URI AVRAHAM

Director of Operations, Unistream, Israel

Awardee of Presidential Volunteer Medal in recognition of its work in supporting entrepreneurship

Uri Avraham is the Director of Operations at Unistream which creates socio economic mobility and reshapes the economic future of society by leveraging the entrepreneur’s platform.

Unistream, with its 12 centers nation-wide, is by far the leading organization in training young Israeli adults to be entrepreneurs, provides hands on experience that even college graduates can only dream of and a tool box full of practical skills to pave their way for becoming our next generation of entrepreneurs and consequently changes their course of future. In light of its success, Unistream was selected - out of hundreds of applicants – as one of Israel’s most promising initiatives in advancing a better future to the Israeli society and awarded the Presidential Award for Voluntarism.

Uri works with countless entrepreneurs, business leaders, VC's, government officials and local stakeholders to promote and inspire the young leaders of tomorrow.

Formerly, uri headed the project department at Appleseeds Academy NGO which focuses on reducing social disparities by providing accessibility to information and technology. Appleseeds Academy specializes in the initiation, management and operation of technological programs throughout Israel, combined with socially oriented training adapted to each sector, population and age group. Uri managed projects in collaboration with international companies such as Google, Intel, Microsoft and Cisco.

Uri has a B.A in communications and an MBA from Ben Gurion University.

James Boon

Founder, Elephant Branded

Top 20 Startups in the United Kingdom in 2012

James Boon is an architecture graduate from Bath University and the founder of startup Elephant Branded. He got the idea for the brand after working in Africa and Asia where he had been shocked by the lack of basic school equipment. James decided to make a positive impact in the world and Elephant Branded was then established.

Elephant Branded is on a mission to help people get rid of poverty. They work with villagers in Cambodia and pay them in advance of sales of the Elephant Branded products they are producing, such as recycled bags, purses, beanies and pencil cases. They pay a fair, competitive wage to local villagers who make the bag out of locally sourced, recycled materials. Not only do local villagers get a fair, reasonable wage but they also have the opportunity to learn valuable skills that allow them to have a sustainable, effective way to get rid of poverty. For each product they sell, a donation is made in the form of a school bag and kit equipped with the necessary tools for learning to a child in Africa or Asia. With only two years, Elephant Branded has become well-known and popular around the world.

James also sit on the Directors Board for UnLtd in Hong Kong, a social investment organization that provides funding and ongoing support to individuals with innovative ideas that tackle economic and social inequality in the community. He has been named one of the Google's 'Zeitgeist Young Minds' in 2012; Elephant Branded also ranked in Top 20 UK Start-ups 2012 as well as being voted the 18th most ethical business in Britain in 2013. They even received praises from Bill Clinton, former US President and Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group. Elephant Branded is currently working with new communities across the world to help spread the message and help more people.

Prof. The Hon. K. C. CHAN, GBS, JP

Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, HKSAR Government

Specialised in assets pricing, evaluation of trading strategies and market efficiency

Professor Chan, 58, was Dean of Business and Management in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) before he was appointed Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury in July 2007. Prior to joining the HKUST Business School in 1993, Professor Chan had spent nine years teaching at Ohio State University in the United States.

Professor Chan received his bachelor's degree in economics from Wesleyan University and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago. He specialised in assets pricing, evaluation of trading strategies and market efficiency and has published numerous articles on these topics.

Before joining the Government, Professor Chan held a number of public service positions including Chairman of the Consumer Council, Director of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange, and Member of the Commission on Strategic Development, Commission on Poverty, the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, the Hang Seng Index Advisory Committee, and the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation. He was former President of the Asian Finance Association and President of Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools.

JACK CHEN

Founder and Chairman, Yunlai

The Innovation Entrepreneur after 80s in China

Jack Chen, with the degree of EMBA of Tsinghua University, is the inventor of LiveApp and the founder and chairman of Yunlai. He is honored as senior specialist and investor with global vision as well as one of the first group of practitioners in mobile internet industry in China. Aged 27, he is the director and COO of China Mowin (listed). Since 2012 when Yunlai was founded, LiveApp.cn has been the global leading application platform for mobile context; at the same year, he established the Yungongyi (Cloudnpo) to improve public welfare with the latest internet information technology. He was praised as the Innovation Entrepreneur after 80s in China in World Executive's Digest. Moreover, he is the member of special research team for Mobile Internet and Business Model of Harvard Business School, Wharton School and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business as well as the strategy consultant of business mobilization of Top 500 Companies such as Skyworth, Haier, Juewei and Johnson & Johnson, etc.

