2022 Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference

Jennifer Zhu Scott is the executive chairman of The Commons Project, a non-profit public trust established to build global digital infrastructure as a public good. Previously, she was the founder of Radian Partners, focusing on direct investment in AI and deep tech. Scott was among the Forbes World's Top 50 Women in Tech in 2018 and co-chair of the Fortune Global Tech Forum in 2019. She is a China fellow of the Aspen Institute and has a dual fellowship at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) under the Asia-Pacific Programme and the Digital Society Initiative. She is a council member at the Data Policy Council of the World Economic Forum, where she served for the China Council and the Future of Blockchain Council. WEF named her a Young Global Leader in 2013. She is a board trustee of Web Science Trust. Scott studied applied mathematics at Sichuan University and holds an MBA in finance from Manchester Business School. She completed the public policy and leadership programmes at Yale University in 2013, Harvard Kennedy School in 2016 and Oxford University in 2017. In 2018, she joined Princeton University’s inaugural executive education programme focused on energy sustainability and leadership. Scott is a frequent public speaker and published writer on AI, data ownership and China’s digital monetary strategies. Her TED Talk on data ownership reached 3.2m views.

Ambassador David Gross, a senior member of Wiley’s TMT group, is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts on international telecommunications and Internet policies, having addressed the United Nations General Assembly, and led more U.S. delegations to major international telecommunication conferences than anyone else in modern history. Noted as bringing "innovation and vision to the rapidly changing TMT industry" by Who's Who Legal and as one of the "Top 30 Telecommunications lawyers in the world" by Euromoney, Ambassador Gross draws on more than 30 years of experience as a lawyer, global policymaker, and corporate executive. He is also a board member of a number of major non-profit organizations and has lectured and taught on tech and Internet issues at major universities around the world.

Ambassador Gross advises companies and many others who are investing in, monitoring, and seeking to understand the U.S. and international markets, including developments at the International Telecommunication Union, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, as well as elsewhere.

Grace Huang, the CEO and founder of DeepZero is pioneering in the Martech industry with over 20 years of experience. DeepZero, China's leading Martech company driven by AI algorithm, was founded in 2008. As its founder, she sets the vision of building world-class Adtech and Martech platforms in China to enable the digital transformation of businesses. The company has served 80% of Fortune 500 brands across various verticals, including FMCG, retail, automobile, Internet service, education, among other industries.

Huang leads a team comprised of smart, creative and critical personnel. DeepZero embraces the world's top R&D team responsible for data mining and machine learning algorithms. A series of AI decision-making products have emerged, such as the intelligent business data management platform Alphadata ™ and Holmes AI Algorithm Platform. As a pioneer in Martech, Huang has received many awards in the industry, including the Top 100 Elite Entrepreneurs by the UK business publication, Campaign; A-list Top100; Leaders of Digital Marketing for the 10th anniversary of the Golden Mouse; the Top Ten Most Concerned Leaders by Insight Success, and was featured as one of the Annual Outstanding Marketing Figures by Economic Observer and the Hong Kong Management Association. In addition, she has served as the final judge of some important events, such as ROI Awards and Golden Mouse. She was also the advisor to Columbia University’s DSI (Data Science Institute) and director of the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance. Huang also has in-depth experience in marketing and strategy gained through her prior roles, including her positions as a former marketer at Procter & Gamble and a consultant at McKinsey.

Pamela Mar leads the Fung Academy’s knowledge generation, application, and dissemination in support of the Fung Group’s business success and readiness for the future. As such she directs the Academy’s research & development activities and experiments which form the base of the Group’s strategic response to key disruptions in its business operating environment, including technological change, the rise of sustainability, trade/geopolitical uncertainty and the changing nature of consumption. Prior to her current role, she ran the Academy’s programs that support sustainable, competitive advantage in the supply chains of Fung Group companies, including the use of mobile and IOT technologies, as well as direct supplier training.

