Founders Club

Patrick Frick, is a trilingual (Chinese, English, German) international sales manager with strong intercultural communication skills. At wenglor he provides leadership to the sales organizations across Asia. 

He co-founded and co-direct the China Flexpat Podcast to help people work and live in China. He interviews successful foreign professionals in China to give practical advice to his listeners on how to succeed in that ecosystem. 

Patrick's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-frick-%E5%82%85%E6%BD%98%E7%9D%BF-5b2942112/

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Leonardo Marra is a sales management professional with a solid background in cross-functional and cross-cultural relationships.

Currently managing the Asia Pacific region for Istituto Marangoni and Domus Academy, global education pillars for professional and creative learning in the Fashion, Art, and Design fields. He strives to integrate the spirit of ‘Italianess’ and celebrate the global and multicultural reach of Italian culture.

He is the host of The International Business Podcast where he engages in conversations to draw insights from international business leaders.

Leo's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardo-marra26/

Brian Tam is a 3x TEDx speaker and the lead consultant at Let's Make Great!, where he leads corporate teams through FIRST TIME EVER challenges. From new business models to fresh brands, he guides multinational companies in China to systematically explore opportunities and work through innovations. 

 He's the mind behind PROTO Innovation Cards, the author of Awrignawl Creativity, and the producer of "The Rebuild" -- a documentary following the aftermath of the post-COVID pandemic.  Born in New York, and proudly raised in New Jersey - he has been in China since 2007, working to drive the fantastic change that is happening in China & the world. Let's Make Great!

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Brian Tam's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamonline/

Rich Robinson helps startups build, scale-ups grow and organizations innovate. He is a sought-after keynote speaker that teaches at China's top two universities: at Peking University's Guanghua Int'l MBA program but also Entrepreneurship in China and at Tsinghua University's BI-Tsinghua joint program teaches 'pracademics' to senior execs.

Previously with 8 successive startups as a co-founder or senior exec, and with dozens of others as an investor, board member, advisor or mentor (HAX, Chinaccelerator & 500).

First a senior exec at 3 consecutive companies from private entities through to their listings, then went on to start 5 companies: 3 exited to publicly listed companies and 2 landed squarely in the 'L' column.

Rich is active in the geek-o-system in Asia/globally and speaks frequently at conferences. (Web Summit Lisbon & Dublin, TechCrunch Beijing, GMIC Beijing & Silicon Valley, Rise Hong Kong, and TechInAsia Singapore & Jakarta, etc).

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Rich Robinson's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardrobinson/

Don Wettrick is the founder of The STARTedUP Foundation, author of “Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level” and host of the "STARTedUP Podcast".  

Don is known for his award-winning work as a middle school and high school teacher; educational and innovation consultant; and educational speaker.

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Don Wettrick"s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donwettrick/

Xavier Anguera is the co-founder and CTO of ELSA Corp.  Within ELSA he is responsible for engineering, research in speech/AI, and data science.  

Prior to ELSA, he founded a digital electronic/audio-books publisher aimed at helping language learners getting used to the language while reading. Earlier in his career, he was one of the founding researchers in the multimedia research department at Telefonica, where he pursued research in speech and multimedia processing. 

Xavier holds a Ph.D. in speech processing since 2006 and is the co-author of over 120 published research publications.  He is also the co-inventor in multiple awarded/pending patents and an active contributor to the open-source community.  

Over the years he has participated and/or organized multiple scientific open challenge competitions in the speech and multimedia areas. 

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Xavier's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xanguera/

Viveka von Rosen is a LinkedIn Expert & Speaker, Forbes Top 20 Most Influential.

As the Chief Visibility Officer and Master Trainer at Vengreso, she helps customers to win more business using digital sales techniques like social selling.

Viveka has been speaking on stage since she was 7 years old. After a brief 30 year hiatus, she started speaking again to audiences of all sizes in 2007. Her first introduction back onto the stage was as the keynote social media speaker at the Waldorf Astoria Ballroom to a room full of millionaires and billionaires.

