JudgingJudging CriteriaEach round of judging is based on materials submitted in that round. These materials will be reviewed by a panel of judges that cover all fields of the competition.Each round has a new set of judges but the same judging criteria will be applied for both rounds.In first and second round, judges will evaluate materials upon following criteria:
2014 Judges
Ron Cao is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Lightspeed China Partners (LCP), a leading China-focused early-stage venture capital firm with investments in Internet, mobile, services, and information technology Previously, Ron was Managing Director with Lightspeed Venture Partners (LSVP) and started the firm’s China operations in 2006.
Headquartered in the Silicon Valley, LSVP manages over $2B in assets and has offices globally. Prior to that, Ron was a Managing Director of KLM Capital, a cross-border venture firm with offices in Silicon Valley and China, where he primarily focused on investments in early-stage technology companies. Ron also worked at Intel as a marketing executive in the Mobile and Handheld Products Group and contributed to the successful launch of the mobile Pentium III processor. He also served as an operations manager focusing on ramping up leading-edge manufacturing processes. With over ten years of venture capital experience in both US and China, Ron has been or is actively involved with investments in China Vocational Training, GMedia, LuckyPai (acquired by Lotte), MediaV, Meilele, MetroWave (acquired by IPG Photonics), Opulan Technologies (acquired by Atheros), PCH International, ShareWave (acquired by Cirrus Logic), SureAuto, Teralane Semiconductors, and Tujia.com. Ron received both his B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ron serves as a board member of Maitian Education Foundation and is a venture advisor to the Shanghai Yangpu District KIC Project. Since 2011, Ron has been named by Forbes China as one of the “Top 50 Chinese Venture Capitalists”. In 2013, Ron was selected by World Economic Forum of one of its Young Global Leaders.
Christian Catalini is an Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Christian's main areas of interest are the economics of innovation, entrepreneurship, and scientific productivity. His research focuses on crowdfunding and online entrepreneurial finance, how proximity affects the recombination of ideas, the adoption of technology standards, science and technology interactions. In 2009-10 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard IQSS. He has presented his research on proximity and innovation at a variety of institutions including Harvard University, MIT, Yale University, and London Business School. Christian holds a BE in international markets and new technologies, and an MSc in economics and management of international markets and new technologies from Bocconi University, Milan, and a PhD in strategic management from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Walter Ge is the Director of Beijing-based Institute for Environment and Development (IED), a Chinese ‘think’ and ‘do’ tank specializing in providing solutions to environmental and social problems. He leads the IED team in analyzing green industry trends and green market growth for climate compatible technologies and investment potentials for policy makers and investors.
He also works as Country Director of New Ventures China program, a non-profit venture acceleration program founded by the World Resources Institute and IED in 2003. His work includes providing business acceleration and investment facilitation to SMEs with social/environmental intent. In 2012, Walter co-founded China Impact Fund, China's first impact investor focused on ‘missing middle’ environmental SMEs, including those with an environmental value proposition for the country's Base of Pyramid (BoP) population. Before this, Walter successively worked for a Chinese industrial federation and a leading international consulting firm focused on industrial enterprises. In these positions, he was heavily involved in attracting inbound investments to China by means of M&A and joint venture transactions. Walter holds an MBA from the University of Ballarat, Australia and an MA from Beijing Normal University.
Tim is the newest member of Northzone, a leading European venture capital firm. Previously, Tim was the co-founder and Senior VP of Operations and Strategy at Gaopeng, a joint venture between Groupon and Tencent in China. Gaopeng launched in early 2011 to quickly become a leading player in China’s emerging online market. In mid-2012, Gaopeng merged with two other group-buying companies in China to become the third largest group-buying site in China. Tim has also worked in the energy and cleantech industry at SPG Solar and Merrill Lynch. Tim started his career with the Danish central bank and government.
Tim holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master in Financial Economics from University of Oxford, Said Business School, and majored in economics at University of Copenhagen.
Laura Huang is an Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California-Irvine, an MBA from INSEAD, and both an M.S. and a B.S. in Engineering from Duke University. Professor Huang’s research examines early-stage investment decisions, and how perceptions and cues influence an individuals’ ability to make important, high-stakes decisions. She has worked in investment banking, consulting, and general management, for corporations such as Standard Chartered Bank, IBM Global Services, and Johnson & Johnson, as well as serving as a consultant and advisor to a number of entrepreneurial start-ups.
Georgia Levenson Keohane is a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, where she works on a range of issues in economic policy, including poverty and inequality, employment and job growth, and social entrepreneurship and the role of firms in society. Keohane's career has bridged the private and nonprofit sectors. A former McKinsey consultant and foundation executive, she advises a number of organizations including philanthropies, educational entities, community development agencies, and think tanks. She has taught at Yale, and is an adjunct professor in the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School. Keohane writes regularly on social and economic policy and the intersection of business and society for the Harvard Business Review, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Washington Monthly, Slate, and other publications and is the author of Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private and Public Sectors (McGraw Hill 2013). She holds a BA from Yale University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an MSc from London School of Economics, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.
Rebecca is Hyphen’s Health strategist, and one of the company’s co-founders where she uses her 15+ years of experience in strategy and business development along with her understanding of the initiatives behind healthcare reform to further her goal of using health IT to improve the quality of health for all Americans.
Previously, Rebecca led Dell’s Public Health practice where she was responsible for $100M+ per year business, and led the development and implementation of Dell’s overall Public Health growth strategy. Prior to joining Dell, Rebecca worked at several other companies including Truestone, CGI Federal, and Deloitte. This is Rebecca’s fifth venture after four previous successful venture-backed service companies. Rebecca received her MBA from Harvard University and did her undergraduate degree at the University of California at Berkeley.
Since 2007, Daniel has served as the Project Manager of Wanxiang America Corporation at Elgin, IL, USA, focusing on renewable energy business development, including solar, electric vehicles, etc. As part of their clean tech development, Waxiang bought A123 last year.
Daniel has been active in supporting student entrepreneurial activities. He was the judge of Enactus in 2012. Prior to Wanxiang, Daniel served as the Associate Director of Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce. His was responsible for organizing big events to promote Chinatown, attracting tourists to Chinatown, and being the liaison between City of Chicago and Chinese community. He graduated from Tsinghua University with a master degree in economics and a bachelor degree in material science of physics.
Feng Li is actively involved in investment in education, consumer services and TMT industry. Prior to joining IDG Capital, Feng Li served at New Oriental Education & Technology Group, a NYSE listed company, where he held several core management roles, such as the core educational system, sub-brand’s establishment and promotion, distance education and subsidiary industry. Prior to New Oriental, Feng Li worked at China Renaissance, where he was involved in leading many financing cases, such as: Ambow, Wang Xue, RYB and D-Edu. Feng Li also served at a foreign environmental protection and water treatment company. Feng Li got his M.S. in Chemistry from University of Rochester and BS in Chemistry from Peking University.
Hanson Li is a Co-founder and Managing Director of Huatone China Strategic Investment Solutions, Inc. (HCSIS), a China-based international business strategy consultancy providing services to outbound Chinese companies as well as inbound foreign companies in areas of market intelligence, strategy formulation, financial management and new business & relationship development. He is also a Research Fellow at the ChangCe Thinktank, headquartered in Beijing, China, where his focus is on the policy and governance aspects of globalization.
Previously, he was a senior executive at iKang Guobin, a leading private healthcare management services provider in China, where his portfolio covered strategic planning, IR & insurance matters. In 2009, he founded China Commercial Health Insurance Forum (CCHIF), a China-based independent global forum dedicated to private healthcare investment and health insurance development in China. His other experiences include working as a senior strategist at Lenovo's Global Emerging Markets Group headquarters, overseeing strategic planning, cascading, alignment and review across seven regional markets worldwide; as an investment banker in NYC; and various research and consulting positions in both China and the United States, for clients including World Bank Institute, UNICEF, and Massachusetts State House. Hanson co-founded AIESEC in Mainland China, and was Chief China Representative of Harvard China Review and Co-Chair of the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) Millennium Conference in Beijing. Hanson is a Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) Scholar where his performance ranking is in the top 10th percentile. He is a frequently invited speaker & published author in both English and Chinese on topics ranging from China's healthcare reform, globalization, corporate governance, to international relations. Hanson holds a JD from Boston University School of Law with a focus on legislation and corporate law, a S.M. from MIT, and a B.A. from Peking University.
Qi Li, M.D., M.B.A., is a successful healthcare innovator with extensive experience in product inception, research, and global business development. Dr. Li is the co-founder of EviPath with the mission to advance clinical education and collaboration in China. Dr. Li also holds the position of physician executive at InterSystems in charge of the global clinical product strategy. Dr. Li has held various product leadership roles at Harris Healthcare, Partners Healthcare, and several startup companies in healthcare IT. Previously, as the key person driving the Harris Healthcare global product strategy and sales effort, Dr. Li led the product positioning and market entry efforts in UK and China. At Partners HealthCare in Boston, Dr. Li led the internal development of the Longitudinal Medical Record (LMR) adopted enterprise-wide by 7,000-plus physician users at all primary care and specialty clinics. Dr. Li consults for Partners Medical International and taught in the China Initiative at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Li earned his combined M.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Mass and a bachelor’s degree from University of Southern Maine. Dr. Li also attended Shanghai Jiaotong University before moving to US in 1991.
