Management Team
Zhang Li, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer.
Prior to launching Turtlejob, Li founded and managed Henan Yingzhi Consulting Co. (HYCC), where she initiated partnerships with British universities and recruited more than 800 Chinese students for joint-education programs and other partner schools. HYCC grew rapidly, achieving revenue of approximately 1.7 million pounds within three years of founding. As a young entrepreneur, Li has more than ten years’ experience in serving Chinese overseas students and in developing the Chinese market for student related services. In the process, she has established a substantial network of contacts with Chinese government officials. Li graduated in 2006 from the University of Wales with an MBA degree.
Andrew St. George, PhD, Co-Founder and Chairman.
Andrew is founder and principal of St George Partners, a London-based management consultancy. Andrew’s clients include Spencer Stuart, Christie & Co, Vance, Marks & Spencer, Diageo, Dixons, ITV, European Venture Capital Association, and the Royal Navy. He has written/edited ten books about communications and business and contributes regularly to the Financial Times and the Independent. Andrew was educated at Cambridge, Harvard (Kennedy Fellow), and Oxford (D Phil) and has taught at Harvard, Oxford and Columbia.
Advisory Team
Henry Blodget, Operations Advisor.
Henry is CEO of Cherry Hill Associates, LLC, a New York-based Internet research and consulting firm. From 1994-2001, Henry worked in corporate finance and equity research at Prudential Securities, Oppenheimer & Co., and Merrill Lynch & Co. He specialized in the software and Internet sectors, worked with dozens of early-stage companies, and covered AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, and other Internet leaders. From 1999-2001, Henry headed Merrill’s global Internet research team and was ranked the No. 1 Internet and eCommerce analyst on Wall Street by Institutional Investor, Greenwich Associates, and other organizations. He earned a B.A. from Yale University.
Nicholas Matelan, PhD, Development Advisor.
Nick is Chief Technology Officer of Axa Solutions, a New York -based technology investment and management company. Previously, he was CTO of Learn Technologies Interactive, a developer and publisher of web-based educational and knowledge management software. Nick founded and was CEO and Chief Engineer of Flexible Computer Corporation, a NASDAQ traded company; served in senior engineering capacities with Honeywell Communications, United Technologies, Mostek Corporation, and General Dynamics; and was a co-founder of Picture Telephone Corporation and Spectrum Digital. Nick holds PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Southern Methodist University, and a BS in Physics from the University of Texas.
Ludmil Pandeff, Operations Advisor.
Ludmil is President of Axa Solutions. Prior to co-founding Axa, Ludmil was COO and CFO of Learn Technologies Interactive. He also served as President and CEO of AxaVision, an investment company providing seed capital and management and technology expertise to young software companies, and VP of Axa Capital Corporation, an early stage technology investment banking boutique. Ludmil also worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York and London in its international corporate finance and international capital markets departments. He earned a BA and MA from Stanford University.