The Chinese Entrepreneur Association

Chinese Entrepreneur Association, CEA, is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization composed of Christian Entrepreneur and professionals, founded in Philadelphia in 1997, then spread to Boston, Philadelphia/Delaware, Ottawa and New Jersey local chapters. CEA has been helping lots of Entrepreneur, professionals as well as students through its annual conferences, special sessions, and workshops.

Vision: To provide a platform where Christian Entrepreneur and professionals get trainings and interactions, so that they become godly influence on their positions to change the world and spread Gospels.

Mission: To influent lives, change lives, fulfill lives, magnify lives in Business-places and work-places.

Meet our board members

Frank W. Lee, Ph.D.

Dr. Lee is a retired pharmaceutical executive after working in the pharmaceutical industry for 38 years. He currently works as an individual pharmaceutical consultant as well as the advisor to the Young Professional Fellowship at CBCGB. Dr. Lee accepted Jesus Christ as his personal savior in 1957. He has been very active in serving the Chinese Student Christian Fellowship on various campuses and local Chinese Christian Churches.

Denise Chen, Ph.D.

Denise is now an Applications Scientist at Seahorse Bioscience leading the technical team supporting the Asia-Pacific market.  She has had more than 6 years of experience in Biotech industry including assay and product development, as well as the last two years in Shanghai Zhangjiang High-tech park setting up the sales & marketing office and lab as the company’s Asia-Pac headquarter. Currently she is also a consultant in the biomedical device, bioengineering, and life science field connecting biotech business between North America and Asia-Pacific market. Denise got her B.S. in Biotech at Zhejiang University in China, and her M.S. in Biology from University of Louisiana. After her Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Denise pursued her postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School.

Yuhua Li, Ph.D.

Dr. Li is a co-founder of Foresee Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and currently serves as its Vice President of Research and Development. His responsibilities include strategic planning, R&D budget and daily operational activities, and intellectual property (IP) portfolio management. Dr. Li was previously Director of Formulation R&D at QPS, LLC, where he was responsible for product research and development. He is a co-inventor for the novel controlled release drug delivery platform technology that Foresee Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is founded on. Dr. Li has more than 15 years of pharmaceutical industrial experience in the field of drug delivery and pharmaceutical product development. Prior to joining QPS, Dr. Li worked for FeRx Incorporated from May 1999 to June 2004 where he was a principal scientist leading a research team to develop magnetically targeted drug delivery systems. Dr. Li was also responsible for the chemistry, manufacture and control (CMC) development resulted in a successful filing of an IND with U. S. FDA. He also contributed significantly to another IND approved by China’s State Drug Administration (SDA). In addition, Dr. Li was also awarded two SBIR grants from NIH during his tenure at FeRx. From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Li was a Senior Scientist at GeneMedicine Inc. working in the area of gene delivery and formulation development. Dr. Li received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Clemson University, South Carolina, and his post-doctoral training in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

David Wu

David Wu is President of Accuview Inc. located at East Brunswick, NJ (newly moved to) since 1990. He has more than 25 years experience of services, OEM private label and commercial/industrial manufacturing in LCD display industry. David started his business from Los Angeles flea market in 1986. He grows the business with his two partners from 4 people to a 170 people organization with three branches at LA, Dallas and NJ in three years. David is highly sensible of the market changes especially in electronics display industry, and he is able to closely following the trend of the industry. In 2000, David successfully transformed the business from a service oriented company to private label OEM. David is now leading the company to market and sell the customized design display products under the brand name, Accuview. David receives his master degree of Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont Texas in USA in 1985 and his bachelor degree in Marine Engineering from Tamkang University in 1981.

Qianwen (Wendy) Wen, MBA/MS

Qianwen (Wendy) Wen is a seasoned Digital Analyst and Data-driven Marketing Strategist with extensive digital marketing experience from Global Advertising Agency and Fortune 500 Companies in both China and US. Wendy holds a MBA/MS dual degree in eCommerce and IT management from Temple University. Currently Wendy is the Digital Optimization Program Manager for K12 Inc., a leading K to 12 online educator in DC area while part-time managing her private Digital Optimization Consultancy (eTelligency.com). Prior to above roles, Wendy assisted over 400 small businesses in Delaware with a focus to leverage digital solutions with data-driven approach for smart growth and Awarded 2013 Delaware State Star by American Small Business Development Association for her contribution to the successful creation of “Digital Compass” program as a model program to scale her digital focus. Wendy has participated in CEA activities since 2008 and assisted in building Delaware local chapter since 2010”.

Elaine Kung, MS

Elaine Kung is passionate about mentoring and leading others to success, investing in hundreds of mentees and students around the world. Elaine is a frequent speaker at universities, non-profits, churches, and conferences in the States and overseas on leadership, career development, marriage, parenting, and various life skills to audiences of thousands for over three decades, e.g. 20 talks in March 2019, 5 weeks speaking trips in Asia in July 2019. Elaine received such recognitions as Women of Color STEM Career Achievement Industry Award, Successful Women in Business, Most On-Fire Manager. Elaine speaks from her personal journey integrating her Calling, Career and Community experiences – grew up in poverty in Hong Kong, immigrated to the States as a refugee, life changing from “trouble maker” to “peace maker” when becoming a Christ follower in 1981, earned her B.S. in E.E./M.S.E. from Cornell, her M.S. in E.E. from Princeton, her Executive Education from Columbia, Cornell and U Penn Wharton, retired from 33 years of rewarding career as AT&T Director, founded and lead Called To Work to help others to be their best at work and take Jesus to work, serve on a few Boards and as a church Elder, married for 33 years and raised 2 adult children.

Qinhai Xia, MBA/MS

Qinhai has 15 years of direct investment experience including transactions in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania while working for Liberty Mutual Investments, Harvard Endowment, and United Technologies. Prior to his investment career, Qinhai spent 7 years as a software programmer for a variety of industries.

He holds an MBA from Yale, MS in Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania, and BS in Computer Science from Gordon College.

He became a believer in 1997 and serves in Chinese Bible Church of Greater Boston. He is married with two children.

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