Tom Ward

At the conclusion of his last assignment with Dupont China in 2005 he branched out forming PIM, Ltd, a US registered corporation and PIM China Ltd. in Shanghai with a team of researchers serving Western manufacturers entering or expanding in China. Since then, he and his team have performed over three hundred market entries, market expansion, and mergers and acquisitions assignments.

Examples of PIM’s scope of experience are electrical power generation and distribution, specialty chemicals, heavy machinery, machine tools, construction materials, specialty steels, oil and gas recovery components, coffee roasting, environmental protection to name a few. In conjunction with several of these assignments, PIM provided reviews of the related industry and government practices and regulations

In 2021, to qualify for the new market research licensing requirements for foreign firm assignments, the PIM Chinese management team formed Goly Management Consulting Co., Ltd. to operate in collaboration with PIM China.

With the combined licenses, PIM China and Goly perform deep dive industrial market analyses providing clients with real time profiles of their target markets and foreign and domestic competitor positioning.

Tom has been an active member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai since 1998 and served as a Committee Chair elected member of the Board of Governors.

In January of 2025 PIM entered collaboration with Asian Insiders as the China partner address China market opportunities and bring the Asia wide services of Asian Insiders to PIM’s network of clients.