Members
Member Profiles
88 Spaces brings together a diverse group of techies, freelancers, and creatives. Here’s are profiles of a few of our community members:
Carolyn Wang
chinashb.com
Carolyn is a business development manager in the SHB Group, who is experienced in the automotive part industry. A Wenzhou native, she’s a tough bargainer who will make fun of you in Wenzhounese. Carolyn likes shopping, travel and video games that involve eating fish.
John Eric Metcalf
think27.com
John is a 25 year old entrepreneur and new venture enthusiast. John is a Board Member and Co-Founder of Texas Ventures, a nonprofit focused on accelerating young businesses and entrepreneurs. Texas Ventures is under the guidance of Dr. John Sibley Butler, Director of The IC2 Institute and supported by the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship. He has served as a consultant to companies such as radar.net, qipit.com and Mr. Youth. John holds an Advertising degree from The University of Texas at Austin, with a heavy concentration in Computer Science and a research emphasis in STS (Science, Technology and Society). A maven/relater, John is most excited when connecting people and businesses to form mutually beneficial relationships. John practices and holds dearly the concepts of empathy, critical thinking and awareness. Ever one for exploration and excitement, John is an avid mountain biker and a frequent skydiver.
Kai Lukoff
bloggerinsight.com
Kai is an aspiring entrepreneur and market analyst at Blogger Insight in Shanghai. He avidly tracks the development of the fast-evolving Chinese internet. In addition to practicing his broken Chinese, Kai enjoys soccer, scuba diving, and adventurous travel. He hails from Petaluma, CA.
Lucas Englehardt
lucasenglehardt.com
Lucas is a founder of BloggerInsight who’s active in the local startup scene. Originally from New York state, his itchy feet first brought him to Shanghai to study at Fudan University and he’s been hooked on learning about all things China ever since. When not in 88 Spaces working on BloggerInsight or other tech projects, he enjoys exploring the city on his scooter in search of local restaurants with tasty vegetarian food.
Markus Fuhrmann
web2asia.com
Markus is the co-founder of Web2Asia, a company with headquarters in Shanghai that specializes in supporting western Internet startups and Mobile content developers to get going in China, Japan and Korea. Web2Asia handles everything from market research to server deployment, business development, and operations. Some of their clients are Amiando (Germany), Jimdo (Germany) and Salesforce.com (USA). Markus has an entrepreneurial history in the gaming and Internet industry. He is also Industry Advisor for the Austrian based venture capital fund Gamma Capital Partners as well as on the advisory board of several startups. He got in touch with China through part of an IMBA semester at Tongji University in Shanghai and decided to stay there as he started to enjoy the dynamic environment and the vast amount of opportunities available in Asia.