JYP Shanghai - Entrepreneur Stories Series

Barbara Ex,
Founder & CEO of WhiteSpace

Founder and CEO of WhiteSpace, a sharing economy business that offers flexible, affordable short-term meeting and training room space. WhiteSpace is now scaling to become the complete O2O platform for meeting and training support across Asia. Lifelong interest in the application of cutting edge technology to open up new markets, enable strategy and transform existing business models. In China since 2005, fluent in business level Mandarin Chinese. Chair of the Entrepreneurship Committee, American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai Board Member of Entrepreneurs Organization Shanghai Chapter. Founder and Past President of the MIT Alumni club in Shanghai. IPWS Entrepreneur of the year, 2019 Speaker and panel member: Asia PropTech HK 2018, Committee of 100, Shanghai 2019, numerous BritCham, AmCham and Entrepreneurship events While the B2B is the driving part of the business, Central Studios also has a strong focus on community by way of its famous Market Day and a series of new industry-focused initiatives. Over the last 10 years, the professional photo industry has gone from Wild West to a highly sophisticated, fast-paced industry ever adapting to the changing needs of the media industry.