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This list showcases the top Hong Kong 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.
Andrew Fitzmaurice
CEO & Director of Nord Anglia Education
Mr. Fitzmaurice has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board since April 2003. From March 2000 until March 2003, Mr. Fitzmaurice served as Chief Executive Officer of easyCar.com, an international online automobile rental company. Prior to his tenure at easyCar.com, Mr. Fitzmaurice spent 13 years at TNT Express UK where he served in a variety of positions, including Division Managing Director. Mr. Fitzmaurice graduated from the University of Wales Cardiff, Magna Cum Laude, with a degree in economics.
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About Nord Anglia Education: Nord Anglia Education is a premium schools organisation that delivers high quality education through a personalized approach.
Isa Wong
CEO of EIC Education
Isa Wong joined EIC in July 2014 as the Chief Executive Officer of EIC Education Group. Ms Wong has over 20 years experience in the education industry. After her studies in the UK, Isa started her career with KPMG where she did statutory and IPO audits for a range of local and multinational companies. Then she moved into a corporate role with a major investment bank. In 1997, Isa embarked on her 10-year career in the textbook publishing business at Popular Group. She joined Popular Holdings as the Finance Manager responsible for the management of the entire Finance Department in HK. In 1999, she was promoted to the roles of Executive Director (CEO, Greater China) and Group Finance Director. In October 2008, Isa joined Pearson Education Asia as President of HK, managing the education businesses and trade markets. Isa was promoted to President of Greater China in 2010 and took responsibility for all of Pearson Education’s businesses in Greater China.
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About EIC Education: EIC Education is educational counselling service provider.
Theodore King
CEO & Co-Founder of Faria Education Group
Responsible for the overall business, strategy & planning and product design.
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About Faria Education Group: Enhancing Efficiency in Education Globally
Lavine Hemlani
Chairman & CEO of Xccelerate
Lavine is passionate about eliminating the financial barrier between education and opportunity for motivated learners to unleash their potential. Prior to Xccelerate, Lavine co-founded FLYR and worked with deep learning start-up Thread Genius. Lavine began his career in investment banking in NYC at Lazard M&A and held roles at the following funds: Atlas, Marwar Capital and Union Park Capital.
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About Xccelerate: Xccelerate enable students and companies to acquire the skills they need in Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Software Engineering.
Raymond Qu
CEO of Geoswift
Founder and CEO of Geoswift Limited, a payment technology company providing customized one-stop cross-border payment solutions between China and the rest of the world. Under his leadership, Geoswift provides cross-border collection & settlement, remittances, foreign currency exchange, and e-Wallet solutions to and from China. With 20+ years of management experience, Raymond has built Geoswift from humble beginnings to a leading provider of cross-border payment solutions by forming strategic partnerships, driving state-of-the-art technology development, and recruiting key executives from McKinsey, Citibank, MasterCard, PayPal, Visa, PricewaterhouseCoopers, HSBC, China Mingsheng Bank, Travelex, China UnionPay, Global Collection, Electronic Arts and other major financial institutions globally. Prior to founding Geoswift, Raymond held management positions at leading Chinese banks. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, Raymond invested in business opportunities united by a vision to make international payments more efficient. This passion and expertise led him to be an integral part of the original team in 1998 that would become Geoswift, which he formally founded in 2010. Ultimately, Raymond envisions transforming the world into one that people pay without paper notes. Raymond is currently an appointed senior adviser to Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), and a senior adviser of the Finance Research Institute of the State Council Development Research Center of China and member of Forbes Finance Council. He holds an MBA degree from the Saunders School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Canada, with a concentration on studies of digital currency. Media Speaking Engagements: Money20/20 Asia 2018 – Unlocking Borderless Payments into and out of China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUiM_u_d84M Interview with CNBC Squawk Box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQPiRsr1IME Exclusive interview on Worldwide Business with Kathy Ireland® https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTOgTo744nY
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About Geoswift: Geoswift is an innovative globalized payment technology company connecting each region, with a niche in China cross-border payments.
Jordan Fung
Founder and CEO of Pedosa Group
Jordan Fung Tsz Chun (馮旨瑨) is an award-winning 16-year-old technology entrepreneur from Hong Kong and is currently the Founder and CEO of Pedosa Group. Jordan founded his first startup, the online tech learning platform and community GLMET, at the age of 9. With limited resources, he launched an online campaign to recruit volunteers and sponsors. He then led a team of over a hundred developers from around the world and launched the platform in August 2012, shortly after his 10th birthday. Within months, it had hundreds of thousands of active users. He later founded the Pedosa Group, a technology and digital media company which pioneers advanced technologies in the fields of Smart City and the Internet-of-Things, which had been awarded by the United Nations, the European Union, the Hong Kong Government, among others. Jordan and Pedosa Group have been widely featured by many media outlets including the China Daily, South China Morning Post, TVB, RTHK, HKEJ, Ming Pao, Apple Daily, WenWeiPo, to name a few. Jordan actively promotes youth entrepreneurship through founding a number of NGOs including a local school network Innovators’ Society which consolidates resources for youth startups and has since incubated dozens of startups founded by under 18s. He is frequently invited to speak at international conferences and write columns for newspapers. He serves on a UN board which selects the best tech startup to the global stage, as well as serving in other international and local organisations, and held talks with the government to put forward change and to create a better environment for youth innovation and entrepreneurship. In addition to his business ventures, Jordan excels academically and has been selected by the Education Bureau of Hong Kong as the first student featured in the Young Achievers Story in 2018. He was also selected as an Outstanding Student in the Pursuing Excellence and Beyond program 2018. In 2017, at the age of 15, he was offered a place in the BSc program with full scholarship at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. In his free time, Jordan also enjoys playing the piano and violin, listening to music and reading.
