Mr. Marco Cheung Hoi Fai is the co-founder of EcoSave International Limited. His company has recently been the only Asian startup recognized by Kairos Society, USA, as Kairos 50 - one of the 50 best student-led ventures globally and showcased at NYSE in early February. He has also been recognized in various entrepreneurship competitions locally and globally, while being the first ever team to represent China in winning 6th Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition and the youngest entrepreneur to achieve Bronze Award in 7th Challenge Cup in China at age of 17.

He is currently pursuing two degrees in Chemical and Bioproduct Engineering and Business Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, one of the topmost Asian institutions.

His vision is to make a difference to humanity in both social and environmental areas through technological innovations.

Fabian Neuen was born in Malta and grew up in many countries including the Congo and France. His itinerant childhood imbued him with a wanderlust that has taken him to remote regions like Bihar and to rising global capitals of business and culture such as Shanghai. Fabian has worked in strategy consulting, investment banking, venture capital and the German Air Force. He was on the Dean’s List for his MBA class at INSEAD, was a distinguished student at WHU Koblenz and named one of Siemens’ Global Top Talents. At Siemens he was also promoted to be amongst the company’s youngest managers world-wide.

Eleanor 'Nell' Watson is an interdisciplinary industrial technologist with experience in E-Commerce and Information Systems. After several years in industry she felt the need to try something different, and so left for Tripoli, Libya in order to help establish a school of English there. Following this, Ms Watson taught postgraduate Computer Science and Computer Forensics for two years at Birmingham International College.

She then co-founded her first company, Graffiti4Hire Ltd, at Birmingham’s Custard Factory. Following this, she founded a another company, Poikos Ltd. Poikos is a disruptive innovation house based at Birmingham Science Park Aston. It is currently developing an advanced computer-vision technology which can accurately measure bodily dimensions using a digital camera or smartphone.

Shalom Obidinma Nwaokolo grew up in Nigeria. He came to the United States to attend Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. He is currently a senior, completing a major in Economics and minors in Mathematics and Leadership. He plans to pursue a graduate program in Developmental Economics following graduation from college.

He has several business ventures in the works including CloudBerry League, a company focused on leveraging business opportunities that abound Afrida. His charitable initiatives include LightingNBV, a rural electrification initiative aimed at bringing dependable nighttime solar lighting to 145 households in rural India. It is valued at $10,000 and is schedules for implementation in summer 2012. Another is a Math and Science Clinic focused on expanding technology access to 1000 youths in under-served areas in Africa. The project is valued at $15,000 and its pilot phase in Ghana is schedules for execution in summer 2013.

In his spare time, Shalom loves to draw. He has been privilaged to present his works to individuals including First Lady Laura Bush, hip-hop music icon Jay-Z, Kofi Annan of United Nationsm and President John Kufour of Ghana. His hobbies include debating African and world issues, listening to music and playing soccer.

Born in Porto, Portugal, Inês is a 22-year-old entrepreneur in the making. She loves to create things and she has always been proactive and an info-addict.

Having as motto “Do the best, live the rest”, Inês devote herself to learn as much as possible, not only in the academic field, but also in the practical side of business.

So, during her college degree in Business Administration, Inês worked at FEP Junior Consulting, where she was the CEO for one year, she co-founded the Portuguese Junior Entreprise Federation founded a Think-Tank that discusses strategy, business models and innovation, was the organizer and host at TEDxYouth@Porto and she also organized two Startup Weekends, among other things.

More recently, she co-founded Startup Pirates, a one-week intensive program, to empower wannabe entrepreneurs.

Inês likes to create things from scratch and likes to have the autonomy and flexibility to build things fast and see results even faster.

Robert Tubis is the co-founder and executive director of the Center of Genetic Analysis and Prognosis (CoGAP GmbH) in Cologne. The company offers individual genetic lifestyle tests via healthcare professionals (physicians, pharmacists or nutritionists). CoGAP participated successfully in several business plan competitions and was elected as “Financial Times Deutschland” founder of the week in 2011.

Mr. Tubis studied law at the Philipps-University of Marburg. He received an extra qualification in pharmaceutical law in 2006 and achieved a master’s degree in business law (LL.M.oec.) with highest honor (summa cum laude) at the University of Cologne in 2009. During his legal traineeship he worked for international law firms in Dusseldorf and London, Bayer Healthcare in Leverkusen and the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices in Bonn. After passing his bar exam in 2008 he worked as a lawyer for Oppenhoff & Partners until he founded CoGAP in 2010. Since then he has additionally advised other start-ups in the Entrepreneurship Center Cologne and has been working pro bono as the Commissioner for the Protection of Youth of the Koydo UG.

