Howard Snyder

Producer & Star of documentary, "My Beijing Birthday,"

Mr. Snyder is a multilingual security and operations professional with over 30 years of experience in Japan and China in high-visibility events, crisis management, government relations and corporate communications. He is fluent and literate in Japanese and Chinese with a proven ability to lead multi-cultural teams and execute difficult projects on time and within budget. He currently is Asia Project and Olympic Manager for TorchStone Global, a boutique risk management firm. He has previously served in various roles with the Coca-Cola Company from 2002 to 2017, most recently as Director of Risk Management for China and Korea. In this role, he led proactive and reactive risk management functions, including incident management, crisis communications, corporate reputation and enterprise risk management. Prior to Coca-Cola, his experience included roles as Managing Director for Kroll Associates Asia, based in Tokyo; Producer for Nippon Television Network, based in Washington, D.C.; and Senior Manager for Citibank in Tokyo.

Howard is most proud of his documentary film project, “My Beijing Birthday” (www.mybeijingbirthday.com), a heart-felt and humorous look at the rapidly changing lives of a group young Beijingers.

He earned his master’s degree in International Economics and Japan Studies from The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and his Bachelor of Art’s Degree in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.

Language in the Life of a Tokyo Private Eye

In the early 90's we were the only international private eyes in Japan running the office of the world's leading international investigative firm. Speaking Japanese is how we got the jobs and did our work: investigating frauds, extortions, intellectual property theft etc. We will describe some of the cases we worked on and how language played a role. We will also give a mini lesson on some of the specialized vocabulary we had to learn and use.

This presentation will be available for on-demand viewing on December 2nd during Global CRED. Register for Global CRED below, it’s quick easy and free!