The Judging Panel of the Award Program
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Tony Jiang
Co-founder & Partner
Ocean Link
Tony Jiang
Co-founder & Partner
Ocean Link
Mr. Tony Jiang is a co-founder and partner at Ocean Link, a private equity firm with a focus on travel and consumer related industries. He currently serves on the board of several Ocean Link portfolio companies, including Mafengwo, New Century Kaiyuan Hotels, Ruby Hotels & Resorts, Yitiao, and eHi Car Rental. Prior to founding Ocean Link, Mr. Jiang was with The Carlyle Group from 2006 to 2016 focused on private equity investments in Asia. Earlier in his career, Mr. Jiang worked in the investment banking division of Deutsche Bank. He received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.
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Jiang Wang
Founder & CEO
Flight Master
Jiang Wang
Founder & CEO
Flight Master
Mr. Jiang Wang is the founder and CEO of Flight Master. He is also an angel investor. As a serial entrepreneur, he founded mobile applications Flight Master and High-speed Railway Master in 2009, both have become one of the largest mobile travel service platforms in their areas. In addition, he founded Coffee Box in 2014, a coffee brand based on new social retail. As an investor, he has invested in UCWeb, Meituan and other Internet enterprises.
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Eric Ye
Founding Partner
Eminence Ventures
Eric Ye
Founding Partner
Eminence Ventures
Eric Ye is venture partner of Emergence Ventures. Previously he was senior vice president and CTO of Ctrip, the largest OTA in China, responsible for technology research and development for providing best experience to online and offline travelers via Mobile/Web/Call Center. He had been building and leading his team for transforming technologies and architectures to modern ones. He is also chief architect for creating advanced web-services, mobile APP and engineering infrastructure to support 10x scalability and availability for business growth. Prior to Ctrip, he was director of platforms engineering at eBay. He played critical roles as architect, principal kernel engineer and platform manager in shaping the largest e-commerce website technologies. He had 16+ years’ experience in internet at eBay, Yahoo, and Netscape in Silicon Valley, California.
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Gleb Tritus
Managing Director
Lufthansa Innovation Hub
Gleb Tritus
Managing Director
Lufthansa Innovation Hub
Gleb Tritus is one of the founding members of the Lufthansa Innovation Hub and has played a key role in the conceptual setup of the LIH since its early days in autumn 2014. In November 2017, he – together with Dr. Christian Langer – took over the management of LIH and is responsible for its strategic development and for deepening its foothold in the global tech ecosystem. Before that, he was a member of LIH’s Executive Board and Director Venture Development, where he was responsible for the development and validation of business model innovations and managed strategic digitization projects in collaboration with the Lufthansa Group. Previously, the investor and series founder established four digital companies, most recently the Berlin event ticketing startup Todaytickets together with the ProSiebenSat.1 Group.
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Don Jiang
Managing Partner
Gobi China
Don Jiang
Managing Partner
Gobi China
Mr. Don Jiang currently serves as Managing Partner of Gobi China, primarily focusing on technology transformation on traditional business. He is a certified Project Management Professional with extensive management, operational and technical experience in online businesses. Prior to joining Gobi, Mr. Jiang was senior director of web and planning at eLong, one of the largest online travel service companies in China that was acquired by Expedia. He has over fifteen years of experience in software engineering, project management, user experience and product management.
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Vivian Yeh
Vice President of Marketing, Greater China
AccorHotels Group
Vivian Yeh
Vice President of Marketing, Greater China
AccorHotels Group
As VP of Marketing in AccorHotels Group, Ms. Vivian Yeh is leading the digital transformation through Brand Marketing, Loyalty and Partnership, eBusiness and Digital Marketing to create seamless touch-point engagement in the consumer journey in hospitality. She has 21 years of digital marketing, digital transformation experience in New York, Taipeiwan, Hong Kong and Shanghai. While in Med Johnson Nutrition (China), she focused on accelerating the company’s consumer digital engagement business by enlarging its digital talent pool & capabilities and enhancing the company’s marketing directions. Vivian holds an MBA degree from Binghamton University and has a successful track record as being clients such as Mead Johnson, ABinBev, American Express and being consultant in ISOBAR, WWWins helping client such as Coca Cola, P&G, Reebok, PUMA, HSBC, Toyota to grow their business in Greater China.
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Hai Wu
Founder
Orange Hotels Group
Hai Wu
Founder
Orange Hotels Group
Mr. Hai Wu is the founder of Orange Hotels Group, a boutique hotel brand since 2006. In 1997, he founded Business Trip, the largest hotel reservation service provider and the first business travel management company to implement membership system in China at that time. After that he was a Senior Vice President of Ctrip.com from 2000 to 2001. In 2002, he founded hotel booking platform Fortune Trip, which was acquired by Sina in 2004. He also served as Vice President at eLong in 2005-2006. Mr. Wu graduated from the Central University of Finance and Economics in 1991, and received his EMBA dual degree from Tshinghua University and INSEAD in 2010.
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Sarah Chen
Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing
Diaoyutai MGM Hospitality
Sarah Chen
Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing
Diaoyutai MGM Hospitality
Ms.Sarah Chen has over 20 years of experience in the hospitality sales & marketing field in Asia. She joined Diaoyutai MGM Hospitality Group in January 2018 as Senior VP of Sales & Marketing in charge of the Group’s Sales & Marketing strategic planning and execution including all the brands and properties as well as its future development under the umbrella of the DYT MGM Hospitality. Between 2004 and 2017, Sarah was the Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts in Hong Kong and Shanghai with responsibilities in hotels' opening and Sales & Marketing strategies and initiatives mainly in China and other Asia Pacific markets.
