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Ben Harburg is a Managing Partner at MSA Capital, a global investment firm with over $1.7 billion in assets under management. MSA has invested in global leading technology enabled companies like Meituan (SEHK: 3690), Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB), NIO (NYSE: NIO), … Continued

• Navy SEAL combat veteran
• Successful entrepreneur and expert in leadership and organizational management
• Undergraduate degrees in Finance & Economics, MBA, degrees in English & History from Oxford University
• TV personality
• Philanthropist

• Corporate Entrepreneur
• Futurist of Work
• Future Boards

• Academic: Chinese speaking Dutch Professor of Innovation and Strategy with decade long China research
• Author: Pioneers, Hidden Champions, Change Makers and Underdogs: Lessons from China’s Innovators (MIT Press, forthcoming); Business ecosystems in China: Alibaba and competing Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi and LeEco (Routledge, 2018)
• Thinker: Selected on the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 next generation business gurus

• Futurist and Founder of the 311 Institute
• “The Adviser Behind The Advisers”
• Award-winning International Keynote Speaker
• Member of Centrica’s Prestigious Technology and Innovation Committee

• Leading expert on e-commerce and the Internet in China and emerging markets
• Former Vice-President at Alibaba Group (2000-2008) as the company grew from an apartment into the world’s largest e-commerce company
• Entrepreneur, e-commerce consultant and director of award-winning documentary film, Crocodile in the Yangtze: the Alibaba Story

• Co-founder and President of Attract China
• An expert in SME, investment, recruitment and operational landscape in China
• A seasoned market entry strategist, advisor and highly successful entrepreneur