The Social Agent Team

Michael Michelini

Co-Founder, CEO

5 years experience in China doing e-commerce, SEO, social media consulting

8 years experience in E-commerce, SEO, social media

MS Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

American social media & e-commerce specialist, has been in China since late 2007, originally to source products for his e-commerce business – but has transformed into working with American companies market entry into China, as well as assisting Chinese entrepreneurs reach their goals & take chances to build their own business. He is passionate to bridge Chinese and Western businesses both in e-commerce and now social media.

Chris Li

Co-Founder, CTO

Chris is the foundation behind most of the work done at Weibo Agent. He has worked with Fast 50 Tech startups, governments, and some of the most dynamic companies to emerge from Vancouver in the past decade. He bridges the chasm between idea and solution with his passion for design and front-end coding. Previously Chris ran Lotus Creations and has over 11 years in web development.

Chris holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Psychology from Simon Fraser University. With the fast pace of the web, the majority of his skills are now self-taught.

Amy Gu

Training & Recruiting of Sales Assistants

Amy is on top of key accounts and implementation of Chinese Social Media strategies.

Michael’s executive assistant, as well as recruiting and training our part time Chinese sales assistants, Amy has been with us through thick and thin!

Dan Sont

PHP Web Developer

Dan, in our Shenzhen, China office, came over to Asia from his land of Ottawa, Canada bringing with him experiences as a Software Developer at Fire Engine RED and Intermediate PHP Developer at Fire Engine RED companies

Terry Deng

Sales

Terry has over three years’ experience of multinational online business and has good communication skills. He is helping Mike maintain current customers and find more potential customers.

Marie Bosch

Sales

Marie is an experienced e-commerce and internet marketing professional who enjoys working with the Social Agent team. She is a positive thinking sales who creates win-win value for clients to leverage the power of Social Agent.

Wouter De Loose

Front End Developer

Online creative from Belgium currently based in Hong Kong, Spends most of his time creating stuff for the Internet.

Loves experimenting with new technologies, trying to push the limits in what’s possible.

Specialties: AS3, xHTML, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, XML, Java

Steve Forte

American Technical Advisor

Based in Hong Kong. Board Member at Scrum Alliance, Chief Strategy Officer at Telerik

Irving Steel

American, internationally most authoritative building certification professional, LEED, ignites indigenous innovation. He is the Co-Founder of Original Life Ltd. (www.original-life.co) and is active in the community as Founder of the Aquaponics Association of China, Founder at Green Drinks China as well as a Founding Member of the Green Building Professional Partnership – China (GBPP China).

Boyd Jones

American VC bridging USA and China,

Venture Partner at Co-Power Venture Capital Co., Ltd.

Partner at iTech Holdings Limited, Venture Partner at Tangrong Investment Co., Ltd.

Gillian Muessig

Founding President at SEOmoz, Inc.

Board Member at Companies in 4 Continents

Xing Gao

Gao Xing is a UPENN graduate and Oxford MBA who came back to China to work with top notch Strategic consulting firms. He is the brains behind many of the China business related deals.

Doug Pierce

Co-Founder, Marketing Advisor

Doug has written about Weibo for Wedbush Securities and the UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations. He previously co-founded Digital Due Diligence, where he helped investors, venture-backed companies, and a US Senate Commerce Committee investigation evaluate online business models, and was a marketing strategist for Blue Fountain Media in New York City. He’s been called an expert in online search by The New York Times.

Doug holds a B.S. in Information Systems with a minor in Chinese from San Diego State University.

Deverick McIntyre

Mentor at Chinaccelerator

CEO & Founder at Taidal Media Limited