Minhao is currently the Strategy Manager at Didi Chuxing Technology Co. Minhao began his career as an engineer, designing buildings and bridges in the United States. As an entrepreneur, he leveraged engineering and digital technologies to optimize the food supply chain system in China from farm to fork. He holds a patent for his food production center. During his time as an MBA student, he helped food and agriculture startups in Southeast Asia and Africa in fundraising. Minhao has a strong passion for green and sustainable investing. He boasts extensive experience in investment and product management in Lighthouse Capital and Amazon.

Minhao holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, a M.S. in Civil Engineering from Syracuse University and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Tongji University. In his spare time, Minhao enjoys reading, traveling, and car racing. As a car racer, he spent months at Shanghai International Circuit and Ningbo International Speedway. He is also a photographer used to develop his own films.

Li-Ann is a strategy and operations leader with nearly 20 years of start-up, scale-up, and F500 experience in consumer-oriented companies and professional services.

She specializes in driving results in ambiguous contexts – improving strategic and operating processes, qualitative and quantitative decision support, and iterative execution.

Most recently, she has been focused on advising early-stage companies and enjoys tackling 0-1 problems with lightweight solutions. At Spotify, she worked alongside multidisciplinary teams to enable its 2018 public listing. As the company grew 10X, she scaled strategic planning cadences. She directly managed a team to deliver on various growth, efficiency, and compliance initiatives. At White & Case, she worked with executives to increase revenue and contain costs through process design, organization restructures, and systems implementations, rolling out global changes across 30 countries. She began her career as a consultant at E&Y, performing business analyses for clients in the media, retail, real estate, and beverage sectors and managing teams in the US, Asia, and EMEA.