Boardroom Media (CEO News)
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 Big Data 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.
Abel Zhao
Co-Founder & CEO of FREED GROUP LIMITED
Abel is a co-founders and CEO of freeD Group Limited (aka. TravelFlan), an Award-winning AI Digital Solutions company, utilizing proprietary Travel and Lifestyle – specific B2B2C strategies and solutions to work with Fortune 500 companies like the largest telecom company in China, the largest smartphone provider in the world, OTA, airline and hotel to create incremental revenue and improve customer engagement. Abel has over 16 years of experience in Travel IT and Consulting industries in strategic planning, turn-around management and Sales & Marketing. Previously he was the regional head with the largest Travel IT giants – Travelport and Amadeus responsible for commercial and strategic initiatives and local market expansion strategy. He also spent 5 years working with Air Canada in the Global Sales and Strategy division in Toronto and 2 years with Hyatt Corporation in Chicago. Abel holds Dual – Masters degrees from Columbia University and London Business School, and undergrad in Hospitality Management from Centre International de Glion Switzerland.
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About FREED GROUP LIMITED, The ELYA Foundation: Freed Gorup utilizes Artificial Technology (AI), Big Data,and Machine Learning technologies to provide end-2-end digital solutions.
Honson To
Chairman & CEO at KPMG China of KPMG International Limited
Honson To is Chairman & CEO at KPMG China.
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About KPMG International Limited: KPMG is a network of independent member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services.
Edmund Lowell
Founder & CEO of KYC Chain
Originally from the United States, graduating from Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts where he studied law, finance and technology, Edmund Lowell is a serial entrepreneur living in Asia since 2011, innovating at the crossroads of finance, technology and legal fields. Edmund has built a number of Fintech and RegTech products during this time including Flag Theory, Incorporations.io, KYC-Chain.com, Passports.io and SelfKey.org . The SelfKey software has processed KYC for over 500,000 identity owners and over USD$200m USD in transaction volume since Q4 2017.
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About KYC Chain, Selfkey: KYC-Chain is a novel platform built over the convenience and security of Distributed Ledger technology.
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.
Takus Lo
Founder and CEO of TradeMonday
Takus founded TradeMonday in 2016 after 10+ years in finance with Citibank, JP Morgan and China Construction Bank Asia. He regularly serves on committees and judging panels with retail innovation organizations in Hong Kong and holds an MSc in eBusiness from the University of Warwick, UK.
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About TradeMonday: TradeMonday is an AI-Powered Retail Experimental Platform.
Taylor Host
Co-Founder and CEO of Miro AI
Taylor’s passion for creating unique computer vision solutions has been the backbone of Miro’s vision. Rarely without his Detroit Tigers hat, Taylor brings a never-ending supply of energy to the company.
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About Miro, Miro AI, RunnerTag: Miro uses AI & computer vision to analyze bodies in motion.
Dustin Jefferson Onghanseng
Co-Founder and CEO of uHoo
Dustin Jefferson currently works as the founder and CEO for uHOO. He previously worked at Deloitte as the senior innovation consultant.
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About uHoo: uHoo monitors and manages your indoor environment to help you create healthier, safer and more comfortable homes and workplaces.
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.
Deniz Tekerek
CEO of Portier Technologies
Co-founder of Portier Technologies, former e-commerce entrepreneur, University of Leeds graduate
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About Portier Technologies: Portier actions the world’s richest traveler data via an eco-system that’s built around Portier Phones placed in hotel rooms.
Patrick Tu
CEO of Dayta AI
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About Dayta AI: Dayta is a software company which develops retail analytics SaaS solutions for brick-and-mortar retailers
Amanda So
Co-founder & CEO of MamaHelpers
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About MamaHelpers: MamaHelpers is the largest and fastest-growing global network gathering employers, foreign domestic helpers and agencies
Yan Leung
CEO of MamaHelpers
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About MamaHelpers: MamaHelpers is the largest and fastest-growing global network gathering employers, foreign domestic helpers and agencies
Robert Ciemniak
Founder and CEO of Robotic Online Intelligence
Operating for 20+ years on the intersection of research, business and technology, Robert brings in his earlier 13-year international corporate career at Thomson Reuters in strategy and new venture roles, and the recent 7 years of startup experience. In 2012, Robert started Real Estate Foresight Ltd (www.realestateforesight.com), an independent analytics and financial technology firm, based in Hong Kong and focused on China housing markets.
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About Real Estate Foresight, Robotic Online Intelligence: ROI is a market research and data collection through SaaS-based automation, custom search tools and AI-powered text analytics.
Raymond Horan
CEO of Emotics
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About Emotics: Emotics is a RegTech company that measures engagement with online training to reduce the cost of compliance for highly regulated industries.
AJ Mak
Founder & CEO of Chain of Demand
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About Chain of Demand: Chain of Demand uses AI and big data to uncover insights and predict revenue for financial institutions and corporates.
Calvin Chung
Chief Executive Officer of Springdel
Entrepreneur, Pioneer MDM
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About Springdel: Springdel takes enterprise beyond cloud and device management with the world’s only EdgeOps platform purpose-built for the Edge of Things
Julian Smith
Co-founder, CEO of Reclick Inc
Co-founder at Reclick Inc
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About Reclick Inc: Behavioral Retargeting & Email Marketing
Yoshiyuki Iwasaki
CEO of Cambridge Energy Data Lab
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About : CEDL creates intelligent predictive models for energy consumption.
Ashley Tang
Co-Founder and CEO of DOTT
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About DOTT: DOTT is the custom-engraved SmartDogTag to help make our mission statement, nomorelostpets, a reality.
Vinesh Jha
CEO of ExtractAlpha
Vinesh founded ExtractAlpha in 2013 in Hong Kong with the mission of bringing analytical rigor to the analysis and marketing of new data sets for the capital markets. From 1999 to 2005, Vinesh was the Director of Quantitative Research at StarMine in San Francisco, where he developed industry leading metrics of sell side analyst performance as well as successful commercial alpha signals and products based on analyst, fundamental, and other data sources. Subsequently, he developed systematic trading strategies for proprietary trading desks at Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley in New York. Most recently he was Executive Director at PDT Partners, a spinoff of Morgan Stanley’s premiere quant prop trading group, where in addition to research he also applied his experience in the communication of complex quantitative concepts to investor relations. Vinesh holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and a graduate degree from the University of Cambridge, both in mathematics.
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About ExtractAlpha: ExtractAlpha delivers proven alternative data and tools to institutional investors.
