Loren is a serial entrepreneur who has founded 4 companies, including two F&B ventures: Baozza and Q Mex Restaurant Group. Previously an investment banker for 9 years, Loren first began his long China journey in Harvard’s East Asian Studies department and is passionate about building and scaling companies that bring joy to people.

Wahed Ahmadzai is the co-founder and COO of YOOFU International Culture Education, and Founder and Director of UIBEIAA Alumni Business Club. Through ABC, Wahed has organized the largest career fair for foreigners in Beijing, aimed at creating a stable job portal for international students and providing job opportunities to more than 500 students and expats.

As an entrepreneur at YOOFU, one of the most sought after education companies in Beijing, Wahed and his team have collaborated with more than 30 different embassies, schools and leading education companies to nurture future talents of China, and create a cultural bridge between China and the world.

Currently, Wahed is an MBA candidate in UIBE, and sharing his six years of experience in China as an entrepreneur, cultural consultant, community builder, and trainer through a series of webinars, workshops, and seminars. Wahed fluent in six languages, won many entrepreneurship competitions and completed different investment rounds for multiple ventures

Ilya is an Israeli, Beijing based entrepreneur, fluent in Chinese and passionate about language education. 

Benjamin Claeys is an architect that has been over 13 years in Asia, his passion lays in tech and building products and solutions with like minded people who enjoy a creative process of rethinking existing and new concepts. He loves building good teams of passionate people that bring a product to the next level.

James started his career as an early employee of Microsoft Japan and led the subsidiary’s rise to the first billion-dollar revenue subsidiary of a software company in history. After his nearly 15 year corporate career which culminated in a role as CEO of a NASDAQ listed software company, James decided to become an entrepreneur and started RTM Asia.

Currently based in Beijing, James has co-founded 3 companies in China in the last 5 years. The first, Yodo1, is now the largest private publisher of mobile phone games in China. https://www.yodo1.com/en/

The second, yoli, is the innovative new way to learn English or Mandarin all in WeChat; bringing the study anywhere, anytime Uber-style model to language learning. http://tutor.yolichat.com/

The third, The Belt and Road Advisory (BRA) seeks to educate the world about China's Belt and Road Initiative. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is history’s largest infrastructure and trade route build out and is impacting the lives of billions of the world's inhabitants. Via events, expert analysis, blog, and podcast BRA delivers this knowledge to both Chinese and English speaking audiences. Furthermore, BRA is building a blockchain-based database of people, projects, products and institutions in the Belt and Road countries.

http://www.beltandroadadvisory.com

A lifelong lover of people, culture, languages, reading and writing; James has published a best-selling business book in Japanese. Currently, James writes regular articles in Chinese and English for BRA, a number of international media outlets, LinkedIn, Medium and his own WeChat account and various other media.

James believes teaching others is the final step in the learning process. To that end, he is a frequent speaker on television, large events and conducts workshops all over China on entrepreneurial topics. Many of his ideas, best practices and advice can be found in his new book "The Tao of Startups"

https://www.startuptaobook.com

James is also a professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. From the Spring Semester 2019, he will be teaching an undergraduate course entitled Entrepreneurship 201

http://english.uibe.edu.cn/aboutuibe/overview/index.htm

For more information see James' LinkedIn profile :

https://linkedin.com/in/jameslalonde

Books Published:

The Tao of Startups (English)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HMBFSZ3/

Effective Email Communication in English (Japanese)

https://www.amazon.co.jp/英文電子メールの書き方-日経文庫-ウィリアム・ジェームス-ラロン/dp/4532107520/

Recent Presentations:

"The Tao of Startups" presented at ChinaAccelerator 8x8 Beijing Conference, March 23, 2018

https://v.qq.com/x/page/l06134zs84l.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Goi2z-7bXQ

"Why Should Children Learn Coding" at the Xi'an Global Programmer's Festival, October 24, 2018

https://m.youku.com/video/id_XMzg4NTI4NTUxMg==.html

Martin Barnes - founder of Mountains Of Imagination

I am a crocodile wrestler - well that's what being the father of twins under 3 feels like.

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From 16 years in Beijing, I have helped leaders of multinational companies, startup founders, and students present their ideas and brand story with clarity and impact.

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