Our Mentors
Inspirational Mentors
Yang LIU
CIO, Atlantis Investment & Founding partner of G70 Global Family Office
Yang is currently the Chairperson and Chief Investment Officer of the Atlantis Investment Management Group who is equipped with over 30 years of experience in investing within the Greater China region. Yang has been recognized by the business industry as a leading Chinese investor. She is a rare fund investment manager with a Chinese local education background and state-owned business management experience, as well as professional training in western financial systems and practical marketing experience. In 2001, Yang was Head of China Equities at First State Investment Management (HK). Prior to that, Yang served as Investment Head at CMG CH China Investment Ltd from 1992 to 2001, a joint venture institution between CITIC Group and Commonwealth Bank of Australia, managing the world's first closed-ended China Fund listed on the Sydney Stock Exchange for nearly a decade. She started her career at CITIC Group in Beijing in 1988 and graduated in the same year from the Central University of Finance and Investment in Beijing with a Bachelor in Economics. She then received a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia in 1998. Now she is pursuing a financial engineering doctorate in PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University.
Danny Yeung
Co-founder & CEO, Prenetics
Danny Yeung is the Co-Founder of Prenetics and has served as Chief Executive Officer since its inception in 2014. Mr. Yeung’s journey into healthcare started as a way to utilize his extensive entrepreneurial career into making an impact for society. Mr. Yeung’s vision from day 1 was to always turn Prenetics into a global health company, recruiting the best talent, and to give everyone the power to be in control of their own health.
Prior to Prenetics, Mr. Yeung was a Founding Partner at SXE Ventures, having led multiple investments in genetic testing companies and in Honey Science, which was acquired by Paypal for US $4 billion in 2019. Mr. Yeung had also founded uBuyiBuy in 2010, which was subsequently acquired by Groupon. Prior to leaving Groupon in early 2014, Mr. Yeung served as CEO of Groupon East Asia, leading it to be the largest e-commerce company in the region. Mr. Yeung’s entrepreneurial journey started at the age of 25 when he ventured into franchising Hong Kong dessert chain “Hui Lau Shan” into the USA. After exiting Hui Lau Shan, Mr. Yeung successfully ventured into hospitality furniture and executed multi-million-dollar projects with MGM globally. Mr. Yeung’s life motto is “Play Hard, Work Harder”.
Tom Jing
Co-founder and CEO of Great Filter Ventures, member of the Tencent founding team
calls himself "a primary school student in the investment world and a waiter for entrepreneurs".
Great Filter Venture is a professional venture capital institution established by members of the Tencent founding team. Adhering to the corporate belief of "making the world a better place and making China stronger", it has been with entrepreneurs for a long time and has been with enterprises for a long time to create industry-leading leading enterprises. Great Filter Ventures focuses on investing in five major tracks, including autonomous driving & smart cars, semiconductors, new materials, commercial aerospace, and biomedicine & innovative drugs. It has currently invested in more than 50 companies with technological innovation capabilities, high growth and high development potential.
Elite Mentors
Linda Yao
Managing Director, BNP Paribas
Linda Yao is the Managing Director of BNP Paribas. She previously served as a Director at Citibank Private Bank and as Vice President at CMB International Private Bank. Linda has over 12 years of experience in both Chinese and foreign private banks. She has set records for the largest asset management scale and revenue in private banking for five consecutive years. Before entering the private banking sector, Linda Yao worked at KPMG Hong Kong, one of the Big Four accounting firms, providing tax consulting for corporate cross-border mergers and acquisitions and high-net-worth clients. She is also a certified public accountant and tax consultant in Hong Kong.
Kingsley Leung
Chairman, Uni-Bio Science Group(0690.HK)
Mr. Kingsley Leung is the Chairman of Uni-Bio Science Group, a publicly listed company in Hong Kong. He is also the founder of Great Bay Bio, an AI-powered life sciences company. He has seamlessly combined his family business legacy with the tech entrepreneurship, and has significant influence in the life sciences industry. Great Bay Bio has received investments from Hillhouse Group, Gobi China, and Danaher, which is one of the world's largest bioproduction company.
