Dr.Pengpeng Zhan is the deputy director of Fudan University China Venture Capital Research Center (CVCRC), a mentor for SORSA Startups Plan, VP of Fudan Alumni Entrepreneurs Club, a mentor for Optical Valley Coffee founded by Xiaomi Technologies founder Jun LEI, a mentor for the CCTV We Are The Hero program, and a mentor for Columbia University in New York.

Dr.Zhan focuses on helping global technology startups to localize in China, connecting them with industry resources and investing in them. He founded TechAG Gobi Fund jointly with Gobi Partners. His offices are in Silicon Valley and Shanghai, covering the whole Northern America, Western Europe and Asia. He has invested in outstanding startups like Nomiku, Rukuku, etc.

Dr. Zhan graduated from University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He got his Ph.D from Fudan University Law School. He completed his postdoc research at CVCRC.

Pengpeng has over 10 years of experience in cross-border investment and financing for startups community. He once served as the Investment Director of Shanghai Office of China Venture Capital Research Institute (CVCRI, founded by Professor Siwei Cheng) and a partner of a nationwide leading law firm in China.

Pengpeng frequently speaks at events in global startup community. He was a speaker at global top schools such as Harvard, Stanford, Yale, MIT, Columbia, Fudan, Tsinghua, Jiaotong, Peking, etc..

With twenty years of professional experience in corporate leadership roles with international business exposure from Asia Pacific, North America & Europe. Took charge of Corporate HR & EHS in Manufacturing Industry and held various roles from General Management, Business Development & Operations Management in the Professional Services Sector.

Charles started his career in the financial investment market and worked 7 years as the Chief Compliance & Operations Officer of a leading investment brokerage & clearing firm in North America – The Rosenthal Collins Group in Vancouver, Canada; he was licensed by the British Columbia Securities Commission as a registered trading partner, director and officer.
In January 2015, Charles started CGP (Cornerstone Global Partners) Suzhou Office together with two veterans of the recruitment industry – Chris Watkins and Sean Ng. It’s the 4th out of the 6 offices for the CGP Group in the Greater China region. The Suzhou Office is the flagship office for the Jiangsu Province serving customers in various sectors from Industrial & Manufacturing, Properties & Constructions, Life Science & Bio Medical, E-Commerce and Hospitality Industry etc.

Be employed at University of Science & Technology China.
Served as an assistant to the chairman of the, sunrise Oriental Solar Power Inc.
The investment director of Suzhou Industrial Park Joint Investment Co., Ltd.

Be involved in the investment of Himalaya FM, Meiyou, Kenxun Media, Nanfu Battery, 51 order network project.

Has long been concerned about TMT, artificial intelligence and big data.

Master's degree in entrepreneurship and innovation of science and technology
Stanford University and the University of Cambridge entrepreneurship immersion program
Research interests: Application in the relationship of Competition and Cooperation among the Enterprises, the Internet new media operation, Industrial Intelligence.

Top advisor of city governments in Jiangsu Province, assisting the governments with attracting investment and talents.

Author of Happy Entrepreneurship, a professional book about how to realize the popularization of entrepreneurship in the perspective of the government and the private session.

Responsible for the connection between official department of entrepreneurship and corporations in Jiangsu.

“Globalization Accelerator”(GlobalXLR and China global information technology Suzhou Co. Ltd.) aims to help enterprises to better manage its domestic and international suppliers and procurement process.

Previouly Tom founded AECsoft USA in 1999 and AECsoft Shanghai in 2007 and served as Chairman and CEO until January 2011 when the companies were acquired by an NASDAQ-listed e-procurement software company. AECsoft provided Supplier Management System, Supplier Diversity Management and eSourcing Systems to hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies to automate their supplier management and sourcing processes. In October of 2010, Gartner Group ranked AECsoft’s Supplier Management System as the highest scored supplier information management system worldwide.

Tom has repeatedly been interviewed by American magazine cover story and won the "Asian Business Leaders Award". He has presided over the translation of American version of marketing books "SME marketing tips."

Maggie is a abroad digital sales and marketing expert with at least 10 years of Industrial expertise. She has very clear marketing methodology and has been helping companies to scale revenues through internet, to optimize sales and marketing processes and to improve productivity. This includes but is not limited to developing digital strategies and inbound initiatives that create greater awareness and preference for the company’s brand; increase leads and move-ins; and that leverage digital mediums to create new solutions and services for customers and associates. Maggie’s digital industry specializations include the following: Dedicated Marketing Manager; Inbound Marketing Strategy; Customer avatar development; Search Engine Optimization; Social Media Management; Email Marketing; Competitor Analysis; Content strategy; Website Optimization; Keyword Analysis.

Dominic Desmarais is the President and Founder of LiYa Solutions. He was most recently VP Marketing & Operations at ECOVACS Commercial Robotics.

