Christopher Dobbing in the founder and CEO of Cambridge Mask Company, a UK/China-based tech startup offering connected pollution masks. Last Summer, the company was backed by the world's largest incubator, Y Combinator, the initial investor behind Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit. Today, Cambridge Mask Company has customers in over 45 countries and works globally with embassies, hospitals, international schools, and corporate clients. The BBC, CNN, Times, Guardian, and other international news outlets regularly quoted Christopher in their articles. Website: https://cambridgemask.com/

A seasoned accountant turned tech entrepreneur, Katherine Lui likes to deviate from the norms and do unconventional things. Katherine started a cloud-based SaaS product in 2015. CanCan 看看™ helps small and medium-sized enterprises put financial matters in proper order by simplifying bookkeeping and financial reporting. CanCan 看看™ won its seed funding in 2016 from SOSV, one of the world’s largest VCs. Katherine also runs CanAsia Group, a management consulting firm she founded in 2008 with offices in Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, Beijing, and Shanghai. CanAsia provides acting CFO services and financial due diligence services for fundraising and M&A consulting projects. Katherine understands the pain of running a small international group of companies. Website: http://www.canasia-group.com/

After starting and running Chandra-Mia, a Switzerland based charity organization that helps young adults to receive education in various Asian countries, Claudia Masuegar decided to follow the family’s tradition in the wine industry. She first stated a Beijing based wine wholesale company until her warehouse burned down in November 2010. She took the chance to reconsider the market and started the wine retail chain CHEERS. The goal was it to make wine drinking fun and affordable and introduce the wine lifestyle and culture to a younger generation. She is responsible for leading the effort to transform the attitude of wine in China and introduced thousands of people to the benefits and excitement of wine drinking. She is currently in the middle of her ambitious goal of expanding to 888 stores throughout China and helping more people start their own businesses by sharing the fun of wine. Website: http://www.cheers-wines.com

Before starting Elite Scholars of China in 2010, Stacy Palestrant served as a research associate at Harvard Business School and a management consultant with Katzenbach Partners. After moving to China, she worked on a special project analyzing the careers of Chinese returnees building entrepreneurial businesses back in China. Investigating their stories must have influenced Stacy as she left the consulting firm to start a high-end consulting firm coaching top high school students from China to gain admission to the best US universities. Website: http://www.elitescholarschina.com/

After coming to China to attend a year-exchange program at UIBE, Greg decided to help other American students learn about China as an exchange student living with a Chinese roommate in college. He spent two years promoting The Beijing Center (TBC) across the US before deciding to start a business in China with a few former classmates. His first business led to his current business of building a comprehensive food and beverage company, The SinoTaste Group, that started in Beijing and now has spread across China. Not satisfied with building two branded café chains, he also began Sinolytics, a boutique market research firm focused on the FMCG industry in Mainland China, and Marvine, a food and beverage trading company.

When AJ Warner moved to China back in 2005, his business goal was to leave the corporate environment after working for large Fortune 100 companies including Panasonic and Hitachi and create a purpose-driven business. AJ leveraged his career at Deloitte Consulting to start a leading educational consulting firm that eventually earned CITIC/AC Nielson’s recognition as one of China’s Top 5 graduate consulting firms in both 2015 and 2016. He has since turned the company over to his co-founder in 2017 to start a new business because he is an “entrepreneur for life”. AJ is also the current Chapter President of the EO Beijing Sanlitun chapter. Website: http://www.touchdown.org.cn