Tim CHENG

Co-founder and CEO, flyingV.cc

Founded the largest Asian crowdfunding platform

Tim Cheng grew up in California and moved to Taiwan in 2004. With over 10 years experience in both tech and the financial consulting industry, Tim founded flyingV with his partner and assumed the role of CEO. The core value of flyingV is to create an environment where creativity can shine bright without topic limitations. flyingV is a tool where any type of project has a chance to market themselves and receive support from the public to take the first step. flyingV looks to shake up society by encouraging creativity and lowering risk. In a little more than 3 years, flyingV is not only one of the most influential crowdfunding platforms in Asia, but a testament of the vibrant creativity of Taiwan.

Matthew GOW

Director of Strategy

Crossroads Foundation

Matthew is Director of Strategy for the Crossroads Foundation, a non-profit organisation with services ranging across humanitarian relief, fair trade development, partnership facilitation and innovative experiential learning/advocacy programs. Matthew recently founded GoodCity.HK, a service that allows Hong Kong’s social workers and non-profit staff to easily access the city’s vast quantities of quality surplus resources.

For 15 years, Matthew has developed innovative services that draw companies together with non-profits and IGOs to tackle our world’s most pressing problems. As VP of Global Hand Matthew developed an online match-making service which links for-profit and non-profit organisations who want to partner. He developed the pioneering service business.un.org, a platform that helps corporations engage with over thirty United Nations agencies globally in support of the Millennium Development and Sustainable Development Goals. In the first week after it launched, business.un.org channelled over US$7 million of resources into the UN’s Haiti earthquake response.

As a speaker Matthew has presented on issues of corporate social responsibility, technology trends, social innovation, intrapreneurship and partnership development at events in Hong Kong, China, Geneva, New York and elsewhere.

Matthew began his career in information technology sector in 1997, working with Digital Equipment Corporation, ING Direct and SAP, before transitioning to the social sector. Matthew holds a Commerce degree in Information Systems and Management from the University of New South Wales.

DR Witman HUNG, JP

Principal Liaison Officer for Hong Kong,
Authority of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Cooperation Zone of Shenzhen

Dr Witman Hung is the Managing Director of Qianhai International Liaison Services Ltd., a company setup by the Shenzhen Qianhai Management Authority in Hong Kong. He has been appointed by the Authority as the Principal Liaison Officer for Hong Kong on 1 June, 2014. Witman has worked in the ICT industry for 27 years and held executive positions with industry leaders such as Jardine OneSolutions, Atos Origin, AT&T and KPMG.

Witman has been appointed by the HK SAR government as an Associate Member of the Central Policy Unit. He is the President of Internet Professional Association and Chairman of Hong Kong Road Safety Association. He has also been appointed as a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Committee (CPPCC) of the Ning Xia Muslim Autonomous Region since 2007 and elected as a Standing Committee Member of the All China Youth Federation. In 2013, he has been appointed as the Vice Chairman of the Youth Committee of the China Oversea Friendship Association. Witman is also one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Hong Kong in 2008.

ELTON KUAH

Founder and Marketing Director, Marketing After Hours, Malaysia

Award winning digital marketer and business entrepreneur

Elton Kuah is the Marketing Director of Marketing After Hours – a social media market insight company working with business owners who needs valuable market insight to enhance their competitive advantage online.

His interest lies in entrepreneurship, internet marketing, youth development which he involved in speaking or workshop engagement. His expertise revolves in the areas of Market Research Insight, Global Market Launch and Connection, Social Media Advertising, And Business Strategy.

His contributions to small businesses worldwide have make him the choice as keynote speaker ‘Venture Capital World Summit’ United Kingdom in year 2014 and is featured in upcoming column in MBA & Company UK, a leading platform for connecting the world's top 1% of talent with projects worldwide.

Elton has shared his thoughts on publications such as Asian Entrepreneur Magazine, Jumpstart Magazine Hong Kong, Social Media Polis USA, Global Yuppie Lifestyle USA, E27 Singapore and Next Up Asia on his perspective and market outlook.

He has co-authored and published a book in Singapore titled ‘Are You Ready To Be Next Entrepreneur’ which the book has been reviewed by world personalities such as Professor Jeffrey Sachs, world-renowned professor of economics and Asian Number 1 motivator ‘Miss Merry Riana’ and other reputable entrepreneurs.