Ben is a managing partner at Great Oaks Venture Capital. He joined Great Oaks in 2006 and worked with Andy in all aspects of investing in early stage startups including due diligence, deal sourcing, and management of portfolio companies. Participating in over 100 startups in the last 8 years, Ben has particular expertise in areas including marketplaces, platforms, enterprise SaaS, e-commerce services, and mobile. Additionally, Ben is also a Venture Partner at IDG Capital Partners, the leading China focused VC fund with investments in companies like Baidu and Tencent.
Prior to Great Oaks, Ben started his career at Goldman Sachs. Ben graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania where he received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School with a concentration in Finance. Ben enjoys traveling, tennis, outdoor activities, and is passionate about environmental issues.
Haibin Liu is a co-founder and managing director of Eastern Link Capital. He is also a co-founder and managing partner of Grains Valley Capital, a China based private equity firm, where he has successfully invested in five profitable companies, one of which became public in December, 2007. Haibin was the assistant to GF Securities' Chairman and a senior manager at GF Securities' investment banking group. While at GF Securities, he experienced a number of IPOs and M&As. For example, he represented GF Securities as a lead investment banker to bring China's No.1 securities firm CITICS to IPO in 2002. He was also an investment manager for China Shipowners Mutual Assurance Association (China P&I Club), where he implemented investments in two of the China's top ten banks: China Minsheng Banking Corp and China Everbright Bank.
Haibin has an MBA from Dowling College's Townsend School of Business and a Bachelor in Economics from China's University of International Business and Economics (UIBE).
Dr. Yong Liu is a researcher, entrepreneur, business writer and venture capitalist. He is now leading Baidu’s open innovation efforts, including strategic investment and partnerships in the US. Before joining Baidu, Dr. Liu set up Lenovo Technology Seed Fund in 2012 and Lenovo Silicon Valley office for M&A/strategic alliance in 2011. In his earlier career, Dr. Liu served Samsung Electronics, co-founded Dict.cn, and acted as an active business writer. Dr. Liu obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Nanjing University, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington. His research areas include pervasive computing and diffusion of innovations.
Mr. Luo Xiang is currently the national program director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - Investment and Technology Promotion Office (ITPO) in China, being a field operational officer of an UN specialized agency in China with diplomatic status. His role is to facilitate industrial clusters development, and he is responsible for Clean-Tech and Renewable Energy, including capital operation program, promotion of international strategic investment funds, industry-oriented funds, environment-friendly and resource-conservation projects, clean-tech industrial investment, and investment cooperation with government, enterprises and financial institutions. He has focused on amplifying industrial scale and perfecting the value chain via capital operation. Listed below are the investment funds he has led and participated in:
⋅ The UNIDO industrial fund (micro fund, growth fund, government technology fund) ⋅ Guangdong PreIPO Capital Partners venture capital fund ⋅ Changzhou SAIF venture capital fund ⋅ Draper Fisher Jurvetson venture capital fund ⋅ China Huaruan software and outsourcing investment fund ⋅ Deyang high-technology venture capital fund From 2005 to 2008, Luo served as senior coordinator for the US International Economic Development Council - China Program in Washington D.C. He was responsible for facilitating the cooperation between the Chinese government and global enterprises and investment institutions. The Program is an initiative to push forward the sustainable development of China’s environment-friendly, renewable energy, advanced manufactures industrial parks through the creation of regional industrial clusters in high-tech related industries. Before this, Luo was in charge of leading UNIDO projects to promote the Huanghe Delta regional development, the western campaign, SEMs financing plan, and SOEs reform via foreign capital. Luo currently is a PhD candidate 2012 on strategy, program and project management of SKEMA Business School, France, holds an MBA from the University of South Australia International Business School, and also the advanced certificate of venture capital and private equity training of Harvard business school. Luo is also the executive deputy director of the private equity research center of South Western University of Finance and Economics, and a specialist of the Chinese Western Six Provinces Entrepreneurial Training Program of the World Bank, core-specialist of WWF China.
Matthew Nordan is a vice president at Venrock, a premier venture capital firm originally established as the venture arm of the Rockefeller family. He focuses on breakthrough energy, environmental, and materials technologies from the firm’s Cambridge, MA office. Matthew is a board observer at FinSIX and Boston-Power and has been closely involved with portfolio companies Phononic Devices and Nest Labs.
Prior to Venrock, Matthew was president of Lux Research, an advisory services firm for science-driven innovation that he co-founded in 2004. Under Matthew’s leadership, the Lux Research analyst team became a globally recognized authority on the business and economic impact of emerging technologies, advising corporations, start-ups, financial institutions, and governments. Before Lux, Matthew held a variety of senior management positions at emerging technology advisor Forrester Research in the U.S. and Europe. Matthew has testified before the U.S. Congress four times on emerging technology issues, advised the Committee to Review the National Nanotechnology Initiative of the National Academies, and been an invited speaker at universities including Harvard, MIT, and Columbia. He was a founding member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies and has advised the OECD on technology development for energy and environmental applications. A regular speaker at technology conferences, Matthew’s views have been cited by news outlets including CNBC, ABC News, The Economist, Forbes, and Newsweek. Matthew is a graduate of Yale University, where he conducted cognitive neuroscience research on the neural pathways mediating emotion and memory.
Mr. Charlemagne Quinitio is the Director of Global Operations at the Hult Prize. The Hult Prize is a start-up accelerator for social good in which is dedicated to launching the next wave of social entrepreneurs through identifying, funding, mentoring, advising and launching new social businesses. Mr. Quinitio has successfully led the implementation and execution of Hult Prize operations in Shanghai, Dubai, Boston, London, San Francisco and Sao Paulo.
Mr. Quinitio started his career in the biotech industry in designing and executing system processes with focus on quality and implementation. Mr. Quinitio has also used his statistical and leadership expertise in the energy consulting sectors specializing on systems implementation and adoption across different stakeholders. Mr. Quinitio has a BS in Bioinformatics and Genomics from UC Riverside and an MBA in International Business from Hult International Business School. Mr. Quinitio currently resides in San Diego, CA.
Evan Rachlin is a healthcare principal at Bain Capital Ventures, the $2B+ venture and growth fund at Bain Capital, where he primarily focuses on healthcare IT and services companies. Prior to joining Bain, Evan was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company in New York, where he focused on healthcare strategy, operations, and due diligence, particularly in the CRO, mobile health, and systems biology sectors. He previously worked in the Portfolio and Decision Analysis group at Pfizer in New York and at a regenerative medicine startup in Boston.
Evan holds an MD/MBA from Harvard Medical and Business Schools and an A.B. in Biochemistry and Japanese from Harvard College. He currently serves as the Graduate School Director for the Harvard Medical Alumni Association.
John is a serial entrepreneur and has interests in hardware, software, systems, SaaS, Cloud, e-learning, telecomms, process control, clean energy, power electronics, security, water purification and medical devices. He has been a semi-finals judge at MIT’s $100k Business Plan Competition in the Mobile and Web/IT streams. He is also a mentor of international grad students. He is co-Chairman and Founder of Capital Alliances LLC for funding and InFedra.com for growing companies. He has an MSc EE/CS from MIT and a BSc EE/Math.
Elizabeth was President and Co-Founder of Mazza and Riley, Inc., an internationally recognized executive search firm focused on recruiting general partners for venture capital and buyout funds, senior management for emerging growth companies in datacom, telecom, computer software and hardware. In addition she recruited top management for media and communications companies including paging, cellular, digital mobile, wireless data, satellite, multimedia, magazine and book publishing and broadcasting (including broadcast, cable TV, and radio).
Her company grew a strong client base with recurring revenue based on providing superior value-added service in specific vertical markets to Boards of Directors and CEO's-including recruiting, money raising, mergers, and strategic planning. It developed and sustained long-term productive relationships with a core group of venture capitalists with significant telecom portfolios from early-stage to post-IPO companies.
As a Senior Industrial Liaison Officer, Dr. Rong promotes and manages the interactions and relationships between companies worldwide and the research faculty of MIT to help companies stay abreast of the latest developments in technology and business practices.
Dr. Rong is the founder and, previously president of IKA, LLC. He has led corporate development and product innovation, and has provided strategic advices to many companies in corporate strategy, IT leadership, web applications and customer relationship management. He has held senior roles with Vignette Corporation and Harte-Hanks. He held an EU research fellowship in the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he started global collaborative research. Dr Rong served on the board of MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston from 2009 to 2012, and he was the chair of MIT Sloan CIO Symposium from 2009-2011. Dr. Rong holds an M.B.A. in global and innovation leadership from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and Ph.D. in numerical computing from University of Guelph in Canada.
