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James Dong

Chief Executive Officer

James Dong is the Chief Executive Officer of Lazada Vietnam and Lazada Thailand.

James joined Lazada in June 2018 as the CEO of Lazada Thailand and was appointed CEO of Lazada Vietnam one year later, in addition to his existing role.
Prior to joining Lazada, he was the Head of Alibaba Group Globalization Corporate Development and Business Assistant to Group Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Zhang.

James has been driving eCommerce globalisation strategy and portfolio management, including Lazada integration. He has also been coordinating Alibaba Group level collaboration with its top 10 global partners. Before joining Alibaba Group, James was Associate Partner of McKinsey’s Digital Practice.
James graduated with a MBA degree from Cambridge University.

Selena Le

Founder – CEO

Selena Le is Bold Entrepreneur who focus on helping young entrepreneurs to achieve green sustainable business mindset, and improving Environment quality by education.

She is A Startups Mentor, Personal branding C-Level Coach. As a Plant based dietitian she aware Entrepreneurs to build An healthy impact Business Ecosystem connecting with nature , wellbeing.
She is working with top brands such as Real Madrid FC, Juventus Fc, NASA, Airbus,.. her Goals is building Big- high impact entrepreneur Community for Society She is also Founder of Global Lifestyle and Business Network and Personal Brand by Seleba Le

Eze Vidra

Remagine Ventures

Eze Vidra is managing partner at Remagine Ventures, investing in seed stage companies at the intersection of tech, entertainment, data and commerce. He previously founded Campus London, Google’s first physical hub for startups, was the head of Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe and General Partner of Google Ventures.

Previously Eze held product management leadership roles at Shopping.com, Ask.com, GLG and AOL. Eze is also the founder of Techbikers, a non profit building schools and libraries in the developing world and VC Cafe, a popular blog on startups and venture capital.

Dang Chau

CEO, International Region

Dr. Dang My Chau (Jenny) is a CEO of TOPICA Regional for Singapore – Philippines and Thailand, who currently leads and manages all activities for international partnerships from 2015 until now. From December 2009 until June 2014, she was Senior Director of TOPICA EDTECH GROUP – Southern area of Vietnam with 120 staffs, 50 part – time staffs, 100 lectures and 10.000 students at 3 campuses in Ho Chi Minh City.

Before that, she worked as an Academic Director of Centre for International Cooperation, Banking University HCMC from March 2007 to November 2008 and a Head of International Study Programs – Academic Affairs Office of HCMC International University – Vietnam National University from 2008 to 2009. Dr. Dang also participated as the visiting faculty of the International Bachelors at Banking University and Ton Duc Thang University (Vietnam) for different subjects such as Entrepreneurship, Strategy Management, Business Communication and Master of Business Administration programs at the Banking University (Vietnam), Siam Universrity (Thailand) for the last 15 years.

Dr. Dang was deeply involved with virtual incubation activities, as co-director of Topica Founder Institute Hochiminh City, co-organizer of Mobile Monday Hochiminh City (supported by Worldbank Infodev’s Virtual Incubation grant), annual judges for incubation/entrepreneurship competitions in Asia Pacific Incubator Network (APIN), and has trained dozens of incubator managers and government officials on incubator management courses in 2012 & 2013. Chau loves to travel around the world and see how young entrepreneurs successful in their business in different countries!

Michael Lints

Golden Gates Ventures

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Michael Lints graduated from The Hague University of Applied Science in Management and Information Science and worked briefly as a project manager at Nationale Nederlanden (a subsidiary of ING Group). Michael’s entrepreneurial spirit kicked in when he started an IT managed services startup with 2 friends. The startup got acquired by a data and telecom company in The Netherlands.

After his entrepreneurial journey, Michael wanted to spend more time giving back to the community. He was asked to join the Economic Development Board Rotterdam as a vice chairman and chairman of the Young Economic Development Board. In 2007, Michael founded his own venture fund focused on Dutch’s small and medium-size enterprise to help them with capital financing, development, and relevant support and strategy. In 2013 Michael got acquainted with Golden Gate Ventures and moved his family to Singapore to join Golden Gate Ventures.

Initially as a Venture Partner in 2013 to help with fundraising, strategic partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions. Michael has helped raise over $60M USD for Golden Gate Ventures and its portfolio companies and is now a Partner at Golden Gate Ventures. In 2018 Michael joined the Kauffman Fellowship program in the US, which focuses on up and coming leadersship in the venture capital industry.

Sport is an important part of his life. He has completed 7 marathons and recently added cycling and swimming. Michael finished two Ironman 70.3’s in Hawaii in 2017 and is a former Singapore ambassador for TREK (cycling brand) distributor, Treknology3.

