Wen-Lee is the Co-Founder of BeBetter, a technology-based venture that will enhance the engagement between NGOs, brands, and communities through the design and launch of social impact challenges. You change the world; We prove it.
Wen-Lee is a supporter of social impact ventures, and is also developing a cross-border platform appropriately dubbed IXI (Investment x Impact) that brings together global resources to both invest in and incubate social impact businesses. He has been a speaker at Asia's largest TEDx forum, has been a panelist for numerous cross border investment or immigration summits, and a curator of numerous conferences, forums, and panels that have targeted both industry professionals and students alike.
Wen is a Venture Partner and Special Adviser to West 22nd Capital Partners, an Asia- based Multi-Family Office leveraging the influence of the respective listed companies of these families, which span the industries of real estate, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and technology and collectively have a market cap over $100 billion USD. He is particularly well-versed in China outbound investment activity and has been interviewed by and contributed for the BBC World News and SINA, along with publications like the Pinkwater Report.
Previously, Mr. Ying ran a corporate-backed investment program in Asia-Pacific and grew the business from the ground up into an investment vehicle that financed approximately 4.5 billion USD of real estate assets in the US.
Mr. Ying had attended the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College and Columbia Honors Program. He was co-founder of NextStep Shanghai, which was the leading entrepreneurship networking association in Shanghai at the time, and a co- founder of the Shanghai Chapter of the Urban Land Institute, a global institute with over 30,000 members worldwide. He also created the Entrepreneur Mentorship Program within the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC.
Mr. Ying holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an Emphasis in Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He is a native English speaker and fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