On entrepreneurship related matters, Elton is an International e-coach from South East Asia for Youth Employment Network (YEN), an agency partner with International Labour Organization, United Nations and World Bank to coach young entrepreneurs in digital marketing. He also acts as Asia mentor for Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) Asia-Africa Regional Finals 2014, a competition provides aspiring entrepreneurs with mentoring, and exposure to transform ideas into businesses that have positive real world impact.

He completed Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Honours from University of Nottingham.

Elton vision’s in life is to collaborate with visionary entrepreneurs around the world and live meaningful life purpose. For more information about Elton, you can check at www.marketingafterhours.com

RONO KWONG

Chairman, Hong Kong General Chamber of Young Entrepreneurs

First Runner-up, HSBC Youth Business Award

Rono is the founder of Best Video Limited, Best Event Limited and Fox Business Strategy Consultant Limited. He obtained a Bachelor degree of Engineering and a Master degree of Training & Performance Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and University of Leicester respectively. Rono is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Best Video Limited and Best Event Limited, as well as the Managing Consultant of Fox Business Strategy Consultant Limited. Best Video Limited has served more than 120 international and local businesses. Being a pioneer in the industry, Rono was one of the very first to introduce the high definition technology for corporate video production.

With Rono’s innovative and diverse ideas for running a business, Best Video Limited is the only production company awarded HSBC Youth Business Award (Silver) and has earned a wide range of recognitions and multiple international awards, including the “Top 10 SME Customer Service Excellence Award”, the “Hong Kong Emerging Service Brand” and the world-wide recognized Questar Award (2010 – 2014). Best Video Limited’s achievement in this industry is evident and well-recognized.

QUINN LAI

Founder, Director of EONIQ

An aggressive entrepreneur in Hong Kong and the United States

Quinn Lai is an aggressive entrepreneur in Hong Kong and the United States. His startups have achieved impacts in different ways from enabling impoverished students to learn more effectively to prolonging (or even saving) the lives of terminally ill patients. He was also a Hewlett Packard (WebOS) product manager and a McKinsey consultant. His current venture, EONIQ (http://www.eoniq.co) aims to revolutionize how watches are designed and bring custom time pieces to everyone.

Quinn received his M.S. (Stanford Graduate Fellow) at Stanford University and his B.S. at Georgia Institute of Technology, both in the field of Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Product Design and Innovation. He has been involved in the development of multiple MNC’s innovative products/processes, including but not limited to card based multitasking UI for mobile devices, next generation automotive infotainment system and a car design process which includes international market insights.

Quinn is also an active individual in voluntary work and in ministries. He has given talks and held workshops at various startup events globally. He has facilitated and helped designed the 1st student entrepreneurship exchange program from Hong Kong to Stanford, served as an organizer in Startup Weekend, and is currently a consultant for the HKFYG for matters related to entrepreneurship. He is also a drummer at Island ECC and has helped multiple Christian pop songwriters with the recording of their original song demos.

FELIX LAM

Managing Director, Red Chapel Advisors

An entrepreneur, angel investor and business advisor for early-stage technology companies in Asia

At Red Chapel Advisors, we invest and manage a portfolio of early-stage technology ventures in US and Asia, with a strong focus on entrepreneurial training and venture support for young entrepreneurs. Felix is also the founding partner for Open Partner Ventures and project director for Leap Year Initiative, supported by Invotech in Hong Kong.

Felix is the chairperson for the Hong Kong ICT Startup Awards 2014/2015 (Business Market Stream), vetting committee member for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Micro Fund Scheme 2013/2014, assessor for StartMeUp Venture Programme 2013/2014 initiated by Invest Hong Kong, founding member for TiE Hong Kong, member of the Hong Kong Business Angel Network and assessor/consultant for Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Prior to that, he held engineering, sales & marketing positions for Alcatel-Lucent, Hewlett-Packard and Nortel Networks in the Asia Pacific region. He holds a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering (First Class Honours) and Master of Engineering Science in Telecommunications from the University of New South Wales. Felix was awarded the Australian Students Prize in 1990.

SCOTT LIKENS

Analytics Consulting Leader, PwC China and Hong Kong

Worked with some of the biggest local and multi-national companies to transform their business using global digital trends with a local lens

Scott is a Partner in Hong Kong where he leads PwC’s Analytics and Digital business across China and Hong Kong. He has over 20 years of experience across industries from insurance, transportation to financial services. In China and Hong Kong, Scott has worked with some of the biggest local and multi-national companies to transform their business using global digital trends with a local lens.

