Jacob founded the Maker Sustainability Consulting (MSC) in 2015, China's first and only strategy-based sustainability consulting firm, with the vision to help Chinese enterprises develop their sustainability strategies and help international companies localize theirs to fit China’s circumstances.

In the past 5 years, Jacob has led his team to assist 200+ top-tier domestic and international enterprises. The cases they have accomplished ensure that sustainability efforts are anchored in business fundamentals and demonstrate a clear return on investment. Those efforts are then firmly embedded within our clients' strategy, management, operation, product, and innovation, etc.

From Alibaba’s Charity Day to Kwai’s Rural Entrepreneur Program, from L’Oréal’s Brandstorm to State Grid’s Yangtze River Protection Plan, from KFC’s free umbrella rental to Tencent’s technology fair, MSC has made sustainability efficient to implement, easy to understand, and widely adopted in daily life; and the impact has reached millions of people in cities and rural areas, contributing to a sustainable future.

Jacob was nominated by the “Forbes 30 Under 30 China List” in 2018, followed by the title “United Nations Sustainable Development Goals China Youth Leader” in 2019. Jacob was also recognized by the former Prime Minister of Thailand and the Japanese Cabinet to give advice on their sustainability strategies.

Howard Wang joined Hill & Associates in 2019 and oversees the firm’s operations across seven offices in Asia. Mr. Wang specializes in fraud investigations, corporate compliance, security consulting, and crisis management in Asia and has in-depth industry knowledge of pharmaceutical, automobile, manufacturing, and modern service sectors.

Prior to H&A, Mr. Wang gained more than 12 years of experience in both public and private sectors – most recently a seven-year career as a Principal at Control Risks, a leading global risk consultancy. Mr. Wang also served two years at EY’s forensics and integrity services as a senior accountant in China. Throughout his career, Mr. Wang has led more than 250 financial statement fraud investigations, US FCPA due diligence and assessments, contract and procurement investigations, crisis and security engagements, conflict of interest investigations, litigation support matters, and tax-related investigations in China and Australasia.

Mr. Wang lived and worked in New Zealand for nine years, including three years as an Investigations Officer with the Inland Revenue Department, where he led a number of tax evasion and avoidance investigations for clients ranging from high-wealth individuals to large corporations. He speaks fluent English and Mandarin Chinese.

Li was born in Luoyang, Henan, a province that holds the title of China’s third largest coal production base as well as being one of the four ancient capitals of China. Having been adopted by distant family members and moved to Chongqing, Li witnessed, through the eyes of a curious child, the complete demolition and urban transformation after Chongqing’s municipality independence in 1997. She then gained a first-hand understanding of the intertwining relationship between China’s political economy and the individual choices made by influential members in the world's most populous nation.

Li was fortunate to have completed her undergraduate studies in the UK and soon after, she won a full merit-based scholarship to study at the University of Oxford. She completed a Master’s degree in Contemporary China studies with a focus on politics and international relations.

After graduation, she moved to South Africa and conducted ethnographical research on China’s soft power influence across continental Africa, addressing how local entrepreneurs were responding to the rise of Asia.

Li returned to Shanghai in 2015 to run Oxford Bright Scholars, a non-profit, which offered summer experiences to international students passionate about understanding China’s economic transformation and political governance structure. The program ran for two summers, partnered with NYU Shanghai, and supported 15 undergraduate students throughout their academic and professional careers in China.

Working closely with entrepreneurs, university professors, and ASEAN policymakers, Li spent the next 12 months working to ensure that the rise of Asia could better orientate towards equity and sustainability. As Head of Partnerships, she went on to develop and design a new educational program initiative for Alibaba’s Global eCommerce Talent Program, training and developing educational frameworks for more than 200 university professors across China and South East Asia.

Li continued to build the platform from its inception, to its recognition at 2019’s China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Week, where 62 universities are represented with partners across 22 countries.

Chen Ling holds a Master of Urban Design from Harvard University, practiced in well-known firms such as KPF in New York, Kengo Kuma, and Ma Yansong MAD.

As the founder of Studiolite, his areas of expertise are overarching whole industry chain strategy, management and operation thinking into the practice of experiential business space, new retail and operation strategy, design implantation of science and technology and art, cultural architecture and urban space and fine customization design.

