Wang Hua |
Wang Hua is Co-founder & Managing Partner of InnovationWorks. |
Zhang Lei |
Zhang Lei is Founder & CEO of DianXinOS 。 |
G Godula |
George Godula is co-founder and managing director of Web2Asia. |
R Gallant |
Rosemary Gallant is the Principal Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. |
Yuan Bin |
Yuan Bin is the Vice President of QIYI , China's first television portal. |
Steve Bell |
Steve Bell is the founding partner of Trilogy VC - an early stage venture capital fund. |
Guo Wei |
Guo Wei is the Vice President of Kaixin001. |
J Xue |
With a successful track record of entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, Jeromy Xue is now Managing Director of Tsinghua Science Park Venture Capital, and the assistant president of Tsinghua University Science Park. |
F Greco |
Frank Greco is EU First Counselor and head of ICT for China. |
D Ling |
Derek Ling is a successful repeat entrepreneur. His first company Qzone.com has been acquired by Tencent and, his second venture, Tianji is now part of the Viadeo Group - a leading online professional network headquartered in Europe. |
Sun Jianbo |
A successful serial entrepreneur, Sun Jianbo is the COO of Rekoo - one of the largest social games companies in the world - with over 20 M active users. |
G Song |
George Song is the co-founder and CEO of Didatuan - the fastest-growing newcomer in the online group-buying China race. |
G Caetano |
Gustavo Caetano is the co-founder and CEO of Sambatech - the largest online video platform of Latin America - based in Brazil. |
John Liu |
John Liu is Corporate Vice President of sales and operations of Google China. |
Chris Pu |
With a successful track record of investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, Chris Pu is now the director of Intel Capital China. His past investments include Borqs, Packet One, VMax, Aruba (NASDAQ: ARUN), Triscend (acquired by Xilinx) and Resonext (acquired by RFMD). |
O Glauser |
Olivier Glauser is a Managing Director at Steamboat Ventures - the Walt Disney's venture capital fund. |
A Rajan |
Arvind Rajan is Vice President International at Linkedin. Before Linkedin, he was co-founder and CEO of Grassroots Enterprise, now part of Edelman PR. |
Joe Zhou |
A former founding partner of KPCB in China, Joe Zhou is one of the most experienced VCs in China and the founder of Keytone Ventures. |
Gady Epstein |
A highly respected journalist (won the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism), Gady Epstein is Beijing Bureau Chief at Forbes and has been covering Asia since 2002. |
Haoyu Shen |
Haoyu Shen is Senior Vice President of business operations at Baidu - China's largest search engine. |
Tim Draper |
Tim Draper is founding partner of legendary venture capital firm Draper Fischer Jurvetson - that was an early stage investor in companies such as Baidu or Skype. |
Yu Wang |
Yu Wang is founder & CEO of P1.cn - the leading online social network for the affluent urban Chinese (membership is by invitation only; already over 600 000 members). |
F Nazikian |
Franck Nazikian is the founder & president of CHINICT - the largest conference on China tech innovation & entrepreneurship. Previously, jointly with Renaud Laplanche (founder & CEO of Lending Club), Franck co-founded TripleHop Technologies, acquired by Oracle. Franck is also passionate about wine making and is the owner of the LudiFranco winery. |
R Robinson |
Originally from the US, Richard Robinson is a successful serial entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience in China. His new venture Youlu, he co-founded with Zany Zeng (co-founder of Oak Pacific Interactive) is on the verge to disrupt the Chinese SNS space. Richard is CHINICT master of ceremonies this year. |
