HKBU Entrepreneurship Bootcamp 2019

Prof Sidhu is the Chief Scientist and Founding Director of UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology. He received the IEOR Emerging Area Professor Award from his department at Berkeley. Prof. Sidhu founded the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. He serves as the faculty director of the Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP).

His research areas include systems and stochastic models, strategic data analytics, and learning models. He has been granted over 60 US Patents in networking technology, IP telephony, communications, and mobile computing. He was awarded 3Com Corporation’s “Inventor of the Year” in 1999. Prof. Sidhu also serves as a Venture Advisor at Onset Ventures, a leading Silicon Valley investment firm.

Gigi Wang is a leader in global entrepreneurship and innovation and heads up MG-Team, LLC, a consulting firm focusing on entrepreneurship and innovation programs. She is an Industry Fellow & Faculty at UC Berkeley's Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Chair Emeritus of the VLAB (formerly MIT/Stanford Venture Lab), and on the advisories board of Mobility Ventures, iGlobe Partners and others.

Gigi is a frequent conference speaker and conducts entrepreneurship/innovation workshops for start-ups, corporates, incubators, and universities around the world, along with offering biz dev services to help companies scale. Gigi’s clients have included SAP, RockStart Accelerator (Amsterdam), HongKong Cyberport Incubator, Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship, Shanghai GM (auto-maker in China), Lagadere (France), Samsung, Runa (acquired by Staples, Oct 2013), Happy Farm (Ukraine), IDEPA (Asturias, Spain), and more. She has mentored and advised hundreds of of start-ups from around the world.

As an Internet pioneer, she launched the TRUSTe Internet privacy program in 1996 and started up Pacific Internet in Singapore (IPO on NASDAQ in 1999), along with doing technical sales at AT&T. Gigi holds BS & MS in Mech Engineering from Stanford University where she was President of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, and she holds a MBA from the UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Nathan Gold, also known as The Demo Coach, hails from the San Francisco where he spends his days coaching people around the world on how to prepare for high-stakes presentations through workshops, keynotes, live streaming and 1:1 sessions both in person and online. Gold has personally delivered over 15,000 presentations and 13,000+ hours of professional coaching and training. He has worked with all types of companies on designing, scripting and delivering more compelling and memorable presentations. He is an Industry Fellow at the UC Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, a guest lecturer and pitch coach at Wharton Entrepreneurship, is featured on Kauffman Founders School and he is a published author.

Ir. Dr. Tan is an entrepreneur, an IP attorney, an engineer, a research scientist, an inventor and a university administrator all rolled in one. He started his career in academia before embarking to successfully lead his own technology start-up. Ir. Dr. Tan has a number of patents to his name. He then returned to academia to further his career as a well published Professor in engineering and technology, both in Hong Kong and Australia. Ir. Dr. Tan is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of Engineers Australia. He is also a registered Australian Trade Marks attorney and an often referenced patent consultant. In his spare time, Ir. Dr. Tan has a keen interest in financial analysis and business modelling.

Bianca Ho is the co-founder and COO of Clare.AI. Award winning Clare.AI builds industry-specific conversational digital assistant that understands 10+ Asian languages across multiple platforms. We empower enterprises to engage their customers in a natural and reliable way at-scale.

She was formerly business development manager of Zendesk, responsible for their expansion into China market. She worked closely with Zendesk’s executive team on developing and executing the strategy.

Cesar Jung-Harada is a French-Japanese Inventor, Environmentalist and Entrepreneur living in Hong Kong. Director of MakerBay, Hong Kong MakerSpace for Social & Environmental Impact. Inventor of Protei – a revolutionary shape-shifting sailing robot and Director of Scoutbots.

Cesar is passionate about “Open Hardware for the Environment”, "Citizen Science" with a strong focus on ocean communities & technologies.

Cesar often works as a professional speaker, panelist, educator, mentor, judge, designer, R&D. His TED Talk "How I Teach Kids to Love Science" has been translated into 36 languages and viewed more than 1.5 million times.

Cesar used to teach Masters of “Design and Environment” at Goldsmiths University and "Cultural Entrepreneurship" at Hong Kong University. Cesar is a graduate from the Royal College of Arts London, Design Interactions Department, and worked at MIT (USA) as Project Leader. Cesar was the construction manager of the *iHub_ in Nairobi (Kenya). Cesar led the Open-Sailing group to win the ARS Electronica Golden Nica [NEXT IDEA] (Austria) and the VIDA awards Fundacion Telefonica (Spain), Ocean Exchange Explorer. Cesar is a TED Senior Fellow and speaker. Autodesk Pier9 Designer in Residence (USA). Artist in Residence at V2_ (Netherlands). Cesar sailed around the world while being and Unreasonable at Sea Entrepreneur. He was trained in Design Thinking by Stanford d School George Kembel, Rapid prototyping by Tom Chi (former Google x). Nominated Figure of progress by GOOD and IBM, COP21 opening speaker about ocean technologies (speaking before Ban Ki-moon, President Hollande, Jack Ma and more). His company Scoutbots was nominated StartmeUp HK Grand Award winner and listed as China 10th most innovative company by FastCo (2015). Cesar's design and engineering work are part of the V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) and CNAM (Musée des Arts et Metiers, Paris) collections.

