Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> April 6, 2009
DOUGLAS C. MACLELLAN is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive
Officer of AMDL Inc., a US-based pharmaceutical company with major operations in
China. Mr. MacLellan has been a member of AMDL's Board of Directors since 1992,
previously serving as Chairman of the company's Audit and Governance Committees.
He has extensive business management experience in the People's Republic of
China, where he has been actively involved since 1983. He is a recognized
authority on Chinese joint venture and wholly foreign owned enterprise (WFOE)
structuring and considered an expert on the China government and regulator and
compliance system. Past leadership roles include MacLellan Group, Inc., a
privately held business incubator and financial advisory firm that Mr. MacLellan
founded in 1992. He was also a Board member of Edgewater Foods International,
Inc., and Vice Chairman of the Board of AXM Pharma, Inc., a China-based bio-
pharmaceutical company. Mr. MacLellan received advanced training in classical
economic theory and international relations from the University of Southern
California and was a student of Arthur Laffer, PhD, who later employed him as an
economist. Profile
Mr. MacLellan: I've spent over 26 years traveling and doing business in China,
with over 12 of those years focused on