Chen Yu |
Chen Yu is the co-founder and vice president of Yeepay, a leading provider of online payment solutions in China, backed by DFJ, Intel Capital, W.R. Hambrecht and IBM. |
Hans Tung |
Hans Tung is a partner at Qiming Ventures and is on the board of Kaixin001, Vancl, Ehi and Yaodian100. He co-founded two Internet start-ups himself: Asia2B in Hong Kong and HelloAsia in Silicon Valley. |
Greg Shea |
A Canadian & Irish dual national, Gregory Shea is the head of BlackBerry in China. With over 20 years of experience in China, Gregory is a rare mixture of marketing savvy & leadership - now facing a challenging mission: turning BlackBerry into a leading brand in China. |
Vincent Tao |
An eminent academic (over 200 technical papers & patents published) and key executive, Vincent Tao is the CEO of PPLive - the largest online TV network in China - with over 175 millions users. |
Nick Yang |
A successful entrepreneur co-founder of Nasdaq top performer Kong.net, Nick Yang is the founder & CEO of Wukong - an ambitious venture reviving the concept of push technology. |
Hope Chen |
Hope Chen is the head of Draper Fisher Jurvetson in China. A successful entrepreneur (co-founded Billpoint, acquired by Ebay), Hope is also a savvy angel investor. |
Feng Jun |
Feng Jun is the founder, only shareholder and CEO of Aigo - the #1 Chinese consumer electronics brand. An over-achieving leader and a visionary, Feng Jun has been more recently named a Davos World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. His charisma and vibrant passion for tech innovation are infectious and inspiring. |
J Goldkorn |
Jeremy Goldkorn is the founder & chief editor of the popular China media website Danwei - whose content is regularly referred to in many Chinese and foreign publications including The Guardian, The New York Times, Life, Cosmopolitan's... Jeremy is a versatile and passionate character whose comments on media & technologies are insightful and original. |
Demopoulos |
A successful repeat entrepreneur (founder of Shawei.com, acquired by Tom.com), Fritz Demopoulos is the Founder & CEO of Qunar - China’s largest online travel media with over 30 millions monthly unique visitors (backed by Mayfield and GSR). |
Harry Man |
Harry Man is a partner at Matrix Partners, a leading venture capital firm with operations in China, India and the US. Harry is a veteran of Internet business in China having hold executive positions at Linktone and chinadotcom (Nasdaq: CHINA), the first Chinese internet company listed in the US - which gives him an acute understanding of the competitive edges of China tech investment opportunities. |
Hongyi Zhou |
A successful repeat entrepreneur former head of Yahoo in China, Hongyi Zhou is the founder & CEO of 360.cn - an Internet security company with 360 million users worldwide (70% in China). |
Brief snapshot of past CHINICT attendees:
| Porter Erisman | VP | Alibaba Group |
| Yuan Dengke | Managing Director | China E-Commerce Association |
| Alison Birkett | First Counsellor | European Commission |
| Dan Reardon | Area Director | HP Snapfish |
| Richard Hsu | Associate Director | Intel Capital |
| Rich Robinson | CEO | Kooky Panda |
| Wei Zhou | VP | KPCB |
| Jeremy Peruski | Managing Director | Lenovo |
| Simon Zhang | Chief Rep. | London Stock Exchange |
| Harry Man | Partner | Matrix Partners |
| Zhang HongJiang | CTO China | Microsoft |
| Chun Zhang | Director | Microsoft MSN Network |
| Inga Han | Chief Rep. | NYSE-Euronext |
| Eric Priest | VP Asia Pacific | Noank Media |
