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We help you find and apply to the best American summer camp, boarding school, college and graduate program for your child

Who We Are

Everyone at KeMeiXin shares the same two objectives:

  • We want to help Chinese students and their parents find the best possible educational opportunities in the United States, by providing honest and independent advice.
  • We want to make an honest living, without compromising our strong ethical standards.

To do this, we have assembled a team of both Chinese and American professionals, who work together out of our office in Beijing.

Gabriel
Gabriel, Niu Yong, CEO

Gabriel Niu has 8 years of experience helping Chinese students find the best overseas educational opportunities. As the head of the American Service Department for one of Beijing's top-ten education agencies, he pioneered application counseling services for boarding schools in China. He has helped more than hundreds of Chinese students head overseas for programs that include summer camp, high school, post-graduate year, community college, 4-year College, and graduate school. Prior to this, he was a department head for China Youth Online, the online portal for the Communist Youth League, which is one of China's largest youth-oriented websites. He holds a joint degree from the University of Colorado and China Agricultural University. In late 2008, he was looking for a way to provide better, more unbiased service to Chinese students. Inspired by Tom Melcher’s leadership and sharing the same ideas, he co-founded Kemeixin Consulting with Tom.

Hamilton Gregg, Senior Counselor
Hamilton Gregg, Senior Counselor

Hamilton Gregg attended boarding school in the US before earning his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado where he majored in Political Science. After working in hotel management, investment management, and advertising, he started working in education. For over 25 years he has been involved in education on three continents: from Assistant Director of Admission (Thacher School), Director of Residence (Oregon Episcopal School) to College Counselor at three different schools (Leysin American School, Switzerland; Canadian Academy, Japan; International School Of Beijing, China). Along the way he earned his M.Ed from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Most recently, he started Hamilton Gregg International Education Consulting to tap in to the market of students in China considering education overseas. He is single and has lived in Beijing for eight years. He joins Kemeixin in hopes of adding to the already excellent staff.

Isabelle Krishana, Senior Counselor
Isabelle Krishana, Senior Counselor

Isabelle Krishana attended one of New York City's top private schools, and then earned her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, where she majored in International Affairs and Teaching. After gaining experience as an elementary school teacher, she earned her Master's degree from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Most recently, Isabelle started her own company in New York City, which taught parenting skills. She lives in Beijing with her husband and daughter, and has helped many friends apply to top colleges in the US.

Shelly O’ Connor, Senior Counselor
Shelly O’ Connor, Senior Counselor

Shelley O’Connor was a teacher at Beijing Technology and Business University, responsible for teaching students in ESL (ESL) courses. She has been provided assistance for students who applying for U.S. graduate programs. In addition to guiding students prepare for the TOEFL, Shelley helped all aspects of the application, including essay writing, interview preparation and so on. In her spare time, Shelley also trains high school students TOEFL skills and help them to prepare the U.S universities courses. Shelley graduated from the University of New Hampshire, received a bachelor's degree in sociology. Before moving to Beijing, she worked in a well-known gallery in New York - Gallery Revel as a director. In the past seven years, Shelley and her husband and son have been living in Beijing

Jill Niell, Senior Counselor
Jill Niell, Senior Counselor

Jill Niell graduated from a private boarding school in Memphis, Tennessee, the Lausanne School. She studied Business Administration at the University of Tennessee, and graduated from the University of Memphis. After a successful career in banking management she returned to Lausanne Collegiate School to develop their admissions, marketing and development office, where she worked for 13 years. During that time, she was instrumental in designing and implementing the school’s foreign student admissions policies and program. Since then she has worked in admissions and development in various college preparatory schools. Twenty-five years of helping families and students navigate the complex issues involved in selecting the school where the student will be most successful and satisfied has been the most gratifying aspect of her career in education. She and her husband moved to Beijing in the fall of 2011.

Casey Sapp, Senior Counselor
Casey Sapp, Senior Counselor

Casey is a certified College Counselor through UCLA and currently resides in Beijing where he has been for almost 3 years. Originally from Orlando, Florida he attended the University of Florida and graduated with a finance degree. Before working as a college counselor he worked in teaching and commercial banking. He has extensive experience in the high school and the collegiate sports environment competing in swimming, water polo, and basketball. He earned High School and Collegiate All-American Honors in water polo and has continued to pursue his passion for the sport in Beijing helping start and manage the Beijing Ducks Water Polo Club.

Joe Pratt, Counselor
Joe Pratt, Counselor

Joe has been in Beijing for over 10 years. He graduated from a small private liberal arts college in his home state of Iowa. During his sophomore year he was an exchange student at Zhejiang University, and has been involved with China ever since. In 2000 he obtained his law degree from Northwestern University and has worked as a corporate finance attorney in Hong Kong and Beijing. He now also teaches law at a major university in Beijing and greatly enjoys working on his own writing.

Samantha Wright, Counselor
Samantha Wright, Counselor

Samantha is a Canadian currently residing in Beijing. Upon graduating high school, she was ranked in the top 100 students in Canada as a National Millennium Scholar. She studied Political Science at the University of Western Ontario where she graduated first in her class. She went on to pursue a Masters degree in International Relations at the University of Oxford. Upon graduating, she worked for the UN World Food Programme before moving to China.

Jacki Files, Counselor
Jacki Files, Counselor

Jacki graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in Art Education. After teaching art at a public school in northern New York for two years, she moved to Canada where she taught mostly High School art and one year of E.S.L. at a private, Christian, and boarding school. During her many years at that school she taught students from several parts of Asia and developed a growing interest in Asian cultures. Then in the year 2001 she taught English in South Korea for a short time, and in 2004 she came to China to develop the Ontario curriculum art program at Harbor View High School in TEDA, Tianjin. After teaching there for two years she moved to Bangkok, Thailand to teach art at an international school there. Even though she enjoyed her time in Thailand, she missed living in China. Therefore, in August, 2009 she returned to China to teach art and oral English in the I.B. Department at Beijing Huijia Private School in Changping. She is very happy to be back in China and is very excited to be employed part-time at Kemeixin Consulting Co.

Judith Chen, Counselor
Judith Chen, Counselor

Judith Chen has a wealth of experience in international finance, having worked in the banking and insurance sectors in the United States and Greater China. She transferred to Beijing as head of business development for a multinational financial company six years ago. Since leaving the corporate world in early 2009 Judith has developed her passion for education: teaching, tutoring and consulting international and Chinese local students. Coming from a diplomatic family, Judith has first-hand experience and deep understanding of different cultures and different educational systems. She completed her undergraduate studies at Smith College, obtained a graduate degree from Yale University and took graduate courses at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She is presently working on a higher degree in education. Her daughters are both in university in the United States. Judith has extensive experience helping students apply to American educational institutions

Grace Hsieh, Expats Marketing Manager
Grace Hsieh, Expats Marketing Manager

Grace Hsieh is a graduate of the Hawken School and Yale University, where she majored in humanities and international studies. She worked at Ogilvy Public Relations in Beijing, and was a visiting scholar at the prestigious China Law Center of the Yale Law School. Most recently, she was a consulting analyst at BDA (China) Limited, where she advised multinational companies, hedge funds, and private equity firms on investment opportunities in the Asian markets. Grace is a four-time Prize winner of the World Piano Competition, and has performed solo at Carnegie Hall four times. She lives in Beijing.