Derek Feng

Mr. Feng is currently an investor in and advisor to several technology and education companies. Previously, he was the chief executive officer of Bright Scholar, a NYSE listed education company headquartered in China with over 10,000 employees worldwide, from 2019 to 2020; co-founder and chief executive officer of Kidsmile Dental, a chain of premium children orthodontics clinics in China, from 2017 to 2018; chief executive officer of Global Education & Technology Group, a leading education company in China, from 2014 to 2016; and the chairman/interim chief executive officer responsible for the restructuring of ChinaCast Education Corporation from 2011 to 2013. From 2006 to 2011, he was executive vice president of strategy, planning and operations at Knowledge Universe, one of the largest education holding company in the US. Prior to joining Knowledge Universe, Mr. Feng spent 8 years at the General Electric Company in the US. Mr. Feng graduated from Tsinghua University in China in 1989 with a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Automation and earned a Master of Business Administration degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1992.