CEO Roundtable bridging Asia

Today's guests are Frank Wu and Jian Zhang.

In this episode, we talk about the Chinese property market, new trends, REITs and overseas investment activities of Chinese investors. Mr. Jian Zhang: For over 20 years Jian Zhang (Jim) has been a professional practitioner in the commercial and residential property investment sector, as well as the development and fund management sector. Jian Zhang is Founder and Secretary-General of China Real Estate Club which is well-known Chinese real estate organization for senior real estate developers, investors and professionals who are interested in accessing Chinese market and Chinese investors bring Capitals to overseas, and currently Jian Vice President for China Association of Real Estate Fund. Frank Wu is a founding partner of Shanghai Genesis Investment Management Co., ltd, a boutique investment management and financial advisory company in Shanghai, China. Mr. Wu has 20 years of work experience advising international investors making direct investment in China and Chinese investors investing overseas. One of Frank’s controlled companies was also Authorized Sales Representative of Cessna, one of the largest general aviation manufacturers in the world, for its private jet sales in China.

Today’s guest is Anton Volianskyi, CEO and Co-Founder of Jiji.Africa

Jiji, is one of the largest online marketplaces that provides buyers and sellers with an avenue to meet and exchange goods and services in Africa. It has also recently acquired “cars45”, one of the largest transactional car market place in Africa.

Today’s guest is Johnny Widodo, CEO OLX Group Indonesia. I had a casual and very interesting conversation with Johnny Widodo, CEO OLX Group Indonesia. OLX Autos. OLX Group is an online marketplace company headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was founded in 2006 and operates in 45 countries. OLX is owned by Prosus, the international assets division of the South African multinational Naspers. Johnny is a CEO of a startup in digital automotive with over 16 years of multiple industry and consulting experience across the globe. Prior to this, built blueprint and work in multiple areas from analytics till marketing for Indonesia 5th Unicorn FinTech company. He is also active as public speaker across Asia both offline and online, serving as President of NTU AA Indonesia and Alumni Advisory Board of Nanyang Business School, publishes two books and have biography published, and mentors for startups in various organizations. In his free time, Johnny hosts J-Talk Podcast at YouTube, Anchor and Spotify and does powerlifting. #startup #fintech #podcast #indonesia #powerlifting

베트남 전문의 최고 법률전문가인 법무법인 광장의 한윤준 변호사와 "한국기업의 베트남 진출시 고려할 법률이슈"에 대해 얘기를 나누어 봤습니다, 한윤준 변호사는 법무법인 광장의 파트너 변호사로 한국인 변호사로서는 베트남 투자관련 최초 그리고 최고 전문가이다. 삼성물산 상사 법무팀 및 다국적 기업인 Sybase Inc.의 사내변호사로서 기업법무에 대한 많은 경험과 사업에 대한 이해를 바탕으로 2006년 부터 수많은 한국계 기업의 베트남 진출에 대한 자문을 제공해 오면서 단순한 베트남 법률해석은 물론이고 한국기업의 needs에 맞는 사업적/구조적 자문 또한 가능하다는 것이 가장 큰 장점이라고 평가받고 있다. Han, Youn Joon is the Partner @ Lee & Ko, a top tier law firm in Korea. He is the first and best Korean lawyer practicing in Vietnam with respect to foreign investment in Vietnam. Since 2006, with his extensive experiences and corporate-generated understanding as the In-House Counsel for Samsung CT (Commercial Unit) and Sybase Inc., he had provided not only general advice regarding Vietnamese law, but also business/structure advices for the Korean companies developing Vietnam market. #베트남투자

Today’s guest is Will Lee, Founder and Chairman at Shareable Asset.

Will is a serial entrepreneur who started his entrepreneurial journey in Silicon Valley in 2011. With his knowledge from studying Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University, Will is on a mission of building a human-centered platform through the newest technologies. Prior to Shareable Asset, he established Blue Whale Foundation and Verlocal. Blue Whale Foundation is the organization of realizing a decentralized sharing economy system. He moved to Singapore in 2017 to realize the vision of Shareable Asset

In this episode, I speak to Ken Cage, President of International Recovery Group (ÏRG)

International Recovery Group is the premiere specialty asset company in the world. They repossess boats, airplanes, RVs, construction equipment and more. They have been featured in many print, TV and radio outlets, having consistently been called "The Ultimate Repo Men"

IRG is the premiere repossession and remarketing company in the world. They focus on high end repossessions and insurance claims cases. They have repossessed over 2,000 assets in 10 years and are currently handling insurance salvage and subrogation cases for many insurance companies.

A Moment of Magic Foundation operates on the mission of "restoring the magic of believing at a time when a child needs to 'just be a kid'​ and reminding them to be brave, strong, and fearless"​.

The most popular services include Princess Visits, Superhero Visits, Personality Visits, Athlete Visits, Direct Family Support, and Inter-family Connection. Our organization visits children in need free of charge to the institution.

They provide services such as individual visits, bedside visits, group visits, story readings, and special events- just to name a few. They are the largest organization of our kind with 16 chapters all over the United States and 500+ volunteers.

In this episode, I speak to Cory Willness, CEO - Croptimistic Technology and CropPro Consulting.

SWAT RECORDS and SWAT MAPS are owned and operated by Croptimistic Technology Inc. SWAT (Soil, water, and topography) MAPS is the #1 variable-rate fertilizer and seed map. The FREE SWAT RECORDS app for field scouting and crop record keeping syncs to the ultimate POWER DESKTOP SOFTWARE for complete farm agronomy management and is the proprietary software platform for SWAT MAPS.

CRAVE is a tech-enabled, social commerce platform that builds a celebrity’s fanbase in China and monetizes it.  CRAVE is the world’s first end-to-end solution for international celebrities to make money in the Chinese market with no cost to them.  Simply put, most Athletes, Celebrities and Influencers (we call them “ACI’s”) are making very little direct money in the Chinese market. There are several excellent reasons why this is the case, we call them

Athletes, Celebrities and Influencers (again, “ACI’s”) often have a small window of time to monetize their fame. They all want to make as much money off their fame while they can, and they are currently missing out on the seconds largest and richest markets in the world in China.

CRAVE solves the barriers to monetization in china by offering celebrity's a user- friendly technology platform and associated services suite to grow and monetize their fan base in China with relatively little effort and no cost:

In this episode, I speak to Ashley Dudarenok , founder and CEO of Alarice & ChoZan  , China Marketing Expert,  Global Speaker | 3x Bestselling Author

 

(1) Alarice (alarice.com.hk) is a social media agency. they develop tailored digital marketing strategy for China and execute it — eg. do consumer research and craft China marketing strategy, manage brand’s social media communities (WeChat, RED, Weibo, Douyin), develop content, execute campaigns, work with influencers and live streamers, etc. (2) ChoZan (chozan.co) is an insights and training company. They consult, educate and provide resources for in-house marketing & e-commerce teams to be successful in China.

Ashely and I talk about:

Her background and journey to China and founding Alarice & ChoZan

What problems she is solving now and How her business model works

About the market and target clients, 

Reinventing Business Models Post Pandemic (lessons form inland China and my now firm examples)

Her long-term vision for the entrepreneurial journey