D Network

Recently named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter H. Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He is also the executive founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that counsels the world's leaders on exponentially growing technologies.

As an entrepreneur, Diamandis has started over 20 companies in the areas of longevity, space, venture capital and education. He is co-founder of BOLD Capital Partners, a venture fund with $250M investing in exponential technologies, co-founder and Vice Chairman of Celularity, Inc., a cellular therapeutics company, co-founder of Fountain Life, an innovative, fully-integrated platform delivering best-in-class predictive, preventative, personalized and data-driven health, and co-founder & Vice Chairman of COVAXX, a COVID-19 antibody and vaccine company.

Diamandis is a New York Times Bestselling author of three books: Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think, BOLD – How to Go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World and The Future is Faster Than You Think.

Jack Yang is the Former Chief Growth Officer of MissFresh - a leading fresh grocery e-commerce platform in China, Former VP of Product/Growth of Mobike - Chinese bike-sharing startup that was acquired by Meituan for more than $3B and Former Product Manager of Uber and Facebook.

Jack is currently working on a new startup and you can learn more about that in this episode of D Network podcast.

Mia Deng is a Partner at Dragonfly Capital, a global crypto-asset venture fund. Their first fund was $100M, and recently closed second fund has $225M of AUM. Dragonfly Capital is backed by firms like Sequoia Capital.

Previously Mia was a Founding Member and the Head of Business Development at Amber Group, a leading crypto finance platform and also Product Manager at Mobike, which was later sold to Meituan for more than $3B.

Dragonfly Capital website: https://www.dcp.capital/

Cody Hu is the founder of SupBro. SupBro is a Shenzhen-based sneaker care company. With only 11 employees, they're currently no. 1 in this industry in China and have collaborated with brands like Nike, Willson, Lining, Coca-Cola and stars like DJ Khaled and Ray Allen. SupBro is now getting ready to go global.

SupBro was established in 2016 and since then has sold more than 2 million products. The company is on its way to become world's largest sneaker care brand.

SupBro是目前发展最快的高端球鞋护理品牌，本公司建立于2016年6月，4年间在全球已经销售超200万个产品，每年参加球鞋及潮流展高达40场左右，年服务超过300万个球鞋爱好者。团队共同的梦想是做出最好的产品，通过大量和粉丝线上线下密切的交流和互动来获得客户的热爱，并且在这个过程中棒球球鞋热爱者解决一切关于如何护理球鞋的难题，据预测2022年Supbro将会成为全球最大的球鞋护理品牌公司。

Website: https://supbrousa.com/
Cody's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cody_supbro

Brian is an internet executive with over 20 years of management experience in e-commerce and digital media in Greater China, Asia, the United States, and Europe. Brian serves as the Founder and Chairman of RADII, an independent digital media platform dedicated to telling stories from the centre of China’s youth culture.

Prior to this, Brian was the Vice President of the Alibaba Group. During his sixteen-year tenure with the firm, Brian served as the Special Assistant to the Chairman for international affairs, the Executive Director of the Alibaba Global Leadership Academy (AGLA), and led Alibaba’s global sales, marketing, and business development operations across the globe.

Brian earned his Bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College, a Master’s certificate from the Johns Hopkins University – Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, and his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Brian was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2015. He is a China Aspen Fellow, and a member of the Committee of 100.

More about RADII:

Visit RADII at https://radiichina.com/ and http://radii.co/
Follow RADII on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RadiiChina
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Michael Wu is the Co-founder and CEO of Amber Group. Michael graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College. He was also a visiting scholar at Oxford University in the PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) program. Upon graduating in 2013, Michael returned to Asia to work as a macro trader with Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong and later joined a $500M+ hedge fund as a portfolio manager. At the end of 2017, Michael went on to pursue his startup idea full-time and founded Amber Group with five other partners from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Bloomberg.

Amber Group started as a traditional quantitative trading firm and in three years and now has grown into one of the world’s leading crypto finance service providers, operating 24/7 with a presence in Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, and Vancouver. In 2019, the company raised $28 million in a Series A funding led by Paradigm and Pantera, with participation from Polychain Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Blockchain.com, Fenbushi Capital, and Coinbase Ventures. In the same year, Michael Wu made Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Learn more about Amber: https://www.ambergroup.io/

Cindy Wang is the Chief Growth Officer of Weltmeister (威马汽车), a Chinese electric car (EV) brand. Weltmeister investors include Chinese technology companies Baidu and Tencent.

Prior to joining Weltmeister, Cindy was CMO of Uxin Group (China's largest online used car transaction platform) where she was in charge of the major marketing campaign with Leonardo DiCaprio and Head of Marketing of Uber China where she led growth practice and marketing strategy. Cindy graduated from Yale University and has worked in Asia, Europe, Middle East and North America.

https://www.wm-motor.com/en/

Dario La Torre is the Chief Commercial Officer of JUMIA Global. He has been leading the international growth of major international marketplaces like ZALORA (Global Fashion Group) and JUMIA Group, the number 1 e-commerce group in Africa. Dario has been based in Asia since 2012 and in China since 2017. He holds a Master of Science degree in International Business from Fudan University in Shanghai. Dario is extremely passionate about global sourcing and cross-border e-commerce

Website: https://www.jumia.com.ng/jumia-global/

Jumia Group is a company which operates a range of online marketplaces. The company was founded by Jeremy Hodara and Sacha Poignonnec in 2013. Its headquarters are currently in the Yaba area of Lagos, Nigeria. The company initially started out as the Rocket Internet Company. However, the rapid growth of the company allowed it to secure strategic investors, including CDC, Goldman Sachs, Orange, MTN and the Millicom group.

Jen Loong is a venture builder in Asia passionate about supporting founders to reach hyper-growth and social impact. Over her career, Jen started helping to bring lululemon and TOMS to China, and grew Alipay to US and Europe. She also founded her content startup WanderSnap, with creative services offered across SEA. She joined HYPE Asia as a Managing Director for the Greater China region, where she worked with portfolio founders in Carousell, Bakebe and Eatigo to expand into new regions. She is currently the Head of Portfolio Management at C Ventures, New World Development Group’s investments arm.

Jen's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenloong/

C Ventures is a venture capital firm bridging the West and the East, curating a global cultural ecosystem targeting the Millennials and the Z Generation, with a focus on disruptive businesses in technology, lifestyle and media.

C Ventures's website: https://www.c-venturesfund.com/en/

Alexander Petersen is the Co-founder and CEO of LAIBA Beverages, Asia’s leading bottled cocktail brand. The company has humble beginnings, starting in a small apartment – now, a short three years later, employing over 30 members of staff across 5 countries, with offices in Shanghai, Bangkok and London. Having secured millions of dollars in funding, LAIBA Beverages has gone on to partner with multiple hotels, airlines and cruise line companies worldwide, with their e-commerce platforms selling cocktails all across Asia, with Europe launching soon.

Website: http://laibabeverages.com/

Alex has lived in China for over 7 years and was previously the Managing Director for a Danish IT company. Alex was also the President for the Danish Young Professionals in China and was named the Danish Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year 2020. Recently, together with Peddlers Gin Company, LAIBA won the Visionary Award at the DRiNK Awards, the industry’s most prestigious award ceremony, for their Bar in a Bottle project which was released in February when Covid was hitting the bar industry in China the hardest. Earlier this year Alex also graduated from the local MBA, taught in Chinese, at Shanghai Jiaotong University.

EO Shanghai: https://www.eonetwork.org/shanghai