WELCOME TO THE
GLOBAL SHAPERS
SHANGHAI II HUB

Eoin has focused his career at the intersection of education and entrepreneurship between China and the United States.

Eoin is currently a Product Marketing Advisor for startups LeadersAtlas and RooeyKnots. From 2012-2014, Eoin co-founded and led an international internships business, which was selected for SOS Venture's Chinaccelerator Program in Shanghai. Eoin later served as the China Regional Manager for Minerva and consulted for Paragon One, LearningLeaders, and TAL's Global Education Summit.

Contact Eoin via LinkedIn or email at eoin.b.brown@gmail.com.
 

Kang is a natural connector with experience in NGOs and women's leadership. She studied at the World Academy for The Future of Women, where she volunteered at leadership seminars, interactive labs, coaching sessions, and open forums to acquire leadership skills to address the United Nations Millennium Development and Sustainable Development Goals from 2011- 2015.
 

Kang is currently a Key Account Associate Manager and China Lead of WIN (Women In Nielsen), delivering personal and leadership development for 600+ women employees. She is the Fellow of Dragon 100, an Ethnic Chinese youth leadership network under Hong Kong Dragon Foundation and the Member of the Youth Think-Tank I.D.E.A.S of HK Federations of Youth Groups.

Committed to tackle complex social problems by designing sustainable business model solutions. Currently developing a social enterprise project, Regeneration Labs, using exercise, team building and eco-tourism to raise awareness and actively accelerate environmental change – starting in China.

Passionate about (4 E’s): Exercise / Education / Entrepreneurship / The Environment…and also meeting other passionate people!

Bachelor’s in Landscape Architecture, Central Academy of Fine Arts. Formerly: part of the curating team for the Chinese pavilion at Venice Biennale 2012; also has experience curating exhibitions in Italy, Spain and Germany. Design background and consistent reflection on design industry gives more insights into today's creative economy, leading to the founding of Tezign in 2014. CoFounder, Tezign.com, an online platform connecting creative professionals and clients with design demand. Since its founding, Tezign has been dedicated to the reshaping of design service workflow and employment relationship between creative professionals and clients.

Born in Shanghai, raised in Finland and having worked across 3 different continents, Lu has a broad range of experiences acquired from tech startups to corporate C-level execution with some of the most innovative organizations ranked by Forbes.

As the co-founder of Future Urban Living, Lu’s mission is to help businesses become more regenerative by design. Operating between the circular economy and blockchain corporate governance, she’s actively involved in multiple cross-sector initiatives pushing for systemic change.

Nonlinear, interdisciplinary and macro-level thinker with nuanced understanding across cultural complexity. Lu finds her personal balance at the intersection of social impact, economics and arts.

Greg Nance founded Dyad.com, an online mentorship platform, while a Gates Scholar at Cambridge University. As a Truman Scholar at UChicago Greg co-founded Moneythink, a FinTech company honored by President Obama as a “Champion of Change.” In recognition of his work in global education, the Diplomatic Courier named Greg one of the "Top 99 Foreign Policy Leaders Under 33” and the Jefferson Awards for Public Service named him a "Globe Changer.” Greg loves endurance challenges and has solo climbed Mont Blanc and run 250KM across the Gobi Desert.

Susanna is an accredited facilitator and coach specialized in creative collaboration and phototherapy, and a Points of You® Level 4 Master to maximize professional and personal development leading to new possibilities and creating space for growth.
 

Susanna has gained a great deal of experience developing Learning & Development strategies and designing leadership development and other training programs utilizing creative learning tools, innovative training methods, and co-creation methodology. Her clients range from Adidas, DANONE, Saint-Gobain, Unity, education institutions, and other SMEs.

Multicultural exposure gained through living and working in China, USA. Fluent in Mandarin, English and French. Currently back in Chengdu help building family business in HR management and outsourcing for major factories in southwest China such as Foxxcom, Jabil & Jingdongfang.

Siyi is a quadrilingual tea fanatic not only into all sorts and origins of sophisticated Chinese teas, but also loves to explore different tea blends and herbal cultures across the world. Having lived in Spain, the Netherlands and Germany for six years and now back in China, she started an innovative brand “Tea Plays” aiming to add a flavor of fun and internationality into the traditional Chinese tea market.

