Manu (Swish) Goswami, 21, has built a multi-hyphenate career. He is a serial tech entrepreneur (CEO & Founder of Trufan), LinkedIn Youth Editor, TEDx speaker (signed with the National Speakers Bureau & The AAT Project), Fortune 500 consultant (for Google and American Express), venture capitalist (at JB Fitzgerald Venture Capital founded by Brooklyn Nets PF Trevor Booker), and UN Youth Ambassador. He has been recognized with the United Nation’s Outstanding Youth Leadership Award, Startup Canada’s Young Entrepreneur Award, and Plan Canada’s Top 20 under 20. Manu also sits on the advisory board for numerous companies including League of Innovators (national charity started by Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes) and Dunk Media (11M follower network focused on basketball).
Manu has been quoted and published in over fifty national and international media outlets including Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur, and Mashable for his entrepreneurial and philanthropic advocacy. He has also been recognized as “one of the world’s most accomplished teenagers” by Future Sharks, “one of ten Gen Z experts to follow” by Forbes and the “Face and Future of Canadian Entrepreneurship” by UPS Canada.
Jonathan Rechtman is a Chinese-English simultaneous interpreter, bilingual host, entrepreneur, and community investor. He is the co-founder of Cadence Translate (500 Startups B20) and a seed-stage investor in Chinese consumer brands Mantra and Hatchery. He is a regular panel speaker and host at conferences including the American Translators Association, TEDxBeijing, Shape China, and She Loves Tech. He is a member of the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum; an Associate at the China Carbon Forum; and a visiting instructor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, the University of Ottawa, and the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing (UIBE).
Abe Sorock’s firm Atlas China helps SMEs and multinationals in China find talent and grow revenues through recruitment, events, and strategy. His community leadership experience includes leading the Tech & Innovation Initiative pre-launch "Stealth Team" with the American Chamber of Commerce in China, the Jewish cultural Moishe House, and the Global Shapers Community in Beijing.
Abe was born in Washington D.C. and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin — Madison. His professional experience and training includes Reed Smith LLP, Capitol Hill and The White House. He graduated from the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies and speaks Mandarin.
Chenyu is a storyteller and lifestyle trailblazer with 300k+ followers in China. She writes a popular blog ("Apple Sister" 苹果姐姐) about food and travel, synthesizes US/China cross-border tech and company culture, and is an inspirational speaker, as a guest lecturer at Tencent, Alibaba and alike.
Besides the creative drive, Chenyu is an operational hustler and China market expert. She co-led Whisper China's WFOE in 2014-2015 in close collaboration with Tencent and was a PMM on Uber China.
Marketing at Uber and UberEATS adds rigor and data-driven approach to Chenyu's creativity to execute shippable campaigns with short turnaround time.