University College London, U. of London

Investing in & developing startups

Entrepreneur First brings together the world’s most ambitious people to build startups from scratch in London, Berlin, Singapore and Hong Kong. We help individuals form teams, develop ideas, and subsequently raise funding from investors to build the world’s most important companies.To date we have helped over 350 individuals build 80 companies with a total valuation of over $1 billion. Our major exits to date include Magic Pony, led by Rob Bishop and Zehan Wang, which was acquired by Twitter for a reported $150m only 18 months after the Founders met on the EF programme.Most recently, we have raised US$12.4M in a round led by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, with participation from Greylock Partners, Founders Fund and other top US venture capital firms as well as Google Deep Mind's founders. For more information about Entrepreneur First, or to apply to join our next cohort, please visit <a href="http://www.joinef.com">www.joinef.com</a>

Entrepreneur First

Company Building (Form) Manager

Senior Advisor, Form

As first employee of Nest, HK's first incubator and corporate accelerator, worked directly with founders to develop three core business offerings: early stage VC, corporate innovation services and an entrepreneurs community (<a href="http://www.metta.co)As">www.metta.co)As</a> Director of the corporate innovation arm, I was responsible for managing corporate client relationships and acted as an advisor to our accelerator startups.- Worked with 70+ international seed & series A startups, resulting 15+ corporate trials and POC approvals incl. BondIT (Series B), uHoo (Seed), Rover (Seed), Synapbox (Seed), Bambu (Series B), Manomotion (Seed)- Led corporate innovation training & design thinking workshops with clients incl. Infiniti Motors (Nissan), Bangkok Bank, FedEx- Client manager for HK INFINITI LAB (HK, SG), Bangkok Bank Innohub (BKK), FedEx (HK)

Nest.vc

Director, Nest Innovation

Director of Startup Next Fall 2015, Hong Kong's first 6 week pre-accelerator programme.

Techstars

Startup Next

Global Expansion- Programme operations & playbooking in new markets (Singapore, Bangkok)- Programme Manager for AIA & Lee Kum Kee innovation initiatives (blockchain, wellness)- Business development & product strategy (i.e. models for corporate innovation) Sourcing, Marketing & Brand Lead- Sourcing & vetting Seed to Series A startups in Mobility, Fintech & Healthtech- Marketing lead for OCBC's Open Vault, Bangkok Bank Innohub, DBS Vault, Infiniti LAB programmes- Partnerships with Venture Capital firms, ecosystem players, industry groups

Senior Associate

Early stage investment sourcing and due diligence Investable.vc - Built and launched Investable, an equity crowdfunding platform that connects investors to curated high growth start ups. Launched with 10+ curated companies and 300+ members (May 2014)

Associate

- Marketing and digital content for 2013 book and TV launch of Save with Jamie / Money Saving Meals in the UK and globally.- Content marketing on <a href="http://www.savewithjamie.com">www.savewithjamie.com</a> - Chinese social media execution for first book launch (30 Minute Meals) in China. - Creation and ongoing management of Jamie Oliver channels in China (social media).

Jamie Oliver Ltd

Digital Marketing

Founders Forum for Good helps the entrepreneurial heroes working for social good to amplify their impact by engaging with the Founders Forum community, a network of digital and tech leaders. Has since led to the creation of Founders Pledge. Worked at Founders Forum part time whilst completing my third year dissertation, focusing on: - Digital Marketing. Initial website copy and creation, social media presence.- Sourcing & Vetting. Evaluation process for high potential social ventures- Partnerships. Led the collaboration with Financial Times, Apps for Good CDI and Crane TV to produce 'Bitesized Insights' video content with founders and entrepreneurs.

Founders Forum

Programme Coordinator

- Editorial and copywriting for the Sotheby's At Auction in-house magazine.- Developed four strategies for partnership opportunities to increase the value of the Preferred (loyalty) Program. - Created marketing and communication assets for the Sotheby's Summer Auction and Sotheby's Singapore exhibition.

Sotheby's

Marketing and Preferred Program Intern

- A Celebration of Semiotic Thinking", conference on key challenges in brand development and planning as well as insights into key academic debates.Event management support; post-event marketing promotional video and materials

Jessica Cheung