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Artificial intelligence: Pushing boundaries
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SpeakersJie Zhang Partner COOLEY LLP
Eddie Thai Co-founder & General Partner AVV
Wally Wang Founding Managing Partner SCALE ASIA VENTURES
Manish Singhal Founding Partner PI VENTURES
King Leung Global Head of Financial Services, Fintech & Sustainability INVESTHK
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Jie Zhang is based in Cooley’s Hong Kong office. Her practice focuses on advising corporate clients and investment banks on capital markets transactions, such as initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, and convertible bond offerings. She also advises corporate and private equity clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity financings and privatizations. In addition, Jie represents clients listed in the U.S. and Hong Kong on general corporate and securities regulatory compliance matters.
Jie holds an LLM from Columbia University Law School, as well as both an LLM and an LLB from the University of International Business and Economics. She is admitted to practice in New York and Hong Kong.
Eddie Thai is a co-founder & general partner of AVV, an early-stage VC firm with a mission to help exceptional teams in Vietnam and elsewhere in building iconic companies. He is particularly on the lookout for breakthrough approaches in fintech, edtech, and enterprise SaaS. Eddie also continues to steward the Vietnam-focused fund of 500 Global, the early-stage VC firm and ecosystem builder headquartered in Silicon Valley. As a co-founder & general partner of 500VN he led more than 30 investments, including pre-seed / seed round investments in Axie Infinity (a16z-backed NFT gaming unicorn), ApplyBoard (Fidelity-backed edtech unicorn), Trusting Social (Sequoia-backed fintech centaur), and Base.vn (enterprise SaaS; acquired). He received degrees from Harvard University and Yale University. He also volunteers in advisory board roles with the World Bank (Vietnam 2045 project), UNICEF Vietnam, and the UNDP (business integrity project).
Wally Wang is the Founding Managing Partner of Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture fund SAV(Scale Asia Ventures), focused on Enterprise Software and AI-enabled Vertical Industries. Fund backers include prominent family offices, and publicly traded conglomerates in the U.S. as well as S. Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore. Selected fund portfolios include Argilla(acq. by Hugging Face), CloudVector(acq. by NASDAQ: IMPV), Array(Unicorn), Feedzai(Unicorn), Scale AI(Decacorn), VastData(Decacorn) etc.
Before SAV, Wally led Asian conglomerate Fosun International(AUM $100B) and an Asian family office(AUM $10B) in venture investments in the U.S. and served on the boards of portfolios with over $300M in capital deployed and successful exists include Digital Ocean(NYSE: DOCN), Reposify(acq. by NASDAQ: CRWD) etc.
Wally started his career as a PM at Microsoft Bing. He later built data platforms at Pebble(Y Combinator) and Misfit in Silicon Valley, both of which were merged as critical infrastructure into Google’s Wear OS. Wally has spent over a decade in enterprise software and A.I. space as a product and business executive, including Lattice Engines in MarTech(acq. by NYSE: DNB) and DataVisor in FinTech(Sequoia & NEA-backed).
Wally graduated from Tsinghua University with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and studied in the Ph.D. program at NYU Stern School of Business and was a visiting scholar at CMU School of Computer Science. He is also an advisor of NYU EFL, UC Berkeley SkyDeck, and named by Forbes as Top 100 Global Outstanding Chinese.
Manish Singhal, a 1992 graduate from IIT Kanpur, is a technologist turned entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He is Founding Partner of pi Ventures, a deep tech fund based out of India. He brings 30+ years of experience across diverse sets of fields - building cutting edge deep technology products at global scale, mentoring startups, investing in them and building a deep tech venture fund. He is on the board of several companies like Agnikul, Wysa, Pixis etc.
As the Global Head of Financial Services, Fintech & Sustainability at InvestHK, the department of the Hong Kong SAR Government responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment, Mr. Leung’s mission is to attract investment and boost job creation in the financial services, fintech, and sustainability sectors in Hong Kong. Moreover, Mr. Leung and his teams also help enrich the ecosystem and contribute to raising the long-term competitiveness and innovation of the related sectors in Hong Kong. Mr. Leung achieves this goal through collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders – policy bureaus, regulators, financial institutions, investors, fintech and sustainability companies, associations, etc. in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and other major international financial, fintech, and sustainability hubs.
Prior to joining the government, Mr. Leung had a diverse private sector background as a serial tech entrepreneur, angel investor, fintech lecturer where his first data-related startup was established through seed investment from Credit Suisse. His startup served numerous world-renowned financial institutions in wealth management, insurance, personal finance, etc. Prior to embarking on his entrepreneurial journey, King was a management consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton and KPMG Consulting in the US, as well as a venture capitalist at Innovate@, a technology fund jointly managed by Booz Allen & Hamilton and Lehman Brothers in the US.
King received his MBA in Finance and Strategy (honors) from the University of Chicago and BSc in Mechanical Engineering (honors) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.