Qven Wong

Transform technology and research into societal applications through Investment & Entrepreneurship

• Oversee and manage both grants (HKD 20M annually) and an investment fund (HKD 50M) to support and advance 30+ knowledge transfer start-ups and projects from the university each year.
• Identify and evaluate potential technologies and start-ups; conduct due diligence and prepare investment proposals for committee review.
• Facilitate research and technology commercialization by engaging relevant stakeholders and leading pilot trials and business collaborations.
• Lead entrepreneurship incubation programs and provide training to students and professors to support their venture development.
• Monitor and track progress of funded and invested projects to ensure milestone achievement and delivery of agreed outcomes within scope and budget.

Enhanced medical experiences by leveraging advanced technologies to improve healthcare delivery and insurance processes

• Led growth initiatives that expanded the adoption of AI, blockchain, and other digital solutions across the medical insurance industry, increasing insurer clients from 4 to 16.
• Developed and executed strategies to create value for all ecosystem stakeholders: insured individuals, healthcare providers, and insurers—reducing claims processing from months to days, achieving 100% medical data automation, and cutting claims costs by over 60%.
• Directed overseas business expansion, successfully establishing operations in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
• Championed cross-border insurtech collaboration between Mainland China and Hong Kong, building a medical network that able to serve millions of users.
• Secured strategic investments totaling over USD 10 million from capital partners across Mainland China, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East within 4 years.

Manage the Cyberport Macro Fund, with an initial size of HK$200M (Invested in 11 start-ups in 2 years) including:

• Deal origination: Source quality start-ups to invest
• Due Diligence: Conduct Technology, Financial, Business and Legal Due Diligence for each investment proposal
• Deal closing: Review all the transaction document with a financial report and legal opinion on each approved investment
• Portfolio management: Track and provide business/financial/fund support to the portfolio company to support its growth
• Govt/Business/Investor relations: Manage the stakeholder to drive further development of the invested company, ie. Understanding the R&D and core technology and transformation to business application

Responsible for the mainland division of the Cyberport to support start-up R&D and business in both ways, including:

• Keep abreast of the Greater Bay Area policies and market development to proactively identify, connect and develop partnership relationship with mainland enterprises, institutions, universities and government bodies
• Assist in the formulation and implementation of Cyberport partner strategies and programmes to enable Cyberport start-ups to tap into and benefit from the Greater Bay Area market opportunities
• Bring in and build a network of quality partners to facilitate landing and business growth of Cyberport starts-ups in the Greater Bay Area
• Bring in quality digital start-ups and anchor leaders from Greater Bay Area and mainland China to Cyberport
• Provide regular status report on action plans and review of partnership effectiveness

Company Overview: Running the government endorsed incubation centre in Shanghai to groom early R&D start-ups with investment support

• Incubation: Provide resources and supports to the potential projects. (Incubate 15+ start-ups and recommended to the investment fund, matching 50+ start-ups with corporates)
• Education: Provide different training to equip people with open-source production capacity (Run 10+ workshop for corporate with start-ups)
• Activity: Organizing various programme to advocate the makers' movement ( 5+ Matching mania for funds, corporates demands, start-ups forming more than 20 solid partnerships)
• Space: Operating the space for makers and start-ups to fulfil their vision (15+ same model space created in the same mode as us.)
• Running the government endorsed incubation centre in Shanghai to groom early R&D start-ups with investment support

Building the first online makers' platform in China

• Forming partners with more than 25 corporates and 150 start ups on the platform
• Engage more than 300 experienced makers
• Kick started for 8 corporates - start-ups project in 1 year

In charge of the company strategies fundraising for the company which aims to connect the physical world with the digital world

• Provide professional consultancy on business strategy and total solution to clients
• Lead and manage the business units to develop solutions for the retail industry
• Assist in research and development of the company's product and platform
• Invest in industry-leading technologies for different business models
• Oversee China's business development and growth
• Investment relations leading the fundraising of the company

Lead the R&D division to build the O2O retail platform

• Provide O2O consultant services and develop strategic solutions (particularly for retail businesses) with strong attraction, deep user engagement and precise evaluation, achieving high customer conversion rate at all times
• Providing O2O consultant services with the implementation
• Lead and manage business unit for the O2O strategies for the China Region
• Investing in industry-leading technology for different business models

Driving sales & business for the company via:

• Providing consultant service for the marketing strategies to the clients
• Leading the creative team to develop the interactive and creative marketing campaign
• Product development to construct a new interactive and innovative marketing solution

In charge of running the Hong Kong division of the world largest student organization

• Managed an organization with 600 international members, designed strategic annual and long term business directions, goals and key performance indicators of the organization
• Ensured an effective business operation with a $2M budget and also represented Hong Kong in various international leadership conferences held in Hungary, Russia and India
• Frequently travelled to Asia Pacific countries such as China, Indonesia and Cambodia to negotiate strategic country partnership opportunities
• Form strategic partnerships with local companies, NGOs, government bodies and MNCs

• Provided 15 consulting services to corporate clients and agencies on digital marketing solution including HSBC, Marina Bay Sands, Coca Cola and Samsung
• Managed 3 successful deals with MNC clients and each with a SGD70K budget or above
• Design a comprehensive promotional campaign that maximizes ROI and reaching an audience of more than 3 million
• Successfully bided the official stock exchange platform (SGX) as exclusive media representative
• Run marketing campaign for different clients: HSBC, Jaguar, Tiger Airways, Adidas, Nike, Standard Chartered, Marina Bay Sands & Singapore Zoo etc

• Designed evaluation tool to measure the effectiveness of different government policies
• Carried out policy research analysis and evaluation on policy data and reports
• Conducted a detailed and specialized report on Electrical Vehicle and related policy in Hong Kong