Mar was also Fung Group Director of Sustainability and was instrumental in growing sustainability beyond compliance and into a competitive advantage for the Group. Largely as a result, she was named one of 10 leaders on the Eco-business Sustainability A-List at the end of 2019. She continues to teach sustainability as a Honorary Lecturer in the MBA program of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prior to joining the Fung Group, Mar was based in Shenzhen as a Director in the Global Finance Center of TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings, a major Chinese television and consumer electronics manufacturer. Previously, she was the World Economic Forum’s Associate Director for Greater China, where she built the Forum’s key relations with government and businesses to support the country’s internationalization. Mar got her first taste of frontline development work in Thailand, in business-backed poverty relief for the Thai NGO, Population and Community Development Association. She has published widely, including four books on Asian development and business and a range of articles, blogs, and reviews. Mar is a fellow of the Asia Global Institute. She has also given numerous talks on sustainability, corporate responsibility and Asia’s growth and development. Mar graduated from Yale University summa cum laude with a degree in Philosophy and Chinese Studies. She holds an MSc Management degree from the London School of Economics.

Jason Tu is a technology and sustainability expert with an MBA from Stanford and previous work experience at Standard Chartered Bank, WeLab, and Robinhood. He, representing MioTech, is a member of the Hong Kong Green Finance Association and the Director of the Alliance of Carbon Emissions Trading in China. He has been invited to speak at world-renowned conferences such as at IOSCO and at UNEP FI to address the role of technology in the global sustainability push.

MioTech uses artificial intelligence to solve the sustainability, climate change, carbon emissions reduction, and social responsibility challenges faced by financial institutions, corporations and individuals. Its comprehensive coverage of ESG data helps financial institutions make the right decisions in green finance and responsible investments. Its software helps corporations manage ESG reporting, improve energy efficiency, track and reduce carbon emissions. Its app builds green-conscious communities and promotes low-carbon lifestyles among individuals. MioTech has offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, and Singapore. Its world-renowned investors include ZhenFund, Horizons Ventures, TOM Group, Moody's, HSBC, Guotai Junan International, GIC, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

Robin Wong is a serial entrepreneur from Mainland China who has spent over ten years founding and co-founding SaaS, e-commerce and fintech start-ups in China and throughout Asia. He established Mocasa, a fast-growing innovative Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) service that launched in the Philippines. Prior to Mocasa, Wong spent over two years running online lending businesses in the Philippines, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

In China and before exploring overseas markets, Wong founded the online credit card management business of BlackFish Group, and within just a year enabled the business to surpass revenues of ¥100 million. He has also served as the chief technology officer of Shenma, a consumer financing company focused on two-wheeled vehicle markets and backed by well-known venture capitalists in China, including Huachuang, Fengrui, Shunwei and Northern Light. Early in his career, as an enthusiastic programmer and engineering leader, Wong spent seven years working for international corporations like SAP and Honeywell.

Dean Antonio Bernardo is the 9th dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he also holds the John E. Anderson Chair in Management. He became dean on July 1, 2019. Dean Bernardo joined the Anderson faculty in 1994 as a professor of management in the school’s finance area, and he has a long history as an active and engaged member of Anderson’s faculty and administration. He served as department chair and senior associate dean for academic affairs from 2006 to 2009, and finance area chair from 2013 to 2015 and again in 2019. During his time at Anderson, he has taught thousands of students, which he describes as a tremendous honor. His reputation as a teacher is highly distinguished and he has earned numerous teaching and leadership awards. In addition to teaching at UCLA, Dean Bernardo has taught at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and the India School of Business in Hyderabad. Dean Bernardo also held a visiting appointment at the University of Chicago. He has published numerous articles in leading finance, economics and law journals, and served as associate editor of the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Research, Critical Finance Review and Financial Management. Born and raised in Canada, he earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Western Ontario and a doctorate in economics from Stanford University.

