Founders Club

Patrick Frick, is a trilingual (Chinese, English, German) international sales manager with strong intercultural communication skills. At wenglor he provides leadership to the sales organizations across Asia. He co-founded and co-direct the China Flexpat Podcast to help people work and live in China. He interviews successful foreign professionals in China to give practical advice to his listeners on how to succeed in that ecosystem. Patrick's LinkedIn:...

Brian Tam is a 3x TEDx speaker and the lead consultant at Let's Make Great!, where he leads corporate teams through FIRST TIME EVER challenges. From new business models to fresh brands, he guides multinational companies in China to systematically explore opportunities and work through innovations. He's the mind behind PROTO Innovation Cards, the author of Awrignawl Creativity, and the producer of "The Rebuild" -- a documentary following the aftermath of the post-COVID pandemic. Born in New...

Rich Robinson helps startups build, scale-ups grow and organizations innovate. He is a sought-after keynote speaker that teaches at China's top two universities: at Peking University's Guanghua Int'l MBA program but also Entrepreneurship in China and at Tsinghua University's BI-Tsinghua joint program teaches 'pracademics' to senior execs. Previously with 8 successive startups as a co-founder or senior exec, and with dozens of others as an investor, board member, advisor or mentor (HAX,...

Don Wettrick is the founder of The STARTedUP Foundation, author of “Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level” and host of the "STARTedUP Podcast". Don is known for his award-winning work as a middle school and high school teacher; educational and innovation consultant; and educational speaker. ------------------- ----------------- Don Wettrick"s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donwettrick/

Xavier Anguera is the co-founder and CTO of ELSA Corp. Within ELSA he is responsible for engineering, research in speech/AI, and data science. Prior to ELSA, he founded a digital electronic/audio-books publisher aimed at helping language learners getting used to the language while reading. Earlier in his career, he was one of the founding researchers in the multimedia research department at Telefonica, where he pursued research in speech and multimedia processing. Xavier holds a Ph.D. in...

Viveka von Rosen is a LinkedIn Expert & Speaker, Forbes Top 20 Most Influential. As the Chief Visibility Officer and Master Trainer at Vengreso, she helps customers to win more business using digital sales techniques like social selling. Viveka has been speaking on stage since she was 7 years old. After a brief 30 year hiatus, she started speaking again to audiences of all sizes in 2007. Her first introduction back onto the stage was as the keynote social media speaker at the Waldorf...

Most individuals who have dedicated their careers to learning and talent development have spent the majority of their time in Human Resources. Christopher is different from most individuals. He’s a bold, digital-first learning and talent development leader that’s always reported directly to the business functions he’s served. As a result, he’s spent his career leading the reimagination of learning and talent development across a variety of industries, while going head-to-head with business...

Giuseppe Fantigrossi is the co-Founder, CEO who conceived Play2Speak while playing with the idea at the Founder’s Institute Entrepreneurship program, back in 2017. Polyglot of 4 languages, he has 11 years of international business experience in process improvement and IT integration solution projects, and as an English Foreign Language Instructor. Giuseppe is also a gamer at heart, who loves helping others out when he can. Giuseppe holds an MBA and was a food scientist, once upon a...

Jonas Wolf is an enthusiastic facilitator, entrepreneur and leadership coach with a track record of transforming lives by inspiring and empowering people, driving change, growth, and getting results for individuals, startups, and corporations alike. He draws on his rich background of working in 4 continents, with dozens of startups and corporates, launching his own business in Germany and the innovation agency AngelHack in China. Jonas’ purpose is to help people and their ideas to GROW in...

Giuseppe Tomasello is an Italian Entrepreneur, CEO & Founder at edugo.ai. With a mission to help language school get more customers online. Edugo.ai is a SaaS platform that enables language school managers and directors to 1. Get more students online. 2. Increase in student retention. 3. Increase student engagement and learning experience 4. Manage all the students and teachers all in one place. The Edugo.ai platform makes use of several cutting edge technologies and techniques to...

