- YOUR TRAVEL COMPANIONS
Ning RenKnowing less and less about more and more.Ning received his B.A. in Management from Monash University (Australia), and a M.A. in Finance from Hult International Business School (US). He also once studied English at UCLA (US) and Japanese Culture & Literature at Osaka University (Japan) during an exchange program. When in Monash, he wrote book reviews as a columnist for the Australian i.M Magazine, and curated the Melbourning International Photography Exhibition.
He is also an active and award-winning practitioner in other fields. Woman In Fragments, the last short film he produced, was accepted into the Short Film Corner at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. And the latest film project has won the Grand Prize at Hongkong Asia Film Financing Forum. The marketing campaign he created for UNICEF was shortlisted at the 2015 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
He used to work at the San Francisco headquarter of Charles Schwab, in charge of optimizing customer experience through quantitative analysis. Now he works and lives in Shanghai and Shaoxing, but often you would find him on his way to Beijing, Hangzhou or your city.
Congcong HeDo it Now.Congcong holds a B.A. in English Literature and Language from Beijing Foreign Studies University. She also studied at University of Leicester (UK) in her junior year, focusing on the Restoration Literature and the Perception of “Body” in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Later, she received her M.A. in Finance from Hult International Business School (US).
She used to live and work in the Bay Area for two years, working at Berkeley Investment Advisors as an investment data analyst. In 2013, she returned to Shanghai and joined Whirlpool China as a Management Trainee in Finance.
She is an advocate of the Lean In values and Japanese Wabi-sabi aesthetics, and loves specialty coffee and Airbnb travel. She practices yoga and jog occasionally. A fan of Golden State Warriors.
Federico LiA half designer born in Italy, half engineer dropping out of Berkeley and 100% entrepreneur raised in Shanghai.
Federico studied business management in secondary school for four years, during which time he founded two companies. He used to run a Taobao shop, built websites, managed a physical store and toiled in a factory.
Then he went to UC Berkeley (US), majoring in Entrepreneurship and Energy Engineering, but wound up dropping out of school with two students to co-found his third venture. Now under the mentorship of founder/ former CTO of LinkedIn, his team is developing a virtual personal assistant based on social data mining and artificial intelligence. He has also worked as an analyst at InnoSpace (Shanghai), helping startups to improve their business plans and pitch decks.
He has a sweet tooth, and loves uncommon animals, raising a sea turtle, a shark and a boa constrictor as his pets. He also excels at extreme sports including skiing, skateboarding and fixed gear bicycle.
Baoguang Zhai“There is a perception that some things are sort of better than other things, sometimes. But the reality is probably more extreme than that.”When in Tufts University (US), Baoguang completed three programs—environmental science, economics and international relations—in just three years. He spent over a year exploring in the Silicon Valley, including working for Peter Thiel’s Fellowship program.
In 2012, he joined Blueseed—a project that turned a cruise ship on the high seas near the Silicon Valley into an incubator for foreign entrepreneurs—as the team’s only Chinese member, and helped the project secure its angel investment.
He was also a founding member of PingWest, and has published quite a few articles on entrepreneurship and technology. Later he joined Uber China as the second employee in mainland.
A ferocious reader of military leaders’ memoirs, a big fan of the Netherlands soccer team and Zidane, and a left wing player in soccer.
Frances ChenIf not now, when?A lawyer by training, an entrepreneur at heart and in practice, an aspiring poet born in China, educated and raised in the U.S.A.She has worked at Panalpina and LexisNexis, and with international law firms such as Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Dorsey & Whitney LLP.Frances is known to be super-duper resourceful wherever she goes. She enjoys cycling alone, hiking with friends, and exploring different cities. She is also the founder of WeVenues, a startup that connects people to suitable venues.
Wenjie Zhang
Aim High.Wenjie has worked at Softbank and KingSoft Japan. He is a full stack engineer who claims Tokyo as his second hometown, an enthusiast for mathematician, logicality and mythology.As a serial entrepreneur, Wenjie is now working on his third venture NESTA. WAKE ME UP WITH AN EMBRACE
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