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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 Hong Kong based CEO’ operating in the Communities 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.
Leroy Yau
Co-Founder & CEO of Taiwan Startup Stadium
Leroy has extensive professional experiences in business and IT advisory services. He is a partner of 43 Ventures, a Hong Kong boutique investment and advisory firm that builds early-stage business ventures. He is also a executive director of Everiii, a new economy development and investment firm in Taiwan. Previously he was an Advisory partner at EY and has experiences in business operations, risk management, cybersecurity, and financial and internal controls.
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About 43 Ventures, Taiwan Startup Stadium: Taiwan Startup Stadium (TSS) is a ecosystem builder in Asia that works to help Taiwanese startups go global and rock the world.
Pak Hou Chau
Founder and CEO of Breakthrough
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About Breakthrough, Oction, Star Academy, WOW App: Breakthrough aims to empower people around the world to achieve their dreams, through personal development and organization.
Sachin Doshi
Founder & CEO of Weave Living
Sachin Doshi currently works as the founder and CEO at Weave Co-Living, a collaborative living company that creates residential communities in major cities across the Asia Pacific region. He also founded Emerald Lake, a real estate private equity firm that focuses on the incubation of innovative real estate operating businesses in the Asia Pacific region. He previously worked as managing director and head of private real estate investments, Asia Pacific at APG Asset Management. Sachin attended Australian National University and took bachelor of engineering and bachelor of science in systems engineering and physics.
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About Weave Living: Weave Living is a collaborative living company that creates residential communities in major cities across the Asia Pacific region.
Luke Cheng
CEO & Founder of K-Town Hub
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About K-Town Hub: K-Town Hub is the collective workspace solution with diverse services and distributed offices in Hong Kong.
Harris Sun
CEO & Co Founder of Arkvida
Serial entrepreneur. Passionate in innovation and exploration. Previously he was one of the founding member of the innovation centre in the Cathay Pacific Airways. Award winners of multiple startup competitions. Impactful leader in innovation. An extremely hard working individual bursting with innovative ideas and solutions who built incredible trust and respect from the stakeholders. Very committed to getting things done and also creative in problem solving. He graduated in the computer science in the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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About Arkvida: Arkvida aim to leverage on technology and innovation to bring a better quality of living.
Edwin Wong
Founder & CEO of Cloudbreakr
Edwin Wong, founder of Advwhere, once described the best influence as something that “explain the secret behind influence”. It’s about creating an influence that can leads the trend. And for Advwhere, the most amazing thing is to discover the influential groups who turn a pure message into the next hot topic. “Predicting the trend by understanding the influence”, that’s my belief.
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About Cloudbreakr: Cloudbreakr is a media analytics company based on big data and AI analysis, with business operations in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, etc.
Elaine Tsung
Founder & CEO of Garage Society
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About Garage Society: Garage Society is a community and platform for the entrepreneurial lifestyle.
Richard Au
Founder & CEO of Healthy Loved Ones
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About Healthy Loved Ones: HealthyLovedOnes is a social enterprise with a non-profit charity.
Anna Wong
Co-founder, CEO of Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide
Anna pursues a balanced life in the aspects of physical, mental, social and spiritual, delivering her best in work and fully utilize her capabilities and potential; and continuing to learn, grow and share. Anna loves technology, new generation businesses and disruptive business models. She is a speaker at conferences, universities and TEDx, and PR partner/advisor for local and overseas startups, and leading companies. She is the Co-founder of Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide, an international platform of businesswomen, professional and corporate leaders. Anna is strong at strategic planning, stakeholders engagement, crisis management, project execution, market entry and growth, and cost effectiveness analysis. She worked for world’s leading communications agencies, O&M and Edelman, responsible for designing integrated communications and marketing strategies to promote global brands especially in Asia Pacific. Accounts include GSK, Pfizer, Novartis, Bayer, Starbucks, Wyndham Hotel Group, The Economist, ebay & BOC.
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About Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide: Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide (FEW) is a female-founders platform that offers business skills and connections to women.
Lily Ng
Chief Executive Officer of Foodie Group
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About Foodie Group: Foodie brings together people with a real passion and love for all things food and drink.
Cesar Harada
CEO of Scoutbots
Cesar Harada is a French-Japanese Inventor, environmentalist and entrepreneur who is currently developing “Protei” – a revolutionary shape shifting sailing robot to explore and protect the ocean with open source technologies. Cesar won the FastCompany 2015 Most Innovative 10 Companies in China title, StartMeUp HK Grand Award 2014, GOOD100 2014, Gulfstream Navigator Award 2012, TED Senior Fellow 2011, ARS Electronica Golden Nica [NEXT IDEA] (Austria) 2009. Cesar worked at MIT as project leader (USA), construction manager of the *iHub_ Nairobi (Kenya) used to teach Masters of “Design and Environment” at Goldsmiths University (UK). He holds an MA from Design Interactions Department at the Royal College of Arts London and an MA from ENSAD Paris.
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About MakerBay, Scoutbots: Scoutbots is the community that develops “Protei” the open hardware shape shifting sailing robot to collect ocean data.
Virginie Morin
CEO, Founder of Luxe Observer
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About Luxe Observer: Luxe Surveyor is a digital facilitator for Luxury off line experiences in a virtuous co-creation circle.