Cesar has lectured / taught / mentored in many Universities including MIT, Carnegie Mellon University (USA), Royal College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Goldsmiths University (UK), Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'architecture de Versailles, Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture (France), Tokyo University (Japan), KAIST (South Korea), CCCB (Spain), CICESE (Mexico), Strathmore University (Kenya), Oslo School of Architecture and Design (Norway), HKU, PolyU, HKBU, HKUST, CityU (Hong Kong). Cesar is a Trustee of the Board of HBKU (Qatar).

A graduate of our distinguished institution, Mr Dickson T Y Shang received his Diploma in Business Management from the Hong Kong Baptist College in 1973. After his graduation from Dalhousie University in Canada with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, Mr. Shang taught business at the College between 1975 and 1977. Thereafter he entered the field of business proper, assuming a variety of appointments in brokerage and commodities trading and management at Hong Kong’s finest and most reputable institutions, including Sun Hung Kai–ACLI Commodities Limited and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), where he assumed the important appointment of Executive Director of HSBC Broking Services (Asia) Limited until his retirement in 2011. His career achievements in the financial sector are rightly considered exemplary.

As a long-serving alumnus of the University, Mr Shang has been a steadfast supporter of the HKBU School of Business and the University’s mission and aims at large. He served as Member of the Advisory Committee for the School of Business from 2005 to 2009 and, despite his busy schedule, always enjoyed participating in the School’s functions and activities. He continues to enjoy a strong rapport with students, staff, and faculty in the School and has generously shared his financial and managerial experience with them, including having served as Career Mentor and Member of the Advisory Committee on Graduate Employment of the University. Since his retirement, Mr Shang has served as Adjunct Professor of the School of Business and continues to offer his steadfast support to the School and its postgraduate students whom he greatly enjoys teaching. He has also been a reliable and insightful contributor to the School of Business Executive Development Seminar Series.

Mr Shang’s enthusiastic support for the School of Business has also resulted in his being a major donor to University causes and initiatives in general. He has contributed over the years including: vesting the H. P. Shang Admission Scholarship in the School of Business; in support of the Finance Students Real Money Investment Fund; as a donor to the Hong Kong Baptist University Development Fund; and, via the HKBU Century Club, a most meaningful donation to the University’s Hong Kong Organic Resource Centre. Additionally, since January 2013, Mr Shang has served as an Honorary Member of the University Court where his contributions have been characteristically cordial, astute, and helpful. Given such a demonstrable track record of broad-based and high-impact support to HKBU, Mr Shang was recently appointed Honorary President of Hong Kong Baptist University Foundation, a post he currently holds. Looking forward, he is excited about on-going HKBU alumni development and other initiatives, including the recently launched “Alumni $100 Donation Campaign” in support of specific and targeted fund-raising campaigns.

A good friend and colleague to so many, Mr Shang has consistently sought to enrich the student life on campus, in an effort to nurture the all-round talents of Hong Kong’s next generation of leaders. Since September 2011, he has served as Honorary Student Advisor to the Business School Alumni Mentoring Programme and, through it, effectively promulgated the University’s aim of Whole Person Education. His active engagement with and life-coaching of our students has greatly encouraged and inspired them as they strive to develop their potential both in the classroom and beyond as contributors to society.

A pillar of our University as well as a key enabler of its forward vision, Mr Dickson T Y Shang has carried numerous burdens with resolve and in good cheer on behalf of HKBU, our students and faculty, and Hong Kong society at large.

Hillary Yip is the 13-year-old founder and CEO of MinorMynas, the social language learning app for kids. In 2016, she won the 1st Price and Best Business Award at the AIA Emerging Entrepreneur challenge at the age of 10. In 2017, she won the pitching competition Runway to RISE becoming one of the two Hong Kong representatives to pitch at the RISE conference. She has been invited to share her idea on various venues and conferences including UXHK, Singularity University Master Class and StartmeupHK Festival. Hillary was also at TEDxTinHau as a speaker talking about her journey in education.

Hillary and MinorMynas has recently been featured by the media including South China Morning Post, HK Economic Times, Sing Tao Daily, Jumpstart Magazine, Expat Parents, and the BBC to name a few.