He has cooperated with hundreds of different types of organizations and companies in the new century, such as Fosun, Greenland Sun Hung Kai, Beijing Olympic Park, Lenovo Group, Lady M New York, Mahua FunAge, Chen Guang Group, Audi Automobile, Tencent Wechat, Shanghai Airport Group, Jcdecaux and so on.

He has been doing crossovers with Audi, Flowerplus, Today Art Museum, and other brands. He was awarded the Bauhaus Private-sphere Design Award of Germany; Asian AOM Outstanding Design Award in 2017 and was invited to give a keynote speech on Harvard University's Asian Real Estate visiting in 2017. In 2018, he was selected to join the Global Shaper Shanghai hub of World Economic Forum. In August 2018, he was invited to give a keynote speech 'Design without limits - to be an architect beyond architecture' at TEDx, with more than 2.66 million readings on the Internet. In December 2018, he was invited to teach a series of "New Experience of Data Enabling" courses at Tongji University.

In April 2019, the installation artwork "THE WALL" was selected by [Continuous Anti-YING], the global environmental protection theme art exhibition, exhibited with 35 international art masters. In October 2019, he was selected by Forbes China's 2019 30 Under 30 elite list of art and fashion industry and Hurun under 30s entrepreneurial leader. He was also a CCTV international channel design and new retail industry commentator. In July, he was selected by APEC The Voices of the Future elite list 2020.

Neo is a post-90s entrepreneur and founder of China's "HEYTEA" and the current CEO of Shenzhen Meixixi Catering Management Co., Ltd.

In 2012, the first tea drink shop "Royal Tea" (the predecessor of HEYTEA) opened in the alley of Jiangmen, Guangdong, which started with the original cheese milk cover tea and opened the road to entrepreneurship;

In 2016, HEYTEA had more than 50 stores nationwide, and in August of the same year it received a 100 million yuan A round of financing jointly with IDG Capital and Robust's founder He Boquan;
In 2018, HEYTEA Company raised 400 million yuan and started digital operations through independent research and development of the "HEYTEA GO" app;

As of 2020, HEYTEA has more than 500 stores in more than 47 cities at home and abroad, with more than 26 million online users.

In August 2018, Neo was selected for Forbes China "30 elites under 30" list; In 2019, he was selected by Forbes Asia's "30 Elites Under 30" list for 2019.

Mr. Weiqi Zhang grew up in Shanghai before going to Harvard University for college. He was one of the only four undergraduate students admitted by Harvard from Mainland China in 2006. At Harvard, Mr. Zhang majored in Social Studies and graduated with high honors. After graduation, he worked as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School, where he published nearly ten Harvard business case studies. In 2012, Mr. Zhang decided to return to China to pursue his passion for education.

Mr. Zhang is the founder and CEO of Blue Oak, a Shanghai-based education start-up that empowers international education in China through online and offline channels. Blue Oak engages nearly a million Chinese parents daily through its social network platform by providing quality educational information and a close-knit online community. The organization also offers innovative education solutions through three international school programs in Shanghai and Chongqing.

Blue Oak has raised more than 10 million RMB from well-known angel investors and the Ping’an Group, one of China’s largest banking and insurance companies. Under Mr. Zhang’s leadership, Blue Oak has built partnerships with schools in the US, Canada, and the UK. It has been tirelessly promoting international education through its immense parent platform and school network. Amid the current backlash against globalization around the world, Blue Oak’s role in connecting people through education is crucial.

Outside of work, Mr. Zhang is passionate about supporting non-profit organizations and charities. He is the co-founder of the Harvard China Education Symposium, one of the largest North American organizations focusing on education issues in China. He has also served as the Secretary and VP for the Harvard Club of Shanghai. In the past few months, he has organized campaigns to send more than 10 thousand masks from China to healthcare workers in the US, an effort covered in the New York Times.

Paddy Robertson is in an aerospace engineer, and graduated top of his class from Bristol, UK in 2012. He has lived and worked in 6 countries, having spent the last 5 years in China. His background growing up on an organic farm in rural Wales has given him a passion to help protect the environment. Paddy moved to China in 2015 aiming to use his skills and passion to contribute towards tackling China’s environmental and social issues.

In 2016, he joined Smart Air as CEO and has spent the past 4 years driving it to great success. Smart Air is an Asia-based social enterprise and registered B-Corp fighting the health effects of air pollution. In 2018 Paddy led Smart Air to become the 11th registered B-Corp in China. In 2019, he led Smart Air to become only one of a handful of registered social enterprises in the country.