Christine Loh is a visiting professor at UCLA Anderson and former deputy minister for the environment, in the HKSAR Government, a position she held from 2012 to 2017. Loh’s direct policy responsibilities included air quality, energy, climate change and biodiversity. She worked with her Mainland Chinese counterparts to define new policies to control shipping emissions, an area of work she pioneered prior to joining the HKSAR Government, which has changed China’s national policy in this area. She created new dialogue platforms between the government and business sectors in order to strengthen Hong Kong’s capacity to meet the challenge of climate change, as well as in protecting biodiversity. She currently serves as chief development strategist at the Institute for the Environment at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Since 2018, Loh has taught an MBA course at the UCLA Anderson School of Management titled Non-Market Risks and Understanding Politics: The Global Context for Doing Business. She serves on the boards of a number of international organizations, as well as advises Hong Kong Science & Technology Park, the consultancy Teneo, and BASF on sustainability. 

Terry McCarthy has more than 30 years of experience in journalism, television and print media, and non-profit management. Before joining the Society, he served as president of the American Academy in Berlin, and before that as president and CEO of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. Prior to that, he traveled throughout the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America as a reporter, covering political, military and societal issues.

Brought up in Ireland, McCarthy began his career as a freelance reporter in Central America before relocating to Bangkok and Tokyo where he was a foreign correspondent with the Independent newspaper of London. Then he moved to TIME magazine as their East Asia correspondent and Shanghai bureau chief before moving to California in 2000 to serve as TIME’s Los Angeles bureau chief. Immediately after 9/11, McCarthy went to Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he reported on the ousting of the Taliban from Kabul. In 2003, he drove from Kuwait to Baghdad covering the US invasion of Iraq. In 2004 and 2005, he received Emmy awards for a joint ABC/TIME news series on Iraq. He set up TIME’s bureau offices in Kabul and Baghdad. In 2006, McCarthy transitioned into television news, working as the main Baghdad correspondent for ABC News, where he covered the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein among other topics. In 2008, for his work on “Iraq: Where Things Stand,” from ABC’s World News Tonight with Charles Gibson, he won an Emmy for Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast from the News & Documentary Emmy Awards. While serving as a correspondent for CBS News in 2010, McCarthy embedded with the 3rd Battalion 1st Marines in southern Afghanistan for “The Thundering Third,” part of the series “Afghanistan: The Road Ahead” on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. For his work, along with producer/cameraperson Randall Joyce, he earned a fourth Emmy as well as the Edward R. Murrow Award. McCarthy speaks six languages — German, French, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese in addition to some English.

Michael Woo, the son of Wilbur K. Woo, was the dean of the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona for 10 years and before that was the first Asian American and the first trained urban planner elected to the Los Angeles City Council. His accomplishments as an elected official included spearheading the Hollywood Redevelopment Plan that laid the groundwork for Hollywood’s current revitalization, choosing the route and station locations of the Metro B Line (formerly the Red Line) subway through Hollywood, and launching the Hollywood Farmers Market. He teaches in USC’s Executive Master of Urban Planning program.

Relating to China, Woo is a trustee of the Lingnan Foundation, a U.S.-based charitable foundation that supports academic innovation and international opportunities at Sun Yat-sen University (which incorporated Wilbur Woo’s alma mater Lingnan College after 1949) in Guangzhou and at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is a member of the management committee for the Mandarin Plaza shopping center (in which his father was one of the original investors in the 1970s) in Los Angeles Chinatown and is a cofounder of a Chinatown Stakeholders Group that is representing the interests of Chinatown property owners in a wide-ranging rezoning process that is likely to shape future development in Chinatown. Woo also is co-chairing a committee that is planning to launch a design competition for a permanent memorial to the 1871 massacre of the Chinese in Los Angeles, the largest mass killing of Chinese in California history and the largest massacre in Los Angeles history. Like his father, Woo is a product of the University of California. He earned his B.A. in politics and urban studies from UC Santa Cruz, and his master of city planning degree from UC Berkeley.