Tsinghua's Team 1 ousted the other teams in china to emerge as the champs in the "Compete" portion of Firenze|china. They won US$2000 for their efforts for this portion of the competition.

This team was represented by:

Rory Quirk
Rory Quirk is 2nd year student at the Tsinghua University SEM IMBA. Previous to joining the program, Rory Quirk has worked in the IT industry for 5 years as a business development manager. Prior to being stationed in China, Mr. Quirk worked in the C-SAM HQ office in Chicago for several years focusing on managing accounts with different banks, financial institutions and telecom service providers. Rory Quirk, a Chicago native, holds a B.S. from Indiana University in Management and East Asian Studies. His hobbies are playing baseball and golf.
 
Raymond Cheng
Raymond Cheng is a first year MBA student at Tsinghua University. Over the past 7 years, he has held various positions in marketing and business development for mid-sized and Fortune 100 companies. Raymond holds a bachelors degree from the University of Michigan. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, snowboarding and golf.
 
Zhou Huipeng
Michael Zhou Huipeng is a first year student of the Tsinghua SEM IMBA program. Before joining the MBA program, Michael worked as a sales director in a mobile phone company, mainly in different overseas market, such as Russia, CIS, India and South-eastern Asia. Previous to this experience he was a software engineer in a telecom company. Michael was born in Hubei province located in central China. He attended Wuhan University where he earned a bachelors degree in Computer Science.
 
Jarunee Sinchairojkul
Jarunee Sinchairojkul is a first-year Tsinghua SEM IMBA student. Before joining the MBA program, she worked as a Public Relations Consultant with APPR Media for three years. Prior to joining APPR Media, she worked at APL, a global container transportation services as Network Analyst. Jarunee graduated from Thammasat University in Thailand in 2002 with a degree in Business Administration.