Team CPG

The CPG Group of Companies (“CPG”), headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, is dedicated to developing, producing and marketing the finest consumer products and services that are made in the State of Washington for the wellness of the people of the State, the USA and the world.

CPG believes in promoting fair trade and better understanding between Washington State, the USA and other countries of the world, so that all people of the world can live in peace, harmony and prosperity.

CPG has its main office and showroom in Bellevue, Washington, with warehouse and distribution facilities in Kent, Washington and Guangzhou, China.  It also has representative offices in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Singapore.

CPG is led and managed by a team of seasoned business professionals, highly respected for their accomplishments in the USA and the international business arenas.

Jackson Tse
Founder, Chairman and CEO

Mr. Tse has over 35 years of senior management experience in international business, focusing on China and the Asia Pacific region. His expertise includes business development, strategic marketing, global licensing, original equipment manufacturing, sourcing, formation and management of cross-border business operations and financial investments.  Mr. Tse has built successful distribution networks for major American brands in China and Asia Pacific, ranging from high performance sports equipment to games, from health supplements to gourmet food products.

He has served as the President of USTech, the Vice President of Asia Pacific at Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro, and the Senior Vice President of International Business at Advanced Biometrics Inc. He is the consultant of and advisor to various American corporations, foundations and universities which are actively engaged in doing business in China and Asia Pacific.

Mr. Tse graduated from the University of Colorado and attended graduate schools in aeronautical engineering and business at the University of Washington, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Harvard Business School. He has also received various honorary titles and degrees from universities in USA and China. He is a board member of the Washington State China Relations Council.

 John Jordan
Co-founder and Vice Chairman

Mr. Jordan had worked for Boeing Defence & Space Group for 14 years in Advanced Launch System Design, including the Sea Launch commercial launch vehicle program.  He joined Wizards of the Coast, then a game company start-up, in 1993 as Director and Senior Vice President International Business, and grew its international sales from zero to over US$400 million per year in five years.  During this period Mr. Jordan localized Wizards' core products (Magic the Gathering and Pokemon game cards) into different languages and established offices in Europe, China and Asia Pacific, distributing to over 50 countries and eventually exceeding the company's domestic US core brand sales. He worked closely with Mr. Jackson Tse in the China and Asia Pacific arena.  In his final year at Wizards he served as Senior Vice President New Business Development, and company annual sales exceeded US$600 million. Mr. Jordan left Wizards in 2000 after the sale of the company to Hasbro for several hundred million dollars.  He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Cornish College of the Arts, as well as on the Board of various American corporations.  He also manages his own venture capital fund.

Mr. Jordan graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Mr. Jackson Tse, the Chairman and CEO of CPG, was a colleague of Mr. John Jordan at Wizards of the Coast.

Sidney Rittenberg
Advisor Emeritus

Mr. Rittenberg is the President of Rittenberg Associates, Inc. Since 1986, he has been a senior advisor to major US and international corporations doing business in China. His clients included AIG, Intel, Nextel, Teledesic, Digital Equipment, ARCO, Hughes Aircraft, ICO, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Ford, Nintendo USA, Trammell Crow, Prudential Insurance (UK), Levi Strauss, Hershey, United Conveyers, Dan Rather (CBS News), Billy Graham and Family, USIS, etc. He has been a partner in the consulting firms Index Group and Kamsky & Rittenberg. He was the Vice Chairman for Asia at Computerland Corporation.

Mr. Rittenberg lived and worked in China for 35 years. He had worked with Chairman Mao (founder of the People’s Republic of China) and was a friend of the late Premier Zhou Enlai of China. He was close enough to late premier Deng Xiaoping to persuade him to agree to his first television interview with a Westerner: Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes. He maintains close relationships with people in high places in Beijing as well as in Washington D.C.

Mr. Rittenberg graduated from the University of North Carolina and attended postgraduate studies at Stanford University. He is a Director of the Washington State China Relations Council, a member of Rotary Club International, a professor and one of the leading China experts in the USA.

Joe Borich
Director Emeritus

Mr. Borich is currently the Executive Director of the Washington State China Relations Council. Prior to this, Mr. Borich served in the US Foreign Service from 1972 to 1997. In the Foreign Service, he served under every US president from Nixon to Clinton in a China-related capacity. His last assignment was as US Consul General in Shanghai from 1994 to 1997; he previously helped open that Consulate General in 1980. He also served as Director of the Taiwan Coordination Staff in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Department of State, and prior to that as the last Deputy Chief of Mission in the former U.S. Embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia.

At the Washington State China Relations Council, Mr. Borich leads the only State-level association dedicated solely to promoting trade, cultural and academic relations between China, Hong Kong, and the United States, representing hundreds of corporate members such as Boeing, Microsoft, Weyerhaeuser, Frank Russell Co., Costco, PACCAR International, Starbucks Coffee, major ports, banks, law firms, and other manufacturers, retailers, and businesses in Washington State.

Mr. Borich graduated from South Dakota State University, and attended the University of South Dakota Graduate School and the US State Department Executive Seminar.

Other Leaders of Team CPG:

 Dr. Perry Chinn D.C.

Chief Aviation Officer for CPG, focusing on business development in aviation, medical and healthcare arenas.  Co-Creator of Acctrix, the cardiovascular health supplement marketed worldwide by CPG.

Jackie Cui

China Operations including CPG Wine Distribution Center in Guangzhou.

Cecilia Sivertson

US Operations, CPG Ariva Waters and Organic Gourmet.

Karen Swanson

Director, e-commerce (www.CPGlifestylescom) operations

Amy Webster

CPG Tours, China Discoveries, Executive Travel.

Grace Gunarso

IT and Web Operations.

Peter Wong

Sourcing and Special Services for China.

Tony Shan

Global Logistics.

Sasha Fang

Representative, Beijing, China.

Jeffrey Pang

Representative, Yangzhou, China.

Nelson Leung

Representative, Hong Kong and Macao.

Sabrina Lee

Representative, Taiwan.

Pancho Serame

Director, Business Development, Philippines

John Kong

Representative, Singapore

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