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After graduating with an Industrial Engineering degree from Purdue University in the US, Sean DeWitt became a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He later worked at the US Department of State and the Fund for New York City.In 2007, he joined the nonprofit Grameen Foundation that was established by Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus. As part of the nonprofit, he helped Aldi Haryopratomo establish the social enterprise Ruma.  DeWitt currently works for the World Resource Institute. He also holds master’s degrees in Development Finance and Environmental Economics from the University of London.

The author of the earliest book on the online-to-offline (O2O) business model in China “Theory of O2O Evolution”, and an iResearch columnist, Yu Jinhua was an independent scholar before joining fresh fruit business Tiaoguoshi in May 2014, and transforming it into a roaring O2O success. He also once served as general manager, independent brands, at beauty e-retailer Lefeng.com, and vice-president of D&S Media Group, as well as created PR firm REBRAND. Aka Banzhuandayu, his online moniker, Yu was born in the 1970s and is married to fellow Tiaoguoshi co-founder Xiao Hongtao.

With the innovative C2B2F (Customer to Business to Farm) business model he came up with, Fresh Market survived the winter for venture capital funding in China in 2016, and is today the leading fresh food e-commerce platform in East China.Zhang Hongliang (b. 1975) embarked on his journey as a serial entrepreneur after five years in the financial management sector and six years in the automobile industry. The persistent Suzhou native founded Fresh Market (Shihang Shengxian) in 2011 at aged 36, after several tries in three years.

With a bachelor’s degree in Management from Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management and an MBA degree of Stanford University, Hou Xiaoxiao began her investment career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. In 2015, when researching China’s macro economy, she spotted the huge market potential of the country’s  agriculture sector, given changes in China's population policy (the one-child policy was soon ended).In 2016, she left Goldman Sachs to found Farm Friend with Yu Yang and Meng Fanqi.Hou was named to the 2017 Forbes China 30 elites under 30 list.

Yodi Aditya is an experienced software developer. In 2008, he became the CTO of PDF sharing platform Doocu in Yogyakarta after graduating in Applied Physics from Universitas Gadjah Mada. However, he left in 2011 to join Flight Focus (now Aerotrack) as a software engineer. After one year, Yodi moved to Singapore to work for online travel and booking companies for almost two years. Yodi then decided to return to Jakarta as CEO of IT consulting company PT Polatic Informatika Indonesia. But in November 2015, he left Polatic to establish Kargo.co.id, an online marketplace for logistics services.

A graduate from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, Ian McKenna had worked for Ericsson (Hutchison Australia) and Vodafone before joining the University of Indonesia to learn the local language in 2010. Based in Jakarta, he joined Fusion Payments in 2011 as country manager and also became its VP of Product and Marketing in 2013.Ian had also co-founded online directory BangArif in 2014 and an on-site customer support service named “What the FAQ” in 2017. He exited both ventures and also left Fusion Payments to focus on establishing  PT Infra Digital Indonesia.

Dennis Vilovic has lived in the Middle East, Africa and Europe; working as an operations and business development consultant for international organizations and private companies. Originally from Germany, Vilovic is the author of many publications and has also participated in the project “HNA Aleppo”, an analysis of the water supply system in Aleppo, Syria.A Socio-Economic Science graduate from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany, Vilovic established TroopTravel in April 2017. The multi-award winning platform helps corporates to organize global group meetings using Big Data, machine learning and meta-search engines.

Najwa Shihab is one of Indonesia's most well-known TV journalists. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in law from Universitas Indonesia, she joined Metro TV as one of their first reporters in 2000. In 2004, she became an assistant producer for Metro TV's Today's Dialogue show and was heavily involved in reporting the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2009, she became the host of her own talk show, Mata Najwa, before becoming the station's vice editor-in-chief in 2011. In 2017, Najwa officially left Metro TV to establish omni-channel media network Narasi TV.

Bao holds two bachelor’s degrees in Finance and Communications Engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago. He worked as an associate at Morgan Stanley's Global Capital Markets business unit from 2011 to 2015. Bao then worked as an investment associate at Chinese group buying website Meituan-Dianping from 2015 to 2016 and at Legend Capital from 2016 to 2017. In 2017, he co-founded Huajuan Mall and has since served as head of strategy.

Miguel Caballero is a serial entrepreneur with about 18 years experience building tech companies in the infrastructure, edtech and blockchain ecosystems. He co-founded Neomedia Wireless, an engineering firm specialized in wireless infrastructure, which provided consultancy services to the city councils of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza and IT companies like Indra and Orange.Since 2013, he is the founder and CEO of Tutellus.com, an edtech P2P platform in Spanish-speaking countries. More recently, he co-launched Tutellus.io, an innovative, decentralized blockchain-powered edtech platform that tokenizes the education system based on collaborative and incentive-based models. 

Wang Anquan joined the Alibaba Group in 2006. He was the technology director at Ali Financial, director of Taobao Loan Division and assistant to the MD of Ali Financial.In 2013, Wang and a colleague at Ali jointly developed the MVP of Webull to provide market intelligence. He then joined HengFeng Bank in 2014 as the president of the Department of Online Financial Asset Transaction. Wang joined Xiaomi in 2015 as the general manager of Xiaomi Finance. In 2016, he founded Fumi Technology with Webull as its main platform. Xiaomi is one of Fumi's early investors.

Carlos Matilla Codesal is co-founder and CEO of Spanish drone technology company FuVeX, which has been in operation since 2015. He was founder and president of FuVe-E, a student entrepreneurial association for participating in international engineering competitions at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), where Matilla earned his degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2014. He managed two FuVe-E projects: designing one of the world's first gyrocopter UAVs and constructing an unmanned underwater vehicle. Matilla also studied Naval Architecture at UPM. He earned his Executive MBA from EOI Business School in 2017.

Founder and CEO of Tigerobo, Chen Ye holds a PhD in Information Systems and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004–2007). From 2007–2015, he worked in the US as research scientist in Microsoft, eBay and Yahoo. During this period, he published over 20 papers. In 2015, he returned to China. Before founding Tigerobo in 2017, he was senior vice-president of products and marketing at Meituan-Dianping, China’s largest on-demand online service provider, heading its advertisement team for three years, raising its annual advertisement revenue from RMB 10m to RMB 4bn.

Will Hetzler graduated from Harvard in 2009 as an economist. He worked as a consultant for Oliver Wyman for over three years, advising Fortune 500 aviation companies on engine maintenance, technical sourcing, supply chain and risk management.In 2014, he co-founded Zipline International in Silicon Valley to make drones to deliver critical medical supplies to remote parts of the world. He led the company’s work in Africa and established Zipline’s partnership with the Government of Rwanda. In 2018, he became the head of business development for the US and Canada.

After graduating from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2003, Yang Renbin worked as a software architect for nearly four years at Peking University’s Institute of Computer Science & Technology (ICST).In 2007, he joined ChinaCache as general manager of its CDN business unit. In 2009, he left Beijing for Hangzhou and joined Alibaba as product director and strategy director. He later became the chief architect of the mobile Taobao app.In 2014, he left Alibaba and launched neighborhood social app Youlin in Hangzhou. He also founded edtech platform Intelligent Learning in January 2018.

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