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 China based CEO’ operating in the Coworking 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.

Yang Jin
CEO of Ucommune
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About Ucommune: Ucommune offers co-working space solutions to small-to-medium enterprises.
Bob Zheng
Co-Founder and CEO of People Squared
Bob Zheng is the founder and CEO of People Squared, a Shanghai based co-working space that provides well-equipped work environment for freelancers, self-employed professionals and startup teams to work together and build social connections. Prior to founding People Squared, Bob co-founded liuxueok.com, a social platform that connected Chinese high school students with western universities, so that students could get study-abroad consultations from schools directly. Being an entrepreneur for 5 years, Bob is very knowledgeable about the startup environment in China and has built good connections with many local startup communities, Internet/mobile Internet media and tech blogs, investment funds and agencies providing services to early-stage startups (such as law firms and government bureaus). He is also the curator for Shanghai Startup Digest and a mentor at Startup Weekend. Bob got his IT background in Canada, where he received a Bachelor degree from Simon Fraser University in Computing Science. Bob also served his professional life as software engineer and project manager at Suncor Energy, BC Hydro and Accenture (in Vancouver) before he returned to China and kicked off his own entrepreneurial endeavor.
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About People Squared: P2 startup space provides startup teams with a flexible and professional working environment comparable to that of Google’s office.
Zhang Jian
CEO of Nash Work
Zhang Jian | co-founder of the CEO Has 15 years of experience in the real estate industry and a wealth of industry resources, 6 years of successful entrepreneurial experience, and full participation in my love of my house management business development. Former co-founder of the investment partner, Albert I love my secretary and deputy general manager of the board.
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About Nash Work: Nash Work is a one-stop office solution for office infrastructure and integrated service operators.

Michelle Li
Founder and CEO of Sorority China
Michelle Li is the Founder and CEO of Sorority China. Born in Beijing, China and transplanted to the opposite end of the world to Eugene, Oregon, at a young age she experienced the diverse and polar opposite lifestyles of the East and West. After university in the US where she was a member of a sorority, she returned back to China to begin her career in the corporate world. Ten years later when she dreadfully blew out the candles on her 30th birthday cake, Michelle began the current and most exhilarating phase of her life. Entrepreneurship in China has brought her more wrinkles and sleepless nights then imagined, and finding the right people, partners and projects to work on have been more of a long marathon then simply business. However, her belief in the opportunity and freedom a young woman should have while working and living in China has been her driving passion for Sorority China.
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About Sorority China: Sorority China provides co-shared living and working spaces for the growing number of young professional women.
Miles River
Founder & CEO of Fountown
Miles River is Founder & CEO of Fountown.
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About Fountown: Fountown is a co-working space start-up.