[Free] Breakfast with the Board: Clark Jennings

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Join us on Friday mornings for a breakfast dialogue with our Board of Governors. This Series, Breakfast with the Board, will feature one AmCham Governor in each session, giving members the opportunity to hear about their professional journeys and their companies and engage with our Governors first-hand on how they became part of the AmCham community. The sessions will be moderated by one of our Committee Co-Chairs.

We will host Clark Jennings, Managing Director, Asia, for C&M International for our next session. Clark will share insights on his career journey, which has spanned from the governor's office in Arkansas, to a corporate law firm, U.S. presidential campaigns and into the White House, as well as how his firm has leveraged the AmCham community and insights while growing its staff and operations in Singapore. He will discuss how C&M International, a public policy consultancy, works to bring together the private sector with governments and policy-makers in Singapore, and throughout the ASEAN region.

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Speakers

Clark Jennings

Managing Director, Asia of C&M International LLC

May Teo

General Manager, Engine MRO Center at Pratt & Whitney Canada (SEA)

Clark Jennings is the managing director for C&M International’s Southeast Asia regional office, based in Singapore. He manages the firm’s operations in this dynamic regional hub and helps clients, including multinational firms and their associations, to navigate the evolving regulatory, policy, and political environment across the region, including within the APEC and ASEAN economic forums.

Prior to joining C&M International, he served at the National Economic Council of the Obama White House. There, he managed the West Wing “war room” to coordinate the administration’s strategy, outreach, and communications efforts on behalf of the president’s trade agenda, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Previously, Clark was chief of staff at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), where he helped guide strategic planning to fulfill the agency’s mission of linking U.S. businesses to infrastructure opportunities in emerging markets. As a member of USTDA’s senior executive team, he advised on deployment of international grant assistance, strategic outreach and communications, legislative strategy, and was the agency liaison to The White House, the National Security Council, and other U.S. government entities. He has represented the U.S. government in bilateral settings and international events on five continents.

Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Clark oversaw four departments and was part of the senior management team for the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. He went on to serve as the senior advisor to the executive director for the 2013 Presidential Inaugural Committee.

Clark traveled extensively on behalf of The White House, staffing President Obama on official international visits that have included trips to China, Myanmar, Laos, India, Brazil, and Iraq.

A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Clark previously worked as a commercial litigation associate at a nationally-recognized Arkansas firm and served as a federal law clerk to U.S. District Judge D.P. Marshall Jr. of the Eastern District of Arkansas. He also served in the Office of Governor Mike Beebe as deputy communications director.

In October 2022, May Teo was appointed as General Manager, Engine MRO Center at Pratt & Whitney Canada (SEA).

In this role, she leads and oversees the operations and P&L of the Engine MRO Center at Pratt & Whitney Canada Regional Hub in Singapore. She is responsible for driving the operations of the company in an efficient and cost-effective manner without compromising product quality and employee safety. In view of the strong market recovery and high market demand, May will also be leading the team in the ramp up of the capacity and shop expansion.

Prior to this appointment, May was the Associate Director, Operations, of Turbine Overhaul Services (TOS) where she had overall responsibility of core operations, advanced coating operations, logistics and CORE team.

May began her career at Pratt & Whitney in 2004 as a customer service executive at IAT-Asia. Since then, she had assumed various responsibilities in sales and marketing, customer service, materials management, project management and operations. In these roles, she was able to successfully expand customer base with strong relationships, drive operational excellence and was instrumental in various business transfer projects.

May is passionate about talent development, she led the hourly progression project to establish a development structure and drive alignment across all P&W Singapore sites. She also actively mentor the next generation leaders to achieve their full potential.

May received her Bachelor of Business (Distinction) with a major in Transport and Logistics Management from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and in 2009, earned her M.B.A. from University of Birmingham.

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