Wang Xi
Co-founder & CEO, CalmCar
Mr. Wang Xi is the co-founder and CEO of CalmCar. Mr. Wang has over 10 years of experience in developing automotive safety electronic controllers in the UK and Australia. CalmCar is one of the most efficient smart driving solution providers in China in terms of commercialization progress, offering globally leading embedded artificial intelligence vision terminals, with multiple R&D centers both domestically and internationally.
Chibo Tang
Managing Partner, Gobi
Mr. Chibo Tang, Managing Partner of Gobi has been investing in tech startups in China for nearly 15 years. He is Head of Gobi’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) practice, and manages funds, some of which are affiliated with the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund as the exclusive General Partner (GP). He has led investments in numerous unicorns in the region, including Airwallex, AutoX, Amber Group, Animoca Brands, and WeLab.
Mr. Tang is recognized in the industry as Silicon Dragon Venture Capitalist of the Year 2017, Top 25 Global Corporate Venturing Rising Star 2019, Top 10 Global Corporate Venturing Emerging Leader 2020, Asia’s Most Influential 2021 by Tatler Magazine, and China’s Top 20 Most Influential GP by the China LP Club.
He received his B.A. in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College, and received his MBA in Finance from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).
Thomas Tang
Founcder & CEO, InSpace
Thomas Tang, the former general manager of Tencent User Experience Design Center and vice president of Xiaomi Ecological Chain, Tang Mu, with his precise industry insight and trend selection, became a significant driving force behind the rapid growth of both companies. While at Tencent, he founded the User Experience Design Center (CDC), responsible for the user experience of internet products used by hundreds of millions of users, and cultivated a group of design talents who entered the core management of multiple internet enterprises. After joining Xiaomi, he led the core R&D team to pioneer the smart home ecology, launching super hits such as the "Xiao'ai Speaker" and "Xiaomi Router" with sales exceeding 100 million units. This established Xiaomi's leading position in the global AIoT industry, and Tang Mu was affectionately known as the "Father of Xiao'ai" by Xiaomi fans.
In 2019, Tang Mu viewed the smart home industry as a trillion-dollar market for the next decade and decisively founded inSpace, aiming to establish the third user entry-level product system after mobile phones and smart cars, continuing his successful entrepreneurial journey.
Joseph Lang
CEO, DL Securities (Hong Kong) Ltd
Mr. Lang is an American entrepreneur focused on the Greater China market. He possesses abundant entrepreneurial experience and has successfully raised capital for multiple ventures.
Mr. Lang has extensive experience in primary market financial advisory. He has worked as FA for many institutions in private equity investments of more than US$1 billion, including TME, Xiaomi, Uber, Lyft, DJI, Haidilao, BYTON, NIO and Grab.
Luke Ji
Chairman & CEO, G70 Global Family Office
Mr. Ji is the Chairman and CEO of G70 Global Family Office. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Management at the University of Hong Kong, holds a master's degree in Economics from Peking University, and a bachelor's degree in Management from Renmin University of China. He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at Renmin University of China, a director of Homocentric Club of Shenzhen, and a director of the Mangrove Wetland Conservation Foundation (MCF). At the age of 27, he became the president of a listed A-share company, making him the youngest listed company president in the A-share market at the time. Within five years, he led the company to increase its market capitalization from 1 billion to 10 billion, and helped the company rank among the top 500 private enterprises in Guangdong Province and the top 100 private enterprises in Shenzhen.
David Liu
EVP, GLOBAL CHANNELS & PARTNERSHIPS；EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, APAC
25+ years of legal and patent law experience, 16+ years in management, execution and investment startups, multinational corporations, private equity, and Fortune 500 companies. Member of Patent Attorney's in New York and California, Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Hong Kong and Juris Doctor from the George Washington University National Law.