Benjamin Dennehy is an engaging sales speaker, Interim sales director, and sales trainer who will explain that the barriers cemented within your selling process ARE your parents’ fault! Dennehy brings antipodean brutality and charm to the sales experience many have never encountered before. His ‘no holds barred’ presentation will educate, inspire, motivate, and help your salespeople understand why they struggle with many of their daily sales frustrations. LinkedIn...

Sam Rathling is a Social Selling Strategist & LinkedIn Expert. She is one of the most sought after consultant in Europe on prospecting and building sales pipeline through LinkedIn. On a mission to generate £1 billion in sales for her clients by 2025. Moreover, Sam as a SPEAKER & AUTHOR had the chance on educating thousands of individuals and business owners but also sales professionals on the power of LinkedIn for lead generation via speaking events and via her well-known book 'Linked...

Sean Ellis helped to bring five companies to market as VP Marketing/Growth that went on to exceed billion-dollar valuations including Dropbox, LogMeIn, Eventbrite, Uproar, and Lookout in addition to launching and selling two businesses as Founder/CEO (Qualaroo and GrowthHackers.com). Sean is author of Hacking Growth (published in 16 languages), co-creator of GoPractice.io, host of The Breakout Growth Podcast, keynote speaker and runs workshops around the world to help teams align around a...

Ashley Dudarenok is a renowned China marketing expert, entrepreneur, bestselling author, professional speaker, and vlogger. She was recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice in Marketing in 2019 and chosen as an Asia-Pacific Top 25 Innovator by the Holmes Report. She is the founder of a China-focused social media agency Alarice and China insights and training company ChoZan. Ashley runs the world’s #1 YouTube business vlog about the China market, consumers, and social media at Ashley Talks. She...

Alvaro is an entrepreneur very passionate about solving problems. His motto? "Since we only have one life, wouldn't be great we can spend it helping others while enjoying doing it? That's my way of being an entrepreneur!" During the last decade, he built many prototypes trying to solve different kind of problems: from a mobile app to help him learn Chinese (school never accepted to buy it), to a management storage software to help his neighbor manage his inventory (he never used it T_T), to...

Tamar Hela is an entrepreneur based in Shanghai and the COO of the digital agency Genius Encel. She helps Fortune 500 companies in Asia generate leads through LinkedIn. As the Co-President of LinkedIn Local Asia, Tamar has created a network of communities made up of Linkedin lovers, embracing the original idea of LinkedIn Local: getting to know “the person behind the profile.” Tamar founded the LinkedIn Local Shanghai community, which has more than 3000 members, making it one of the most...

Davide Calì is an Italian executive, researcher, and founder, who during his twenty-five years long career, successfully delivered over five hundred IT projects. More than thirty of them were executed in cooperation with Fortune 500 companies. He led and participated in over twenty research projects, some of which resulted in Intellectual Property patents. He wrote a dozen of international IT scientific papers, specifically addressing AI-related areas such as Smart Agents, Expert Systems,...

Leonardo Marra is an International Sales Manager host of The International Business Podcast. As a guest, I had the chance to talk more about my experience as a start-up co-founder in the fast-paced Chinese startup ecosystem and share some of the lessons I have learned on the way. Please subscribe to his podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/the-international-business-podcast/id1507121920?l=en&i=1000474933019&from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0

Maja Voje is a growth marketing and digital transformation expert who takes a “real world, real results” approach to empowering teams and organizations. Ms. Voje’s early career accomplishments include: • Co-instructing the best-selling online course on growth hacking in the world (used by 50,000+ students and organizations like Tesla, IBM, and Booking.com) from 2017 to the...

Founder The China Market Research Group, Keynote Speaker, and author The War for China's Wallet & The End of Cheap China Shaun Rein provides clients with the strategic market intelligence that they need in order to make smarter decisions in China. He helps multinational and domestic Chinese multi-nationals and investors understand how to seize advantage of the fastest growing economy in the world with actionable initiatives. He works with clients from a variety of industries. Fortune 500...