southern California Center, and a director of the Japan-America Society of Southern California. From 1967 to 1969, Drobnick served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia, as a management advisor to the multi-purpose "Farmer Cooperatives" that were being launched by the Malaysian Department of Agriculture.

Anjali also served as Chief of Staff for an L.A.-based startup producing conferences on international trade and investment. She earned her master's degree in International Relations and Economics from John Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and bachelor's degree in International Studies and Economics from American University, both in Washington D.C.

In recent years, Huang has crossed over from the Chinese entertainment industry into Hollywood to further facilitate her development of cross-cultural communication skills, stimulate collaborative projects between the U.S. and Asia, and promote multimedia content that resonates with people around the world. Huang earned her master’s degree in Film Producing from the New York Film Academy. She is fluent in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.