Isabel is focused on driving Tesla’s business growth with delightful customer experiences in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Her career includes nearly thirty years at major corporations in the U.S. and Asia Pacific. During this time, Isabel spent 19 years working for Apple Inc. in Asia Pacific in channel retail development and enterprise and education market development. She has strong expertise in strategic planning, partnership management, sales operations with an emphasis on improving efficiency and productivity to drive results. Isabel has a strong passion for technology and how it works to enhance people’s life.

Mr. Jimmy Tao is a serial entrepreneur. He has founded 5 companies over the past 10 years who grew the businesses from scratch and one of the companies, Novanic Electronics was acquired by Shenzhen Riland Industry and later listed on SHE (Shenzhen Stock Exchange, China).

He feels very fortunate to work in Vitargent, a company that has the privilege of empowering the lives of millions of consumers each and every day to choose safer products. Our mission is to make the world a safer, healthier place by protecting the environment and families from everyday exposures to unsafe chemicals in personal care products, food and water.

His personal interest and motivation has always been in working with innovative technologies and bright minds to make a world a better place. He is a guest lecturer in universities sharing his experience as a seasoned entrepreneur and mentoring over 20 international students who want to start their businesses with social missions all over the world.

It’s his joy and passion to inspire and guide motivated teens, parents and educators to get ahead and succeed in any endeavor. Inspired & enlightened approximately over 50,000 audiences as a guest speaker frequently invited to and featured at numerous influential private & professional events in local & global theatres.

Reeve Kwan is the Co-Founder of GOGOVAN. In this role, Reeve oversees various functions in Hong Kong including strategic planning, daily operations, business development and customer relations. Reeve also assists in developing new products and expanding new businesses for the company. In addition to optimizing the existing products, Reeve has successfully promoted “GOGO Business”, contributing to a promising growth of GOGOVAN in B2B area.

Prior to shifting his focus on the Hong Kong operations, Reeve expanded the business of GOGOVAN to five regions outside of Hong Kong, turning the company into a regional delivery enterprise.

Graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2010, Reeve was named one of the “30 Under 30 Asia: Manufacturing & Energy” by Forbes Magazine. He was also bestowed Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Sing Tao Group’s “2017 Leader of the Year” award.

Steven grew up from a low-income family in a public estate of East Kowloon. He studied community college - Diablo Valley College (DVC) in California, U.S. and completely funded himself through school by working in Chinese restaurant as a delivery boy after school everyday. During his time in college, he was eBay power seller by selling unlocked first generation iPhone, automobile parts and electronics. He also got elected as the Student Government President of DVC, which he was the first international student ever being a student government president of a California Community College. Then he got accepted to University of California, Berkeley - HAAS School of Business, which ranked as Top 3 Business School of the U.S. for undergraduate program.

After graduating in 2010, he returned to HK and started his own business with two friends who studied in DVC. While they were working in their second venture, Boxad, a company put advertisements on lunch boxes, they experienced a big problem on booking vans for delivery service. Then they started working on GoGoVan, which is the first and most popular Logistic Booking mobile app in Hong Kong. In less than one year, Steven and his team built the largest logistic fleet in Hong Kong, which including 18,000+ Cargo Vans and Trucks. GoGoVan is now operating in HK, SG, TW, KR and CN, with more than 45,000 registered vehicles and raised USD $16.5 million.

Ms. Viola Lam, CEO & Founder of FSAI, who won the Entrepreneur Year 2015/16 of the Youth Business International, one of the world's most honorific award for young entrepreneurs who make positive contributions to society and people. She was selected from over 1,000 top-notch competitors of 68 countries with her far-sighted vision in education, sustainable business model and ambitious plans.

Besides, FSAI was rewarded different awards: Gold Winner of Smart Living, ICT Award 2018; Winner of AI Learning Application of Xin Hua Net; Champion of the 4th Ing Dan iFuture Competition 2017; Finalist of JUMPSTARTER 2017; Winner of Harvard Business School Pitching Day 2017; Top 25 APAC Artificial Intelligence Companies 2017; TOP 10 Investment Value Award, STARTHUB 3.0 Annual Awards Ceremony 2017 & Winner of Cyberport Incubator Pitch day.

Alexander is the Research Director of the Data Lab and a co-founder of the Blockchain Lab at Sutardja Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology. He specializes in the business implementation of AI and Blockchain technology. He has co-created Data-X and is a lecturer in the UC Berkeley class Applied Data Science with Venture Applications. He is also the lead developer of the The Berkeley Innovation Index. Alexander has been part of the founding team of 3 companies: Wheely's (accepted into YC 2015), Auranest (Series A), and InnoQuant (currently Co-founder & COO).

