Insight co-founders Tim & Eric Crown form US-China business advisory group

Left to right: Tim Crown, Eric Crown and Robert Parker in China.

Insight Enterprises Inc. co-founders Tim and Eric Crown have partnered with Robert Parker, a former Insight executive, to form an advisory group on U.S.-China business relationships.

The Crown Parker Advisory Group started up about 18 months ago, but wasn?t formalized as an entity until the past couple of months. It specializes in strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, raising capital and government relations between high-profile American and Chinese companies.

The trio is working with clients in the fields of clean energy, logistics, entertainment, commodities and banking.

?We?ve been very helpful to large organizations to help them shepherd through the process,? said Eric Crown, who said their Fortune 500 clients wish to remain anonymous. ?We help them with the pitfalls of working in China and understanding how the government relations work.?

The group is helping to develop a new cold chain logistics company in China. Up to 70 percent of Chinese perishables go bad because they don?t have a good system to keep the goods cold, Crown said.

?We?re helping the Chinese understand cold chain logistics, working with refrigerator trucks and figuring out how to deliver the goods to the Chinese,? he said.

The Crown brothers started Insight (Nasdaq:NSIT) in Tempe in the late 1980s. Eric left the technology provider about seven years ago, and Tim is still chairman.

Parker, former Insight vice president of financial services, became a friend of China?s President Xi Jinping after interviewing him for Fox News in February. He said he feels confident that with Jinping?s leadership, China and the U.S. ?will succeed together in business and in friendship.?

Hayley Ringle covers technology and startups for the Phoenix Business Journal.

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