Prior to moving to Suzhou in 2014, Dominic held several senior leadership positions in Canadian companies involved in Specialty Food Products, Health and Beauty Aids, Optical Accessories and Consumer Electronics.

Dominic is a results-driven entrepreneurial executive with a solid career track. He has strong management skills in sales, marketing, operations, purchasing, production scheduling and control, inventory/materials management, project development, distribution, budgeting, human resources and capital improvement.

Dominic was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (with Distinction) in Operations Management from Concordia University. He is also co-President of the Shanghai Chapter of the Concordia University Alumni Association.

Education background:
Advanced studies：University of California-Berkeley

Rewards and experiences:
2016 Chinese cheongsam Special Contribution Award
The invited judges of 2015 global cheongsam image ambassador selection contest
Invited Guest lecturer of Shanghai Jiaotong University (WELP）
Has been invited to Europe, the United States, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other performances and exhibitors
Multiple CCTV interviews with shooting

She built “Whispering lotus of Suzhou” in 2013, which was an Embroidery Cheongsam couture brand of China, with focus on original design. Adhering to the Suzhou Embroidery technology and manual customization, the brand is to let every woman have their own cheongsam. So far, the brand has already owned multiple sub-brands, such as Whisperinglotus, Suzhou Whisperinglotus, Meng Zhou Liyan, Graceful Lady, and so on.The brands up to now have become the designated partner with CCTV documentary channel, the only invited brand of Suzhou Embroidery Cheongsam in 2015 Milan Expo, the Couture Cheongsam brand of 2015 Miss China Europe finals, the invited brand in 2016 “Oriental Charm” China, Japan and Korea Clothing Culture Exhibition and so on.

MBA of Suzhou University
MSC of Applied Psychology
State - registered administrator of human resource management
Director of East China Human Resource Management and Applied Psychology Research Association
Worked in world top 500 international corporation and large SOE in Suzhou Industrial Park
Now in JAHE (Suzhou) Construction Co., Ltd

Experienced in resource integration, brand planning, human resources and government relations.
Expert at the areas of exhibition, culture, education and service industry.

Education Background:
Mechanical Engineering Master’s including advanced studies at Stanford University

Company Info:
Founded several small businesses in Software and Internet, trading and distribution.
Main business Universal Parts/Partsforscooters.com
Current New ventures in: Remote Music Instruction, STEAM Education

Experience in being Judge/Mentor:
Participated in numerous Chinese Startup meetings and seminars

Expertise/Interests:
3D printing, Music education, Air filtration, Water filtration, STEAM education, Software/Internet

Feng Jing first created a convenience store in his building in 2005. By 2007 he ranked as the first in nationwide market sales. His Qingdao region made an annual turnover of more than 20 million and won the first place in national competition.

He entered the company of future industry trend-UC in 2009 and became the regional operations manager for Northern China.

He participated in many projects such as community crowd-funding and the Dream LOFT catering incubator in 2014.

In 2015 he established Little Bear takeout O2O store. Although the store is only 10 m², the turnover was more than 200 thousand RMB per month, Forbes interviewed him about this huge success.
Most recently, in 2016 he joined Fly Bird Village Innovative Education Incubator to serve as CEO, and focuses on the early stage incubation and investment of educational technology and consumption upgrade enterprises.

HR Information Systems for major manufacturing enterprises. Rena has served a number of large corporations including Siemens, Vanke, Bosideng, Jia Duo Bao etc. on the consultation, model selection and implementation of various HR information systems.
Rena is well skilled in analysing the features of different industries. Always able to provide accurate perception of the user's requirements and can provide executable, cost-effective solutions.
In 2010, Rena set up Suzhou Heyue Information Technology Co., Ltd. Drawing from her years of experience from the industry, Heyue provides independently researched & developed software for HR efficiency management as well as outsourcing services on personnel businesses.

The mentor of China torch light entrepreneurship; Partner of “Shui Dishi” fund management company; she had been in charge of attracting investment and operating over 30 industrial parks and two maker spaces in Shanghai, she also provided enterprise development service for more than three thousand companies. She is accomplished in policies and finance, and she has a great comprehension in business models and development rules of enterprises which makes her really good at regional industrial research, resource integration, enterprise diagnosis and circle abutment.
Currently, she is in charge of operating all investment and financing business for Boji system and the 200 million-angel funds for “Shui Dishi” and focuses on the angel stage investment. She is an expert in paying attention to value investment, she has successfully invested many innovative projects from different fields such as “Kaihei Master” (The Internet Gaming Platform), Jiangsu Yueheng Smart Card Data System (Automatic license plate recognition system), Buying motors quickly (Motorcycles + Finance + Insurance), Weird Convenience (The Internet Fresh Products Platform).