Zheng Qun Yi
Managing Director
Nutrition
Herbalife
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Zheng Qun Yi is managing director of China at Herbalife Nutrition. He is responsible for all business, strategy, sales and marketing functions across China. A leading expert in the field of extraction and processing of natural compounds for use in food, supplements and pharmaceuticals, Dr. Zheng joined Herbalife Nutrition in 2010 as vice president in Natural Product Manufacturing. He led the Company’s Seed to Feed strategy in China and opened the Herbalife Innovation and Manufacturing (HIM) botanical extraction facility. In 2015, Dr. Zheng assumed responsibility for Worldwide Research, Development and Scientific Affairs, overseeing botanical developments and innovations across all markets worldwide. Before joining Herbalife Nutrition, Dr. Zheng was Founder, Chairman and CEO of NatSource Chemicals Corporation, with which Herbalife Nutrition formed a joint venture to build its extraction facility in Changsha, which opened in 2012. Prior, Dr. Zheng was President of Kent Financial Services, Inc. and President of Pure World, Inc. He started his career as a senior chemist at Houser Chemicals, working on natural products for anti-cancer drug research and development. Dr. Zheng holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Hunan University of China. He received a doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of Colorado and conducted post-doctoral research at Cornell University.
Research Interest
Nutritional reserach
