Tony Gostling is the Director - Membership, Outreach & China Missions for the Canada China Business Council, which is the premier facilitator for bilateral trade and investment between Canada and China.Tony works out of both the Toronto and Shanghai offices of CCBC.

Since 1996, Tony has been heavily involved in Asian business activities.

Prior to joining CCBC, Tony spent nine years working in China as the President and Chief Representative of a trading company with offices in Shanghai and Shenyang, which supplied “made in China” OEM components, mainly for the railroad and transportation industry, to their customers in the US and Canada.

Tony has also been a manufacturer’s agent and a sourcing and business consultant and spent many years in procurement management at Westinghouse Power Transformer prior to their merger with GE in the mid 80’s.

Tony, who speaks Mandarin Chinese, has spent most of his career in global procurement and supply chain management. He is very familiar with business startup and operational practices in China and the common problems associated with operating in an emerging economic power. Tony and his wife, Hua, make their home in Guelph but still maintain a residence in Hua’s hometown of Shenyang, China.

Tony, who grew up in Chatham, has always had a great interest in sports and played lacrosse for the Kitchener Braves back in the early 70’s and is in the Wallaceburg Sports Hall of Fame as a lacrosse coach.