Wilson Zhao
Managing Partner at Upcom Search & Selection
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolWilson Zhao is a Managing Partner with eight years of focused experience leading boutique executive search and leadership advisory in China's industrial sectors, and over a decade in talent assessment and recruitment. He specializes in placing senior commercial and operational roles—Sales GMs, VPs, Directors and technical leaders—across Automotive, Chemical, Industrial Automation, Pulp & Paper, Packaging and Marine & Offshore. Wilson combines deep knowledge of both international multinationals and local Chinese SMEs, enabling culturally attuned talent matches and pragmatic leadership development. At Upcom Search & Selection he has overseen more than 1,000 in-depth assessments and 1,000 successful recruitments, translating sector expertise into measurable hiring outcomes. A Certified Assessment Consultant, he also has hands-on experience building and scaling search teams and training researchers into consultants. Based in Shanghai, he brings a rare blend of industry specialization and operational insight that helps clients bridge capability gaps in complex manufacturing contexts.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
East China Normal UniversityBachelor Chinese Literature, Bachelor Chinese Literature at Shanghai University
Github Skills (14)
keras4
graph-convolutional-networks3
data-science2
snorkel2
deep-learning2
dimensions2
molecule1
chemistry1
rdkit1
dft1
knowledge-graph1
molecular-simulation1
cheminformatics1
materials-informatics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Wilson-ZHANG/AttributeExtraction
May 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
Wilson-ZHANG/Wilson-ZHANG.github.io
May 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:18 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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