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Hai Yan Xiang
Co-Founder of Beijing Jingshi (Chengdu) Law FirmHai Yan has been working with different incubators and accelerators as consultant and mentor for their startups. As a lawyer and an angel investor, she has some unique insight for business modeling, found raising, and equity structure design.
Courtney Zhou
Senior Product Owner at Saas softwareCourtney majored in Journalism, and mastered in communication and truth visualization. After years of experiences in technology companies, where she mastered the art of optimization - balancing the often complex and competing demands within an organization's business process, she now serves as a Senior Product Owner for a customer and enterprise Saas software(aka. 金数据).
But She always holds curiosity of all kinds of stuff, believing only the Chaos turned into Orders.
"While things are made efficient, the reverse brings creation and innovation."
--------Courtney
Sophie Yao
General Manager at Fenox VC ChinaSourcing, investment activities, business development as well as accelerator management. Sophie has 7+ years experienced in management, startup business and deal sourcing. Before Fenox she worked at Fortune 500 high-tech companies, such as Microsoft and Intel. She got her master degree of Material Engineering in University of Queensland. She is also the Chairman of Actnow Toastmaster Club.
Cindy Feng
Cindy has more than 10 years of experience in multinational companies and startups in industries of automotive, energy, digital health and innovation incubation. She has worked for Ford, Chevron, Mercedes-Benz and European's largest accelerator Startupbootcamp, where she mastered engineering design knowledge, information management, customer satisfaction development, regional channel management, partner development and management, and business strategy consulting. In the ecosystem of innovation-driven development, she is committed to creating and managing open and innovative business partnerships for large companies and startups through linking technologies, talent, capital and policies.
Alice Zhou
大中华区设施采购 at IBMAlice Zhou正在IBM工作，担任大中华区设施采购。在她个人时间，她也是元创中国的创始人（元创中国是元创全球在中国的分支，这个平台鼓励青少年关注科创和国际交流）。同时，她还担任Technovation中国地区大使，这是一个鼓励青少年女孩从事技术创新的全球平台
Jimmy Keesee
Tech Consultant at IndependentIT Management professional with extensive knowledge of software development best practices, application architecture and program management spanning industries as diverse as e-commerce, entertainment, education, retail, and public services.
• 15+ years experience in managing complex IT engineering projects.
• 10+ years experience managing culturally diverse and geographically distributed teams in US, South America, EU and China
• Thrive in fast-paced environments where continuous innovation is desired
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with the ability to ramp up quickly across diverse businesses and service offerings
• Extensive experience in both advertising services and consulting environments
• Ability to effectively manage client relationships & ongoing sales conversations at the C Level
• Confident, articulate, and professional demeanor; a team player that makes a positive impact immediately
• Native Fluency in English and Spanish with a limited working proficiency in Chinese
Additionally, I've won numerous awards including LinuxWorld Open Source Project of the Year (2006) and my projects been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Wired, and Smithsonian Magazine.
Dieter Vanonckelen
Founder of Chengdu-ExpatDieter Vanonckelen is a Belgian fascinated by other cultures and civilisations from childhood on. After living a year in South-America, he obtained his Master in Sinology at Leuven University and has lived 10 years in China. He can now speak, read and write Chinese fairly fluently and I have learned a lot about Chinese society.
► Through the implementation of a wide variety of projects (www.Chengdu-Expat.com, The Beer Nest, MORE Magazine, Munchwich, Startup Weekend, etc) and active involvement in the city’s vibrant community, he considered Chengdu's No. 1 foreign KOL.
► Through the implementation of this wide variety of projects, he has developed and continuously maintains a broad network in both the expatriate and local spheres: media, Forbes 500, multinationals, startups, chambers of commerce, real estate, etc. He uses his cross-cultural understanding and linguistic background to take part in successful operations in this unique, demanding & opportune environment.