Dr. Song has rich experiences in both investment and entrepreneurship. He has in-depth knowledge in a broad range of technologies, and his main investment interests are early middle stage high-tech companies. He joined SBCVC in January 2000. His key role has been deal sourcing, execution, and portfolio management. He serves on the board of directors for over ten high-tech companies.
Before SBCVC, he held key positions in various high-tech companies. In 1995, he joined UStarcom's founding team as the Director of Information Technology. In addition, he was the CTO of MDC Telecom, and also a founder and director of GDS. From 1991 to 1995, he was an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut. From 1988 to 1991, he was a post doctorate researcher at the University of Connecticut where he conducted research in the field of computer networks and information systems. Dr. Song holds B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, and Ph.D. from School of Economics & Management, Tsinghua University. He serves as the special advisor for China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, and many other organizations.
Dr. Xiao Wang is the CEO at InnoSpring Inc., the first US-China cross border technology incubator. Previously at InnoSpring she headed the business development and cross-border partnership team upon joining the company in 2012. In addition to her new role as CEO at InnoSpring, Dr. Wang is also the Project Manager at Entelos, a pharmaceutical consulting company. Here she advises global Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology companies in regards to drug development decisions, including target evaluation/ prioritization, translational medicine, biomarker analysis, and clinical trial design.
Dr. Wang has Co-Founded China America Innovation Network (CHAIN), a professional non-profit organization envisioned to help transform innovation into value through fostering entrepreneurship in 2011. She is an honored associate member of Tsinghua Entrepreneur and Executive Club (TEEC) and the president of Tsinghua Alumni Association of Northern California (THAA-NC). Dr. Wang earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and her B.S. in Biological Sciences from Tsinghua University in Beijing China.
Xiaoping Xu, co-founded New Oriental School and has over 10 years of experience with New Oriental Group. Mr. Xu served as Director of New Oriental Group and was responsible for its marketing, public relations, government relations and most recently a specialised consulting arm for Chinese preparing to study abroad. He successfully led New Oriental to the US New York Stock Market in 2006.
He also presided over an advisory board that helped advise management on a variety of issues relating to English Training in China. He has a wealth of experience, contacts and understanding of the English Training industry in China. He serves as Member of Board of Advisors of Idapted, Inc. An inspired angel investor, he has the magic to lift up all Chinese young entrepreneurs to fly. Mr. Xu holds an MA from the University of Saskatchewan of Canada.
Haitao Zhang is an Asia Business Development Operating Partner at Formation 8, focusing on China.
Haitao Zhang was associate vice president of Golden Concord Holding Ltd.(GCL), a Chinese holding company in the renewable energy industry, including a subsidiary (GCL-POLY) listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE:3800). GCL-POLY is the largest Poly silicon and wafer manufacturer in the world. Haitao led the overall business development system within GCL, including nine strategic business units, two rep offices and the Strategy and Investment departments of both the GCL and GCL-POLY. Haitao joined GCL in its very early stage and was with the Group for nine years, during which time he successfully helped it to invest in more than 30 energy projects in China, such as cogeneration, base-load, biomass, hydro, waste, wind, solar, poly-silicon and wafer. Haitao holds a B.S. in Accounting from Lanzhou University of Technology, a Master’s in Engineering from Dalian Maritime University. He received a Master’s in Management Science (Sloan Fellow) from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Tao Zhang is Founding Managing Director of China Impact Fund (CIF), China's first impact fund that is focused on supporting and financing SMEs providing environmentally friendly products and services as well as start-up companies with an environmental value proposition for the country's Base of Pyramid (BoP) people. Prior to this, Tao served as Global Chief Operating Officer of New Ventures, a business accelerator housed at the World Resources Institute that helped environmentally-focused SMEs in six key emerging markets compete in a global economy. In this role, Tao managed New Ventures’ Global Hub in Washington DC and its global network of six Local Centers in Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia and Mexico. During this time, he worked with the six Local Centers to increase investments into New Ventures companies by over 30 percent to nearly $300 million and enable two successful IPOs.
Before New Ventures, Tao was Co-Founder of a cross-border Sino-US government and investment consultancy firm where he led a team in advising private equity and venture capital investors, SMEs and multinational companies in the telecom, technology and clean energy fields. Under his leadership, his firm assisted a number of investors and multinational companies in evaluating, negotiating and closing a variety of transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Prior to this, Tao worked as a Senior Global Strategist at MCI, later merged with Verizon to become Verizon Business, where he advised the company in identifying strategic acquisition and investment target companies across the globe to complement its enterprise product portfolio, resulting in acquisitions and venture investments worth over $2 billion. Tao also held Asia-based senior management positions at a multinational technology company in the capacities of Greater China General Manager and Assistant Asia-Pacific President where he helped quadruple the company’s revenue from the region. Tao started his career working both as a journalist and a policy analyst, including a stint in Brussels where he covered the European Union (EU) and advised China’s central government on EU-related commercial and economic policies. Tao received a BA from Beijing Foreign Studies University, an MBA from Wake Forest University as a Babcock scholar, and an MPA from Harvard University as a Mason Fellow. Tao is an avid reader, a frequent speaker, and a prolific writer when he has the time--his articles have been published and re-published extensively in leading Chinese and international media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily and online portals such as Sina.com. Tao is a native speaker of Mandarin and has an associate degree in French.
Joe has 18+ years multi-cultural and multi-national work experience. In Japan, Joe gained project management and quality control skills by working at Yokogawa Electric Corporation for 2 years. In China, Joe worked as the Vice General Manager of a Japanese company to build the first business branch and manufacturing plant in China, managed the daily operations of both the business branch and the manufacturing plant. In the U.S., Joe started as a software engineer; and then a manager was responsible for the development and evaluation of new business opportunities, including a startup that utilizes virtual reality technology in applications of pain management; now he is a managing director of Eastern Link Capital, a Private Equity firm doing investment in China.
Joe has an MBA degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. He was in the Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation & Global Leadership, a demanding and accelerated full-time degree program for mid-career executives and entrepreneurs. He also holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Precision Engineering from Tianjin University, P. R. China.
2013 Judges
Wentao Bai is Executive Partner of Share Capital. With two decades of experience in IT startup and management, he was the founder of Shenzhen Wannaite Group, a renowned software provider for mobile phones in China. He assumed such positions as Deputy General Manager of Peking University High-Tech Co., Ltd., Director & General Manager of Peking University Zhihai Software Co., Ltd., Chairman & General Manager of Beijing Yinyan Software Development Co., Ltd., and Director & General Manager of Caishow High-Tech Co., Ltd.
Wentao holds a bachelor’s degree from the department of Political Science and Public Administration, Peking University and the EMBA degree from CEIBS.
Casey Berman is the Managing Director of Berman Venture Capital, LLC (BVC) and a Partner at Berman Enterprises. As Managing Director of BVC, Casey vets potential venture capital investments and works with existing companies in BVC's portfolio to ensure sustainable growth. Casey sits on the Board of Vedero Software and the Advisory Boards of ClearEdge 3D and Saleswarp.
In addition, as a Partner at Berman Enterprises, Casey is responsible for all of the operations in the company's real estate portfolio and helps with leasing and maintaining tenant relationships. Casey serves on the board of the Baltimore Washington Corridor Chamber. Casey graduated with a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan. He lives in Washington DC with his wife, Emily, and enjoys mountain biking, skiing, and traveling.
Ron Cao is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Lightspeed China Partners (LCP), a leading China-focused early-stage venture capital firm with investments in Internet, mobile, services, and information technology Previously, Ron was Managing Director with Lightspeed Venture Partners (LSVP) and started the firm’s China operations in 2006.
Headquartered in the Silicon Valley, LSVP manages over $2B in assets and has offices globally. Prior to that, Ron was a Managing Director of KLM Capital, a cross-border venture firm with offices in Silicon Valley and China, where he primarily focused on investments in early-stage technology companies. Ron also worked at Intel as a marketing executive in the Mobile and Handheld Products Group and contributed to the successful launch of the mobile Pentium III processor. He also served as an operations manager focusing on ramping up leading-edge manufacturing processes. With over ten years of venture capital experience in both US and China, Ron has been or is actively involved with investments in China Vocational Training, GMedia, LuckyPai (acquired by Lotte), MediaV, Meilele, MetroWave (acquired by IPG Photonics), Opulan Technologies (acquired by Atheros), PCH International, ShareWave (acquired by Cirrus Logic), SureAuto, Teralane Semiconductors, and Tujia.com. Ron received both his B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ron serves as a board member of Maitian Education Foundation and is a venture advisor to the Shanghai Yangpu District KIC Project. Since 2011, Ron has been named by Forbes China as one of the “Top 50 Chinese Venture Capitalists”. In 2013, Ron was selected by World Economic Forum of one of its Young Global Leaders.