Prior to coming to Hong Kong, Scott worked in the US leading the PwC’s Emerging Technologies Group, where he helped clients understand and leverage the power of mobile, social and analytics by turning digital, data and insights into action. With many years of e-Commerce experience starting before the dot com boom, Scott has helped clients use technology to build customer loyalty, create mobile-first strategies and use information and insights to truly change the way businesses are run.

Prior to consulting, Scott started his career in the software industry working with a company that created the first commercial internet technologies, and where his passion for building digital tools began. In the early days of his career, Scott helped to build internet incubators in the US and was specialised in developing e-Commerce technology along with integrating the newest digital tools into legacy platforms across various industries.

Felix Lio

Partner & Director, Teclent Venture Investment Ltd

A serial entrepreneur and angel investor

Felix Lio is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, mainly investing early to growth stage technology company. Focus in e-commerce, IoT, electric vehicles, digital education, medical devices and other industries. He has been invited to the panel committee of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Design Centre and other startup competitions, actively involved in youth entrepreneurship and training related activities in HK. He is also a founding member of China Angel Investor Leadership Association (YAILA).

Holly Liu

Co-founder and Chief Development Officer
Kabam

Forbes’ “Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs to Watch”

Holly Liu is co-founder the mobile gaming company, Kabam, a world leader in AAA mobile games. Her work has contributed to record revenue growth for Kabam year over year from $0 to $400 million in 2014, which has led to Kabam’s valuation of $1 billion in 2014. She led the design for Kabam’s award-winning Kingdoms of Camelot franchise, which has grossed more than $250 million in less than four years. She was also the founding mobile designer for extension Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, which was the top grossing app on iOS in 2012.

Currently, Holly is Chief Development Officer leading the development of Kabam internationally through key relationships and industry presence, focusing primarily on China. In addition, she continues to develop global cultural initiatives within Kabam.

Earlier, Holly was Chief of Staff, overseeing HR and leading the corporate culture and talent experience for more than 800 Kabam employees globally. Under Holly’s leadership, Kabam’s staff increased 500 percent in three years. Holly is a consummate entrepreneur, executive, and startup mentor. She is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences, and was named one of Forbes’ “Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs to Watch” in 2013 and one of Fortune’s “10 Most Powerful Women in Gaming.” She is the only Chinese American woman who has co-founded a mobile gaming company of this size.

Holly received her Master’s in Information Management & Systems from UC Berkeley and her B.A. in Mass Communications from UCLA.

DR John S.K. LO, OBE, JP

Senior Consultant of Hong Kong Design Centre

Design Incubation Assessment - Chair

Extensive working experience in technology and creative/innovative design industries

JOHN LO is currently Senior Consultant of Hong Kong Design Centre and Chairman of HKDC-Design Incubation Program Assessment Panel. He is also the Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Standards & Testing Centre Limited (HKSTC) and Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency (HKQAA) Limited.

Engaged in the high tech (mil-spec) electronic products and industrial & commercial products manufacturing for more than 30 years.

Engaged in sales and marketing of products and services for more than 30 years.

Extensive working experience in technology and creative/innovative design industries. Extensive working experience with private enterprises, NGOs, industrial and Government bodies.

RUI MA

Partner, 500 Startups, Greater China

Rui Ma is a Partner at 500 Startups, a leading accelerator and seed investment fund in technology companies, where she is in charge of all investment activity in the Greater China region. Prior to 500, she worked for nearly a decade in private equity and mergers & acquisitions roles at the Raine Group, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch in both Silicon Valley and China. She is based in Beijing and has been living and working in China since 2007. Rui holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, a Masters in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as an Executive MBA from INSEAD and Tsinghua University. She writes frequently about technology and is a regular contributor to Forbes.com, Techcrunch, TheNextWeb, and TechInAsia.

PROF. XUFEI MA, PH.D.

Associate Director, Center for Entrepreneurship

Chinese University of Hong Kong

“Most Promising Scholar Award” from the Academy of International Business

Professor Xufei Ma (Ph.D.) is from the Department of Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests lie in strategy and entrepreneurship issues in emerging economies with a focus on the institutional context of Greater China. He has published in leading management journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Academy of Management Journal, among others. His research findings have been reported in Bloomberg Business Week, Phoenix TV, and South China Morning Post. He is currently serving as a Guest Editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and a Guest Editor for Journal of International Business Studies. He was the Winner of the Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar from the Academy of International Business and received numerous Teaching Awards. Before joining the academia, Prof. Ma had worked in the headquarters and publicly listed companies of a China-based Fortune Global 500 corporation in Beijing and Shanghai. He has conducted research, training, and consulting projects with foreign multinational firms, Chinese business groups, and high-growth internet start-ups. He is now an associate director at Center for Entrepreneurship, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and also in charge of establishing a Master of Science Program on Global Management.