Ophelia Gao
Founder & Director, GPTX Investment Management Limited
Ms. Gao is the founder of GPTX Investment Management. Ms. Gao holds a master's degree in financial engineering from Peking University. She has 17 years of experience in secondary market and 14 years of experience in overseas investment. She is one of the first practitioners in the domestic public fund industry engaged in oversea business. She has worked for Agricultural Bank of China, Penghua Fund, China Merchants Fund, China Merchants Asset Management (Hong Kong), and First Seafront Fund Management. Ms. Gao has won the "Overseas Golden Bull Award: One-year Overseas Golden Bull Private Equity Investment Manager (Other Strategies)".
Ben Cheng
CEO, C Capital
C Capital is a global asset management firm that manages private equity funds, private credit funds, and blockchain hedge funds. The company was co-founded in 2017 by Adrian Cheng (Executive Vice-Chairman and CEO of New World Development), Clive Ng, and Ben Cheng. The firm has a successful track record of investing in over 60 disruptive companies across the consumer, technology, and other sectors. Prior to this, Ben Cheng was an investment banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, with extensive experience in the capital markets.
June Qin
Executive Director, KUM Insurance Brokers Ltd.
Executive Director of KUM Insurance Brokers Ltd. KUM is a long-established insurance brokerage firm founded in Hong Kong in 1995, focusing on the China inbound life insurance business. The company has a strong in-house team and has established after-sales teams in multiple mainland Chinese cities to collaborate with its operations.
Qin Tao
Founder & CEO, GanByte FinTech
Founder and CEO of GanByte FinTech. GanByte FinTech is a comprehensive investment company focused on the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, carving out a niche for itself through its professional expertise and in-depth analysis in the AI field. Mr. Qin has over 10 years of experience in the related core industry, with a long-term focus on AI industry chain research. He is deeply immersed in the cutting-edge industrial circle of Silicon Valley, and has rich industrial resources and connections, as well as a deep understanding of the semiconductor and internet industries.
Prior to this, he served as the General Manager of the Channel Innovation Department at Xiaomi Group, and later as the Senior Vice President at Coolpad Group.
许超
数知科技董事兼CEO，
食安传媒集团创始人兼董事长
原A股上市公司数知科技董事兼CEO，食安传媒集团创始人兼董事长。许先生在互联网广告、新媒体内容营销和直播电商领域有丰富的经验和资源，擅长资本运作、上市公司并购及重组等。
魏巍
愿景教育集团董事长
前瑞银慈善基金会亚洲主管，愿景教育集团董事长。魏巍先生拥有超过15年的公益机构管理、项目规划与筹款经验及丰富的教育行业与社会影响力领域投资经验。2013年加入瑞士银行，为亚洲超高净值人士、家族基金会、慈善信托提供慈善规划与战略管理服务，引领了十余家家族基金会与慈善信托的战略规划的制定，资助并管理百余个扶贫及儿童发展领域项目。为探讨更有效的社会服务提供模式，魏巍于2020年创立愿景教育集团，提供高质量多元化的托育与早教服务，通过首先建立高端托育品牌与服务体系，再辐射到流动人口社区的商业模式，可持续地为下沉市场与细分市场提供高质量服务。魏巍曾先后担任儿童乐益会中国区主管、国际计划中国项目总监、Pact高级项目官员；自从业以来，筹资并管理项目总金额超过15亿元人民币。魏巍先生拥有斯坦福大学经济学、古西方文明学双学士学位，并在北京大学光华管理学院等机构任教。
Andy Chen
CEO & Chairman, DL Holdings Group
Mr. Andy Chen has over 24 years of experience in the global financial industry.
Mr. Chen successively founded DL Securities and DL Family Office. From 2012 to 2015, he served as the responsible person of DL Securities (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. involving Type 4 (advising on securities) and Type 6 (advising on corporate finance) regulated activities under the Securities and Futures Ordinance, and from 2013 to 2015 served as a responsible officer of DL Securities (Hong Kong) Limited involving Type 1 (dealing in securities) regulated activities under the Securities and Futures Ordinance. During the above period, he participated in various global capital market projects.
