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Xu Huansheng was born in 1979 and obtained an MBA from the National School of Development, Peking University. He founded Baidu’s smart hardware unit and Baidu Cloud during his four years at Baidu in the early 2010s. He co-founded Dingdang Medicine Express in 2014. He is now a senior partner at Feihe Dairy (Firmus), one of the biggest infant and toddler formula producers in China.

Harvard-trained ex-McKinsey consultant Nadiem Makarim holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and Affairs from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Before launching Gojek, Nadiem worked at McKinsey, Zalora Indonesia and Kartuku. Makarim was born in 1984 in Singapore. In October 2019, Makarim left Gojek to take up the post of Minister of Education and Culture in the Indonesian cabinet of ministers.

Diana Almeida is an alumnus of the University of Porto in Networks and Information Systems and holds a postgraduate degree from the Porto Business School in Business Intelligence and Analytics. Her education culminated in her co-founding the company Movvo, for an analytical software used in the retail industry. Almeida also holds the position of university professor at the Instituto Universitário da Maia ISMAI in the fields of Software Engineering and Data Mining.

Danny Purnomo is a veteran in content production and digital media. He worked at KapanLagi Network (KLN) for one year, before leaving to become the operational general manager of mobile content firm Monstermob Indonesia. After four years at Monstermob and various director roles at other mobile content firms, he rejoined KLN as VP of Sales in 2013. Two years later, he co-founded PT Brilio Ventura Indonesia as an offshoot of KLN.

Fransiskus Xaverius is an experienced software engineer. He worked as an intern at RIM and Google during his Computer Science degree course at the University of Washington, USA. After graduating in 2011, he worked as a software engineer at various American tech companies, including the online game firm Zynga, Castlight Health and Homejoy. He returned to Indonesia after leaving Homejoy in 2015 to co-found Qlapa, an online marketplace for handmade products.

Willy Arifin graduated in Computer Science at the University of Michigan, USA in 2003. He decided to join fellow University alumnus Benedicto Haryono to set up KoinWorks and became the executive chairman of the P2P lending fintech in October 2015. Willy’s family businesses are involved in the oil and gas shipping sectors. He has been a director of PT Bumi Perkasa Bahtera and PT Bahtera Pacific Line since 2003.

Founder and CEO of Chinapex. Jimmy Hu graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences. Before founding Chinapex, Hu built internal marketing analytics for clients such as Microsoft and was the China and Asia big data and AI market advisor for the Gerson Lehrman Group, among other US financial institutions. In March 2017, Hu was included in the “Forbes China 30 Under 30” list.

Zhang graduated with a master’s degree in Remote Sensing and Information Engineering from Wuhan University in 2012. Upon graduation, he joined Huawei Technologies and worked there for six months. Later in 2012, he left Huawei to co-found Geetest with Wu Yuan.

Alberto González Muíño is co-founder and CTO of Alén Space, joining the company in 2017. He is responsible for systems design, integration, testing and operations, having led several nanosatellites missions himself. González studied telecommunications at Spain's Vigo University, joining its Aerospace Group upon graduation, where he worked for more than 11 years. He was previously also a project manager at the Aerospace Innovation Center in Galicia until July 2018.

Liu Kun holds a master’s in Automatic Control Science and Engineering from the School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology. Before founding Shenzhen Qianhai HomeRun Technology Co Ltd in 2015, he had worked for 11 years in R&D for analytical instruments for medical and industrial purposes. Previous employers included Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Mindray Medical International Co Ltd and German-based process equipment and processing technology provider IKA.

Adriaan Landman is a Dutch entrepreneur who built his professional career around people, team management, business development, operations and process management. He spent most of his professional life in the media industry until he co-founded, Allread MLT in 2019. Allread MLT converts text, symbols and codes into Big Data using computer vision technology, character recognition and deep MLT. Landman is COO of Allread MLT and is responsible for strategy and operations.

Former banker Leslie Lim is Singaporean and holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering with Business Finance from University College London. As an undergraduate, Leslie was on the Dean’s List and graduated with first class honors, and received the Goldsmid Sessional Prize for Mechanical Engineering. He met Cicil co-founder while pursuing an MBA at INSEAD. Prior to co-founding Cicil, Leslie had worked at Barclays, HSBC, BNP Paribas Securities and Duxton Asset Management (Deutsche Bank Group).

Francisco Castillo, aka Paco Castillo, is the CTO and co-founder of Influencity, a platform that connects brands with worldwide influencers. He is also the CTO of Satech Solutions that he co-founded in 2012. He has extensive experience in backend development such as php, python, javascript (nodejs) as well as database management (postgreSQL, Mysql) and tech-product development. In 2010, he studied video games programming at Esat-València.

Co-founded Orange 100 with Leng Fei. From 2014 to 2016, Yuan was a senior manager at Baidu's Location Based Services division. From 2013 to 2014, he was in charge of business operations at yintai.com, an online department store run by Intime Retail Group Co Ltd. He received his bachelor's degree in E-commerce from Wuhan University of Science and Technology City College in 2011.

With an educational background in finance and business, Xu spent seven years working in investment banking upon graduating from Columbia University in 2005. She worked at Deutsche Bank and Macquarie Capital in Hong Kong, where she helped major Chinese e-commerce companies such as Vipshop, Moonbasa and Alibaba with their overseas IPOs, among other financial needs. She is a CFA Charterholder. Xu founded Shanghai Qiansong Internet Technology Co., Ltd., the parent company of MSParis, in 2014.

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