Cristina Junqueira was 30 years old in 2013 when she cofounded Brazil-based Nubank, now the world’s most valuable digital bank. She ran Brazilian bank Itaú’s largest credit card division before leaving the job to start Nubank alongside cofounders David Velez and Edward Wible. A trained engineer, she also holds an MBA from Northwestern University. She

Former finance professional Abhay So is chairman and managing director of Max Healthcare Institute, India’s second largest listed hospital chain by revenue. Soi started his career at the erstwhile Arthur Andersen and later worked for EY and KPMG. Son got his entrepreneurial break in 2010 when he took over a struggling 650-bed hospital in Delhi

Xiong Shaoming is a cofounder of Smoore International, a supplier of vaping devices, and one of China’s first vaping billionaires. Smoore International Holdings supplies components for vaping devices to Japan Tobacco, British American Tobacco and NJOY. The company went public in July 2020, raising more than $900 million on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Chen

David Li is chairman and co-founder of YY, a Nasdaq-listed live streaming and social media platform in China. Before co-founding YY, Li was chief editor at Chinese portal Netease.com. Earlier in his career, Li founded CFP.cn, a copyright trading platform for journalists and amateur photographers. Li received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Renmin University