Team
As one of the fastest growing and most exciting regions in the world, the Asia Pacific is well positioned to embrace the ‘Asian Century’. APAC IMPORTS focuses its expertise, experience and understanding of localized market conditions to provide the best results for both our buyers and suppliers.
Given cultural and societal barriers between the West and the economies of Asia, this can only be achieved through a sustained ‘on-ground’ presence, which has been years in the making.
Dawson Wood
It was 7 years ago that Vietnam’s booming trade industry caught Dawson’s attention, ultimately leading to his relocation to Vietnam. Initially engaged with projects in marine commodity survey, he further narrowed his focus to international food and beverage trade.
During the pandemic Dawson worked back in the US with prominent logistics company TQL to assist medium and enterprise businesses in tailoring their global logistics operations. This included securing vessel/aircraft capacity, minimizing port demurrage costs, and developing customs, rail, and warehouse strategies during this challenging period.
Dawson is now living back in SE Asia and enjoys helping SMB’s scale and serve their customers better from both inventory and service standpoints.
Roderick Evans
Roderick Evans was born and raised on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.
In 2005 he graduated from the University of New South Wales, gaining a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Political Science and History of Southeast Asia.
Roderick relocated to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at the age of 21. He spent the next 6 years continuing to expand his knowledge and understanding of the world’s second largest economy. With long stints in Beijing, Shanghai, Vietnam and Thailand, he has spent the last 13 years building and cultivating business networks/relationships from scratch.
Rod currently lives in Australia where he works on-ground overseeing our sales and sourcing operations there.
Richard Johnson
Rich’s diverse sales career in London, the Greater UK and overseas is what ultimately led him to international goods trade. From his initial involvement in the Japanese-UK automobile trade and international property development, Rich expanded his focus to Vietnam where he began exporting furniture to the UK, as well as establishing a London based perfume brand in Vietnam.
Rich specializes in assisting e-commerce professionals build their brands through distribution, retail and online platforms for wholesale and direct to consumer in Vietnam.