From February 2015 to August 2015, Mr. Chen served as a non-executive director of Great China Financial Holdings Limited (formerly known as Great China Industrial Holdings Limited) (stock code 431.HK) and was subsequently redesignated as an executive director and appointed Chief Executive Officer of the company until his resignation in June 2016. Mr. Chen served as the executive director and founding member of Bohua Capital Fund and Bozhi Capital Fund (both private equity companies). He previously worked in the Global Investment Banking Department of HSBC Hong Kong, the Capital Markets Department of HSBC Group London, and the Bond Markets Department of HSBC Hong Kong.
Mr. Chen holds a Bachelor of Economics and Statistics (Honours) degree from the University of Chicago, USA.
Study Mentors
Alastair Louey
Venture Capital Advisor and Independent Equity Partner
Alastair LOUEY is the Founder and Managing Director of Ren Studios which specializes in assisting biotech, pharmaceutical, and tech companies to visualize their innovations through animation, VR, and film. In addition to providing content and branding solutions, LOUEY leads strategic initiatives at Ren Studios, offering invaluable expertise in fundraising and establishing partnerships. LOUEY also manages his Family Office, deploying personal capital into healthcare opportunities. Prior to REN and Pebble, Alastair was at Elpiscience (a Lily Asia Venture and Hillhouse portfolio company) and helped to raise a $100.0m Series B round and facilitate licensing deals.
LOUEY holds a DPhil in Biochemistry from Oxford University and a BSc from King's College London.
Derek Chen
Executive Director & Head of Private Equity, Dragonstone
Derek graduated with honors from Shanghai Jiao Tong University for his bachelor's degree and Newcastle University in the UK for his postgraduate degree. Derek currently works at Dragonstone Capital, a leading diversified asset management company in Hong Kong, as Executive Director and Head of Private Equity. He has nearly 10 years of extensive buy-side and sell-side experience in equity investment, M&A, structured financing, and private placements. Derek has comprehensive experience in the full investment life cycle, particularly in transaction structure design, overseas structure reorganization, and fund structure design. He has participated in and led investments and transactions involving companies such as Tencent Music, Ant Financial, JD Logistics, WeDoctor, JD Health, ByteDance, Didi Chuxing, DJI, xFusion, Calmcar, FJDynamics, Amber Group, inSpace, Huasky Medical, Ruangguru, Oncologie, and Beyond Limits, among others. He has deep industry expertise in the fields of digitization, AI software, autonomous driving, and smart hardware. Derek also serves as a director on the boards of Calmcar and inSpace, actively participating in post-investment management and closely communicating with the companies to support their business development, financing, and IPO preparation. He has hands-on experience and insights from working directly with enterprises. Derek is a dedicated and responsible professional with a friendly personality. He is particularly skilled at helping students build a foundational understanding and work habits from scratch. Derek is committed to providing tailored guidance by combining his rich practical experience with each student's individual case.
Emmanuel Hui
Founding CEO, Moogene(322970.KS)
Emmanuel HUI was the founding CEO of Moogene, from zero to IPO (Konex: 322970). Afterwards, he was a Principal managing healthcare exposure at Sagamore, a China-only USD fund of funds with about $800.0m in asset value. He then founded Pentepebble and merged it with Tiger Jade to form the current Accelerator. HUI currently sits on multiple Boards, including the HK Hospital Authority Central IRB (Pediatrics), Opharmic, Tonisity China; serves as an advisor to the HK Life Sciences Society, Thrive Bioscience; and is a Line Producer for H1Music Limited having worked on various film projects and with the HK Philharmonic Orchestra.
HUI graduated from Dartmouth as a Senior Fellow in Chemistry.
Issac
Founder, Meta International Arts Center
Issac is the founder of Meta International Arts Center, a leading study abroad consultancy. He graduated from the world-renowned Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. With over 10 years of industry experience, Issac has previously served as the Business Director at several study abroad service companies. His portfolio includes successful admission cases at top-tier universities and art schools in the UK and US.
Kevin Lu
Master student, Harvard University - Kennedy Schoold of Government
Kevin graduated from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, earning a spot on the Dean's List. He is currently pursuing his graduate degree at the Harvard Kennedy School. Kevin has a diverse internship background, having completed internships at leading firms such as Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Guotai Junan Securities, and China International Capital Corporation.