CHARLES NG

Associate Director-General of Investment Promotion, Invest Hong Kong, HKSAR Government

Leads the StartmeupHK programme

Charles Ng was appointed as an Associate Director-General of Investment Promotion at Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK) in July 2007. He heads up one of two sector-focused divisions that is responsible for helping overseas and Mainland companies to establish or expand their business presence in Hong Kong. His teams are responsible for Financial Services, Innovation and Technology, Information and Communications Technology, Startups and Research & Knowledge Management.

Mr Ng leads the StartmeupHK programme which aims to promote Hong Kong as a premier startup destination in Asia, attract overseas entrepreneurs to the city and help to build it into a leading destination and hub for innovation and entrepreneurship.

He has extensive experience in the private sector, having worked for companies in the manufacturing and trading sectors, as well as for multinationals in the financial services and banking sectors in Mauritius, Canada and Hong Kong. He also has experience setting up and managing his own business and running a major international chamber of commerce in Hong Kong.

Mr Ng speaks English, French, Cantonese, Putonghua, Hakka and Creole, and holds an MBA degree awarded jointly by the Business School of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University.

KEYVAN PEYMANI

Managing Director, Digital Strategy Division, ICM Partners

Focus on the expansion of the agency’s efforts across all aspects of the technology and digital sectors, and on the founding and overseeing a venture practice with a growing portfolio of over 20 startups

Keyvan Peymani is the Managing Director, Digital Strategy Division for ICM Partners, serving as the firm's chief digital and strategy executive with full P/L oversight and reports to the Executive Board. ICM Partners is one of the largest talent and literary agencies in the world, representing clients in the fields of motion pictures, television, video games, publishing, music, theater, branded entertainment and digital media, with principal offices in Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., and London.

Mr. Peymani’s focus is the expansion of the agency’s efforts across all aspects of the technology and digital sectors, creating new opportunities with the agency and its clients, developing new businesses and overseeing investments with long-term benefits. These efforts span corporate and financial strategy, venture and digital initiatives that have included assessing over $3 billion of potential acquisition targets, founding and overseeing a venture practice with a growing portfolio of over 20 startups that have all attained funding with participation from Tier I VC firms and backers including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Founders Fund, Breyer Capital, Sigma Prime, Foundation Capital, DunnHumby, Marker LLC and Juniper, and driving the expansion of digital, mobile first and digital transformation initiatives for corporate clients. In addition, Mr. Peymani serves on the firm’s technology committee to create systems, processes and controls to provide analytical frameworks, drive efficiency and establish rigor in decision making across the enterprise.

Before joining ICM Partners, Mr. Peymani served as the Vice President of Direct to Consumer Business Planning and Operations at Warner Bros., where he led all strategy, operations, financial planning and business development for the DTC division within digital distribution. In addition, he oversaw three business lines, including the mobile applications and gaming space where more than 80 apps driving over 100 million downloads were deployed and the manufacture on demand business. He led the business teams in the creation of industry-leading forays into the first fully digital movie applications, the first screenings of movies through Facebook, niche SVOD services and the acquisition of Flixster. Mr. Peymani also served as the chief financial and strategy executive for the division and oversaw all financial activities for the group, establishing process controls and capital deployment plans. Previously, he served as the head of content acquisitions for catalog content and led the wholesale efforts at Netflix, where he led the deployment of the full catalog acquisition budget with the core focus of retaining and acquiring members. He also led the analytics and algorithm teams for the two groups to help target offerings for the growing subscriber base. Prior to this role, he led alternative business development for Disney’s music group, globally. He also served as the Chief Operating Officer of Nettwerk Music Group, where, in addition to leading the day-to-day operation of the enterprise, he led all digital, international activities and corporate and financial strategy at one of the largest independent music companies in the world, comprising five core business groups devoted to artist management, recorded music, music publishing, live events and merchandise.

Mr. Peymani began his career leading his own web and tech services startup and has advised Fortune 100 companies around the world. In addition, he currently serves on the faculty of USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, covering entertainment and emerging business models.

