As the Data Partner for Bristol Myers Squibb in Asia, Victoria Hoang counsels teams on data privacy and cybersecurity law, and defines data governance for enterprise-level initiatives across R&D, Manufacturing and Commercialization.
Victoria has over 20 years of experience in life sciences and management consulting.  She has served on several innovation incubation programs, most recently as the Head Partner for Legal, Compliance, and Corporate Affairs, spearheading digitalization efforts, measuring value and risk of a large portfolio of digital capabilties.
Prior to BMS, Victoria spent her career in technology consulting and with venture investment division for GREY Global in Boston and New York.
She holds a MBA from NYU Stern Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College in Architecture and Chinese Studies.  She currently lives in Shanghai, China.
Favourite Quote: “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.” – Vince Lombardi

As a sharp, insightful and creative serial entrepreneur in energy blockchain sector, Yang Kaikai is responsible for crafting business plans, designing marketing strategies, positioning products in the market and building teams. She has accumulated rich experience in working with global energy companies, top-notch research institutions. Kaikai led the company to launch the first ever blockchain/distributed energy project in Asia, helping the company won the 2020 United Nations Asia-Pacific Low Carbon Lifestyles Challenge.
She is also a professional jazz dummer and social impact volunteer.

Former GM of ebay Classified in Taiwan
#LifestyleEcommerce #Crossboarders #ContentMarketing

Celine worked as senior executive for international Ecommerce companies including Amazon, ebay, and Booking.com for Greater China and APAC region. At Amazon’s Shopbop, she was responsible for the cross-boarder Luxury/Fashion ecommerce business, selling over 1000 popular designer brands to consumers in the Greater China market. She managed online marketing & sales channels, partnership, APP/Website product development, logistics and payment solutions to achieve growth goals. At Booking.com, the world’s leading OTA, Celine was head of Content strategy and Social Media for China.

Before the senior management roles in large international companies, Celine started as an entrepreneur, founded online game production company Game Factory.

Jack Ren is a Managing Director at Eminence Ventures and he is responsible for Eminence’s Cloud & IT Infrastructure investments. Prior to Eminence, Jack worked at Cisco’s Corporate Development team responsible for its strategic investments in China. Jack was also the lead project manager spearheading China Mobile’s OneNET IoT Open Platform, which has been the world’s largest IoT open platform. Earlier in his career, Jack worked at Samsung in Suwon, Korea as a software development manager launching Samsung’s first Chinese Android-based Galaxy smartphones. Prior to Samsung, Jack worked at Sony in Tokyo, Japan as a senior engineer. Jack holds an MBA from Yale University and a Ph.D. degree in EE from Tsinghua University.

Timothy decided a career in finance wasn’t the right path for him after graduating with a degree in risk management. He had worked as a tutor in university and developed an interest in the dynamics of the tutor-student relationship. He also began questioning the efficiency of conventional, brick-and-mortar tutoring centers and thought that there was a better way.

In 2016, Forbes Asia named Timothy to the exclusive list of 30 under 30. Snapask is now supporting more than 4 million students with 400,000+ tutors in 9 Asian countries – Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Snapask raised US$35 million in funding in 2019, led by Asia Partners, Intervest, and Ondine Capital. The company, to date, has closed more than US$50 million in funding.

Curiosity and the freedom to ask questions are crucial to knowledge and learning, Timothy believed. “It begins with a question…” thus became his motto and woven into everything that the company does.

Rui Ma has fifteen years of experience in technology and finance, spanning seed stage to pre-IPO investing spread evenly between the U.S. and China. She founded Tech Buzz China in 2018 to educate and consult investors, funds and entrepreneurs on Chinese tech companies products, strategies and trends. She previously worked at 500 Startups as an investment partner, and spent a decade in private equity and mergers & acquisitions roles at the Raine Group, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch in both Silicon Valley and China. Rui holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and additional degrees from Tsinghua, INSEAD, UIUC and Harvard University.

Nichapat’s key roles in Openspace Ventures are to search for investment opportunities in outstanding Thailand-based startups as well as to support Openspace’s portfolio companies in expanding into Thailand. Additionally, she is also a screening committee for Bangkok Venture Club, the biggest angel investor network in Thailand, as well as Thailand Seedstars World Ambassador. She has received The Prime Minister Award for Startup Ecosystem Evangelist in 2019.

Nichapat has more than 20 years of experience in financial markets. Her most recent position before she left her banking career was Executive Committee and Managing Director, Financial Markets for Standard Chartered Bank Thailand where she took part in driving the bank’s strategic planning and execution functions. During her 10 years with Standard Chartered Bank, she spent 2 years in China as Managing Director of Financial Markets Sales based in Shanghai. Nichapat obtained her Master of Business Administration degree, majoring in Finance from Sasin Graduate School of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, and spent a term on exchange at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She received a Bachelor of Business Administration at Assumption University, Thailand.