Calvin was previously founder and CEO of Qifang, China's first online student loan service and the first Chinese company recognized by the WEF as a Technology Pioneer. He is a Social Innovation Park Fellow, was named 2009 Chinese Business Leader of the Year by Horasis and Baker & McKenzie and one of Fast Company magazine's 100 Most Creative People In Business for 2011. Calvin is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and serves on its Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation. He has an MBA from TRIUM (NYU, LSE, HEC Paris), a B.A. from Yale University and has also studied social entrepreneurship, global leadership and other management and policy subjects at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and INSEAD.
Prior to returning to Dartmouth in 1999, Gregg served in a variety of management and executive positions in the oil and gas industry over 22 years, managing and founding exploration and production companies on three continents.
Gregg graduated Dartmouth magna cum laude in 1975 with a BA in Earth Sciences (high distinction). He earned his MS from Rutgers University in Geology in 1977, and received his MBA from the University of Tulsa in 1983.
Ms. Anna Fang is the General Manager of ZhenFund, an affiliate seed fund for Sequoia Capital China, where she is responsible for seed stage investments in the China region. Before joining ZhenFund, Ms. Fang was an Associate at GE China responsible for corporate business development initiatives. Ms. Fang was previously an investment banker at J.P. Morgan. She serves as a member of the board of directors for several internet start-ups in China and is a member of the Advisory Board of Columbia University's East Asia Center. She received her undergraduate degree from Columbia University, and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Walter Ge is the Director of Beijing-based Institute for Environment and Development (IED), a Chinese ‘think’ and ‘do’ tank specializing in providing solutions to environmental and social problems. He leads the IED team in analyzing green industry trends and green market growth for climate compatible technologies and investment potentials for policy makers and investors.
He also works as Country Director of New Ventures China program, a non-profit venture acceleration program founded by the World Resources Institute and IED in 2003. His work includes providing business acceleration and investment facilitation to SMEs with social/environmental intent. In 2012, Walter co-founded China Impact Fund, China's first impact investor focused on ‘missing middle’ environmental SMEs, including those with an environmental value proposition for the country's Base of Pyramid (BoP) population. Before this, Walter successively worked for a Chinese industrial federation and a leading international consulting firm focused on industrial enterprises. In these positions, he was heavily involved in attracting inbound investments to China by means of M&A and joint venture transactions. Walter holds an MBA from the University of Ballarat, Australia and an MA from Beijing Normal University.
Xiang (Sam) Guo is an Associate at Fenox Venture Capital and leads the due diligence and deal sourcing team. Fenox VC invests in Seed, Series A and Pre-IPO companies in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Sam’s recent investments include Jetlore, and Sharethis.
Previous to Fenox he was an early employee of an agricultural based start-up doing business development, growing their revenue from $0 to over $500,000 in three months. He has also published a paper on his work in MEMS/NEMS in the journal of Lab on a Chip. Originally from Fujian, China, Sam received his Bachelor of Science degree in Nanotechnology and Entrepreneurship from the Pennsylvania State University, where he actively advises start-ups within the community.
Patrick Hale holds a B.S. in Geophysical Oceanography from the University of Washington, an MBA from National University and the degrees of Ocean Engineer and S.M. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from MIT. His professional interests include application of systems engineering in commercial product development, complex naval system design and engineering process frameworks and methods.
Prior to joining MIT, Mr. Hale completed a 22-year career in the U.S. Navy, qualifying in both Surface Warfare and Submarine Warfare (Engineering Duty) communities, and culminating in managing the design and construction of submarines in Groton, Connecticut. Following his Navy career, Pat held executive-level systems engineering positions in defense and commercial system and product development organizations, including Director of Systems Engineering at both Draper Laboratory and Otis Elevator Company, where he developed and implemented Otis’ first systems engineering process and organization. Since joining MIT in 2003, Mr. Hale has led the MIT-Industry Partner Systems Engineering Certificate Program, a one-year graduate certificate program under SDM, and since 2004 is now Director of the SDM Fellows program. Mr. Hale has been a member of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) for 15 years, and has served on the INCOSE Board of Directors for 12 years. He served as President for 2008-2009. He currently serves as Secretary of the INCOSE Foundation, a 501c3 charitable foundation. He has published papers in the area of commercial systems engineering in the conference proceedings of both INCOSE and ASME.
Tim is the newest member of Northzone, a leading European venture capital firm. Previously, Tim was the co-founder and Senior VP of Operations and Strategy at Gaopeng, a joint venture between Groupon and Tencent in China. Gaopeng launched in early 2011 to quickly become a leading player in China’s emerging online market. In mid-2012, Gaopeng merged with two other group-buying companies in China to become the third largest group-buying site in China. Tim has also worked in the energy and cleantech industry at SPG Solar and Merrill Lynch. Tim started his career with the Danish central bank and government.
Tim holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master in Financial Economics from University of Oxford, Said Business School, and majored in economics at University of Copenhagen.
Laura Huang is an Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California-Irvine, an MBA from INSEAD, and both an M.S. and a B.S. in Engineering from Duke University. Professor Huang’s research examines early-stage investment decisions, and how perceptions and cues influence an individuals’ ability to make important, high-stakes decisions. She has worked in investment banking, consulting, and general management, for corporations such as Standard Chartered Bank, IBM Global Services, and Johnson & Johnson, as well as serving as a consultant and advisor to a number of entrepreneurial start-ups.
Georgia Levenson Keohane is a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, where she works on a range of issues in economic policy, including poverty and inequality, employment and job growth, and social entrepreneurship and the role of firms in society. Keohane's career has bridged the private and nonprofit sectors. A former McKinsey consultant and foundation executive, she advises a number of organizations including philanthropies, educational entities, community development agencies, and think tanks. She has taught at Yale, and is an adjunct professor in the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School. Keohane writes regularly on social and economic policy and the intersection of business and society for the Harvard Business Review, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Washington Monthly, Slate, and other publications and is the author of Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private and Public Sectors (McGraw Hill 2013). She holds a BA from Yale University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an MSc from London School of Economics, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.
Since 2007, Daniel has served as the Project Manager of Wanxiang America Corporation at Elgin, IL, USA, focusing on renewable energy business development, including solar, electric vehicles, etc. As part of their clean tech development, Waxiang bought A123 last year.
Daniel has been active in supporting student entrepreneurial activities. He was the judge of Enactus in 2012. Prior to Wanxiang, Daniel served as the Associate Director of Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce. His was responsible for organizing big events to promote Chinatown, attracting tourists to Chinatown, and being the liaison between City of Chicago and Chinese community. He graduated from Tsinghua University with a master degree in economics and a bachelor degree in material science of physics.
Hanson Li is a Co-founder and Managing Director of Huatone China Strategic Investment Solutions, Inc. (HCSIS), a China-based international business strategy consultancy providing services to outbound Chinese companies as well as inbound foreign companies in areas of market intelligence, strategy formulation, financial management and new business & relationship development. He is also a Research Fellow at the ChangCe Thinktank, headquartered in Beijing, China, where his focus is on the policy and governance aspects of globalization.
Previously, he was a senior executive at iKang Guobin, a leading private healthcare management services provider in China, where his portfolio covered strategic planning, IR & insurance matters. In 2009, he founded China Commercial Health Insurance Forum (CCHIF), a China-based independent global forum dedicated to private healthcare investment and health insurance development in China. His other experiences include working as a senior strategist at Lenovo's Global Emerging Markets Group headquarters, overseeing strategic planning, cascading, alignment and review across seven regional markets worldwide; as an investment banker in NYC; and various research and consulting positions in both China and the United States, for clients including World Bank Institute, UNICEF, and Massachusetts State House. Hanson co-founded AIESEC in Mainland China, and was Chief China Representative of Harvard China Review and Co-Chair of the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) Millennium Conference in Beijing. Hanson is a Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) Scholar where his performance ranking is in the top 10th percentile. He is a frequently invited speaker & published author in both English and Chinese on topics ranging from China's healthcare reform, globalization, corporate governance, to international relations. Hanson holds a JD from Boston University School of Law with a focus on legislation and corporate law, a S.M. from MIT, and a B.A. from Peking University.
Haibin Liu is a co-founder and managing director of Eastern Link Capital. He is also a co-founder and managing partner of Grains Valley Capital, a China based private equity firm, where he has successfully invested in five profitable companies, one of which became public in December, 2007. Haibin was the assistant to GF Securities' Chairman and a senior manager at GF Securities' investment banking group. While at GF Securities, he experienced a number of IPOs and M&As. For example, he represented GF Securities as a lead investment banker to bring China's No.1 securities firm CITICS to IPO in 2002. He was also an investment manager for China Shipowners Mutual Assurance Association (China P&I Club), where he implemented investments in two of the China's top ten banks: China Minsheng Banking Corp and China Everbright Bank.
Haibin has an MBA from Dowling College's Townsend School of Business and a Bachelor in Economics from China's University of International Business and Economics (UIBE).
Dr. Yong Liu is a researcher, entrepreneur, business writer and venture capitalist. He is now leading Baidu’s open innovation efforts, including strategic investment and partnerships in the US. Before joining Baidu, Dr. Liu set up Lenovo Technology Seed Fund in 2012 and Lenovo Silicon Valley office for M&A/strategic alliance in 2011. In his earlier career, Dr. Liu served Samsung Electronics, co-founded Dict.cn, and acted as an active business writer. Dr. Liu obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Nanjing University, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington. His research areas include pervasive computing and diffusion of innovations.