| Fu Xiaoxue | Managing Director | Shanghai Stock Exchange |
| Olivier Glauser | Managing Director | Steamboat Ventures |
| Gregory Shea | Corporate Vice President and MD | USITO |
| Eric Eldon | Editor | Venture Beat |
| Caroline Katzin | Special Counsel | U.S. Sec. of Commerce |
| Bill Yao | CEO | PPLive |
| Yonghe Yao | SVP | 51.com |
| Fritz Demopoulos | CEO | Qunar |
| Jay Chang | President | 56.com |
| Victor Koo | CEO | Youku |
| Malcolm Thorp | VP | HDT |
| Song Xinyu | GM | |
| Tom Melcher | President | China Online Strategy |
| David Wolf | CEO | Wolf Group |
| Andy Tian | President | XPD Media |
| Isabel Liu | VP & GM | Tencent |
| Edward Lu | Overseas Bus. Dev. | Baidu |
| Ruowei Chen | GM | Potevio |
| Billy Wu | VP | Alcatel |
| Bin Ma | VP | Tencent |
| Rocky Lee | Partner | DLA Piper |
| Vincent GU | VP | Comverse Technology |
| Jianli Wang | Deputy CTO | Fiberhome Technologies |
| Kemal Ayyildiz | President Asia | Deutsche Telekom |
| Gao Jiaqing | GM | Capinfo |
| Haizhou Pan | VP | UFIDA Software Engineering |
| Michel Guerry | Senator | French Government |
| Zhao Fengtong | Vice-Mayor | Beijing Municipal Government |
| Michael Pulch | Deputy head | EU Delegation to China & Mongolia |
| Nigel Burton | GM Evangelism | Microsoft |
| Tang Hesong | Director of Strat. Invest. | Microsoft |
| Rui Yong | Director of R&D Strategy | Microsoft |
| Kaiser Kuo | Group Director | Ogilvy & Mather China |
| Feng Jun | Chairman & CEO | Aigo |
| Kang Pan | Deputy Director | NYSE/Euronext |
| Jane Zhu | Executive Director | London Stock Exchange/AIM |
| Ren Guangming | Chief Representative | Hong Kong Stock Exchange |
| Guang Xun Xu | Managing Director | Nasdaq |
| Kejian Chao | Chief Representative | Shanghai Stock Exchange |
| Alex Chen | VP | Aspire Tech |
| Zhang Xiangdong | President | 3G Portal |
| Michael Mi | Managing Director | Cisco Ventures |
| Hope Chen | Venture Partner | Draper Fisher Jurvetson |
| Astra Lam | Managing Director | Motorola Ventures |
| Joe Zhou | General Partner | Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers |
| Ian Chapman | VP & GM Marketing | Motorola |
| Christine Lagarde | Finance Minister | French Government |
| Nick Yang | President | Kong Zhong (Nasdaq: Kong) |
| Zhang Zhihong | Deputy GM | Torch, Ministry of Science & Technology |
| Guo Tianmin | VP | Huawei Technologies |
| Cheng Wusi | VP | Hollysys |
| Jun Yang | VP | China Electronic Center |
| Jihua Zhao | VP | Datang |
| Xinxiang Chen | Chairman | CapInfo |
| Xuan Yan | VP | Oracle |
| Xiowei Chen | CEO | China.com |
| Danfeng Gao | VP | China Unicom |
| Li Jia | VP | ZTE |
| Fang Zhonghua | VP | Founder |
| Ben Wang | CEO | BeyondSoft |
| Quiyue Zhong | Partner | IDG Venture Investment |
| Rowei Chen | VP | Potevio |
| Randy Zhang | VP | Tsinghua Venture Capital |
| Gen Zhang | VP | Philips Semi-Conductor |
| Qiling Qin | CEO | Hansun Technoloies |
| Rui Huang | CEO | China SatCom |
| Daqin Ma | Partner | China Equity Venture Capital |
| Mangdong Xu | CEO | Dotad |
| Fangwei Xiang | CEO | PDX.cn |
| David Zhang | Partner | Chum Investment Corporation |
| Mingshun Li | VP | Discuz.net |
| Li Wan Lin | CTO China | Siemens |
| Bill Gao | GM China | British Telecom Infonet |
| Vincent Gu | VP | Comverse Technology |
| Yonglun Yang | COO | Optisp |
| Jerry Xu | VP | Motorola |
| Jianli Wang | VP | FiberHome |
| Shen Gao | Partner | New Margin Ventures |
| Yanlin Hou | VP | Th-Unis |
| Gérard Deleens | President China | Total |
| Fan Yu | Deputy GM | CE Dongli Technology |
| Olivier Lafaye | President Asia | Thomson |
| André Ferrand | Senator | French Government |