Le Di
Executive Director, CMBI
Ms. Le joined CMBI (China Merchants Bank International) in March 2017 and is currently an Executive Director at CMBI, responsible for the firm's SPAC business and overseas fund investment projects. As the founder, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, Ms. Le spearheaded the launch of Hong Kong's first Special Purpose Acquisition Company (Hong Kong SPAC: 07836), which has announced a merger transaction with ZG Group. Additionally, Ms. Le has led multiple transactions in China's new economy sectors, including investments in JD Logistics (Hong Kong: 02618), Xiaomi Group (Hong Kong: 01810) and Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE: TME). She has maintained close collaboration with CMBI's healthcare team, involved in deals such as Burning Rock Biotech (NASDAQ: BNR) and Biocytogen (02315.HK). Ms. Le has also led several Southeast Asian market transactions from a China perspective, such as Grab Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: GRAB). Prior to CMBI, Ms. Le worked at Daiwa SB Investments (Hong Kong) Limited (formerly Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management (Hong Kong) Limited) from June 2016 to March 2017, and at China Merchants Asset Management (Hong Kong) Limited (a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Fund Management Co., Ltd.) as an Associate Manager from August 2015 to May 2016. Ms. Le holds Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of California, Irvine, and Master's degree in Economics from the University of Hong Kong. She obtained the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) in 2019.
Lily Gao
Wealth Management, HK investment bank
Lily graduated from the City University of Hong Kong with a Master of Science degree in Applied Economics. Prior to that, they graduated from Shenzhen University with dual bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, as well as Finance. Lily is currently employed in the Wealth Management division of a leading foreign investment bank in Hong Kong, where she has extensive experience in areas such as asset allocation and family business succession. Before joining the foreign investment bank, she was previously employed in the Asset Management department at CMBI (China Merchants Bank International), where she was responsible for assisting in fundraising, client maintenance, and investments in overseas VC/PE projects. She has participated in investment projects involving Tencent Music, JD Logistics, ByteDance, and Xiaomi, among others. Lily has frequently participated in the "Next Gen" training programs organized by the foreign investment bank, where under the guidance of experts, she led a group of young trainees in learning courses on entrepreneurship and corporate succession, providing the next generation with ideas on wealth management. During their tenure at CMBI, the mentor also led multiple interns to assist and participate in investment, financing, and exit activities. She is diligent, responsible, and sincere in her approach. She is committed to applying her rich industry experience to her teaching, and provide the most suitable career planning guidance to her students based on individual cases.
Ron Wang
IBD
Mr. Ron graduated with honors from Northwestern University in the United States and was named to the Dean's List. He is currently employed in the Direct Investment department of a leading Chinese investment bank in Hong Kong, with over 10 years of extensive experience in areas such as equity investments, debt financing, and M&A transactions, from the buy-side, sell-side, and professional institution perspectives. Prior to his transition into the financial investment field, Ron was previously employed at the Hong Kong offices of two top-tier U.S. law firms, serving as a licensed U.S. attorney focused on PE/M&A and debt financing. Over the past several years, Ron has worked as a senior career planning mentor at several leading career counseling platforms, cumulatively helping over 500 young people, whether still in school or just entering the workforce, with career planning. Through Resume/CV coaching, interview skill enhancement, professional networking and relationship management, workplace emotional intelligence and emotional management, as well as time management and multi-tasking skills, he has assisted his students in securing their dream job offers and rapidly improving their performance in high-intensity work environments. In his resume coaching, leveraging his extensive experience as a part-time headhunter over the past few years, Ron has reviewed over 1,500 resumes of job seekers in the finance, investment, and legal markets. He has rich experience in resume editing and enhancement, and is also very familiar with the latest job market dynamics in locations such as Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Beijing, and Shanghai. In his interview coaching, the mentor draws on his own extensive experience as an interviewer participating in the interview and decision-making processes of investment institutions, financial institutions, and law firms. This allows him to provide in-depth and precise guidance for interviews in different professional and scenario-based contexts.
