Stanford University Graduate School of Business

University of California, Berkeley

Y Combinator

University of Arkansas

Harding University

Social Impact Leader, Entrepreneur, Podcast Host, CPA

Robosen Robotics is a pioneer in the design and creation of innovative robotics for consumer entertainment. With a strong product lineup and partnerships with entertainment conglomerates such as Hasbro and Disney/Pixar, Robosen has demonstrated its ability to bring cinematic characters to life, captivating global audiences.

Robosen Flagship Optimus Prime: Developed in partnership with Hasbro, Inc., this iconic collaboration brings beloved Transformers characters to life and redefines what's possible in consumer robotics. Self-morphing, voice-controlled, programmable and interactive Optimus Prime has captured the imaginations of fans and enthusiasts alike.

Buzz Lightyear Droids: BUZZ LIGHTYEAR Droids add a touch of interstellar excitement to Robosen's lineup, utilizing globally acclaimed characters from the Disney/Pixar Toy Story franchise. Users can engage in interactive games and perform space-themed missions with the iconic robotic companion.

G1 Bumblebee: Introducing Bumblebee for the first time,  The authentic reproduction touts the symbolic antenna-shaped "horns" and the smooth, flowing lines of the iconic yellow Volkswagen Beetle.

Grimlock: The creation of Grimlock, represents Robosen’s latest and most cutting edge development. The Transformer is the world's first dual-form, bipedal walking robot. This is the most articulated robot engineered by Robosen with 34 small, yet, high-torque and high-efficient servo motors that activates seamless conversion, while ensuring stable and smooth movements. The 6-axis IMU sensors constantly monitor the robot's balance, delivering even greater stability.

Robosen AIBase has become the world's first "multi-modal active-passive full-duplex voice interaction based on visual presentation". Robosen AIBase has successfully connected with OpenAI's chatGPT, realizing the world's first artificial intelligence system for consumer-grade entertainment companion robots that can use ChatGPT to have natural conversations with humans.

Robosen Robotics, Inc.

Chief Strategy & Fun Officer

Y-Labs is a nonprofit virtual youth business accelerator dedicated to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion by creating opportunities for and building hands-on experience for a cohort of diverse and talented youth in Silicon Valley. Recruited and led a diverse group of over 60 business curriculum designers, course instructors, interns, advisors, pitch day VC judges and world-class class speakers-all 60 of whom volunteered their time.

Past mentors and speakers include US Congressman Ro Khanna, Dunkin’ CMO Bob Purcell, E! Networks Founder Larry Namer, Airbnb Chief Ethics & Legal Officer Rob Chesnut, Google Accelerator Ventures for Black and Female Founders Director Jason Scott, FounderX Ventures Partner Tom Kosnik, UC Berkeley Energy Lab & Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Dan Kamman, and Stanford Medical School Pervasive Technology Lab Professor Pablo Parades.

Y-Labs

Co-Founder

Angel investor in high-growth start-ups, leading finance, tax, and compliance of fund operations. Sourcing deals and overseeing fund operations.
Portfolio included: Bear Robotics (round followed by Softbank), KizToPros (After School Education), Next Dish (Food Delivery), Deep Motion (Followed by Samsung Ventures).

Himalaya Fund

Partner & CFO

Yujie Consulting (www.yujie.us) helps US and Chinese companies land customers, partnerships, manufacturing and investment, building companies from the ground up or take high-growth companies to the next level as well as advising venture capital and private equity firms on strategic China initiatives:
• Spearheading a Tesla China Manufacturing and PIPE Proposal to Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Board.
• Serving as a key advisor for Silicon Valley tech startups and VCs including Mode.AI (AI), Radivision (Media), Liquiglide (Material), Lucid Motors (Mobility/EV), Wyre (Fintech), Faraday Future (Mobility/EV), Karma Automotive (Mobility/EV), Fisker Inc (Mobility/EV), Globality (E-commerce), Structure Capital (VC), DBL Partners (VC), Catskill Consulting (Venture Capital and SPAC), Siva Power (Cleantech). 

Worked with the Asian businesses looking to grow and expand their businesses into the US market:
• Advising on logistical, compliance, policy, partnership considerations, and SPAC/IPO negotiations for the largest Bitcoin mining facility in Asia looking to enter the US.
• Working with NASDAQ-listed fintech company 9F (JFU), directing their first US investments and introducing them to the Silicon Valley fintech landscape.
• Helped with pre-IPO readiness and internal control for a multinational technology corporation looking to list on NYSE.

Yujie Consulting

Founder & CEO

Provides high-level, simultaneous English/Chinese interpretation for high-level officials and business leaders, providing counsel on and facilitating bilateral dialogues and business deals. 

Cultural brokering of US-China partnerships and international government exchanges include:
• Establishing a Sisters Cities relationship between the City of Berkeley, California and the City of Guizhou, China, working closely with mayoral offices to foster intercultural understanding and bilateral business, educational, and cultural exchanges and projects. 
• Facilitating and interpreting US companies' business meetings with Municipal Government leaders in Wuhan (the largest automobile manufacturing city in Central China), including the Deputy Governor of Hubei Province, Director Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, Director of Wuhan Economy and Information Technology Commission, and Director of Wuhan Auto Industry Development Office.  

