Executive Management

Sam is a serial entrepreneur. He started his career at Accenture as a technology consultant in 1999, before a career in executive search where he ran a leading firm specialising in Investment Banking. He spent 10 years in Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong. Sam started 3 technology companies over the course of 5 years from 2012 to 2017 that all related to data.

Sam joined eCommerce unicorn Wish as Managing Director, Marketing in 2017.

Sam founded Video Commerce Group in 2020 with Eric Zhang.

Eric started his career as a mobile software engineer at Huawei before becoming a founding member of the Musical.ly startup team as an engineering team lead, helping grow from 0 to 10 million daily active users.

Post the acquisition of Musical.ly by Bytedance, Eric was a leader across Douyin and Tiktok research and development teams, to promote user growth in all major markets.

Eric is responsible for growth strategy at OOOOO and oversight of the China team.

Joanne is a seasoned capital markets professional with over 25 years of experience advising, directing, and managing publicly listed companies in North America, Europe, and China.

Between 1997 - 2016, Joanne has been a senior corporate executive as well as a director and committee chair to a number of publicly traded companies in Canada.

Ms. Yan’s areas of expertise include but are not limited to M&A, corporate/project financing, and joint venture operations.

Denise has served globally for more than 40 years in numerous leadership and executive positions in IBM including Directors of Global e-business, Global Customer Loyalty, and Global e-Relationship Marketing.

Ms. Evans is a member of the IBM Faculty for Global Sales Schools, IBM Executive Champion for Morgan State University School of Engineering, and a mentor for the Carver P-Tech school in Baltimore.

Denise currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Women Presidents Organization, Enterprising Women Magazine, the Global Summit of Women, the Galt Foundation, the National Alliance for Mental Illness-Maryland, and the S.O.L.V.E. Group.

Jin has more than 15 years of extensive professional knowledge and experience in financial reporting, financial planning, mergers and acquisitions, financial analysis and tax, both internationally and in Canada. Ms. Kuang has many years of experience acting as Chief Financial Officer for several publicly listed companies in Canada and internationally.

Ms. Kuang obtained her Bachelor's degree (1992) and her Master's degree in Business Administration(1995), both from Northeastern University in China.

Tom is responsible for operations, partner success and international expansion. Tom brings management experience from Rocket Internet where he led their operations, technical and customer service teams. In addition to Rocket Internet, Tom played an instrumental role in several highly successful technology start-ups that have either been acquired or gone public. Tom earned a B.Sc. in finance from The University of Arizona and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.