Asian Tech Leaders

Shruthi Rao is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Vendia, a multi-cloud, distributed data platform. Previously, Shruthi launched Amazon’s managed blockchain business and led business development for various AWS’ services. Shruthi also held a variety of leadership roles in Corporate Development at Bank of America, AT&T, DirectTV and start-up, Feedzai. Shruthi began her career at McKinsey and holds an MBA and Computer Science Degree.

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You can learn more about Vendia at https://www.vendia.com/ and Follow Shruthi on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shruthirao/

Linda Ho is the Chief People Officer at Seismic, an AI-powered sales enablement platform that improves team productivity, collaboration and knowledge sharing. As the Chief People Officer, Linda leads the company’s initiatives around culture, org development, talent acquisition, total rewards and internal communications. Prior to joining Seismic, Linda spent 14 years in various HR leadership roles at Autodesk Inc, most recently as a Vice President, and focused on creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment.

Linda was named a “Top 50 Women Leaders in SAAS” by the Software Report and has been featured as a thought leader in publications such as Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. Linda holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Arts in social ecology from the University of California, Irvine.

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You can follow Linda on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-ho-1ba8a21/

Dr. Bodi Zhang is Chief Strategy Officer at Thorne HealthTech (Nasdaq: THRN), a leading healthcare company that utilizes innovative testing and data to deliver personalized solutions for consumers, health professionals, and corporations. Previously, Bodi served as the Chief Science Officer for Onegevity Health, and was a leader at global healthcare consultancy Deallus Group.  As a scientist, Bodi’s research focused on autoimmune diseases and published top-tier research publications. Dr. Zhang holds a Ph.D in Pharmacology and Biochemistry from Tufts University, Boston, an M.P.H in healthcare management from Harvard University and a M.D. from Peking University, China.

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You can follow Bodi on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bodi-zhang-2957a022/ and learn more about Thorn HealthTech at https://www.thorne.com/

Eden Full Goh is the CEO and Founder of Mobot, a venture-backed company that automates testing of mobile apps using robotics technology. Previously, Eden built products that spanned the energy, healthcare and government sectors at Palantir Technologies and Butterfly Network. Eden also founded and scaled SunSaluter, a global non-profit that has deployed an open-source solar panel tracker design in 19 countries, impacting 17,000+ people. Eden was part of the inaugural cohort of the prestigious Thiel Fellowship, which provides a $100,000 grant for young people to build world-changing products instead of sit in a classroom. Before receiving a Thiel Fellowship, Eden studied Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton University. 

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You can follow Eden on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/edenfull/and learn more about Mobot at https://www.mobot.io/

Percy Hung is the co-founder and CEO of Choco Up, one of the largest revenue-based financing and growth platforms in Asia that provides funding to fast growing start-ups. Choco Up utilizes data analytics and third party integrations to automate funding decisions and provides companies with growth capital in as little as 48 hours. Prior to starting Choco Up, Percy founded two other ventures and also held various engineering and venture capital roles in the APAC region. Percy was born in Hong Kong, raised in Singapore, and is an alumnus of Georgia Tech where he studied Aerospace Engineering. 

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You can follow Percy on LinkedIn and learn more about Choco Up at https://choco-up.com/

Amelia Lin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Honeycomb, a private social app for families. Honeycomb offers families a way to curate and share their favorite moments and memories in a private and secure way. Prior to starting Honeycomb, Amelia was previously a product leader at Udacity and Optimizely. Amelia obtained her MBA degree from the Harvard Business School and studied physics during undergrad at Harvard.

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You can follow Amelia on Twitter at https://twitter.com/linamelia and learn more about Honeycomb and open positions at: joinhoneycomb.com/jobs

Judy Lai-Norling is the COO at Carbon Mapper - an organization developing a new way to locate, quantify and track carbon emissions from air and space. Prior to joining Carbon Mapper, Judy spent 14 years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion lab in both business and engineering roles. Judy holds Master’s Degrees in Math and Economics from the University of Texas and University of Wisconsin respectively.

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You can follow Judy on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/judylainorling and learn more about Carbon Mapper at https://carbonmapper.org/

Vivian Shen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Juni Learning - an education platform that helps connect kids to expert mentors to help empower them and learn topics like Coding, Storytelling, and Investing. Prior to starting Juni Learning, Vivian had a variety of experience including being a software engineer at Google, consultant at McKinsey & Company, and product leader at a start-up called Operator. Vivian has been featured in Forbes’ 30 Under 30, Fast Company, TechCrunch, and Fortune. Vivian earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford University where she studied computer science.

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You can follow Vivian on Twitter at https://twitter.com/vivianmshen and learn more about Juni at https://junilearning.com/

Rob Chang is the CEO and Co-Founder of Gryphon Digital Mining, a company focused on sustainable Bitcoin mining. Rob has deep experience in the cryptocurrency space including previously being the CFO at Riot Blockchain where he helped turn around the company during the midst of the last Bitcoin bear market. Prior to working in crypto, Rob had a successful career in capital markets where he led equity research focused on the precious metals and mining industry. Rob obtained both his MBA and undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto.

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You can learn more about Gryphon Digital Mining at https://gryphondigitalmining.com/ and follow Rob on Twitter at https://twitter.com/omnipotent32

Dr. Raj Das Gupta is the COO at Electrovaya, a publicly traded (TSX:EFL) (OTCQB:EFLVF) company that designs, develops and manufactures proprietary Lithium-ion batteries. Raj has been with Electrovaya for over 10 years and has been involved with every aspect of the business from cell manufacturing, engineering activities and business development. Raj is currently responsible for Electrovaya’s overall Technology and Business Development functions.  Raj attended Imperial College in London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge, where he received his Doctorate in Materials Science.

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Learn more about Electrovaya at https://electrovaya.com/