Yuanmo Xie works as a graphic facilitator for various conferences such as World Economic Forum China Business Roundtable 2016 and 2017, Horasis Global Meeting 2017, Pre-Davos 2017 in Dalian. She also illustrated for cultural events, collaborated with China Arts & Entertainment Group (CAEG), British Council, Danish Embassy and so on. Now she is working at a Blockchain start-up company Blockshine as a creative lead, sharing knowledge and insight of Blockchain industry.

Tingting is co-founder of Heyshop, an one-stop e-commerce solution and initiator of Network 404, a community that regularly hosts workshops and events to advance collaborations between retail brands. She is also a synchronized swimmer, a diver, a surfer and lives another life in water.

Swiss national, founder of three active companies in 10 years in China. With the support of diplomatic institutions, encouraged the exchanges to and from China at all levels: cultural, professional, and corporate, through various projects such as business learning expeditions on innovative technologies and investments for company executives and politicians. Actively works with multinationals, governments and business schools. Within the Global Shaper community, launched the project IMPROVE.

Grace is an entrepreneur, designer, and artist exploring the intersection of creative production and impactful creation. She founded Lean Startup Machine and Javelin.com, a global entrepreneurship education workshop and software platform for new product innovation. Through her work, she's spoken at The White House, United Nations, and Singularity University to teach others a more effective way to start businesses. As an artist, she incorporates futuristic technology like AI, VR, and neuroscience to explore the human condition. She hopes to inspire others to live a creative, impactful life as well. View her work at graceng.co.

Originally from the UK, currently residing in Shanghai, Matthew has also lived in South Korea and Vietnam. Matthew is an intrapreneur and passionate connector, as a global market specialist responsible for fostering cross-border relationships by assisting Fortune 500 corporates and MNC's expand through their commercial real estate decisions.

Graduated from Brown University with a degree in Economics and Sociology in 2017. Katherine is now the branding manager of Trina Solar, the world leading company of smart solar solutions, and also the founder and chairman of Trina Capital, a venture capital fund that invests in early-growth stage businesses. Katherine is also actively involved in social causes, including being the founder of Co-link Environmental Agency and the deputy secretary general of Eco Forum Global’s Urban and Enterprise Committee.

Zero holds a Master of Urban Design from Harvard University, and has many years of working experience at KPF (New York), Kengo Kuma Architects and MAD Architects before founding SLT Design Consultancy. His expertise includes overarching strategies, management, and operations in many growing fields, such as experiential commercial space, creative tourism planning & development, rural reconstruction strategies, and custom boutique designs. Clients he collaborated with including K11, Beijing Olympic Park, LVMH, Lady M Newyork, various governmental entities etc. With a keen focus and extensive knowledge of contemporary trends, he concentrates on innovative design and operating strategies in modern urbanism process.

He is a world-traveler and used to be a professional pingpong player.

Holds a master degree in entrepreneurship and open innovation; MIA candidate at Columbia University. Co-founded the 1st Impact Hub in mainland China 2016, developing community-based programming and impact capacity-building strategies for social impact startups.

Chen is an international adventurer. She was born in China, lived in Finland for 10 years and traveled to more than 50 countries.

Chen is passionate about entrepreneurship and social impact. She co-founded an online coaching platform LiteUp, helping young professionals to advance in career and reach life and work balance. In 2015, she returned to China as the CEO of Slush China, a world leading international startup and technology event. Slush China aims to connect European and Chinese startup communities and help world-changing startup founders succeed.

Teng Bao is cofounder and CPO of Strikingly (strikingly.com & sxl.cn), a web publishing and ecommerce platform for entrepreneurs and creatives. Today, Strikingly serves over two million users with ridiculously simple websites, ecommerce, blogging, and WeChat Mini Programs -- unlocking the power of the internet for small businesses across the world. Strikingly graduated from Y Combinator's Winter 2013 batch, and has since raised over $18m. Teng has been building software and games since middle school. He grew up in Florida and studied economics at the University of Chicago.

Mingquan Zuo is a digital strategist with experience in consulting (Strategy&), venture capital and entrepreneurship. He has professional experience in China, Singapore, United States and Canada across diverse industries including automotive, technology, consumer, industrials and financial services.

