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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Beijing based CEO’ operating in the Education space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jian Luo
Founder & CEO of Huohua Siwei
Jian Luo is the founder and CEO of Huohua Siwei, a leading online education company in mathematics for children. Previously, Jian served as a co-founder and CTO of Ganji. He is also a proud dad of two sons who ignited his passion for education.
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About Huohua Siwei: Huohua Siwei is a China-based online education platform for K-12 children, specializing in math & science.
Richard Coward
CEO and Founder of China Admissions
Richard Coward is the CEO and founder of China Admissions
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About China Admissions: Apply online to Chinese universities
Michael Shang
CEO of EasyTransfer
An entrepreneur with background in business administration, finance, accounting, marketing, education, investor relationships in China, Hong Kong and the United States. My vision is to build a unique service company to help improve the life of Chinese overseas students and their families. Specialties: Business administration, Business development, Finance and Marketing.
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About EasyTransfer: The leading international student tuition payment platform in China.
Cindy Mi
Founder & CEO of VIPKID
Cindy Mi is the founder and CEO of VIPKID, an education technology company that connects K-8 students in China with teachers in North America for online English immersion. Founded in 2013, VIPKID has become one of China’s leading education startups, growing 40% month over month and attracting investments from Northern Light Venture Capital, Innovation Works, Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital, YF Capital, Learn Capital and Bryant Stibel. VIPKID, which offers a progressive pedagogy based on the Common Core curriculum, now serves over 600,000 students from all of China’s provinces.The company is regularly featured in the Chinese media and has won accolades from technology giants like Tencent. Ms. Mi, a lifelong entrepreneur, is passionate about the power of education to transform and empower students, parents and teachers. Prior to founding VIPKID, she was a classroom teacher and a co-founder of ABC English, a tutoring company, where she led business development and campus expansion across China. She serves on the advisory boards of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Alumni Association and Learn Lab, an education accelerator
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About VIPKID: VIPKid connects teachers in North America with children around the world for real-time English immersion learning online
Peter Ross
Founder & CEO of Universal Education
Peter is the Founder and CEO of Universal Education to which he brings years of international experience, and a vision of improving educational opportunities and outcomes for students, teachers and professionals all over the world. Peter has lived in 8 different countries which led him to realize maximizing the benefits of education requires innovative approaches through new combinations of curriculum, pedagogy, and technology. After seeing so many trying to navigate and succeed in the complex international education system, Peter was inspired to apply his business knowledge to solve these challenges. By founding Universal Education, Peter has sought to synthesize his education, international exposure, and business experience in impactful ways for everyone.
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About Universal Education: Universal Education provides access to education for students, teachers, and professionals around the world.
Liu Ye
CEO of Knowbox
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About Knowbox: Knowbox, an education mobile app start-up focused on helping students and teachers manage their homework.
Huang Jiajia
Founder&CEO of 51Talk
Jia Huang is the founder of 51Talk, a Beijing-based online ESL company providing English lessons for Chinese learners. Prior to that, he worked at Mitsubishi, Japan. Huang graduated from Tsinghua University. In 2007, he started a business with his classmates before graduating as a Japanese major. They set up an online Chinese training school that focuses on Japanese language. Later on, Huang established 51 Talk in 2011.
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About 51Talk: 51Talk is an online english school providing one-to-one foreign language teaching services.
Minhong Yu
Founder&Chairman&CEO of New Oriental Education & Technology Group
Minhong Yu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental, a company providing a comprehensive range of educational services. Yu is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New Oriental, Yu was an English instructor at Peking University between 1985 and 1991. Yu received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Peking University. Minhong Yu is the Director of Kidstone.
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About Aplus Labs, Hongtai Capital Holdings, New Oriental Education & Technology Group: New Oriental Education & Technology Group offers a wide range of educational programs, services, and products.
James LaLonde
Co-Founder and CEO of yoli
James LaLonde has been a founder of several successful startups including Yodo1 (mobile gaming) and yoli (mobile-based education) all based in China. He started his career at Microsoft in 1990 and since then has held a number of executive roles in companies such as McAfee (Intel), Brocade Communications Systems. An American based in Silicon Valley, he has been a long time resident in Asia (Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai and currently Beijing) developed an impressive list of industry contacts in software, telecommunications, gaming, mobile, messaging, cloud computing and eCommerce. James LaLonde reads, writes and speaks Japanese, Chinese fluently in addition to his native English. During his Microsoft days in Japan he wrote a bestselling book in Japanese. In 2018 he wrote “The Tao of Startups” that is a best seller in both English and Chinese. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HMBFSZ3/
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About Yodo1, yoli: yoli is a mobile English learning platform that connects English learners with tutors.
Gan Ling
Founder and CEO of Meishubao
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About Meishubao: Meishubao is an online painting learning platform for children.
Yifan Chen
Founder and CEO of 6APT
Yifan Chen (陈一凡) is the founder and CEO of 6APT, an online booking platform for international apartments. He is also the founder of Tongwei Sichuang Network Technology (Beijing) Company Limited. He completed his higher studies in Britain and established his own business in China, in 2012.
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About 6APT, Red Date Technology: 6APT is an online platform that enables students to find and book apartments from anywhere.
Ji Xiaohua
Founder & CEO of Guokr
Ji Xiaohua is a Founder & CEO at Guokr.
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About Fenda, Guokr: Guokr a popular mobile and web-based community for science and technology education
Linfeng Yang
Co-Founder, CEO of Onion Math
Linfeng Yang, co-founder and CEO of Onion Math
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About Onion Math: Onion Math is an online education platform.
Runa Jiang
Founder & CEO of Fiberead
Founder & CEO at Fiberead
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About Fiberead: Book translating combine with self-publishing.