Reuben SAXON

Network Expansion Lead in Asia, Europe and USA, Youth Business International

Leads the expansion of global youth entrepreneurship network throughout Europe, Asia and the USA

Reuben leads the expansion of the Youth Business International (YBI) network throughout Europe, Asia and the USA, and is engaged in the development of strategic partnerships globally. He represents YBI at speaking events, most recently at the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development Expert Investment Meeting. Prior to joining YBI, Reuben worked as a consultant within Accenture’s global strategy practice.

REX SHAM

Co-founder & Chief Analyst, Insight Robotics Ltd

Entrepreneur of the Year at IBM SmartCamp Global Finals 2014

Rex Sham is Co-Founder and Chief Analyst of Insight Robotics where he is responsible for technology and innovation strategy and leads the company’s engineering teams. Recently won the award of the Entrepreneur of the Year at IBM SmartCamp Global Finals 2014, he has also prototyped hardware and software solutions for Insight Robotics’ current core technologies and co-authored two patents. Prior to Insight Robotics, Rex had extensive experience in the field, undertaking research on the topic at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Hong Kong University and developing Hong Kong Robot, a popular robotics interest website. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from CUHK.

Germaine Inez TAN

Portfolio Manager, Incubation Programmes, Impact Hub Singapore

Runs 2 incubation programmes, PACT Incubator (funded by DBS) and The Startup Lab (funded by JPMorgan Foundation), and works with early to growth stage social ventures

Germaine is the Portfolio Manager of Incubation Programmes at Impact Hub Singapore. She currently runs 2 incubation programmes, PACT Incubator (funded by DBS) and The Startup Lab (funded by JPMorgan Foundation), and works with early to growth stage social ventures.

In her role as Portfolio Manager, she aims to grow social enterprises into investment-ready companies that can create broad and deep impact. It is her personal dream to bring venture capital to social enterprises in a big way. She wants to see more social enterprises leveraging on technology to scale impact and bring about a better world.

Prior to The Hub Singapore, Germaine worked at Expara, an early-stage venture capital fund. At Expara, she advised startups in different fields including fashion, big data, machine learning, medical device, virtual reality, ecommerce, and more. She is very well-connected to the Thai startup scene and was part the set up of a local accelerator programme in Thailand. Germaine also headed the CzechAccelerator Programme in Singapore, mentoring startups from the Czech Republic who are interested to expand to Asia. Altogether, the startups that she has advised have raised a total of about S$4 million funding in the last 2 years.

As someone who is very interested in social entrepreneurship and impact investment, she wrote her thesis on impact investment when the scene in Singapore was still very nascent - interviewing many regional and global thought leaders in the field. She has actively worked with different organizations and facilitated social business plan challenges and social impact measurement workshops.

Neo WANG

Founder & CEO of Alphawolf Accelerator (Beijing)

Co-Founder & COO of NeoRainbow Tech (Chicago)

The first professional accelerator for intelligent hardware in China

WANG is a famous Chinese young entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Naichen Wang studied in Beijing Foreign Studies University, where he got mastery of Russian language, Lithuanian, Latvian and some German. During his study in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in America, he built up a new concept incubator “NeoRainbow Tech Co.,Ltd” in Chicago.

Naichen Wang was granted the honour of “Outstanding Returnees Talent” for his contribution in transformation of some important basic technologies.

WANG also founded Alphawolf Accelerator on January 8th, 2015. Its Beijing headquarters, which covers 2100㎡, is located on the 10th Floor, Ding Hao Electronics Building in Zhongguancun (Z-Park). It was rated as one of the “Best 8 Incubator in Zhongguancun (Z-Park)”on March, 2015. By now, 16 high-tech companies have already entered and cooperated together with Alphawolf Accelerator, and most of them are focused on the field of intelligent hardware and TMT（Technology，Media，Telecom） industry. Till May 2015, the total value of assessment on these 16 companies is more than 6.2 billion RMB. One of rising star among these 16 companies, Baicells, which was worth 20 million RMB, has already achieved 1.5 billion RMB on the Round B Financing, with the help and support of Alphawolf Accelerator.

JOELLE WOO

Director, Business Development & Developer Experience (DX), Microsoft Hong Kong Limited

Driving business transformation in a mobile-first, cloud-first world

As director of the Business Development & Developer Experience (DX) in Microsoft Hong Kong, Joelle is responsible for driving business transformation in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, leading the startups engagement and building apps and business cases on cloud and mobile platform. In addition, Joelle is leading the team on developer experience including technology evangelism to support local IT professional and developers and driving business partnership and dedicated support for local independent software developers.