An afropreneur (entrepreneur focused on Africa) with social and business networks across the USA, UK, China, & Sub-Saharan Africa, Idris is devoted to encouraging entrepreneurship and creativity in the developing world as a tool to lessen the dependence of the citizenry on the state, which affects their willingness to criticise government leaders, thereby perpetuating poor governance. With advanced degrees in Computer Science & Engineering from Nigeria, an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Rice University in the USA, and an MSc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, UK, he is dedicated to the enhancement of African lives by developing and deploying attractive platforms for innovation-driven, technology-enabled investments across the continent.

In 2010, he founded the Next Cool Idea Business Incubator for Rice MBA students, and also directs the Wennovation Hub- a Nigerian-based start-up accelerator and entrepreneur training program which in partnership with the African Leadership Academy Centre for Entrepreneurial Leadership currently promotes the Anzisha Prize for young innovators who have developed and implemented innovative solutions to challenges facing their communities. He recently led a new social venture, Libraries Across Africa (LAA) to win the 2011 Dell Best Social Innovation Leveraging Technology Award.

Selected in 2011 as Huffington Post’s “Greatest Person of the Day”, he is a 2011 StartingBloc Innovation Fellow, 2010 Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader (Aspen Global Leadership Network), a 2011 Fellow at the Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance, and was recently named as a 2012 Dell Global Innovation Ambassador for his role in supporting social innovation on university campuses. Selected to attend the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative University, he was also recently invited to a roundtable discussion between high impact young African entrepreneurs and the Parliament of South Africa.

Jason Aramburu is founder and CEO of re:char. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree, cum laude, in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a certificate in Environmental Studies. He has extensive research experience in both the lab and field, having spent significant time studying and working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in the Republic of Panama and at Princeton University’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative. Before founding re:char, Jason was a founding member of Innozone, an online expertise network. Named a 2009 Social Innovation fellow by Pop!Tech and a 2010 Echoing Green fellow, Jason believes climate change and rural poverty are the two greatest global challenges and is excited to take part in solving them.

As a Founder of the SmartTAG initiative ( www.smartag.co.cc ), Raj is an active innovation driven entrepreneur who likes to make use of technology to solve practical problems that can be spotted in our society and within our modern lifestyles. He is a graduate in Electronics & Communications Engineering and has an Erasmus Mundus Masters education in Global Innovation Management (a full-bright scholarship program of the European Commission).

Raj has working experience with different communication technologies and also living and working in different countries and cultures (England, Scotland, Germany, India and Denmark). Over the past couple of years, Raj has been working with a wireless communications firm, RTX A/s based in Denmark within the discipline of Product Management. He loves Denmark where he gets to drive his favourite vehicle to work everyday, his MSQ 7-gear bicycle.

In future, Raj wants to become a Social Entrepreneur (apply transferable skills from his current entrepreneurial experiences), be able to deal with society’s most pressing problems – lack of access to proper education, poverty etc. and at some point he hopes to be able to teach Entrepreneurship within local communities.

Srikanth is currently a third year undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Srikanth has overcome significant life challenges to achieve his impressive academic and entrepreneurial success at the age of 20. Being visually challenged has not stopped him from having dedicated vision to change the society; create better tomorrow and create equal opportunities for people with disabilities in India. to achieve his vision, Srikanth cofounded samanvai center for children with multiple disabilities:

http://samanvai.org/

A non-profit organization in Hyderabad, India. Dedicated to the vision of supporting students with disabilities. Srikanth took the initiative to launch a Computer Research and Training Center for visually challenged students at the Samanvai Center to provide computer education to visually challenged students and to help them become independent learners and develop skills for employment. He also designed the Digital Library that provides books in the form of mp3 files and DVDs to promote accessible education. He also designed and implemented brail library/printing press to provide free brail books to blind schools/colleges and also students studying in various schools/colleges. He is now concentrating on fundraising for future projects and working on Samanvai’s website development. Srikanth’ s next vision is to create entrepreneurial venture to provide sustainable and rewarding employment to uneducated, partially and fully educated people with multiple disabilities. Through this venture he would like to emphasize on the environmental sustainability by manufacturing green products. Srikanth is an outstanding leader, and social entrepreneur. He was personally appreciated as the best youth leader by the former president of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. Srikanth served as the source of inspiration and guest lecturer for 800000 students and youth.