Mr. Luo Xiang is currently the national program director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - Investment and Technology Promotion Office (ITPO) in China, being a field operational officer of an UN specialized agency in China with diplomatic status. His role is to facilitate industrial clusters development, and he is responsible for Clean-Tech and Renewable Energy, including capital operation program, promotion of international strategic investment funds, industry-oriented funds, environment-friendly and resource-conservation projects, clean-tech industrial investment, and investment cooperation with government, enterprises and financial institutions. He has focused on amplifying industrial scale and perfecting the value chain via capital operation. Listed below are the investment funds he has led and participated in:
⋅ The UNIDO industrial fund (micro fund, growth fund, government technology fund) ⋅ Guangdong PreIPO Capital Partners venture capital fund ⋅ Changzhou SAIF venture capital fund ⋅ Draper Fisher Jurvetson venture capital fund ⋅ China Huaruan software and outsourcing investment fund ⋅ Deyang high-technology venture capital fund From 2005 to 2008, Luo served as senior coordinator for the US International Economic Development Council - China Program in Washington D.C. He was responsible for facilitating the cooperation between the Chinese government and global enterprises and investment institutions. The Program is an initiative to push forward the sustainable development of China’s environment-friendly, renewable energy, advanced manufactures industrial parks through the creation of regional industrial clusters in high-tech related industries. Before this, Luo was in charge of leading UNIDO projects to promote the Huanghe Delta regional development, the western campaign, SEMs financing plan, and SOEs reform via foreign capital. Luo currently is a PhD candidate 2012 on strategy, program and project management of SKEMA Business School, France, holds an MBA from the University of South Australia International Business School, and also the advanced certificate of venture capital and private equity training of Harvard business school. Luo is also the executive deputy director of the private equity research center of South Western University of Finance and Economics, and a specialist of the Chinese Western Six Provinces Entrepreneurial Training Program of the World Bank, core-specialist of WWF China.
Michael Miller is a bestselling author, speaker and co-founder of TeamPossible, which empowers personal fulfillment and global transformation through authentic enterprise. He has taught thousands of individuals all over the world about social and cultural agility. He co-hosts the forthcoming show TeamPossible TV, blogs at Cultureadapt.com.
Michael has been a keynote speaker at universities such as: NYU, University of Illinois, Purdue, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Hult International Business School. He has lived in China, Hong Kong and traveled to over 30 countries. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Matthew Nordan is a vice president at Venrock, a premier venture capital firm originally established as the venture arm of the Rockefeller family. He focuses on breakthrough energy, environmental, and materials technologies from the firm’s Cambridge, MA office. Matthew is a board observer at FinSIX and Boston-Power and has been closely involved with portfolio companies Phononic Devices and Nest Labs.
Prior to Venrock, Matthew was president of Lux Research, an advisory services firm for science-driven innovation that he co-founded in 2004. Under Matthew’s leadership, the Lux Research analyst team became a globally recognized authority on the business and economic impact of emerging technologies, advising corporations, start-ups, financial institutions, and governments. Before Lux, Matthew held a variety of senior management positions at emerging technology advisor Forrester Research in the U.S. and Europe. Matthew has testified before the U.S. Congress four times on emerging technology issues, advised the Committee to Review the National Nanotechnology Initiative of the National Academies, and been an invited speaker at universities including Harvard, MIT, and Columbia. He was a founding member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies and has advised the OECD on technology development for energy and environmental applications. A regular speaker at technology conferences, Matthew’s views have been cited by news outlets including CNBC, ABC News, The Economist, Forbes, and Newsweek. Matthew is a graduate of Yale University, where he conducted cognitive neuroscience research on the neural pathways mediating emotion and memory.
Mr. Charlemagne Quinitio is the Director of Global Operations at the Hult Prize. The Hult Prize is a start-up accelerator for social good in which is dedicated to launching the next wave of social entrepreneurs through identifying, funding, mentoring, advising and launching new social businesses. Mr. Quinitio has successfully led the implementation and execution of Hult Prize operations in Shanghai, Dubai, Boston, London, San Francisco and Sao Paulo.
Mr. Quinitio started his career in the biotech industry in designing and executing system processes with focus on quality and implementation. Mr. Quinitio has also used his statistical and leadership expertise in the energy consulting sectors specializing on systems implementation and adoption across different stakeholders. Mr. Quinitio has a BS in Bioinformatics and Genomics from UC Riverside and an MBA in International Business from Hult International Business School. Mr. Quinitio currently resides in San Diego, CA.
Evan Rachlin is a healthcare principal at Bain Capital Ventures, the $2B+ venture and growth fund at Bain Capital, where he primarily focuses on healthcare IT and services companies. Prior to joining Bain, Evan was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company in New York, where he focused on healthcare strategy, operations, and due diligence, particularly in the CRO, mobile health, and systems biology sectors. He previously worked in the Portfolio and Decision Analysis group at Pfizer in New York and at a regenerative medicine startup in Boston.
Evan holds an MD/MBA from Harvard Medical and Business Schools and an A.B. in Biochemistry and Japanese from Harvard College. He currently serves as the Graduate School Director for the Harvard Medical Alumni Association.
Elizabeth was President and Co-Founder of Mazza and Riley, Inc., an internationally recognized executive search firm focused on recruiting general partners for venture capital and buyout funds, senior management for emerging growth companies in datacom, telecom, computer software and hardware. In addition she recruited top management for media and communications companies including paging, cellular, digital mobile, wireless data, satellite, multimedia, magazine and book publishing and broadcasting (including broadcast, cable TV, and radio).
Her company grew a strong client base with recurring revenue based on providing superior value-added service in specific vertical markets to Boards of Directors and CEO's-including recruiting, money raising, mergers, and strategic planning. It developed and sustained long-term productive relationships with a core group of venture capitalists with significant telecom portfolios from early-stage to post-IPO companies.
Richard S. Roque is the Managing Director of SA Capital Limited, a private investment company focused on triple bottom line impact investments in Greater China. He has been involved in several social enterprise ventures including: Betterworldbooks.com, Lumni Inc., Mission Markets, a women’s educational radio network in Southern Philippines, Beijing Prism Educational Consultancy, Shanghai Zhida Hotel Management Co., Ltd. and more recently Microbenefits in China. He together with two other partners recently established The Center for Virtuous Leadership China in Shanghai, which aims at corporate leaders in CSR and social entrepreneurs. Richard has previously worked for 12 years with William E. Simon & Sons (Asia) Limited, a regional Asian private equity firm founded by the late US Treasury Secretary. He was a director of the Sun Hung Kai China Investment Fund. He was also the chairman of the Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association in 2000-01 (“HKVCA”) where he remains as Chairman Emeritus. He was among the original founding promoters of Asia Pacific Venture Capital Alliance, a regional organization involving venture capital associations in Asia founded at the turn of the century. In the field of education, he has been a director of East Asian Educational Association, a Hong Kong based educational charity for over 10 years. Mr. Roque has a Global Executive MBA from IESE Business School, Barcelona, and a M.Sc. in Industrial Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific. He also finished the Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford University.
Terence Russell is an experienced entrepreneur and scientist. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Zensei Analytics, LLC, a Boston-based new venture creation and consulting company. He also serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Makoto Life Sciences, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the identification of novel pharmaceutical targets in oncology, urology, and allergic inflammation. Previously, Dr. Russell co-founded Critical Biologics Corporation, a critical care pharmaceuticals company targeting the treatment of severe inflammatory conditions. Dr. Russell also co-founded Vevionics, LLC, an engineering research and design company that develops innovative technologies for industrial process control and measurement. In addition, he was the founder of LifeBeam Technologies, Inc., a high-speed genomics technology company where he was the inventor of LifeBeam’s patented core DNA sequencing technology.
In addition to his entrepreneurial efforts, Dr. Russell has conducted research at Harvard University and Boston University on a wide range of topics; from detectors for biological warfare agents to genetically engineered proteins used in anti-counterfeiting applications. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Boston University.
Dr. Lixin Shen currently serves as the president and chief executive officer of Wuxi Howfond Biopharma Co., Ltd. Dr. Shen obtained his Ph.D. from University of Waterloo in 1999 and M.S. from University of Toronto in 1995. Dr. Shen has worked in both public and private companies, and served in a capacities ranging from senior scientist to vice president before the current position. He has a broad range of experiences such as drug discovery and development, project and technology management, and business development and company management in both USA and China. Dr. Shen also served as the president of Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association – New England from 2004 to 2005 and chairman of its executive advisory committee from 2005 to 2006. Recently he has served as co-founder and managing member of Chinese-American Bio-Medical Association since its foundation.