Patrick Riley is the CEO at GAN and Managing Partner and Co-Founder of GAN Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital fund. Most recently, he was on the executive team at Techstars, where he oversaw its business development. He started his career working for W.L. Gore and Associates and moved into the leadership of the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. Patrick left the Red Cross to manage the West Coast sales and operations for a venture-backed healthcare company that had an exit before joining Techstars and GAN. In his spare time, he skis, cycles, travels and spends time with his incredible wife and two daughters.

Cheryl is part of the early founding team at Grab. Starting in Kuala Lumpur as a one-man marketing team, she has set up the marketing practise across Southeast Asia for Grab over the last six years. Today, she leads marketing in over 300 cities, covering all of Grab’s business verticals including transport, food, payments and logistics. She oversees Grab’s marketing efforts across the region, leading a team of over 500 marketers across Southeast Asia.

In 6 years, Cheryl has built the Grab brand into a household name across Southeast Asia, and played a critical role in the company’s growth and progression from ride-hailing, into the region’s leading superapp. Under her leadership, the marketing team has led the development of demand shaping platforms which drives Grab’s growth using technology and automation. She also manages Grab’s social impact programme and published Grab’s first social impact report earlier this year.

Fritz Demopoulos has been an entrepreneur and investor within the media and internet industries for over 15 years. He co-founded Qunar.com, China’s largest travel internet company; and Shawei.com, China’s largest sports internet company. Fritz also had senior positions at Netease and The News Corporation.

Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Proof of Capital (an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund focused on Blockchain), creator of the China Internet Report and advisor at 500 Startups – the world’s most active early-stage incubator. Recognized by Inc Magazine as one of the Silicon Valley investors you must know, Edith has invested in over 50 blockchain, mobile, AI startups including Lightyear/Stellar, Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Chirp (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox) and many more.

Before 500, Edith is the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, Oracle, AMS, AT&T Wireless and Autodesk.

Abel is a co-founders and CEO of TravelFlan an Award-winning AI Digital and Big Data Solutions company, utilizing proprietary Travel and Lifestyle – specific B2B2C strategies and solutions to empower Fortune 500 companies like China Mobile, Samsung, SITA and Lotte Group to create incremental revenue streams and improve customer engagement.

Abel has over 16 years of experience in Travel IT and Consulting industries in strategic planning, turn-around management and Sales & Marketing. Previously he was the regional head in Travelport and Amadeus responsible for commercial and strategic initiatives and local market expansion strategy. He also spent 5 years with Air Canada in Toronto as Corporate Analyst, Global Sales and Strategy responsible for revenue optimization and global strategic expansion and 2 years with Hyatt Corporation in Chicago.

Abel holds Dual – Masters degrees from Columbia University and London Business School, and undergraduate in Hospitality Management in Switzerland.

I am CEO and co-founder of 8 Securities and a member of the Fintech Asia 100. My startup was Asia’s very first mobile-only investing service and robo-advisor and secured over $US 60 million in venture capital. As one of the largest and fastest growing fintech companies in Asia, 8 Securities was acquired by Social Finance in 2020. I now hold the role of SVP of International for SoFi.

My prior experience includes leading and developing E*TRADE’s international business across Greater China, South-East Asia, Europe and the Middle East and as a management consultant at Deloitte in the United States.

I hold an MBA from both Columbia Business School and London Business School.

Yara is currently Chief Growth Scientist for Growth OS [https://www.growth-os.com], a growth enabler Singapore/Barcelona based company and she is board director and growth advisor for Kolonial.no, the leading Norwegian online grocery retailer as well as a growth advisor for She1k Singapore and Chinaccleerator and MOX.

Yara is the ex global VP of Growth at Skyscanner, the leading travel search engine and former interim Chief Growth Officer for Preply, the online marketplace for online language learning.

She works with dozens of innovative startups and established but pivoting companies around the world (like Zublu, DNB, NCE Finance Innovation, Gebo group, Badi, Spiff, ’tise, Monner), training them on growth science and culture and helping them to build their own growth operating system, so to achieve substantial growth sustainably.

As VP of Growth at Skyscanner, she contributed to grow exponentially the company from a 32-employees small startup to a 1.4 Billion GBP valued company with over 1,000 talented people working across 60+ markets (acquired in 2016 by the Chinese travel giant Ctrip).