Ming is currently attending INSEAD for his MBA. He previously obtained a dual degree in Mathematics and Business Administration from the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. On a personal level, Ming is a student of history, has a keen interest in a wide range of social sciences and delves into the realm of philosophy.

As a product manager for SAP, I am passionate about solving emerging social and business problems using the latest technology innovation. Working as a software engineer and project manager in the different-sized team - ranging from a startup to an established industry leader - in both the U.S. and China, I have learned to manage multicultural teams by respecting diverse perspectives and developed a mindset of thinking outside the box. Outside the cooperate office, I am passionate about personal development and building meaningful communities. My life mission is to apply technology innovation and advanced business practice to empower community that fostered me.

Studied engineering in France and Germany with majors in energy and environmental sciences. Living and working in Shanghai since then. Previously in a French-Chinese joint-venture doing energy-saving and building retrofit projects. Currently launching a start-up in China promoting solutions for sustainable construction, eco-friendly materials, and tackling well-being issues in the built environment.

Ossian is an entrepreneur at heart. Graduated from the prestigious Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Metiers and 北京航空航大学 , he cofounded Planit, Beijing based waste management platform, before joining Dassault Systemes as Key Account Manager for Smart City & Life Science business transformation. Passionate about Business & Tech Innovation, he above all enjoys the learning process and community building, which is the reason why, aside from his corporate role, he built various organisations around entrepreneurship, youth empowerment, and now strives to learn how to merge sustainability & business to build lasting impact and educate large organisations around it.

Cecilia is obsessed with making things happened. Four-year experience during university time in the World Academy for the Future of Women, a multi-level leadership program focusing on developing young women, shaped her as a changemaker who is passionate about gender equality and human rights.

Currently, Cecilia is a Senior Marketing and Communications Officer in DSM Hydrocolloids based in Shanghai. As a cross-culture communicator, she was an ambassador of One Young World Forum.

Cher graduated from Waseda University and Peking University with a dual degree in international relations and political economy. Cher worked in Japan with Rakuten and creative agencies on branding projects and campaigns. She has worked with brands such as Nike, Adidas, as well as the G20 Osaka Summit and Stephen Curry-Under Armour Documentary. She is currently studying business administration at Shanghai Jiaotong University where she is interested in the field of E-commerce, start-ups and technology. She is passionate about journalism on political economic issues such as free trade, demilitarization, globalization with Borders and climate change.

Wenbo Yang is a graduate student studying Architecture in Tongji University and in Sapienza University of Rome. He won the National Scholarship for several times. Passionate about promoting the design methods among teenagers, he have been the Instructor of public courses in YUZ Museum and TA in China Women's Development Foundation- STEM GIRLS Training Camp. As the member of Leadership Training Program of All-China Students’ Federation in 2016, Wenbo served as the President of Hubei Provincial Students’ Federation as well as President of Students’ Union of HUST to launch influential events for students. Now he is the Director of the Department of Users’ Experience in Viva la Vida, a social enterprise aiming to promote interpersonal and intercultural understanding through art and storytelling.

Mark is a management consultant in BearingPoint, a European consulting firm that focused on Digital Strategy. As a professional, he helped the clients to solve the problems and provided advanced solutions. Previous to the consulting field, Mark used to be a business development manager in the education industry and successfully cooperating with the customers.

On the other side of work, Mark is also very passionate about the topics and activities such as volunteering, education, NGO, CSR, SDGs, and entrepreneurship. He used to participate in an NGO named AlESEC of the global talent development program and currently in another organization called Junior Achievement as a facilitator to lecture the students in high schools.

Karri Wang worked in a boutique investment bank before moving into blockchain. He is currently working for Blockchain Laboratory of Application of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing as a Venture Director. Clienteles include Australia Government, Vnesgeconombank Bank (Russia), League One football Club.. etc.
He has a keen interest in curating start-ups. He founded a MCN company last year within Douyin ecosystem, and a diversity app in 2015 and was later sold to a listed company.
Karri graduated from University of Melbourne and traveled frequently between the U.S. and Australia. His expertise are witnessed in bridging resources between China and the West.
Apart from his professional career, he is also an avid snowboarder and adventurer. Usually a few trips are organised during good winter season in the outback or resorts, let him know if you are keen in tagging along!

