About China blogosphere, travel, and entrepreneurship

David Feng, Mac, media and projects guy resident in Beijing, is a citizen of Switzerland with Chinese ancestry. He serves as President of BeiMac, Publisher of techblog86, and Founder of Beijingology. He is also the author of The Beijingologist blog at City Weekend. He is a world citizen with knowledge in up to ten languages.

David’s media involvements in all aspects has its roots in 2002, when he founded Global Mac News, which was revitalized in January 2008. By late 2007, David has written 3,000 Chinese tech articles. He started contributing to Macsimum News in late 2005, and, from October 2007 through to December 2007, became the editor of blognation China, a blog focusing on the Chinese Web 2.0 tech, mobile and enterprise worlds. On January 1, 2008, David launched techblog86, continuing Chinese tech news coverage following the collapse of blognation. Beginning January 3, 2008, David appeared as a regular guest in Radio Beijing (774 AM), talking about travel topics. David is set to join Shanghaiist in early January 2008.

As early as August 2006, David started an experimental wiki on the city of Beijing, which became the Beijingology project in May 2007. Beijingology today is the largest dedicated wiki about the city of Beijing and features over 1,300 articles in English about the Chinese capital. In close partnership with City Weekend, David produces The Beijingologist, a blog on City Weekend’s website, updated daily.

David is an active microblogger and can be followed on Twitter.

Elliott Ng has over 16 years of experience in direct/interactive/Internet marketing and venture-backed entrepreneurship. He joined Kango.com, a travel review aggregator, as VP of Marketing in March 2007; he is also a founding seed investor of Kango. From 2003 to 2005, Elliott served as Director of Interactive Marketing for Intuit, Inc., and grew the channel from $14 mm to $40+ mm. In 2001, Elliott co-founded Loyalty Matrix, Inc., a profitable customer intelligence and analytics firm that has helped clients like Apple Computer, LA Times, 24-Hour Fitness, and Starwood Hotel & Resorts reduce customer attrition and increase customer lifetime value. In 1996, Elliott co-founded Netcentives, Inc., backed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Mayfield Fund. An early pioneer in using the internet to drive customer loyalty and retention, Netcentives went public in 1999 (NASDAQ:NCNT) and was acquired in 2001 by hospitality/travel/real estate company Cendant Corporation (NYSE:CD) and data provider InfoUSA (NASDAQ:IUSA).

Elliott also worked at McKinsey & Company, and was a product manager at Microsoft Corporation. He received an MBA, with honors, from Harvard Business School and holds a BA in Social Studies from Harvard University.

Elliott lives in Silicon Valley, CA with his family. Elliott is fluent in English and conversational Cantonese.

Related post: Elliott Ng’s inspiration for CN Reviews

Other Blogs: Elliott Ng’s personal blog is at ElliottNg.com for posts that are just too off-topic for CN Reviews. You can also follow Elliott on Twitter.

Min Guo (aka Grigo) is a marketing manager of Kango.com, a semantic travel search engine, since Mar. 2007. She worked for Ng Ventures LLC for about one year, and was responsible for market research, competitive analysis, product planning, and translation/interpretation for all of Ng Ventures’ projects. Prior to Ng Ventures, Min worked at E-Jing Technologies Ltd., a Hong Kong provider of supply chain management solutions serving Fortune 1000 companies. At E-Jing, she co-designed a Supply Chain Management system and a Business Intelligence Application for a leading textiles manufacturing client.

Min holds a Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) from APICS. She holds an M.Phil in Supply Chain Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and a B.E. in Industrial Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU), where she graduated in the top 10% of class.

Min is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, English, conversational Japanese, and lives in Shanghai.

Min’s Chinese Blogs: Grigo’s Blog (current) and old one.

Note: Opinions and statements by the authors of CN Reviews are solely those of their own and CN Reviews, and does not reflect the views and opinions of their employers, specifically Three All, Inc. (parent company of Kango), City Weekend, BeiMac Union, and the Beijingology network of sites.