Dr. Song has rich experiences in both investment and entrepreneurship. He has in-depth knowledge in a broad range of technologies, and his main investment interests are early middle stage high-tech companies. He joined SBCVC in January 2000. His key role has been deal sourcing, execution, and portfolio management. He serves on the board of directors for over ten high-tech companies.
Before SBCVC, he held key positions in various high-tech companies. In 1995, he joined UStarcom's founding team as the Director of Information Technology. In addition, he was the CTO of MDC Telecom, and also a founder and director of GDS. From 1991 to 1995, he was an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut. From 1988 to 1991, he was a post doctorate researcher at the University of Connecticut where he conducted research in the field of computer networks and information systems. Dr. Song holds B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, and Ph.D. from School of Economics & Management, Tsinghua University. He serves as the special advisor for China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, and many other organizations.
Senior Analyst at Fidelity Biosciences
Dr. Sun joined Fidelity Biosciences in 2012. Prior to joining, Dr. Sun was a Senior Associate Consultant at L.E.K. Consulting in the healthcare practice. At L.E.K. Consulting, Dr. Sun specialized in corporate growth strategies, portfolio management, commercial opportunity assessment, competitive analysis and M&A advisory for large pharmaceutical and medical device companies, as well as leading private equity firms. Dr. Sun holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Pharmacology from Stanford University School of Medicine. His graduate research was focused on developing novel therapeutics for heart attack and congestive heart failure. He received his B.S. in Biology with Distinction from Yale University.
Harry is a founding partner of Zhijing Capital, focusing on early investments in the technology space. He also serves as a CEO advisor to Baixing, Dianping and CSDN.
Prior to joining Zhijing Capital, Harry worked at Facebook. He joined the company when it had fewer than 150 employees. Harry was the second engineer and the first engineering manager there from mainland China. He participated in the development of a series of Facebook products. He was in charge of the payment security system and tools and led the team to minimize fraudulent charges and mange customer services. Harry received a master degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and a master degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Ohio State University. He received his bachelor degree from Zhejiang University.
Yajun Xu is the Sr. Vice President of Corporate development at Shangphama Incorporation & ChemPartner Corporation US, currently located in Waltham, MA, USA.Previously, Yajun was the founder and Vice President of biology and pre-clinical business unit at Shanghai ChemPartner (one of the business units of Shangpharma) since April, 2007 to Jan. 2009 in China.
Prior to Chempartner, Yajun was the Director of Research in the Department of Inflammation, Millennium Pharmaceutical Inc., MA, US, where she worked for 6 years. Yajun managed a kinase portfolio drug discovery programs and led a small molecule inhibitor program and delivered 2 clinical development candidates with one entered into clinic.Previously, Yajun worked at BASF Bioresearch Corp. (now Abbott Bioresearch Corp.) as Sr. Scientist for 5 years. Yajun received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry training in enzymology with professor Robert H. Abeles at Brandeis University in US in 1992.She obtained three years of postdoctoral training at Harvard School of Public Health in department of Cell Biology and Molecular Toxicology. She received MS and BS degrees in Chemistry from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in China.
Ayden (Hanzhong) Ye is an analyst at Sierra Ventures, a 32-year-old venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, where he covers market research, deal sourcing, due diligence and business development with early stage IT companies in both US and China. His main areas of focus are cloud computing, enterprise software and mobile. Before joining Sierra Ventures, Ayden gained experience at InnoSpring (the first US-China incubator in Silicon Valley), Adobe, and Sparkle Inc. (his own startup in his third year of college in Shanghai). Besides, Ayden is also the founder of ACE (Association of Chinese Entrepreneurs) at Berkeley, the largest Chinese entrepreneur community at UC Berkeley.
Ayden holds Master degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Xiaolu Yu is a cleantech investment professional at Tsing Capital. She has 6 years of experience in the clean technology field, including energy and energy efficiency, environment protection and pollution control, green material, sustainable transportation, and new agriculture, among others. Prior to Tsing Capital, she worked in the Energy Department of the World Bank in Washington DC and co-founded a renewable energy company in Boston.
Xiaolu holds a M.S. degree in Environmental Science from Harvard University and a M.S. degree in Physics from University of Toronto.
Jiawei is currently responsible for major social enterprise research project, teaching and training program development, and organization strategic growth for Social Enterprise Research Center (SERC). SERC is the leading research organization in China focusing on local social enterprise research, education and training.
Jiawei graduated from the Sociology Department at Fudan University.
Min Zhang is the founder and managing partner of Empower Investment - the fund which focuses on early stage investments in TMT industry. Prior to his own adventure, he was the investment director in Morningside Investment Group starting from 2002. Between 2002 and 2008 in Morningside Investment Group, Min Zhang was involved in seven different projects, covering industries such as internet, media, transportation and health-care. Also, he acted as CEO of Fastlane Media Group and Vice-President of Media Partners International (MPI) within Morningside Investment Group portfolio. Before joining Morningside Investment Group, Min Zhang was Senior Manager – Global Risk Management Solution of PWC. Before PWC, he was with Royal Dutch Shell International and worked in various functions such as brand management, network planning, M&A and global consultancy in different countries.
Min Zhang holds an MBA from Norwegian Business School of Economics and Management, Norway.
Tao Zhang is Co-Founder and Managing Director of China Impact Fund (CIF), China's first impact fund that is focused on supporting and financing SMEs providing environmentally friendly products and services as well as start-up companies with an environmental value proposition for the country's Base of Pyramid (BoP). Tao is also Co-Founder of ACBridge Capital Advisors, a cross-border Sino-US government and investment consultancy firm where he led a team in advising private equity and venture capital investors, SMEs and multinational companies in the telecom, technology and clean energy fields.
Prior to this, Tao served as Global Chief Operating Officer of New Ventures, an impact investing and business accelerator housed at the World Resources Institute that helped environmentally-focused SMEs in six key emerging markets compete in a global economy. In this role, Tao managed New Ventures’ Global Hub in Washington, DC and its Global Network of six Local Centers in Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia and Mexico. During this time, he led the Global Network to nearly double investments into New Ventures companies to nearly $400 million (including two IPOs). Tao received a BA from Beijing Foreign Studies University, an MBA from Wake Forest University, and an MPA from Harvard University as a Mason Fellow. He also completed an executive education program in private equity and venture capital at the Harvard Business School. Tao currently writes for the Wall Street Journal Chinese as a columnist, with a focus on impact investing and enterprise solutions to environmental and social issues.
Joe has 18+ years multi-cultural and multi-national work experience. In Japan, Joe gained project management and quality control skills by working at Yokogawa Electric Corporation for 2 years. In China, Joe worked as the Vice General Manager of a Japanese company to build the first business branch and manufacturing plant in China, managed the daily operations of both the business branch and the manufacturing plant. In the U.S., Joe started as a software engineer; and then a manager was responsible for the development and evaluation of new business opportunities, including a startup that utilizes virtual reality technology in applications of pain management; now he is a managing director of Eastern Link Capital, a Private Equity firm doing investment in China.
Joe has an MBA degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. He was in the Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation & Global Leadership, a demanding and accelerated full-time degree program for mid-career executives and entrepreneurs. He also holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Precision Engineering from Tianjin University, P. R. China.
Wan Li joined Fairhaven Capital in 2009. He was previously the global product manager of Microsoft Dynamics CRM where he led product marketing for Microsoft's flagship business software application. Prior to that, Wan Li was a program manager at Microsoft where he drove product development in SQL Server and Dynamics.
Wan Li has also held roles at Google as a general manager in Online Sales and Operations in Asia Pacific and Morgan Stanley in technology investment banking. Wan Li holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and M.Eng. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Wan Li is Co-chair of the New England Venture Network (NEVN), the largest young venture capitalist organization on the East Coast, and a Director on the Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge. 2012 Judges
Bill Aulet is a highly accomplished business leader with a track record of success over 25 years. He has raised over $100 million in funding for his companies and directly created hundreds of millions of dollars of market value. He started his career with eleven years at IBM, culminating in being named a prestigious MIT Sloan Fellow in 1993. Upon graduation in 1994, Bill became a serial entrepreneur running two MIT spinouts; he first served as the President and CEO of both Cambridge Decision Dynamics, and later also of SensAble Technologies. The latter earned a place in Time Magazine's list of 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies. With a presence in over twenty countries, SensAble also won over two dozen awards and has been featured in Fortune Magazine, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications for its innovative products and strong business foundation.
Calvin was previously founder and CEO of Qifang, China's first online student loan service and the first Chinese company recognized by the WEF as a Technology Pioneer. He is a Social Innovation Park Fellow, was named 2009 Chinese Business Leader of the Year by Horasis and Baker & McKenzie and one of Fast Company magazine's 100 Most Creative People In Business for 2011. Calvin is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and serves on its Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation. He has an MBA from TRIUM (NYU, LSE, HEC Paris), a B.A. from Yale University and has also studied social entrepreneurship, global leadership and other management and policy subjects at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and INSEAD.
