Sharon Yang is the Chief Human Resources Officer of SPD Silicon Valley Bank (SSVB). SSVB is the first technical bank in China focusing on supporting innovation companies. The past 20 plus years of Sharon’s work experience includes a number of HR roles spanning across a variety of industries and locations, including Banking, Real Estate Consulting, Renewable Energy and Engineering industries. Sharon is the founding member of VHR, and career mentor of SAIF FMBA and SUFE IMBA programs.

Tony Ling is an inspiring HR leader whose professional journey spans over 25 years. His previous roles include CHO of OYO Hotel, General Manager of HR at Wanda Culture Group, Vice President and CHO at SF Express Co., Ltd, VP of HR at Dianping, HR director at IBM Greater China and VP of HR at AstraZeneca.

Tony Ling is also a seasoned investor. He is currently the Committee Chair for Human Resources at AmCham Shanghai.

Peter Cheng is the founding Managing Partner at Eminence Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on China’s early-stage enterprise cloud investment. Prior to his venture capital career, Peter was the General Manager of Advertising Platform & Products at Tencent, and a Tencent Outstanding GM Award winner. He was also co-founder, COO, Board member and an angel investor of AdChina, the leading digital advertising platform that was acquired by Alibaba. Prior to founding AdChina, he was VP of Product Management at Adify, a Silicon Valley advertising infrastructure startup that enabled entrepreneurs and media companies to build vertical ad networks and was acquired by Cox for $300 million. Peter also held senior management positions at eBay, including Head of Product responsible for eBay’s global Internet marketing products and initiatives. Before joining eBay, Peter served as a group product manager at Vividence (acquired by Keynote Systems and then Dynatrace). Peter started his career at FedEx as a senior marketing analyst and then joined Oracle as a product manager building its ERP and CRM applications.

Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Jiao Tong University and an MBA degree from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Tony Yang is currently the president of Tezign. Before this role, he was the CMO & SVP of Alibaba Digital Media & Entertainment Group from 2016 to 2019. His previous roles include SVP of VML and VP for Strategic Business Development of im2.0.