Jack Porteous takes a leading role in new business development at Samarkand Global and is responsible for relationships with clients and partners, ensuring excellence in service delivery. Before joining Samarkand Jack worked in public sector roles advising and supporting businesses with exports globally, and specifically to China. He previously spent more than three years as the Sector Director of Retail & e-Commerce for the China-Britain Business Council, the UK’s leading NGO promoting UK-China trade, and prior to that worked for the UK government’s Department for International Trade advising consumer brands on international expansion. Jack holds a BA in Modern Foreign Languages from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, graduating with a 1st class degree and a joint major in Chinese and Spanish and spent 3 years living and working in China.