Virginia Tan (Lean In China)

May 8, 2017, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Virginia Tan is the co-founder and president of Lean In China, a women's platform with over 100,000 members across more than 25 cities and 50 universities in China, which supports the goals and aspirations of Chinese women. She is the founding partner of Teja Ventures, which targets women-impact early stage ventures in Asia, and has also co-founded Her Startup in 2015 and She Loves Tech in 2017.

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Virginia Tan is the co-founder and president of Lean In China, a women's platform with over 100,000 members across more than 25 cities and 50 universities in China, which supports the goals and aspirations of Chinese women. She has spoken at UNICEF, Baidu, General Electric, Bloomberg, the British Council, Facebook, the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, Tsinghua University, Singapore Management University, etc and has been filmed by BBC, Reuters, CCTV and Vice. She co-founded Her Startup in 2015, the first cross-border startup competition for women tech entrepreneurs as well as She Loves Tech in 2017, a global initiative focusing on technology by women and technology for women. She is also the founding partner of Teja Ventures, a venture capital fund targeting women-impact early stage ventures in Asia.

Virginia's background is in law and finance, where she was an experienced finance lawyer for more than 8 years specializing on energy, resources and infrastructure sectors in emerging markets, and has worked in Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and South America for 2 magic circle firms. She moved to Beijing in 2013 to work on strategic investments related to the "One Belt One Road" initiative on behalf of Chinese state owned companies and financial institutions.

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Speaker

  • Virginia Tan

    Lean In China

When

When

Monday, May 8, 2017
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM UTC

Agenda

10:00 AMRegistration
11:00 AMFireside Chat
12:00 PMQ&A
12:30 PMNetworking

Organizers

  • Curtis Bergh

    Startup Grind Singapore

    Chapter Director

  • Archit Joshi

    Chapter Co-Director

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