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Lesley Gu
Director of Business Division at China Alliance of Social Value InvestmentLesley takes charge for oversees Strategic Cooperation and Impact Investment. With cross sector working experiences in both investment and entrepreneurship, she has previously worked as Senior Project Manager at ABC, Strategic Investment and Business Development at Accenture and Baidu, and also founded a social enterprise dedicated to elder healthcare. Lesley continues to be focus on skills building for social enterprises and the development of impact investment in China.
Henk Werner
CEO of Trouble MakerHenk is the CEO of Trouble Maker, a product development community in Shenzhen, China, where people from all over the world come to develop and manufacture their hardware products.
As a entrepreneur with more than 30 years experience, Henk works as mentor for startup teams in automation and electronic devices, such as LED display, watches, IoT, robotics and more.
Weiwei Chen
President at GRAICChairman of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Venture Capital Alliance Qianhai “Dream +”
Vice President of China Angel Investors Alliance
Honorary Advisor of Youth Association of the Greater Bay Area
Entrepreneurship Mentor of Hong Kong Youth Association
Honorary Consultant of Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Returnees Association
Well-known Angel Investor
With more than 20 years of experience in venture capital investment, has been recognized as 2009 CCTV China Venture Pioneer, 2015 Venture Capital Black Knight, 2018 Excellent Tutor of Shenzhen entrepreneurial and innovative initiative
2018 Annual Entrepreneurship Mentor of China Venture Capital Mangrove Awards
In 2018, the founder of the project "Artisan Society", which was hatched by him, was cordially received by Chairman Xi Jinping as a representative of Qianhai Innovation Enterprises
Rita Wang
Co-founder of SucSEED Innovation CommunityCo-founder of the SucSEED Innovation Community
SucSEED is committed to lead and nurture Chinese investors and new business leaders
with an international vision, innovation and responsibility, and social value through innovation and leadership.
Mentor of Zhejiang University Joint International College Entrepreneurship
Chairman of Enactus Shenzhen Alumni Association
Enterprise Risk Consultant in KPMG and over 5 years of experience in operating and management of innovative and entrepreneurial projects.
Rumen Yordanov
Founder and Managing Director of AEEEntrepreneur, award-winning building and environmental engineer, founder and managing director of AEE, a sustainability engineering consultancy operating across Asia and Europe. Rumen is a USGBC Faculty, Registered Engineer in the UK and Hong Kong and Chartered Environmentalist. Rumen was named Top 5 New Faces of Engineering for 2014 by ASHRAE.
Geng Zhang
Director of Startup Grind(Shenzhen)Director of Startup Grind (Shenzhen),
Specialist in Marketing and Communication, former technical reporter
Entrepreneurial-community builder, dedicated to constructing passionate, educational and inspiring linking-platforms for entrepreneurs.
Max Yu
DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL at Shenzhen Corporate Social Responsibility Promotion Association学习研究CSR领域多年，深圳市企业社会责任促进会副秘书长。
Vicky Xie
Global Cooperation Director of Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab (SZOIL)Vicky Xie is the Global Cooperation Director at Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab (SZOIL). Earlier, she started off her career in the international department of Shenzhen Industrial Design Association. In the past few years, she played a key role to build up the first Fablab Makerspace in Shenzhen. Fascinated by creating new techniques herself, she became one of the first mentors of Fab Academy. She llearned to design, create prototypes and develop hardware projects. At SZOIL, she facilitated collaboration between the international maker community and the Greater Bay Area.
Vicky has been offering innovation courses and facilicating social innovation programs related to sustainable development in universities and companies, as well as designing innovation-camp plans and innovation-tour plans for many world's top 500 enterprises. She also works closely with business incubators and accelerators across the world, and help them implant their ideas into prototype as well as products.
Mengchun Li
Co-founder of RE-LOOK Social Innovation StudioCo-founder of RE-LOOK Social Innovation Studio
Director of Yijia Social Work Service Center
Brand Ambassador SEED Social Innovation Community
Mentor of Hult Prize Greater Bay Area Innovation Challenge
Four years of working experience in a funded charity foundation, advocating social innovation to boost sustainable development
Lindsey Liu
Director of Innovation Resources Department at CEC i-ValleyCEC i-Valley/Director of Innovation Resources Department
Lindsey LIU was graduated from the Conestoga College, Canada and the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Lindsey LIU used to be a judge expert of entrepreneurship and innovation events such as Shenzhen Entrepreneurship Competition / National College Students' Entrepreneurship Competition, and mentored many startup companies.
Yao Lu
Director of Innovation and Projects at OrangeDirector of Innovation and Projects of Orange
LU Yao is Director of Innovation and Projects in Orange Sourcing Consulting in Beijing. He focuses his efforts on Asian ICT ecosystem and provides market insight and partnership opportunity to Orange global footprint. He is leading Orange Open Innovation Center China to help Chinese and overseas startups grow potential business together with Orange. Having a research background in artificial intelligence, he is passionate about high-tech innovation and is willing to share his discovery in Greater China.
Calvin CHAN
Managing Director of P-Sense LimitedBorn and raised in an entrepreneurial family, Calvin has co-founded startups across transportation, video game and e-learning industries in Hong Kong and Canada. As a former banking professional with Engineering & Commerce background, he utilizes his cross-industry expertise and experience to serve his current role as the Managing Director of P-Sense, a crowd tracking & analytics solution that supports and realizes the smart city initiative worldwide.
Patricia Slawinska
Founder of SetUp Asia & RempowerTech* over 10 years managerial experience in business development & data monetization
* former CEO in Asia-Pacific of an international Loyalty Program
* founder of SetUp Asia & RempowerTech
* Empowerment of young Female entrepreneurs
Scott Hardman
Scott has been working as a Product Designer/Creator for the better part of a decade. With experience building both software and hardware he's designed and scaled production of products in Lighting, AdTech, Aviation, and NonProfit spaces.
As a former alumni of Le Wagon, Scott is excited to share his knowledge of product design and leverage new ideas to impact the community.
Aaron Leung
Public Speaking Trainer, TEDx Coach & Founder of Aaron Public Speaking StudioAaron Leung is a Public Speaking Trainer, TEDx Coach & Founder of Aaron Public Speaking Studio. With 13 years in the public speaking sector, he has given over 700 public speaking workshops globally in 15 different countries & in Fortune 500 companies. He is frequently invited as speaking coach & judge for business pitchers, contestants, TEDx speakers & corporate trainers.
Chance Jiang
CEO of Wikifactory （China）Chance works as the CEO of Wikifactory China. Wikifactory is a social platform for collaborative product development. It is designed for open source communities, designers and product companies, aiming to help global manufacturers to collaborate with China for manufacturing expertise, resources and partners via Wikifactory networks.
Since 2009, he has been building companies around his inventions. He was co-founder and product manager at welomo.com (2012-2014), the 1st connected hardware on WeChat offering millions of users instant photo printing and entertaining services. He has been actively building startup communities, including Startup Grind Guangzhou since 2012.
Inder Sachdev
Design Lead at HAXInder is an cwho loves simplifying big design problems to their most essential blocks. He is currently the Design Lead at HAX, where he has helped over 100 startups with their design and strategy.
He has worked on projects in, robotics, health-tech, med-tech, fem-tech, consumer electronics, FMCG, IoT, Industrial and enterprise solutions and space design.