She speaks on LinkedIn regularly, on stage monthly at various events all over the world. You can check out her keynote for the Digital Day Out conference in Auckland, New Zealand.

Internationally known as the “LinkedIn Expert”, Viveka works with B2B companies and executives, helping them achieve business success through the use of LinkedIn. From Auckland to Vancouver (and just about everywhere else in between).

Viveka has been on stage educating and entertaining audiences about the power and potential of LinkedIn.

Author of the best-selling books, “LinkedIn Marketing: An Hour a Day,” and "LinkedIn: 101 ways to Rock your Personal Brand", Viveka has been listed as a Top Social Media Influencer in Forbes for the past 4 years and a Top 25 Social Media Expert by LinkedIn.

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LinkedIn:  Linkedin.com/in/Linkedinexpert

Faceboook:  Linkedin.com/LinkedInExpert

Twitter.com: Twitter.com/LinkedInExpert

Instagram:  instagram.com/LinkedInExpert

YouTube.com: Youtube.com/Vengreso

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/Vengreso

Facebook.com: facebook.com/govengreso

Twitter.com: Twitter.com/govengreso

Instagram:  instagram.com/Vengreso

Most individuals who have dedicated their careers to learning and talent development have spent the majority of their time in Human Resources. Christopher is different from most individuals. He’s a bold, digital-first learning and talent development leader that’s always reported directly to the business functions he’s served. As a result, he’s spent his career leading the reimagination of learning and talent development across a variety of industries, while going head-to-head with business operation leaders and being directly accountable for the outcomes.

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Christopher's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherlind/

Giuseppe Fantigrossi is the co-Founder, CEO who conceived Play2Speak while playing with the idea at the Founder’s Institute Entrepreneurship program, back in 2017.  

Polyglot of 4 languages, he has 11 years of international business experience in process improvement and IT integration solution projects, and as an English Foreign Language Instructor. 

Giuseppe is also a gamer at heart, who loves helping others out when he can.  Giuseppe holds an MBA and was a food scientist, once upon a time...

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuseppe-fantigrossi/ 

More about play2speak: https://youtu.be/TSSQFYpELso

Jonas Wolf is an enthusiastic facilitator, entrepreneur and leadership coach with a track record of transforming lives by inspiring and empowering people, driving change, growth, and getting results for individuals, startups, and corporations alike.   

He draws on his rich background of working in 4 continents, with dozens of startups and corporates, launching his own business in Germany and the innovation agency AngelHack in China.   Jonas’ purpose is to help people and their ideas to GROW in order to make a positive difference to the world. He believes that the world needs more purpose-driven, engaged, and optimistic leaders to contribute their ideas to the companies they work for or build. 

 Jonas is honored to be recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. 

He co-founded the social impact movement ChallengePreneurs whose mission is to inspire leadership, empower future leaders to lead from anywhere, and to make a difference to one million people. 

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ChallengePreneurs LinkedIn Page https://www.linkedin.com/company/challengepreneurs

Jonas' website: https://jonaswolf.coach

Giuseppe Tomasello is an Italian Entrepreneur, CEO & Founder at edugo.ai. With a mission to help language school get more customers online.   Edugo.ai is a SaaS platform that enables language school managers and directors to

 1. Get more students online. 

2. Increase in student retention.  

3. Increase student engagement and learning experience 

 4. Manage all the students and teachers all in one place.   

 The Edugo.ai platform makes use of several cutting edge technologies and techniques to deliver outstanding results for their clients, including: 

- AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology

 - Student and Teacher centered UX design

 - Growth Hacking and data-driven funnel optimization 

- A Lean Startup based framework for digital transformation 

- Rapid user iteration  Giuseppe started the journey as a self-taught full-stack developer to build the first version of a tool for learning Mandarin. 

From there he had launched 2 APPs (Edugora and Edugo.ai) in the Google Play Store and Apple APP store getting tens of thousands of downloads. 

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LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuseppe-tomasello/ 

More about Edugo: https://www.edugo.ai/ 

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