Prior to her current role, Joelle was the director of Marketing and Operations, responsible for leading business operations, marketing strategy and overall business performance of the software business groups. Joelle also led the Developer and Platform Group as a director, where she was responsible for developing platform strategy and evangelizing the benefits and business value of the Microsoft platform. During her time in Microsoft’s Server Platform unit, Joelle was the business group lead and managed the business and marketing initiatives for all Microsoft Server products. She was also in charge of Enterprise Marketing for Microsoft Hong Kong.

Joelle joined Microsoft Hong Kong in 1999 as Partner Account Manager, focusing on the development of channel programs for the large account resellers. She was subsequently moved to be the product marketing manager for Windows Server System, responsible for planning and managing the overall product marketing and communication initiatives.

Before joining Microsoft Hong Kong, Joelle worked in the marketing department for two IT companies in Hong Kong, namely Tech Pacific and JOS Computer.

Joelle holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from The University of Hong Kong.

Ada WONG, JP

Chair, Make A Difference Institute

A staunch advocate of social innovation, creative education and cultural development

Ada Wong has led a varied career as solicitor, educator and social entrepreneur. She is a staunch advocate of social innovation, creative education and cultural development.

Ada founded the Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture (HKICC), a unique non-profit organization whose mission is education innovation and a creative civil society. Among other projects, HKICC founded Hong Kong’s only art high school, the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity and Ada is the School’s supervisor.

In 2010, she also founded the Make A Difference (MaD) initiative (www.mad.asia), a continuing platform to groom the next generation of creative and innovative changemakers in Asia. Ada’s latest social venture is The Good Lab (www.goodlab.hk), an inspiring co-working space and social innovation hub for social entrepreneurship development in Hong Kong.

Ada was an elected member of the Urban Council and Wan Chai District Council between 1995 and 2008 with the last four years as Chairperson of the Wan Chai District Council. Ada received her BA (Hons) from Pomona College, California, USA and M Ed from the University of Hong Kong. She is an Honorary Fellow of Lingnan University and Hong Kong Institute of Education.

PETER WONG, JP

Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive,

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited

Peter Wong Tung Shun is Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Asia-Pacific of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. He is a Group Managing Director and member of the Group Management Board of the HSBC Group, which is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations with assets of US$2,670bn at 31 March 2015 and a presence in over 73 countries and territories. Mr Wong is Chairman and Non-executive Director of HSBC Bank (China) Company Limited and HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad, Non-executive Director of Hang Seng Bank Limited and Bank of Communications Co Ltd as well as an independent Non-executive Director of Cathay Pacific Airways Limited. He serves on a number of government/regulatory bodies and industry associations, including Non-official Member of the HKSAR Economic Development Commission, Member of the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce’s General Committee and President of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers. Mr Wong was Chairman of the Hong Kong Association of Banks in 2001, 2004, 2006 and 2009. In mainland China, Mr Wong is a Member of the 12th National Committee for the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Economic Advisor to the Governor for the International Consultative Conference on the Future Economic Development of Guangdong from 2013 to 2015, a Member of Chongqing Mayor's International Economic Advisory Council and a Board Member of China Banking Association (CBA). He is an Honorary Professor of The University of Hong Kong for the School of Economics and Finance, an Adjunct Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong for the Department of Marketing and a Guest Professor of the Central University of Finance and Economics in mainland China.

AZURE YANG

Co-founder, Emote Interactive Technology

The first game product has over 13 million downloads all over the world

Azure Yang graduated with a Master’s degree in Multimedia from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She started her first mobile game company HungryBolo in Shenzhen. The company’s most successful game has over 10 million downloads in 2012.

Emote Interactive was founded in 2014 as we foresee the future of smart life. Emote aims to create the most user-friendly and seamless remote control experience for people. The first product now has over 13 million downloads all over the world.

CHRISTOPHER YEUNG

Founder, Carshare (HK) Limited

A believer of the sharing economy

As a believer of the sharing economy, he started Carshare.hk to reduce the number of cars and congestion in Hong Kong by enabling people to utilise private cars in a more efficient way. Car sharing as a concept has a positive ripple effect on society as a whole. It builds trust in the community. His expertise lies in product development, design and team-building. During the course of running Carshare, he led the company in winning multiple awards including the CASE conference award and HK PolyU Microfund award. He successfully led the company to close its angel investment fund of around HK$3 million. Carhshare has already reached out to some China funds.

