James LALonde

James started his career as an early employee of Microsoft Japan and led the subsidiary's rise to the first bilion dollar revenue subsidiary of a software company in history. After his nearly 15 year corporate career which culminated in a role as CEO of a NASDAQ listed software company, James decided to become an entrepreneur and started RTM Asia. Currently based in Beijing, James has co-founded 2 companies in China in the last 5 years. The first, Yodo1, is now the largest private publisher of mobile phone games in China. The second, yoli, is the innovative new way to learn English or Mandarin all in WeChat; bringing the study anywhere, anytime Uber-style model to language learning.

Jelte Ansgar Wingender

Jelte has several hats: the director of Startup Grind Beijing, Senior Manager at Innoway and AngelHack Ambassador. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, people and innovation. Building skilled teams from scratch, growing together and simultaneously creating value for our global society is where he wants to be. As Startup Grind Beijing Director, he locates world-class entrepreneurs and brings them to stage. At Innoway, he bridges the global innovation landscape and helps multinational companies to find innovative cooperation with startups, support entrepreneurs with their search for investors, partners, and other necessary resources in China.