She graduated from Mondragon Team Academy, specializing in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation, where she lead different innovation projects in Finland, California, South Korea and India. At the age of twenty, she created her first StartUp, Go for Visual, an innovation agency based on the Visual Thinking methodology based in Shanghai. In 2019 she incorporated in Tokylabs a robotics company, to create a SpinOff based on Google Design Sprint methodology. Her dream is to innovate in the field of future of creativity with the aim of discovering new forms of creative collaboration of humans and high technology.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, educated in part in the UK with a BSc Econ and MSc Entrepreneurship from the University of Nottingham. Experienced in strategy consulting and international business development in China and Europe. Currently working at ByteDance focusing on growth for Lark, a B2B collaboration suite. Passionate about the future of work, tech for good, youth empowerment, and China's evolving role in the world.

Alexis is a trainer and diversity program leader at the leading market research consultancy Nielsen. As the chair of the Inclusion Impact Team (IIT), she leads a 37-member committee to strategize and execute Nielsen’s ERG
(Employee Resource Group) and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Program surrounding gender equality, LGBTQ Inclusion, Disability Inclusion, Cultural Inclusion, and Pro-Bono Projects.

Alexis wishes to contribute her insights on promoting social responsibility
within businesses in support of the “Think Globally, Act Locally” goals in China and the global community.

Amy is a Market Lead for China at HYPE, a team of passionate Venture Builders that help Startups demystify, unlock, and succeed in Asia.
Previously, she served as General Manager of the largest distributor at Tangeche, an Alibaba-invested O2O financial project, where she established an Operation Headquarter in Shanghai and led significant growth in auto sales and rental revenues. Over the span of six months, she built the Team from the ground up and led the expansion of 200 franchisee stores across China. Prior to her role at Tangeche, Amy introduced Mini Melts Ice-cream, an INC 500 brand from the USA, into the Taiwanese market as co-founder of Mini-melts International. During this period, the brand achieved a 300,000-member fanbase on Facebook within the first ten months of launch. Amy is passionate about consumer goods and building companies that deliver a positive impact to the overall society.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Hong Kong.

Athena is the lead of McKinsey Greater China All In Women Group and the operation manager of All In Woman Alliance group. She is also a life coach, a tango DJ and a content creator. She is extremely passionate about women empowerment and self-development. She has a blog named AthenaYan and a podcast named Self-Evolution ( 自我进化论）

I am a "growth" engineer.
Professionally, I help businesses define growth strategies and land operational plans to realize strategic bets and long-term growth ambitions.
Personally, I am a Gallup certified strength coach to help individuals and organizations to identify their strengths and build plans to live a strengths based life with full potential.

Born in Colombia but lived in the US most of her life, Catalina currently resides in Shanghai. She holds a masters degree in International Public Policy. Catalina works at an NGO that represents EU businesses in China creating effective communication channels with European and Chinese governments, business associations and media. She is passionate about building bridges between cultures; pushing forward sustainability awareness, women empowerment, and diversity and inclusion.

Graduated from Imperial College London, I am a Strategy Consultant at IBM Shanghai Office, focusing on digital strategy consulting for Chinese leading companies. In addition to delivering high returns for clients, I would like to create value to and make an impact on communities and ordinary people. Helping change people's lives for the better is something I aspire to do through my career as a Consultant.

Heather is a communications professional from Beijing. She's specialized in cross-border PR for tech companies and startups. Her passion about China-Africa Relations and facilitating meaningful cross-cultural dialogues has inspired her to create her own PR & marketing initiative, the Dot Connector. She graduated from Penn State University and previously worked at TechNode as an events & community manager.

With a background in design and innovation, Marina is currently a Manager at EY Transformation Consulting. Leaving a global social impact footprint, she had experiences from working in impact investing in New York to studying regenerative ecology in Costa Rica to using Design Thinking for rural China village development.

She is particularly interested in creating the circular economy of tomorrow. In 2020, she had launched her own "Circular Economy" online course on EY Academy. Marina is also a certified Foresight Practitioner by the Institute for the Future.