Grace Xia is a seasoned business leader with more than a decade of experience in investment, corporate strategy, and business development. She has worked with both early stage start-ups and Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley and emerging markets in Asia, earning her an extensive network and broad insights into various industries. Currently the Founder and CEO of GiLi, a venture-backed cross-border ecommerce company that empowers MSME in Southeast Asia. Grace is a Kauffman Fellow and Milken Institute Global Young Leader who spent much of her career in corporate strategy and investment roles in large companies such as Tencent, Dell, and Amobee. As a Principal at Jungle Ventures, one of the largest Singapore-based VC investing in series A/B start-ups in Southeast Asia, she focused on the areas of ecommerce, SaaS, AI, DTC brands, food tech, and property tech. Grace has an MBA degree in strategy and decision science from Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.