Mr. Feng Deng founded Northern Light Venture Capital (NLVC) in 2005. He currently manages approximately US$ 1.7 billion in committed capital with 4 US$ funds and 4 RMB funds. He has led and backed over 200 companies, focusing on 4 main sectors: TMT (technology, media and telecom), clean technology, healthcare and consumer.
Marie Leznicki is Chief Experience Officer at Bridge International Academies, a network of nearly 500 nursery and primary schools across Africa and Asia. Since 2010, Marie has led radical innovation across how academies operate increasing speed of expansion into new markets. She is responsible for recruiting and training academy staff, managing academy operations, admitting and retaining pupils, driving community programmes, and developing new offerings like uniforms and school lunches.
Aileen is the founder of Cowboy Ventures, a seedstage focused fund that backs tech entrepreneurs reimagining life and work, what they call “life 2.0”. Cowboy Ventures works with a diversity of consumer and enterprise oriented companies including Area1 Security, August, Dollar Shave Club, Lending Home, StyleSeat and Textio.
Robin Li is founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu. Born in 1968, Robin received a Bachelor of Science degree in information management from Peking University in 1991, and a Master of Science degree in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Robin was one the pioneers of search engine technology, and his patent for RankDex, a method of hyperlink analysis, is regarded as one of the inventions that shaped today’s search technology. Robin returned to Beijing from the Silicon Valley and founded Baidu in 2000. In the 16 years since, the company has become the world’s largest Chinese website and largest Chinese search engine.
Jean LIU is the President of Didi Chuxing, the world’s largest mobile transportation platform based in China. Jean joined DiDi in July 2014 from her previous position as Managing Director at Goldman Sachs (Asia). Jean was ranked one of Fast Company’s top five “The World’s Most Creative People in Business in 2016.” She was also listed as one of Fortune’s top five 2015 global “40 Under 40” business leaders, and tops Fortune’s 2015 China “40 Under 40” business leaders list, together with Cheng Wei, DiDi’s CEO. I
Kevin Laws is Chief Investments Officer at AngelList, which he joined in 2010. AngelList is a web site for early stage startups to meet investors where over 3,000 startups have met investors that ended up financing them. Notable companies that raised early rounds on AngelList include Uber, PostMates, Shyp, Thumbtack, and many others.
Claire is the head of Silicon Valley Bank’s group dedicated to working with founders, entrepreneurs and pre Series A companies. This team oversees strategic partnerships with leading accelerators, incubators, investment groups, entrepreneurial and industry groups that support founders at the early stage.
Vinny Lingham is a well recognized Internet entrepreneur who is currently the cofounder & CEO of Civic Technologies, Inc a startup company that has a goal to eliminate new account fraud and prevent identity theft by creating an "Identity Network” where consumers can confirm their identity in realtime with participating merchants and vendors.
Sonita Lontoh is Vice President of Marketing at Siemens Digital Grid. She is a technology executive focusing on the Internet of Things (IoT), 'Smart' Connected Energy/Devices and Green Technology. Her work addresses the intersection of technology, business models and policy. In particular, she focuses on societal benefits and global cross-collaborations on innovation, human capital and leadership development.
Daniel Lubetzky, founder and CEO of KIND, is on a mission to make the world a little kinder one snack and one act at a time. Launched in 2004, KIND is now the fastest growing U.S. snack company, and through the KIND Movement, has inspired more than one million kind acts with the help of its community.