Interpretation for high-level officials and business executives, delegations, and events include:
• A delegation of senior Chinese officials to Silicon Valley:  Former Deputy Governor of Heibei and Current Party Secretary of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions Chen Gang and Executive Vice Chairman of the Guangxi Autonomous Region and former Deputy Governor of Guizhou Province Qin Rupei
• The US-China Energy Summit speaker: Former US Secretary of Energy Steve Chu, Chairman of the California Energy Commission Robert Larson, and leaders from the China Ministry of Science
• A delegation of the China Department of Education and 21 university leaders to discuss the future of education with Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda, Udacity COO Lalit Singh, and California Northstate University CEO Alvin Cheung
• Speakers of the "China International Big Data Industry Expo" including Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma, Tencent Chairman Pony Ma, Duke of York Prince Andrew, and Chinese Vice Chairman Wang Chen

Simultaneous Interpreter & Cultural Broker

Co-Chair of the 2020 4th Global Internet of Things Summit, Hainan Free Trade Port, China
Advisor to Tulip Conference 2018: Blockchain Meets Enterprise, San Francisco, California

Speaker at the 2019 Celebrate UC Berkeley Entrepreneurship, Berkeley, California
Other speakers included:
• California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis
• UC Berkeley College of Engineering Dean Tsu-Jae Liu
• Lime CEO Toby Sun
• DoorDash CEO Tony Xu

Moderator, Host & MC: 
• 2019 Karma Davis International Film Festival, Davis, California
• 2019 Smart City Summit and Asian History Month Art Summit, San Jose, California
• 2019 2nd GIFTs Global Innovation Future Summit, Santa Clara, California
• 2019 When Technology Meets Fashion Charity Dinner for National Cancer Research Foundation, Palo Alto, California
• 2018 China International Big Data Industry Expo, Guizhou, China

Speaker, Moderator, Event Host

Wyre is the leading fiat-to-crypto gateway, simplifying and democratizing cryptocurrency transactions and removing barriers to entry for partners easily secure licenses, address regulatory hurdles, and integrate into the crypto ecosystem. 

On April 7, 2022, Bolt Financial Inc., a payments-focused financial technology company acquired crypto-services startup Wyre Payments Inc. The acquisition is valued at around $1.5 Billion, making it the largest merger in the crypto sector that didn't involve SPAC.

Wyre

Investor, Series A

Telescopic Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with Fund I focused on applied frontier technology applications within B2B and enterprise sectors. The firm aims to make sure our portfolio is inclusive and has a range of diverse founders.

Telescopic Ventures

Partner

Join "Silicon Valley Founders Secrets" podcast as Christina and Mahama talk about surprising stories and secrets of inspiring leaders who are making a powerful contribution to the world. They deliver inspiring and practical programs to enhance leadership, entrepreneurship, and impact-driven work, by sharing stories through interviewing founders, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs who help make Silicon Valley the innovation hub of the world.                                

Topics Christina speaks on:
Entrepreneurship & Leadership 
Silicon Valley 
Humanity 

Notable Speakers:
Marty Hellman - 2015 Turing Award Winner, Author of "Rethinking of National Security"
Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb
Kermit Jones - US Congressional Candidate
Thomas Nazario -  best-selling author, and director of the awarding-winning Amazon documentary 'Living on a Dollar a Day'

Silicon Valley Founders Secrets Podcast - Humanity, Empowerment, Entrepreneurship

Co-Host

BaseX is a collaborative marketing and sales promotion platform for small and medium businesses (SMBs) that provides intelligent staff (attendance, location), task, and workflow (invoicing & payments) management.

Lead Product, UX Design, Marketing, Finance and Legal. Negotiated contracts and IP agreements. Sourced development team. Created a free social media marketing app Prepper X, an app to help SMB thrive and grow during the pandemic.

BaseX, Inc

Founder & COO

AbOvo Space provides a dynamic and flexible workplace for innovative and high-growth startups, corporations, and independent professionals, in the heart of San Francisco, connecting them to top-tier resources both locally and globally.

AbOvo Space

Radivison is a startup ecosystem engagement platform and media network designed to connect consumer audiences to the world's most innovative entrepreneurs, companies, and investors. 

Connected Radivision with investors and potential clients and advised on financing strategy. Assisted in the creation of original and creative programming, hosting series, and interviewing entrepreneurs.

Radivision

Advisory Board Member

Drove PwC's Silicon Valley China Business Development Initiative. Clients included Google, Intuitive Surgical, Blinkx, VMware.

Performed internal audit assessments and Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance including new systems implementation, code review, database review, business process review, and IT general control review. Assessed technology risk around advertising revenue application and evaluated manual controls in the areas of corporate tax compliance, provision, Fin48, and international tax. Built strong and trusted relationships with Google business owners, engineers, IA team, and external auditor.

Senior Auditor, Risk Assurance

Integral member of Google's Internal Audit Function. Audited Google's internal control around financial systems, assessing manual controls around payroll and international tax, and building strong relationships with Finance and Internal Audit teams.

Google

Internal Audit & Risk Consutling

Responsible for $10B worth of external reporting to the US Department of Energy and formulated solutions for one of the most complex revenues and fee-related accounting issues at PNNL. Spearheaded the re-engineering and automation of the A/R post-closing process, reducing the time from days to minutes and eliminating inaccuracy and errors in reporting. Eliminated 70% of manual entries by implementing business logic as SQL queries, impacting business partners in Fixed Assets, A/P, A/R, Cost Accounting, and Financial Reporting.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Senior Finance & Accounting Professional

Auditor for the Systems and Process Assurance (SPA) practice at PwC and received the highest performance rating of Exceptional Performance. Clients included the Federal Reserve Bank, Texas State Bank, ESPN, Lehman Brothers, Hertz, Mary Kay, Radio Shack, Blockbuster, and Thermo Fisher Scientific. 

Work included evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of financial and IT controls as part of SOX audits, attestation examination, SAS 70 reports, and business process reviews. Reviewed the risks related to IT control objectives and financial statement assertions and presented findings to process owners and senior management. Spent rotations in the Financial Audit and Taxation groups.

Christina Zhu-Weaver