The moment of truth has arrived. Thanks to everyone for participating in the “Our Man in Shanghai” best or worst lunch story contest. As you know, the winner gets a humble lunch at Pier 39, located in the mind offices building in downtown Shanghai.

There was tought competition from the likes of Gregory Prudhommeaux of Next Step, David Feng, Steve Weathers, John Guise and even a photo submission from the busy author of Twitterville: Shel Israel. As well, when not working on 100 other things, managing his family and business projects in Beijing: Winser Zhao

There were a few other international mentions that should be listed, Robin Green who is an expat in Costa Rica and NYC part-timer traveling all over the world, Julie Schwietert Collazo. Runner ups get Kudos for trying and a website mention in this blog post.

The winner is: Calvin Chin! Founder of the peer to peer lending site Qifang. This is a classic entrepreneurial story of meeting up for lunch and either loosing a mobile phone or in his case: A laptop computer.  As many of you know,  I recently lost my iphone in the mix of project managment so this story appealed to me.

Although not as illustrious as being named a World Economic Forum(WEF) Technology Pioneer, I look forward to hosting him when he gets back to Shanghai next week.

I will still be posting through the holiday season but just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a happy holiday!!!