Jack Jia joined GSR in June 2010, and focuses on investments in the Internet, wireless, and software sectors. Prior to GSR, Jack was the founder, chairman, and CEO of Baynote, Inc., a software innovator that develops recommendation and search technology for the adaptive web. Jack continues to serve as Executive Chairman for Baynote.
Prior to Baynote, Jack was Senior Vice President and founding CTO of Interwoven Inc. (NASDAQ IWOV, now Autonomy), a leading software company that pioneered the content management category, with a market capitalization of $7 billion in 2000. Before Interwoven, he was a founder and CEO of V-max America. Jack also led engineering and development at SGI, Sun Microsystems, Stratus, and NASA. He holds more than twenty technology patents. Jack is a board member and former President of Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA). Jack received an MBA from Santa Clara University, MSEE from NYU-Poly, and BSEE/MSCE from Beijing Jiaotong University. Jack was given the Outstanding Alumni award by the five Jiaotong universities in 2010.
Dr. Michael (Xuecheng) Jin is the founding partner of TEEC Angel Fund, a super angel fund in Silicon Valley since July 2010 with over 120 startups under portfolio, and also on the Board/Advisory Board of six BioMed companies.
Dr. Jin has extensive investment experiences in biomedical and health tech areas, and was co-founder of three high-tech startups in Silicon Valley and China, with the latest exit of iWatt to Dialog Semiconductor in July 2013 at $345M. He is Board Director of Tsinghua Entrepreneur & Executive Club (TEEC), and Co-Chair of TEEC Life Science and Health Tech Committee. Dr. Jin received BEng & MEng degrees from Tsinghua University in Biomedical Engineering, and PhD degree from Stanford University as the pioneering inventor of capacitive micromachined transducer for medical ultrasound, with more than 40 publications in international journals and conferences, 4 best paper co-author awards, and over thirty United States and China patents.
Prior to joining Fidelity in 2005, Dr. Li focused his effort on healthcare and life science investment opportunities at Baird Venture Partners, the venture capital arm of R.W.Baird. Prior to Baird, he led drug discovery projects and technology licensing due diligence at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a small-molecule therapeutic company based in Cambridge, MA. He also worked in strategic marketing at Serono International S.A., a biopharmaceutical company based in Geneva, Switzerland. During his scientific career, Wei first-authored numerous scientific publications in journals including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Wei received a B.S., with distinction, in Chemical Physics from University of Science and Technology of China, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Mammalian Genetics from Harvard University, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was elected Beta Gamma Sigma, with a concentration in Finance, Accounting and Marketing. Dr. Li serves on the Board of Directors of TCT Medical and Innovent Biologics.
Mr. Xiaojun Li is actively involved in investments in telecom, semiconductor, wireless and energy sectors with engineering, management and entrepreneur experience in the semiconductor and communications industry. As a key member of the technology team in both Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ BRCM) and Marvell Semiconductor (NASDAQ: MRVL), Xiaojun led the designing team in the development of several chips. Previously, he also worked with Airvana Networks where he was responsible for the business development in the Great China area. In 2001, Xiaojun co-founded Silicon Craft, a company providing IC design consulting services. Xiaojun received his M.B.A from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA and a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China.
Mr. Luo Xiang is currently the national program director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - Investment and Technology Promotion Office (ITPO) in China, being a field operational officer of an UN specialized agency in China with diplomatic status. His role is to facilitate industrial clusters development, and he is responsible for Clean-Tech and Renewable Energy, including capital operation program, promotion of international strategic investment funds, industry-oriented funds, environment-friendly and resource-conservation projects, clean-tech industrial investment, and investment cooperation with government, enterprises and financial institutions. He has focused on amplifying industrial scale and perfecting the value chain via capital operation. Listed below are the investment funds he has led and participated in:
⋅ The UNIDO industrial fund (micro fund, growth fund, government technology fund) ⋅ Guangdong PreIPO Capital Partners venture capital fund ⋅ Changzhou SAIF venture capital fund ⋅ Draper Fisher Jurvetson venture capital fund ⋅ China Huaruan software and outsourcing investment fund ⋅ Deyang high-technology venture capital fund From 2005 to 2008, Luo served as senior coordinator for the US International Economic Development Council - China Program in Washington D.C. He was responsible for facilitating the cooperation between the Chinese government and global enterprises and investment institutions. The Program is an initiative to push forward the sustainable development of China’s environment-friendly, renewable energy, advanced manufactures industrial parks through the creation of regional industrial clusters in high-tech related industries. Before this, Luo was in charge of leading UNIDO projects to promote the Huanghe Delta regional development, the western campaign, SEMs financing plan, and SOEs reform via foreign capital. Luo currently is a PhD candidate 2012 on strategy, program and project management of SKEMA Business School, France, holds an MBA from the University of South Australia International Business School, and also the advanced certificate of venture capital and private equity training of Harvard business school. Luo is also the executive deputy director of the private equity research center of South Western University of Finance and Economics, and a specialist of the Chinese Western Six Provinces Entrepreneurial Training Program of the World Bank, core-specialist of WWF China.
Fiona Murray is an Associate Professor of Management in the Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Faculty Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. She received BA and MA degrees in Chemistry from the University of Oxford before coming to the United States where she received her doctoral degree from Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her research interests moved away from the bench to the study of science-based entrepreneurship, the organization of scientific research and the role of science in national competitiveness. After a lectureship at Oxford’s Said Business School, Fiona joined the MIT Sloan School of Management where she studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship with an emphasis on the life sciences, chemicals and materials sectors. Fiona is well-known for her work on how growing economic incentives, particularly intellectual property (IP), influence the rate and direction of scientific progress. Fiona works with a range of firms designing global organizations working with a wide range of internal and external innovators (through traditional contracts and “Open Innovation” mechanisms) that are both commercially successful and at the forefront of science. She is also actively involved in policy debates over the appropriate use of IP and licensing in universities and more recently debates on when and when not to use patents to promoted discovery research in neglected diseases. She is also interested in the most effective organizational arrangements for the rapid commercialization of science including start-ups, public-private partnerships, the role of venture philanthropy, and university-initiated seed funding. Her research has been widely published in a diverse range of scientific and social science journals including Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Research Policy, Organization Science and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Mary Nan is the founder, CEO and publisher of Entrepreneur China Magazine, a media
for entrepreneurs in China, funded by IDG and Zero2ipo Group. Mary has a broad knowledge on China venture capital market and deep understanding of entrepreneurs in China. Before founding Entrepreneur China, she worked for Zero2IPO as Managing Director and headed Financial Advisory Service (FAS) Division. She joined Zero2ipo in 2002, and founded Zero2ipo’s research Center and Business Development Center. From 2005 to 2006, she leaded the FAS team and helped over 10 hi-growth companies raised about US$150M, including some M&A deals. Prior to that, she worked for ChinaVest, a VC firm who entered China in 1980s. Before joining VC industry, she had been the chief editor and chief reporter for China Science and Technology Information Magazine and an editor and reporter for China Economic Herald Daily. As a journalist, she interviewed many world famous economists such as Joseph Stiglitz, Vice Chairman of World Bank. She got her master degree from the International MIT-Tsinghua Joint MBA Program of Tsinghua Business School.
Dan Olszewski is the Director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
He teaches the capstone Entrepreneurship WAVE course and was one of the co-founders of the Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp(WEB) program for UW graduate students enrolled in the sciences and engineering. Prior to joining the UW, Olszewski was CEO and Chairman of Parts Now! during which time revenues increased from $26MM to over $400MM from the organic growth of Parts Now! and the acquisition of Katun Corp. With the assistance of private equity sponsors, he led the successful buyout of the founder in 1999. Before joining Parts Now! Olszewski was a consultant at McKinsey and Company, with a focus on strategy, supply chain, technology and finance. He has also worked for IBM, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance in Tokyo. Olszewski is on the board of directors of First Business Bank, Inc. and Sologear LLC. He is on the advisory board of Parts Now! LLC. He also currently serves on the nonprofit advisory board for the Henry Vilas Zoological Society and has served on the WHA Public Television Board. Olszewski graduated from UW-Madison with a bachelor's degree in Economics and Computer Science, and received an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Elizabeth was President and Co-Founder of Mazza and Riley, Inc., an internationally recognized executive search firm focused on recruiting general partners for venture capital and buyout funds, senior management for emerging growth companies in datacom, telecom, computer software and hardware. In addition she recruited top management for media and communications companies including paging, cellular, digital mobile, wireless data, satellite, multimedia, magazine and book publishing and broadcasting (including broadcast, cable TV, and radio).
Her company grew a strong client base with recurring revenue based on providing superior value-added service in specific vertical markets to Boards of Directors and CEO's-including recruiting, money raising, mergers, and strategic planning. It developed and sustained long-term productive relationships with a core group of venture capitalists with significant telecom portfolios from early-stage to post-IPO companies.
Edward B. Roberts is the David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology and Founder/Chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. Among his 170 articles and eleven books, his "Entrepreneurs in High-Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond" (Oxford University Press) won the Association of American Publishers Award for Outstanding Book. Professor Roberts chaired MIT Sloan's Management of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group for over 30 years, chaired the mid-career MIT Management of Technology Program for 20 years, and most recently started and directs the intensive MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship and Innovation MBA Track. Dr. Roberts’ 2009 report, "Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT", http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/impact.php, documents the history, determinants and consequences of MIT’s entrepreneurial achievements.
