Vanessa Liu

Vanessa is an experienced technology business leader and currently Co-Founder and CEO of SaaS technology company Sugarwork, and an Independent Director of ASX-listed artificial intelligence company Appen Ltd (since March 2020). She has more than twenty years of experience in the technology sector having started her career at McKinsey in the Telecom, Media & Technology Practice. She was most recently Vice President of SAP.iO North America, SAP’s early-stage venture arm, where she recruited and accelerated 87 enterprise software startups. Prior to SAP, Vanessa was Chief Operating Officer at Trigger Media Group, a digital media venture studio, and co-founded Trigger’s portfolio companies: digital media company InsideHook and SaaS technology company Fevo.

Vanessa graduated magna cum laude highest honors with an AB in psychology from Harvard University and cum laude with a JD from Harvard Law School. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands. She serves as a Past President Director of the Harvard Alumni Association and is a Board Advisor of Talking Talent Ltd. and a Board Observer of Fevo.