Christopher obtained his master degree from Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Management from Imperial College in 2011. Before starting Carshare, he worked briefly in the financial industry doing FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities) trading in Bank of America Merrill Lynch and interned at a Venture Capital in Hong Kong.

ADA YIP

Director, Hong Kong Institute of Social Impact Analysts

From investment banking to impact investing industry

Ada's last engagement was the Program Director at SOW Asia. She designed and led the i2i (incubation to investment) program, one of the few accelerators for social ventures in Hong Kong. In 2014, i2i incubated 10 startups, all of which have clear social missions and have scalable business models. Ada is focused in supporting the entrepreneurship development in Hong Kong and Greater China. Ada is on the board of Hong Kong Institute of Social Impact Analysts, Education For Good (CIC) Limited and Sowers Exchange Foundation. Ada is also a member of the Advisory Committee at the Enhancing Self-Reliance Through District Partnership Programme under the Home Affairs Department of the Hong Kong Government, a mentor under the Mentoring Program for Women Leaders at The Women’s Foundation and the Hong Kong University Alumni Entrepreneur Club. Prior to joining the impact investing industry, Ada worked at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Ada earned a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.

GANG YAO

GANG YAO, Founder, Next WiFi Technologies Ltd

NextWiFi Technologies provides a series of hardward systems and mobile APPs that can broadcast multiple lines of information entries via WiFi SSID signals. End users can be navigated to any specific contents by clicking on the WiFi SSIDs. In this way, stores and shopping malls can promote sales of their commodities and services, media can spread their news and opinions along with advertisements, and even mobile games and APPs can be distributed conveniently. Such an advertising platform, sales network and content distributing platform based on WiFi is cost-effective and making the best of prevailing of WiFi devices and smartphones.

RAYMOND YIP

Co-Founder & CEO, Shopline

Raised US$1.2 million fund to bring sophistication to social media commerce in Asia

Raymond Yip, Co-founder & CEO of Shopline, has managed product design and engineering efforts over an extensive career in corporate technology in New York City and Hong Kong. He has also launched a multitude of consumer-facing products. In the early days of the Facebook platform, he launched a niche market gifting app that drove 500K hits daily, generated significant advertising revenue. In 2011, he founded the first mobile social network for sneaker enthusiasts and was accepted into the Complex Media Network. He also launched a product to allow blog owners to monetise the comments section of their blogs, serving millions of ads for blog owners. Raymond and his co-founders launched Shopline to provide merchants in Asia a localised solution to create their own e-commerce website. Shopline is the second startup from HK that was ever accepted into the 500 Startups Accelerator program in Silicon Valley. Having successfully raised a fund of US$1.2 million, Shopline was also the winner of "My Favourite Cloud Product" at the World Internet Developer Summit and a top 50 startup in Asia at e27 Echelon Conference in 2014. Raymond is a UI/UX designer that was on the winning team at the April 2013 edition of Startup Weekend Hong Kong for Best User Experience.

ANYONG WANG

Founder, Shenzhen WeChat Center Technology Limited, Inc

Champion in the China Business Model Competition 2015

Champion in the China Business Model Competition 2015; its product “weixinchuang” is the country’s first WeChat photo printer and advertising machine; once followed on WeChat, free photo printing service is available any time any where

Weining ZHENG

Founder, Shenzhen Canyou Group [Mainland China]

A high-tech social enterprise

Mr. Zheng Weining inherited severe hemophilia, death go hand in hand, rely on regular blood transfusions to sustain life. He is not able to move in his childhood, in hence, he missed the school, but through the self-studying, he finally got the degree of Chinese, business management and law.

In the end of last century, Mr. Zheng donated all his deposit to establish Canyou Group, for the exploration of the disable’s living revolution in new knowledge economic times, Mr. Zheng launched one charity foundation, 9 NGO and 33 high-tech social enterprise. In Nov 2009, Mr Zheng donated all his personal shares and his brand of Canyou to make sure sustainably developed of Canyou, after that, he established the first charity foundation named Shenzhen Weining Charity foundation. Cause the big contribution of what Mr. Zheng did, he has met the president Hu for 3 times since 2008, and was awarded the national labor model, China charity prize for the most love behavior model prize twice, the national self-improvement model, one of the shenzhen special economic zone 30 years 30 leading figure, one of the shenzhen special economic zone 30 years 40 industry leader, shenzhen charity outstanding contribution award, guangdong venture star, shenzhen volunteer mayor award etc.