Beyond MIT, Edward Roberts is active as co-founder, board member and angel investor in many high-tech start-ups. His primary co-founded companies are Medical Information Technology, Inc. and Sohu.com, Inc. (Beijing), and he continues as a Director of both firms. Roberts co-founded and became a General Partner of the Zero Stage Capital Equity Funds, the first Massachusetts “seed funds”, later also co-founding CommonAngels. Current early-stage Boards include Daktari Diagnostics, DynoMedia (Beijing), and Visible Measures. He holds four MIT degrees, including the PhD in Economics.
As a Senior Industrial Liaison Officer, Dr. Rong promotes and manages the interactions and relationships between companies worldwide and the research faculty of MIT to help companies stay abreast of the latest developments in technology and business practices.
Dr. Rong is the founder and, previously president of IKA, LLC. He has led corporate development and product innovation, and has provided strategic advices to many companies in corporate strategy, IT leadership, web applications and customer relationship management. He has held senior roles with Vignette Corporation and Harte-Hanks. He held an EU research fellowship in the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he started global collaborative research. Dr Rong served on the board of MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston from 2009 to 2012, and he was the chair of MIT Sloan CIO Symposium from 2009-2011. Dr. Rong holds an M.B.A. in global and innovation leadership from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and Ph.D. in numerical computing from University of Guelph in Canada.
Dr. Song has rich experiences in both investment and entrepreneurship. He has in-depth knowledge in a broad range of technologies, and his main investment interests are early middle stage high-tech companies. He joined SBCVC in January 2000. His key role has been deal sourcing, execution, and portfolio management. He serves on the board of directors for over ten high-tech companies.
Before SBCVC, he held key positions in various high-tech companies. In 1995, he joined UStarcom's founding team as the Director of Information Technology. In addition, he was the CTO of MDC Telecom, and also a founder and director of GDS. From 1991 to 1995, he was an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut. From 1988 to 1991, he was a post doctorate researcher at the University of Connecticut where he conducted research in the field of computer networks and information systems. Dr. Song holds B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, and Ph.D. from School of Economics & Management, Tsinghua University. He serves as the special advisor for China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, and many other organizations.
Senior Analyst at Fidelity Biosciences
Dr. Sun joined Fidelity Biosciences in 2012. Prior to joining, Dr. Sun was a Senior Associate Consultant at L.E.K. Consulting in the healthcare practice. At L.E.K. Consulting, Dr. Sun specialized in corporate growth strategies, portfolio management, commercial opportunity assessment, competitive analysis and M&A advisory for large pharmaceutical and medical device companies, as well as leading private equity firms. Dr. Sun holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Pharmacology from Stanford University School of Medicine. His graduate research was focused on developing novel therapeutics for heart attack and congestive heart failure. He received his B.S. in Biology with Distinction from Yale University.
Steve Tang became President and CEO of the Science Center in February 2008 following an extensive nationwide search. He brings to the position a wealth of professional experience in academia, professional services, and private industry. Most notably, Dr. Tang is the first president in the Science Center's history to have not only led a company through venture funding and an initial public offering, but to also serve as a senior executive with a large life sciences company as it acquired and integrated smaller start-ups.
A seasoned life science, energy technology, and management consulting executive, Steve previously served as Group Vice President and General Manager with Olympus America Inc., where he led U.S. operations for the company's $1 billion global Life Science businesses. Before joining Olympus in 2005, he was president and CEO of Millennium Cell Inc. (NASDAQ: MCEL), an energy technology firm he led through its initial public offering in 2000. Previously, he served as Vice President and Managing Director of the global pharmaceutical and healthcare practice of A.T. Kearney Inc., and was Vice President and Co-managing Director of the global chemical and environmental practice for Gemini Consulting Inc., now known as Cap Gemini. Prior to that, he was the Assistant Director and Senior Research Engineer at the Lehigh University Center for Molecular Bioscience and Biotechnology in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Dr. Tang earned a doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary. A graduate of the public school system in Delaware, he has resided in the area for most of his life.
Dr. Yinxiang Wang is the CEO and Chief Scientist Officer (CSO) of Zhejiang Beta Pharma, Inc. (ZBPI). He is also a member of the Chinese Program of Global Experts (also known as the “1000 Plan”).In his current position, Dr. Wang, is instrumental in the research and development of a great number of new drugs for oncology and diabetes.
As the CSO and one of the main innovators at ZBPI, Dr. Wang headed the research team which developed Icotinib Hydrochloride (Conmana®), a National Category-1 Novel Drug (NME). He was the project leader in charge of the pre-clinical and clinical phase I-III studies of Icotinib Hydrochloride as well as the commercialization of Icotinib. This novel drug is the first small molecule oncology drug specifically targeting cancer cells that is completely developed in China. Its chemical structure has already been patented in both China and US, whereas patent application worldwide is currently underway. ZBPI successfully obtained approval on Icotinib Hydrochloride from Center for Drug Evaluation at SFDA at the end of 2010 and started marketing Conmana® in 2011. Dr. Wang is also one of the founders of ZBPI New Drug Research Center in Beijing, established in 2003. Currently, he is leading the scientists at the center in researching and developing pipeline drugs, out of which two NME drug are going to be IND application and five generic products (including 2 drugs that are the first market approval in China) have already been approved and commercialized. In 2010, Eli Lilly invested in and formed a strategic alliance with ZBPI that marked the beginning of new collaboration efforts to develop future products and technologies.
Yajun Xu is the Sr. Vice President of Corporate development at Shangphama Incorporation & ChemPartner Corporation US, currently located in Waltham, MA, USA.Previously, Yajun was the founder and Vice President of biology and pre-clinical business unit at Shanghai ChemPartner (one of the business units of Shangpharma) since April, 2007 to Jan. 2009 in China.
Prior to Chempartner, Yajun was the Director of Research in the Department of Inflammation, Millennium Pharmaceutical Inc., MA, US, where she worked for 6 years. Yajun managed a kinase portfolio drug discovery programs and led a small molecule inhibitor program and delivered 2 clinical development candidates with one entered into clinic.Previously, Yajun worked at BASF Bioresearch Corp. (now Abbott Bioresearch Corp.) as Sr. Scientist for 5 years. Yajun received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry training in enzymology with professor Robert H. Abeles at Brandeis University in US in 1992.She obtained three years of postdoctoral training at Harvard School of Public Health in department of Cell Biology and Molecular Toxicology. She received MS and BS degrees in Chemistry from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in China.
Xiaolu Yu is a cleantech investment professional at Tsing Capital. She has 6 years of experience in the clean technology field, including energy and energy efficiency, environment protection and pollution control, green material, sustainable transportation, and new agriculture, among others. Prior to Tsing Capital, she worked in the Energy Department of the World Bank in Washington DC and co-founded a renewable energy company in Boston.
Xiaolu holds a M.S. degree in Environmental Science from Harvard University and a M.S. degree in Physics from University of Toronto.
Dr. Yuan Yue is Chairman of Horizon Research Consultancy Group. In addition to his main research and writing focus on business and marketing management, he also writes various articles and works with his own opinion for young people. His works are welcomed by young readers.
As a social activist, Dr. Yuan Yue provides topics of lectures for United States Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Center, U.S. China Business Council, Oxford University, Japan-China Economic News, and other agencies. At the same time, he holds the posts of columnist and host of the following Chinese newspapers or magazines: <i>China Business Journal</i>, <i>Financial Times</i>, <i>Business Watch Magazine</i> and many other media.
Weijie Yun is currently a Senior Advisor at Northern Light Venture Capital. Prior to that, he was the co-founder and CEO of Telegent Systems, Inc. where he led the company to create the mobile TV market around the world. Prior to Telegent, he led marketing and product management at Berkana Wireless, Inc., which was acquired by Qualcomm. He also served as the founding president & CEO of AIP Networks and was a founder and director of SiTek, Inc., a spin-off from BEI Technologies.
Weijie was awarded 2008 Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. He holds MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Allen Zhu joined GSR Ventures in 2007 and focuses on investments in Internet, wireless, and enterprise IT. Allen has many investments in the ecommerce space, including Lashou, Lightinthebox, Live by Touch and Moonbasa. He is currently on the boards of Admaster and Moonbasa, and is also actively involved with China Rainbow, and HUBS1.
Prior to GSR, Allen co-founded eBaoTech, a leading provider of insurance core back-end systems. He led the development of the core products, as well as the business division for North and East Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Allen has rich experience in software product development and global expansion. Allen has also worked as a senior consultant for McKinsey Greater China, earning deep consulting and implementation experience in strategy, process re-engineering, cost reduction, and IT systems. Allen holds an M.A. degree in international economics from Fudan University, and a B.S. in telecom from Shanghai Jiaotong University.
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