Sarah Kutulakos

Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer
Canada China Business Council

 

Sarah Kutulakos joined the Council in April 2007 after 11 years in marketing, product development, and management with a major multinational corporation, where she had multiple assignments involving China. Sarah has managed worldwide product businesses that marketed to China and used China-based sources of supply. She was involved in several projects requiring cooperation with the Chinese government. Sarah has led both established and start-up businesses within the context of a global corporation and has broad emerging market business experience. She has been involved in the Greater China region since the late 1980's when she lived and worked in Taiwan. There she was the first non-Chinese employee of a local high-tech startup firm, where she gained a deep understanding of Chinese business practices.

A fluent Mandarin speaker, Sarah's interest in China began at the University of Wisconsin, where she studied Chinese, marketing, and international business. She holds an MBA in finance and operations from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester, where she also speaks annually on product management and marketing in China.