Former Global Director of Communications, DJI
Former Digital Editor of Asia, The Wall Street Journal
#PR #Content #Storytelling

A specialist in corporate communications, crisis public relations, messaging, content, IPOs, digital marketing, owned and paid social media strategy, operations and transformation. He has over 25 years in the news and digital-media business, and – as a polyglot – can wear multiple hats and work anywhere. He is also a podcast specialist, including edits, and can shoot and edit video, serving as EP on three documentaries.

Adam is a well-rounded public relations and communications pro. He has led, planned and executed major event PR (including the largest shopping event in the world), overseen product and service launches, write releases and media communications and is the best editor both DJI and Alibaba have for English-language content. Adam and his team built up Alibaba Group’s content and helped turn it into an award-winner and started up a content lab for Shenzhen DJI.

As a General Partner and emerging manager in Welinder Shi Capital Per has demonstrated a unique ability to find great investment opportunities in the sectors of culture, lifestyle and consumer technologies. Sezzle one of the earliest investments has proven to be a big success now valued near $1B after their recent IPO. Per also has a history as a legend in the action sports world. Per has co-founded some of the most influential skateboard and lifestyle brands in the industry including Birdhouse, Flip, Baker, JSLV and Go Skateboarding Day. He is also an author, board member, and popular guest speaker on the topics of startups and brand-building. Per earned his Executive MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. LinkedIn here. Wiki here.

A fun fact about Per Welinder: Per was a stunt double for some of Michael J. Fox’s skateboard scenes in the classic 1985 time travel movie Back to the Future.

Shannon has made her mark in the tech world building businesses [ORAMI/ MOXY, Lazada, PPTVThailand] and driving the ecosystem through tech investments [Currently Partner at Gobi Partners and Shark Tank Thailand] and CEO of the IKIGAI Group and 5GCatalyst Technologies, in Southeast Asia.

She is no stranger to the business world and global conferences, often appearing to speak about entrepreneurship, key subject matters: Strategy, Brand Building, ESG, SDGs, Marketing, Growth Hacking, Fundraising, Women Empowerment, and Mindset and Resilience. Notable speaking events, executive leadership workshops and interviews include: FORTUNE’S Most Powerful Women Asia, The United Nations, YPO, CNN and Bloomberg. She is also an advisor to various Southeast Asian Government Agencies and Ministries on the topic of Digital Transformation, Entrepreneurship and Education for the 21st Century.

With her longstanding career of almost 2 decades, spanning from Lehman Brothers to Singha Beer’s Global operations to Tech, she has consistently paved the way for women in executive, entrepreneurship roles in traditionally male dominated industries from tech to investment banking and has carried this over to her social work in women advocacy with UN Women and groups Asia-wide.

She is a mover and a shaker, deeply connected in sectors of Government, Technology, Business, Media, ESG, UN SDGs, and Social Development for Equality and Education in Thailand and in Asia.

Ms. Vu Van is a female entrepreneur and the Co-founder & CEO of Silicon Valley-based ELSA, the world’s best and smartest English pronunciation app. She worked with leading speech scientists, machine learning scientists, and linguists from around the world to create ELSA. Powered by the company’s proprietary AI and speech recognition technology, ELSA scores a learners’ speech to pinpoint individual syllable and phoneme level mistakes with real time feedback. Based in San Francisco, ELSA has raised $12 million in capital and is backed by leading VCs in Silicon Valley, Southeast Asia and Japan.

Prior to founding ELSA, Vu lived and worked in Vietnam, Singapore, Denmark where she experienced the challenges of an English language learner abroad. She served as an Engagement Manager at Booz & Co, one of the top four global management consulting firms. Vu earned an MBA and a Masters in Education from Stanford University and is originally from Vietnam.

Lily is a seasoned serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Her fintech startup Earn.com was acquired by Coinbase in 2018. Before founding Earn.com, Lily acted as the CFO of China’s first foreign funded, private and mass market hospital Cilin Hospital, where she was responsible for M&A, procurement, controlling and more. Before Lily kicked off her entrepreneur journey, she had 7-year experience working in Morgan Stanley, McKinsey and KKR Capstone.

A media and entertainment global professional and tech advocate known for his pioneering work with celebrities in converging media with tech across the globe. He is credited with revolutionizing the airport media in India, was the starting member of the largest Radio FM Network in India and Country Head of a music streaming platform. A start up ace who has scaled and run operations across 17 countries, founded a fast growing Influencer marketing company with an AI Powered Influencer marketing platform for Indonesia and developing another disruptive travel tech platform for Global Tourists.
Favorite Quote: Think Disruptive, Think Scale. Execute with Speed and Passion. Inspired by a Masayoshi Son quote.