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Former Foxconn employee, specializing in IT development and implementation. Quit Foxconn in 2006 to enter the used car industry, one of the earliest IT engineers to do so. After seven years in Bitauto, Li quit the Chinese auto giant to start Chechong in 2014.

Undergrad Tsinghua University (Electronics); EMBA, University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Was senior vice-president of online media company Hurray, and founder of failed yellow pages startup. Later joined Lihua Fast Food, where he became CEO.

Born in 1989, Try Wibowo has joined entrepreneurship coaching programs since his second year at Madiun Public High School. Eager to follow in the footsteps of the successful, local entrepreneurs; Try decided to start his first business venture in 2008 after leaving high school. The success of his Assistant Nurse Vocational Training Center motivated him to consider setting up an online nursing services agency to provide employment for the local graduates, nurses and other healthcare workers. The young entrepreneur, from Ngawi Regency in East Java, invested IDR 50 million to launch Insan Medika in 2013. He became the CEO of the newly incorporated PT Insan Medika Persada in December 2015.

Sun Li had his first (failed) startup in auto services, in 2013, and had previously worked for many years in an internet company.

Serial entrepreneur with five years’ experience in O2O startups and 10 years’ experience in IT project management. Co-founded waste recycling brand Taoqibao with fellow eKuaisong co-founder Li Zhaopeng in 2015.

With over seven years of Internet/mobile experience, having founded GFAN, the Chinese Android app store that was later sold to listed mobile phone distributor Aisidi. With the GFAN sale proceeds, Xu became an investor, before starting Hotbody.

Graphic design major at Dalian Nationalities University (class of 2010). Former visual designer at startups Momo (dating app), Ricebook (restaurant app) and Nice (photo app).

E-commerce specialist Orlando Lopes held various positions at women’s accessories brand Parfois, before joining marketing and advertising agency BySide as an account manager. At BySide, he met Rui Costa, and the two eventually co-founded food delivery startup EatTasty.

Abdul Rahman was one of Detikcom’s founding pioneers before setting up Kumparan in early 2017 with fellow co-founder Budiono Darsono. His interest in computer programming started in early 1990 before the internet boom in Indonesia. He was the website designer for one of Indonesia’s early online-news portal that was later transformed into Detikcom.

Veteran banker Adrian Asharyanto Gunadi graduated in Accounting from the University of Indonesia and later obtained an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management, Eramus University. Adrian started his banking career at Citibank in 1998. He was then based at the Standard Chartered Bank in Dubai, UAE, managing global Islamic finance product structuring for the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), South Asia and Southeast Asia. He specialized in Islamic banking for over eight years at Permata Bank and Bank Muamalat in Indonesia until 2015, when he left to co-found Investree.

As the son of an industrialist in Portugal, Gonçalo Fortes grew up immersed in the family's manufacturing business. In 2005, the computer engineer founded IT consultancy Crazydog to develop software for diverse businesses. CEO Fortes and web developer Samuel Martins, both formerly from Lisbon's Superior Technical Institute, started to develop AI-based software to help manufacturers to achieve the Industry 4.0 productivity objectives.In 2014, Fortes and Martins co-founded Prodsmart and exited Crazydog. Fortes is dedicated to helping SMEs to transform their businesses into "smart" factories, drawing from his previous work experience as quality manager at electromechanical component producer Fapradiv.

Based in North Sumatra, Wiyono Sumono joined the co-founding team of Indonesian rewards and cashback app Paprika. In 2014, Wiyono and Kalvin Yap were majority shareholders in e-commerce startup Alikolo that later became defunct in April 2015. Both of them had also worked in the timber commodity business and were keen to invest in their own startup Paprika.

Machine-learning enthusiast Pedro Fonseca studied Mechanical Engineering at Nova University of Lisbon. As an undergraduate, Fonseca and fellow CrowdProcess co-founder João Abiul Menano started the largest university-level Entrepreneurship Society in Lisbon, with financial support from the American Embassy. He co-founded CrowdProcess at aged 25 and is also one of the founders of ODMLX, the largest open data organization in Lisbon. Fonseca is Portuguese.

To help young girls excel in the field of technology, Olaide Olambiwonnu takes time out of running Performetric, the tech startup she co-founded, to mentor middle-school girls. Olambiwonnu holds master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA and in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from MIT. She is currently the COO of Performetric.

Li Yuan started his own internet community and chatroom business as early as 1997, after graduating from high school. The animal lover went on to help his uncle manage his playground business for pets. Hence Li began his career in the pet business.

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