In 2019, he was awarded the ‘2019 Social Innovator Top 10’ award by well-known Chinese media ‘Social Innovator’. In the same year, the World Innovators Meet 2019 selected him out of thousands of candidates as ‘2019 Foreign Technology Entrepreneurs 30 in China’, recognizing his tireless efforts in social innovation, which have led to outstanding business results.

Paddy’s experience in product design, cross-cultural communication, and high commitment to the community have seen Smart Air launch the world’s most cost-effective air purifier (The Sqair), expand to 6 new countries, and increase its social impact tenfold in the space of four years.

Paddy regularly works with social innovation platforms to run mentoring sessions. He believes his efforts can help develop China’s social innovation community and lead to a greater impact in the country. He’s held talks on social innovation with B Corp China, Impact Hub Shanghai, Startup Grind, Yanching Academy, PIM, and Beijing Energy Network. When not in Smart Air’s Beijing Headquarters, he's most likely to be found meeting like-minded social entrepreneurs across Asia or promoting clean air and social entrepreneurship at one of Smart Air’s other bases in India, Philippines, Mongolia, Bangladesh, and Thailand,

In the first half of 2020, Paddy has doubled down on his efforts to help society. He’s worked round the clock to find ways to reduce the health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. His articles on COVID-19 (covering DIY face masks, air purifiers, and more) have been read over 6 million times, and his videos on YouTube have been watched over 300,000 times. He has also been featured by BBC, Bloomberg, and the NYTimes.

Jill Tang is the co-founder of Ladies Who Tech, a social enterprise focusing on changing the status quo and promotes gender diversity and inclusion in STEM industry through recruitment, education and community. It connects more than 30,000+ members across all social media in greater China and now has a presence in 9 cities including Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

Jill is a 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit alumni and has been selected as the only female entrepreneur from Shanghai to participate in GES 2016. She has also worked with corporate role models such as Bayer, Walt Disney, GM, Google, IKEA, PayPal, eBay, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Adobe, SAP, ANZ, PwC, and more. It has also worked with conference brands like CES Asia, RISE HK, World Artificial Intelligence Conference, 2050, Mobile World Congress Shanghai, and Global Future Mobility to showcase women’s engagement and contribution. Ladies Who Tech was also the finalist for the Small Medium Enterprise and Social Impact Award for the 2019 Australia China Business Award.

Forbes China, the Guardian, BBC, Technode, Paper, CGTN, and CNN also reported her work. Jill is the finalist for the 2016 Australia China Young Alumni of the year and top 100 Gen T in China by Asia Tatler in 2019.

She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Latrobe University, Master of Applied Finance from Monash University, and MBA from Melbourne Business School.

Ana is an entrepreneur and business leader from Portugal with a background in innovation and food. Prior to coming to China, Ana successfully built and sold her own company: ‘ILovemi – my intelligent food’ where she was bringing personalized nutrition, ready-made meals to consumers doorsteps’. After landing in China, Ana spent one year working with and coaching young entrepreneurs as part of the accelerator XNode to help entrepreneurs build their business from scratch. However, Ana couldn’t help her self: the entrepreneurial bug caught her again: She joined Goma as a General Manager and Partner.

At Goma, Ana and her team are on a mission to:
1. Provide fresh, organic, and locally sources vegetables and fruits consumers by means of a weekly subscription-based vegetable box through Goma Greens.
2. Change unhealthy eating behavior by providing healthy and nutritious foods and snacks to consumers and stimulate a plant-based diet.
3. Help farms to grow in a sustainable and efficient way by dedicating 10% of the profits to the farms and bring agriculture expertise from the Goma team to farmers.

In their products, Goma packs with close to 0 plastic, and its products have no pesticides to minimize the impact on the environment and health. Moreover, 70% of the delivery cartoon boxes are reused. Goma serves 100’s of customers on a weekly basis and has been growing rapidly since Ana started her tenure as a general manager.

Ana also serves as a board member of IPWS – the International Professional Women Association – where she brings together women in Shanghai to inspire and empower each other professionally.

Ana holds a BSc. In Nutritional Science and an MSc. in Healthy Food Innovation Management and has successfully published a research paper on the topic of vertical farming and its impact on crop nutrients.