Yvonne is a member of Hearst Asia Investment Committee, and has more than 20 years’ of global top 500 enterprises IPO, merger and acquisition professional management experience in media, exhibitions, event marketing and entertainment business, focusing on enterprise investment merger, post merger integration and operation, strategic planning and development. Yvonne holds EMBA from University of Southern California-Marshall Business School, Bachelor of Accounting and Finance Degree from California State University, and is a qualified Certified Public Accountant-California, USA. Before joining Hearst Corporation, she was CFO/VP for Shared Services Center of Reed Exhibition, a world number one exhibition organizer.

Hearst Media China affects millions of audiences on the basis of the total circulation of more than 12 million magazines audience per month; also on new media platforms including APPs, social media, TV, web, etc. Hearst Media China is highly influential in high-end female audiences and plays a leading role in digital fashion media.

Barbara Ex is the Founder and CEO of WhiteSpace, a sharing economy business that offers flexible, affordable short-term meeting and training room space. A ‘mini-unicorn’, WhiteSpace has been profitable since the day it opened its doors, and is now ready to scale across China’s local business communities.

Barbara’s lifelong interest has been the application of cutting edge technology to open up new markets, enable strategy and transform existing business models. As a general manager in the manufacturing industries in the 1990s, she was a leading edge adopter of B2B e-commerce models. She was also responsible for commercial business development for an energy data SaaS company in China.

Barbara moved to China in 2005, and has more than a decade of experience in working in both multinational and Chinese companies. Barbara holds an MBA from London Business School and both Bachelors and Masters degrees in Chemical Engineering from MIT.

Ruiwen is China’s most influential platform for women in the workplace. Daisy is also the Chairman of “She Power Organization,” and has personally mentored 3,000 professional women in her seasoned career. She is also a founding partner of Talent Lead head hunting and consulting agency. Daisy is a graduate of University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business EMBA program.

Founded in 2015, Sorority China is a pioneer in providing safe and affordable coshared living and working spaces for women. Born in China and raised in the U.S., Michelle later returned to Beijing with a firm belief in the independence and support young women should have while trying to grow their own careers and life experiences in China. Thus, Sorority China was founded on the principle of a mutually supportive sisterhood community to “let now women feel alon e,” since then Michelle and her team have opened two projects in Shanghai with a third to open in early 2018 in Beijing. Prior to embarking on her own start-up, Michelle led overseas investment for Chinese capital in the Fashion and Retail industry, was Head of China for leading U.K.-based CEO leadership development firm Xinfu, and was responsible for training and customer satisfaction programs at Mercedes-Benz.

Nayoung Mathiesen is a serial entrepreneur with entrepreneurial and professional background from S. Korea, USA, Norway, Singapore before arriving in Shanghai in 2014. Currently, besides co-chairing the Entrepreneurship Committee at AmCham, Nayoung is running her startup (www.stiachina.com) creating interactive, bite-size digital training content for the Senior Care sector in China. STIA's content is for training caregivers as well as giving necessary information to the seniors and their family members.

Ekaterina Lambert is Founder and CEO of FASHICON APP. It’s a P2P platform with 25k user base, just launched in April 2017 to connect people who love fashion with professionals from the fashion industry. FASHICON is a community of passionate, confident, unique people that help each other to improve in style, in self-confidence as well as promote and grow their business. Born in Russia, Ekaterina is also a fashion blogger, young fashion designer and since a young age interested in design and creating something different, which she believes is the driving passion that has led her to create FASHICON. Ekaterina holds a Bachelors degree in Journalism from Ural Gorkey University and Bachelors degree in Fashion design and technology from IFA Paris.

Shiny Chen is the founder of Shinijia, a real estate company which focuses on creating uniquely designed co-living spaces. It has created about 700 units shared apartment rooms, servicing thousands of Chinese and international young students and professionals in the downtown districts of Shanghai. Now Shinijia is building a B2C platform for uniquely designed apartments, community in the cities, and co-living buildings.

Zoe Z. Pollack is a seasoned fashion designer, brand builder and business operator with over 17 years experience ranging from large famous brands to innovative start-ups. As a new mother excited by the huge market in one of the fastest growing fashion segments, Zoe joined as a founding partner in a childrenswear brand at the end of 2014. Within 3 years, the brand grew revenues 800%, and grew a fan base of 60,000 followers. With early success comes even greater energy and enthusiasm, and Zoe is just getting started.