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About Pedosa Group: Technology and Digital Media Holding Company
Timothy Yu
Founder & CEO of Snapask
Founder, CEO of Snapask.
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About Snapask: Snapask is an education technology that connects tutors and students to make education more personalized and accessible.
Timothy Wu
President and CEO of Snapask
Timothy Wu is the President and CEO at Snapask.
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About Snapask: Snapask is an education technology that connects tutors and students to make education more personalized and accessible.
Daniel Liang
Co-Founder and CEO of Get
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About Get: Get is an online platform that teaches young people how to manage money.
Florian Simmendinger
Founder & CEO of Soundbrenner
Florian Simmendinger is CEO & Founder of Soundbrenner.
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About Soundbrenner: Making music practice addictive.
Viola Lam
Co-Founder and CEO of Find Solution Ai
Viola Lam, CEO of Find Solution Ai who won the Entrepreneur Year 2015/16 of the Youth Business International. This is one of the world’s most honorific award for young successful entrepreneurs who make positive contributions to both society and people. Viola Lam was selected by the judges over 1,000 top-notch competitors from 68 countries with her far-sighted vision in education, clear and sustainable business model and her ambitious plans for growth.
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About Find Solution Ai: FS develops artificial intelligence and data analysis technologies for education, medical diagnostics, and e-commerce sectors.
Raymond Mak
Co-founder & CEO of Farmacy HK
13 years in management consulting and MNCs as business & change strategist. Raymond oversees strategy, business and organisation development of Farmacy. He is passionate on enabling smart urban farming and a sustainable lifestyle via new generation technology and innovative models.
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About Farmacy HK: Farmacy HK is an urban farming technology company.
Christopher Geary
INVESTOR, CEO of BSD Education
Tech Education CEO, small business investor, frequent traveller. I believe tech education can give everyone an opportunity for success. 10 years experience in USA, Europe and Asia having successfully started and developed 6 companies. Founding Curator of WEF Global Shaper Programme in Hong Kong and Education non profits Fargo Foundation and Refugeek. Multi award winning for initiatives and services to youth.
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About BSD Education: Integrate technology education with every teacher and student in every school with curriculum, software and training.
Adam Chan
CEO of Grwth
Mr. Chen Junlin is the founder of GRWTH. In the past more than ten years, he has focused on research and development and promoted the development of school intranets, learning and teaching platforms, e-schoolbags, e-libraries, and student file systems in Hong Kong and Macao. He has participated in the design and development of projects. Applied by the academic community; as an advisor to e-campus development for a primary school; also worked in the Curriculum Development Agency of the Hong Kong Education Department; a school management system project that was responsible for the contracting out of Macau’s Ministry of Education. He has extensive school network and rich EduTech business experience in Hong Kong and Macau.
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About Grwth: Grwth integrates those student achievements and activity records at and outside school, analyzes data and recommends services.
Priyanka Gothi
Founder and CEO of Wise At Work
Priyanka conceptualised this platform when her mum retired after 35 years of working as a teacher and she couldn’t find a single skill-appropriate opportunity for her, just because she’d turned 60. Founded in June 2017, Priyanka has since then built a vibrant community of experienced and skilled retirees and is enhancing their employability through skill-building and coaching programmes. Prior to founding Wise At Work, Priyanka worked for 10 years in the FMCG space as a digital marketer, brand builder and content creator. She has also consulted with non-profits, written Indian mainstream television shows and been a food photographer. She is passionate about driving sustainable social change and using technology to evolve the future of work.
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About Wise At Work: Wise At Work is acommitted to reimagining retirement for senior citizens and employers.
Rayan Nait Mazi
Co-Founder & CEO of Microskills
Expert on learning & motivation.Engineer bridging startups & human development.
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About Microskills: Microskills is a mobile EdTech platform designed for the billion low-literate and unskilled entrepreneurs.
Vishal Surtani
CEO & Founder of We Kiddoos
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About We Kiddoos: We Kiddoos is an mobile app that connects students, tutors and tuition centres in a single platform.