Dr. Cathy Lui, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of Hong Kong Baptist University's Department of Biology, is the co-founder of OPER Technology Limited.

Cathy and her team announced they had successfully used nano-particles to harmlessly extract stem cells from a rat's brain and then reinject them. It raised the question of whether the procedure could be used on humans as a cure for brain diseases like Alzheimer's.

OPER Technology Limited is to develop and perfect an innovative technology in nanomaterial-based personalized medicine that can offer an inexpensive, real-time monitoring, precise, effective and globally available medical technology, to improve the healthcare and clinical practices for restoring health and extending life of patients with incurable diseases. This new core technology is a nanosurgery with real-time monitoring that enables both specific cell harvest in complicated systems in the body, cell engineering and specific drug delivery to specific cells in the body.

Previously, Jingo was a Principal Consultant at an international corporate and financial PR firm - Citigate Dewe Rogerson’s Hong Kong office, where he specialized in corporate and financial communications, event management for listed companies and financial institutions (from 2014 – 2017). Started from 2016, he started leading the business development in Hong Kong and assisted regional heads across Asia region at CDR including Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore for driving cross border business. He has nine years’ experience in the Financial Communications industry, having previously worked at another international financial communications agency – Hill+Knowlton Strategies for more than five years (2009 – 2014).

Separately, while Jingo has been running a side company - AMAXING Media Asset Management for media buying and planning, as well as media relation consultation. While AMAXING has secured two significant outdoor billboards located in Hong Kong island since two years ago. Currently, he has re-started his personal career at Black Media Group, an integrated digital marketing consultancy specializing in website design and programmatic development for corporate clients. His join will help expending the market fields tapping into financial communities, especially for Investor Relations by leveraging Investor Relations and Corporate Communications experience in the past years.

Kenneth Wan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Black Media Group, and a member of the Hong Kong Designers Association (“HKDA”) – the first of its kind in Hong Kong. It is a design body that advocates for public interest in design and higher professional standards for practicing designers. He is also a member of HKGCC, HKGCYE and HKIRA. Kenneth has managed the company in Hong Kong for over 10 years. In his client work, he develops fully integrated websites and online marketing materials for multi-national clients, primarily in the corporate, financial and professional services sectors across Asia Pacific. Over the past decade, he has served numerous regional clients. Kenneth has developed bespoke design and programmatic systems for website development, as well as website CMS training workshops for clients. Prior to establishing Black Media Group, Kenneth was with an international 4As Design Agency for more five years, specialising in media planning and buying advice, developing online marketing content for clients, and providing Google advertising services. In 2015, he was invited to participate into the Lions Club (Causeway Bay division), and was promoted as 1st Vice President in 2017-2018.

Dr Yue is the Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Teaching and Research Division of the School of Chinese Medicine (SCM) in Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also one of the founding members of SCM and currently spearheading a project helping local secondary and primary schools to develop herbal gardens and Chinese medicine curriculum, utilizing augmented reality experiential learning trails. His other roles include the Honorary Director of the Center of Innovative Service Learning and the Resident Master of one of the undergraduate student halls.

Michele graduated with a degree majoring in English Language and English Literature before pursuing a Master’s Degree in English Language Education. Having set up her own company Pro English Consultancy Ltd., she has been actively involved in delivering parent-child workshops and talks, teacher-training workshops on various skills and materials development for various schools like St. Francis of Assisi's English Primary School and Precious Blood (South Horizons) Primary School. Michele provides language development courses for young kids, conducts teacher training workshops for in-service kindergarten, primary and secondary teachers, and runs business writing and presentation skills classes for large corporations such as MTR Corp, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, Hong Kong Housing Authority, United Overseas Bank (UOB), Knight Frank HK, Gucci Group, Lacoste Hong Kong, etc. Michele has acquired her qualification as a dermatoglyphics analyst and has been analysing fingerprint reports and providing advice to parents of children aged between 1 and 13 with regard to their talent development and parenting skills in relation to their children’s learning styles and temperaments.

Having worked in the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, a statutory organization established to promote Hong Kong’s external trade, with particular focus on exploring opportunities for of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), for over fourteen years, Dr Yik Man Wong has substantial experience in assisting Hong Kong SMEs and business start-ups. Specifically, he has successful developed and launched a series of consulting services to help SMEs and new business ventures solve their problems in different areas, such as marketing, financing, accounting, legal, and operational. He has also piloted a project in setting up a business development centre for new start-ups.

Dr Wong joined the School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University, as a Senior Lecturer in 2011, and is currently the BBA (Hons) Entrepreneurship Concentration Coordinator, and Di-rector of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre.