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Rhea See (Founder & COO of She Loves Tech)

Rhea See

Founder & COO of She Loves Tech

Rhea See is the Co-Founder and COO of She Loves Tech, a global platform which houses the world's largest startup competition focused on women and technology. Previously in charge of the performing arts programs at Parinama Cultural Development Foundation, a non-profit arts and culture foundation, she currently consults for them on branding, program development and new media initiatives. She also has marketing and public relations experience from Lean In China, Estee Lauder Companies, Edelman, etc.

Simon Vericel (Founder&MD of Influence Matters)

Simon Vericel

Founder&MD of Influence Matters

Simon is a geek, an entrepreneur, passionate about the mechanisms of influence, and can’t stay away from news portals.

He leads Influence Matters with the vison that only great work will drive the agency’s growth, so he puts our clients’ results before anything else at work. His wife and 3 children are the bosses at home.

Simon specializes in creating impactful ways to activate ecosystems of influence to generate awareness in highly targeted circles, with a particular focus on B2B tech, market entry, corporate, brand and product communications.


He’s been in China continuously since 2002, spending all of his career at two international agencies running high profile cross-border influencer engagement strategies for global and Chinese large organizations, before figuring out these agencies’ structure did not suit the need for flexibility and efficiency required by today’s fast growing tech companies. So he set up Influence Matters in 2015 to fix that.

Yann Boquillod (Founder of AirVisual)

Yann Boquillod

Founder of AirVisual

Yann Boquillod is the founder of AirVisual, a startup based in Beijing using big data and artificial intelligence to bring a novel approach to tackling the air pollution problem. AirVisual was successfully acquired by Swiss air quality products IQAir in 2018. He is a parent and long-term resident in China, and decided to use his 20 years of experience working with big data in the tech industry to address the air quality problem. As the founder of AirVisual, Yann had to define his PR and Marketing strategy early on with the very limited resources of a startup.

Alvaro Montoya (CEO of Alvaro)

Alvaro Montoya

CEO of Alvaro

Alvaro 梦龙 is a telecom engineer from Spain/Barcelona, almost graduated from an MBA in Tsinghua University.

A couple of years ago, he began his entrepreneurial journey in China, and became co-founder of Akkadu, a live translation platform for events, with the purpose to make live content available to anyone in their own language.