Carman Chan

Click Ventures

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Carman Chan is in the cover story of Nikkei Asia Review as Top 5 Women-to-Watch in Asian Tech. Carman has 17 years of experience as a Serial Entrepreneur, Tech Columnist, 5 years as Venture Investor, and 3 years as International Speaker across ten countries. Carman is also the author of best-selling accelerated learning books.

Her first startup, EnglishStreet (ES) became a business case at the Harvard’s Business Review Database. ES was acquired by the Hong Kong Economic Times (0423.HK). Her second startup, Click Limited, has the first CFO of Tencent, Patrick Tsang and the founder of Cherubic Ventures, Matt Cheng, as investors. Click Limited merged with Hiiir Inc. and was acquired by FastEastone (4904.TW).

Carman founded Click Ventures in 2015 and its first fund became the only seed fund from Asia to make the Top 5 Seed fund (Vintage 2013-2015) by performance, while its second fund became the Top 1 in the Fund to Watch category by performance in Preqin’s Top Performing Ventures Capital Funds Report in March 2018.

Mike Butcher

Editor-at-large

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Mike Butcher MBE is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch, and co-founder of ThePathfounder magazine and its editorial events. Mike has been named one of the most influential journalists in European technology by Wired and The Daily Telegraph. He co-founded The Europas Awards for European startups, the non-profits TechVets and Techfugees, the co-working network TechHub.

He is a regular tech commentator on the BBC, Sky News, CNN, CNBC and Aljazeera and has been a judge on The Apprentice UK. GQ magazine named him one of the 100 Most Connected Men in the UK and he’s a “Maserati 100 innovator”. He has advised the UK government on tech startup policy and awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Alyssa Newcomb

NBC News, Fortune Magazine

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Alyssa Newcomb is a reporter based in New York City. She covers issues related to technology and society.

Sonny Vu

Founder

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Founded Alabaster, a group that advises and invests in founders commercializing technology based on scientific breakthroughs. Current themes: materials science, synthetic bio for clean energy / food production, HVAC tech. Recently, Sonny was President/CTO of Fossil Group.

Previously, he founded: Misfit (wearables; acquired by Fossil for $260m), AgaMatrix (biosensors/digital health for diabetes), FireSpout (NLP; acquired by Ask Jeeves). Before startups, he worked at Microsoft Research in NLP under Kai-Fu Lee, worked on a Linguistics PhD at MIT under Noam Chomsky, and studied math at UIUC.

Kamran Elahian

Founder and Chairman

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High Tech Entrepreneur with 3 Unicorn IPOs

Kamran is Founder and Chairman, Global Innovation Catalyst, LLC and advises various governments on the needed transition from fossil-based economies to sustainable innovation economies.

In the past, as a global high-tech entrepreneur, he co- founded ten companies, had 6 exits, 3 of them were Unicorn IPOs with a total market cap of over $8B. For 15 yrs., he was Chairman of Global Catalyst Partners, a global VC firm ($350M under management) with investments in the U.S., Japan, China, India, Israel and Singapore. Underlying his vision for global philanthropy is the conviction that modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be instrumental in dissolving barriers between nations and bridging the social and political differences among people.

This vision was reflected in Schools-Online, a nonprofit he co-founded in 1996 to connect the world, one school at a time (6400 schools in 36 countries were provided with computers and access to the Internet) and merged with Relief International in 2003; Global Catalyst Foundation, co-founded in 2000 to improve lives through effective education and empowerment of the youth (with special emphasis on young women) using the leverage of ICT, and UN-GAID, a United Nations global forum that promotes ICT in developing countries where he served as Co-Chairman (2009-2011).

Jonathan Reichental

Chief Executive Officer

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Dr. Jonathan Reichental is the CEO of Human Future, a global business and technology consultancy, advisory, and education firm.

He is the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City of Palo Alto, and a multiple award-winning technology leader whose 30-year career has spanned both the private and public sectors. In 2017, he was named one of the top 100 CIOs in the world and in 2016 he was named one of the top 20 most influential CIO’s in the United States.

Dr. Reichental is an adjunct professor at several universities including the University of San Francisco. He is a popular writer and online host, producing several highly successful online courses with LinkedIn Learning. He co-authored The Apps Challenge Playbook and he is a frequent public speaker on a wide range of technology and business-related topics. He co-hosts the popular podcast, Drinking Wine Talking Tech.

Tomoko Inoue

Chief Executive Officer

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Leading Omron Ventures, a corporate venture capital arm of Omron Corporation as CEO. Prior to OMRON Ventures, she was a founding member of a unique venture capital firm that focused on medical devices and invested in seed to early-stage startups primarily in Silicon Valley and Japan.

She loves to explore what she has not seen, and always seeks to go beyond the boundary. She has a PhD in Biomedical Science, an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a Faculty Fellow of Stanford University’s Biodesign program.