David Shen
CEO of GEC Academy
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About GEC Academy: GEC Academy is an education training company targeting Y12 .
Guy Sivan
Founder and CEO of Vericant
Guy graduated Summa Cum Laude from Columbia University with a dual Computer Science and Electrical Engineering degree. Immediately after graduating, he flew to Hong Kong to raise seed money then went to Beijing to found his first startup. Since then Guy has been a serial entrepreneur in China and in 2010 sold his third startup’s core technology to a publicly listed company. Guy Currently works as co-founder of Vericant, a company that helps US schools better understand their Chinese applicants through on-demand video interviews. Guy is also an advisor for several other startup companies. Outside the office you will most likely find Guy on the field playing Ultimate Frisbee or on the phone with someone, somewhere speaking Hebrew, English or Mandarin.
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About Vericant: Vericant helps academic institutions identify their top Chinese applicants via 3rd-party video interviews & spoken English evaluation.
Hou Xianhui
Co-Founder & CEO of Sanjieke
Hou Xianhui is a Co-Founder and CEO at Sanjieke.
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About Sanjieke: Sanjiekeis an online education platform targeting IT professionals.
Zhao Zichun
CEO of Koala Reading
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About Koala Reading: Koala Reading is a children’s reading app platform.
Jianhong Wang
Founder and CEO of Aixuetang
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About Aixuetang: Aixuetang is an online education service provider for primary and secondary schools.
Jin Yan
Co-Founder & CEO of Jike Xueyuan
Born in a family of teachers, love programming, programming is a confident belief. 2002 was admitted to Beijing University of Posts of Computer Science, “Introduction to Computers” freshman courses on hanging branches, after the study room overnight programming to enhance programming skills by running code, junior professor Kuang Jian met, began to understand the most important thing is to learn programming combat. After writing the first mainland Chinese Android development tutorial “Google Android development of entry and actual combat,” and founded China’s largest mobile developer community eoe in 2009; in 2011 to join AAMA Ya-jie Chamber of Commerce, has become the youngest period of six AAMA students; geeks College founded in 2014, in July to become the only selected Chinese venture accelerator Microsoft IT career online education company, is committed to providing the highest quality of professional education for the IT practitioners, upgrade their skills and pay, eventually get better jobs development Mechanism; 2015 Legend of the Star venture CEO selected Gifted classes, while studying Li Keqiang’s visit Zhongguancun venture street, geeks College into the only met online education company.
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About Jike Xueyuan: Jike Xueyuan is a online education company
Chuan Li
Co-Founder, President and CEO of Gaosi Education Group
Chuan Li is the Co-Founder, President and CEO at Gaosi Education Group.
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About Gaosi Education Group: Gaosi Education Group is a Chinese educational and training institution that provides services for middle and primary schools.
Yu Zou
Co-Founder, Vice President and CEO of Gaosi Education Group
Yu Zou is the Co-Founder, Vice President & CEO at Gaosi Education Group
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About Gaosi Education Group: Gaosi Education Group is a Chinese educational and training institution that provides services for middle and primary schools.
Yan Wang
Co-Founder, Vice President and CEO of Gaosi Education Group
Yan Wang is the Co-Founder, Vice President and CEO at Gaosi Education Group.
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About Gaosi Education Group: Gaosi Education Group is a Chinese educational and training institution that provides services for middle and primary schools.
Vincent Wen
CEO and Founder of Talkmate
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About Talkmate: Allowing people to learn an entire language within only 200 hours of work.
Zhang Fu
Founder and CEO of Qingteng Cloud Security
Zhang Fu is a Founder at Qingteng Cloud Security.
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About Qingteng Cloud Security: Qingteng Cloud Security is a SaaS-based cloud security company focusing on the endpoint adaptive security.
Chunna Zhu
Founder and CEO of Micro language
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About Micro language: Micro language is a Beijing-based online english learning platform.
Julia Huang
Chief Executive Officer of Chinaedu
Julia Huang has served as our Chairman since September 2007, and our Chief Executive Officer since June 2000. Prior to joining us, she worked for Ernst & Young Management Consulting (New York) Group and Merck & Co. from 1993 to 1999. Julia Huang holds an MBA from Columbia Business School with concentrations in finance and international business, and a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Microbiology from University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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About Chinaedu: ChinaEdu Corporation is a leading educational services provider in China.
Haoran Yu
Founder and CEO of Jisuanke
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About Jisuanke: Online Computer Science Program for Producing Top-class Engineers
Gang Wang
Founder & CEO of ApplySquare
Gang Wang is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of ApplySquare. He was selected into the“Sea Poly Project of Beijing Overseas Talents Program”, and awarded as the “Top 10 Returning Talent”and“Beijing Distinguished Expert”by the government. Prior to ApplySquare, Gang Wang earned his Ph.D. degree in Operations Management and the master degree in Statistics and Operations Research from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Besides, he obtained a double major in Mathematics/Physics and Economics at Tsinghua University.
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About ApplySquare: ApplySquare is a global, data-driven company committed to promoting the development and research of higher education.
Xin Deng
CEO and Founder of Xueda
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About Xueda: Xueda is a national provider of tutoring services for primary and secondary school students in China.
Li Peng
CEO and Founder of Qiniu School
Li Peng is the CEO and Founder of Qiniu Business School.
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About Qiniu School: Qiniu School is a provider of personal finance online course.
Hong Liang
CEO of ViewShare
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About ViewShare: ViewShare is an educational video content provider in China.
Hong Liang
CEO of ViewShare
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About ViewShare: ViewShare is an educational video content provider in China.
Jack Huang
Co-Founder & CEO of Xuexibao
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About Xuexibao: XueXiBao, a homework help app, is the latest educational tech startup in China
