Weidong Chen

Founder and president of HAORAY LLC, is a Beijing native from China. He has established HAORAY consulting in 2007, which provides the strategic and management consulting for the companies and high net worth families in global development and investment areas.

Mr. Chen has more than 25 years of experience in strategic and operational development and implementation, strategic partnership, marketing & branding, and M&A due diligence & advisory across various industry sectors, mainly focusing on China, U.S. and Japan markets.

Some of its current and previous clients include Auris Surgical Robotics, Trident Seafoods Corp., Tencent, Amdocs, Haimo Technologies Group Corp., China Hainan Airline Group, Xiu.com, Infotainment China Media Inc., China Swan International Tourism, China Hightran Media and PR, Japan Material Corp., Tully’s Coffee, Stiebs LLC, Whatcounts.com, Blue Marble Energy, Xi’an Hi Tech Zone, and Suzhou Development Zone etc.

Before HAORAY, Mr. Chen worked as Vice President of marketing (China Market) for the Seattle based business social network start up, 9SPACES.com. Before that venture, Mr. Chen had more than 6 years’ of marketing and strategy leadership roles at Sprint Corporation in Marketing Communications, e-Business, Corporate Strategies and Global Development since 1999. Before joining Sprint Corporation, he also worked in the corporate finance and marketing research areas at Jefferson Davis Associates, Inc. and Alliant Energy.

Also, Mr. Chen has actively helped several non-profit organizations, such as Stellar International, Wokai and Landesa. He is currently a board member of CPN, a U.S. medical charity group. CPN is dedicated to help training and working with Chinese healthcare professionals to bring the better care to the children with cerebral palsy in China. All of these organizations have had significant China operations and involvement.

He acquired B.S. degree from Xiamen University (China) in Biology in 1992, and MBA degree at the University of Iowa's Henry B. Tippie School of Management in 1998.

Brian Ratzliff

A long-time entrepreneur and technology manager, Brian has spent the last twenty years holding successive positions of leadership in companies generally focused on leveraging technology to bring a compelling consumer benefit to the marketplace.

Recently, Brian has led the strategic thinking and growth strategy for Basketball Travelers, Inc., and BTI Events, around the possibilities associated with the marketing of key sports assets, and emerging new world of digital and broadcast rights for global amateur athletics. Out of these strategic sessions has come the core management team and approach for GLOBAL University Sports Properties. In addition, Brian and a small team are developing a new SaaS platform for the social media influencer space.

Previously, Brian was the co-founder and President of WhatCounts, Inc., a leading permission email and social media platform that was sold to Mansell Group (Atlanta) and Riverside (NY), a private equity firm specializing in growth development for mid-market organizations. Brian served as a Board Director for six years until a final sale was completed in 2016.

Previously, Brian was part of the leadership team at ShareBuilder.com, an innovative online brokerage and financial services firm that was eventually sold to ING. Brian led the marketing and early business development teams as the organization grew through successive venture capital rounds from fewer than a dozen employees to almost one hundred fifty staff during the go-go dot com years. Be sure to ask him about the life-lessons learned from the post-dot com years.

Brian began his technology career in 1994 – 1998, during the dawn of the internet commercialization phase, when he was a member of the product management and business development teams at Internet pioneer – Starwave Corporation, a Paul Allen company. The firm was eventually sold to Disney and the respective product organizations rolled into ESPN, ABCNews, and Infoseek.

Brian holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada, and a BA from Trinity Western University in Vancouver, Canada.

Jianyong Shou

寿建勇博士,上海轶诺药业有限公司创始人兼首席科学官。曾在多个国际知名制药公司担任重要职务并取得多项成就，包括创建並领导诺华中国再生医学部门，GSK 神经免疫生物负责人、总监，礼来中国研发中心生物部负责人、高级总监。多年来，在包括肿瘤、干细胞和再生医学、代谢、神经等多个疾病领域取得了多项世界一流的原创性成果，领导参与了 10 余个 1.1 类新药项目，其中多个已进入了临床，包括世界上首 TGFβR1 抑制剂和世界上首个耳聋基因疗法。 领导建立了非酒精性脂肪肝炎药物研发平台，基因组学和系统生物学，小分子听力再生药物开发平台，高通量影像分析系统等多个创新药物研发平台以助力世界原创新药开发。 同时潜心于疾病机 理 研 究 ， 在 Nature Neuroscience 、 NatureCommunications、Genome Research、PNAS、JCI 等杂志上发表论文近 40 篇，担任 Science 等多个知名杂志论文特邀评审员，申请专利31 项，获国际授权 8 项。

He acquired Ph.D. degree from University of California, Irvine