april 14, 2018

emerging markets summit

as global markets shift, so should the way you do business

APAC - TECHNOLOGY 
"EXPORTING THE VALLEY? HOW ASIAN TECHNOLOGISTS ARE CHANGING THE BAY AREA MODEL"

While Silicon Valley still reigns as the world's #1 technology center, Beijing-based technology firms and startups are rapidly attracting users and investment, and Singapore is positioning itself as the technology hub for rising Southeast Asia. Bay Area success is still attractive to entrepreneurs the world over, but firms in Asia have adapted the West Coast startup model to their local environments, internationalizing and seeking state support much more rapidly than American firms. With Chinese firms rivaling US tech giants in fields as varied as AI and Southeast Asian eCommerce, what can Americans learn from Asian tech firms and entrepreneurs?

STELLa ZHOU, XP '18

Principal, Qiming Venture Partners

  • Stella is a Principal at Qiming Venture Partners. She has more than 10 years' experience in investment and financial service industry. She is responsible for the investments in Mogujie (#1 women e-commerce platform), Mafengwo (#1 social networking site in online travel), Wacai (mobile personal wealth management platform), Lagou (vertical approach online recruiting platform), Tuhu (#1 automobile after-sale e-commerce platform), Musical.ly (teenage social media platform for short videos), Luotianyi (Virtual celebrity family in ACG), Miaoshou Doctor (Prescription online and distribution network), Chuman (online comic platform for teenagers in China) and also Seed Fund investments including, Veer (video aggregator platform on VR devices), Qkuts (kids lifestyle offline chain), Chaonengjie (ACG short video tool and platform), etc.
  • Prior to Qiming, Stella worked in GE Capital Risk Management team based in Shanghai and HK and GE Global Financial Management Training Program for 4 years. She received a B.S.in Economical Sociology from Shanghai University of Finance & Economics. She holds an EMBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
  • Cyzone has recognized Stella as one of the "Top 40 under 40" early stage investors in China in 2016 and "Top 36 under 36" by 36Kr in 2017.

ROBIN LI, '14

Vice President, GGV Capital

  • Robin Li is a vice president in GGV Capital's Silicon Valley office. She focuses on investments in ecommerce and consumer internet. She is a member of the board of directors for Lively and is actively involved with Boxed, Bustle, Function of Beauty, musical.ly, Ibotta, OfferUp, Poshmark, Xiaohongshu, Yamibuy, and more.
  • Prior to joining GGV, Robin worked at Flextronics' Venture Arm covering hardware and technology investments and at Qiming's Beijing office. Before venture capital, she spent three years at Teach For America as a teacher and administrator.
  • Robin holds an M.B.A from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an M.S. from Hunter College in Education and Special Education, and a B.A. from Rutgers University in Art History and Economics.

BANKS BAKER, '05

Head of Global Product Partnerships - Search at Google

  • Banks Baker is Head of Global Product Partnerships for Google Search. Before moving back to the Bay Area last October, he ran the Google APAC Product Partnerships team out of Singapore. In Asia, his team was responsible for regional product go-to-market strategy across all Google advertiser-facing platforms and product prototyping and feature prioritization requests coming from APAC. Before moving to Singapore, he worked in the Americas News and Publishing Partnerships team for Google. He has also held senior roles in the travel and leisure industry at ClubCorp and Exclusive Resorts. Banks holds a MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA in Economics from the University of Arizona.

ZHIGUO HE

ZHIGUO HE, Professor of Finance and Faculty Director of Fama-Miller center at Chicago Booth

  • Professor Zhiguo He serves as a Professor of Finance, PhD area advisor, and Faculty Director of Fama-Miller center at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. His main research interest lies in the implications of agency frictions and debt maturities in financial markets and macroeconomics, with a special focus on contract theory and banking. He focuses the role of financial institutions in the 2007/08 global financial crisis, and his work has been published in leading academic journals including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics, and he is serving as Associate Editor for both Journal of Finance and Review of Financial Studies. Professor He is teaching a newly created elective MBA course on "Chinese Economy and Financial Markets." He is also conducting active academic research on Chinese financial markets that are undergoing rapid development these days, including stock market, local government debt, shadow banking, interbank markets, together with recent regulation changes.
  • Professor He is teaching a newly created elective MBA course on "Chinese Economy and Financial Markets." He is also conducting active academic research on Chinese financial markets that are undergoing rapid development these days, including stock market, local government debt, shadow banking, interbank markets, together with recent regulation changes.
  • Professor He received his bachelor and master degrees from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and obtained his PhD from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He has been named a 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, and has won numerous awards for his outstanding scholastic record, including Lehman Brothers Fellowship for Research Excellence in Finance in 2007, the Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award in 2012, the Smith-Breeden First Prize in 2012 and the Brattle Group First Prize in 2014. Before joining the Chicago Booth faculty in 2008, he worked as a stock analyst at the China International Capital Corporation in Beijing in 2001, and was visiting the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University as a post-doc fellow.