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Frederick WS Yung, Founder of Smart Start, a company in start-up training and consultancy, is also an Adjunct Professor of the Department of Management, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He has taught business planning and entrepreneurial fund-raising in the MBA Programme of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as a part-time lecturer from 2014-2017, as well as entrepreneurship in the University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus (UNNC), China, as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He carries with him more than 30 years of senior management experience in local and overseas marketing, business planning/operation. As Head of Incubation at HK Science and Technology Parks Corporation, he has reviewed over 1.000 business plans and nurtured start-ups, coached entrepreneurs in investment fundraising, while running an incubator with over 100 start-ups.

Mr Yung also served as an Assessment Panel Member of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition of University Students of Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan in 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2017 and 2018, he served respectively as the Head Assessor for the Software & Apps, and Hardware & Device of the ICT Awards Startup Categories organized by the OGCIO of the HKSAR Government. He has been on the Admission Panel of the HK Science and Technology Parks Corporation’s Incubation Programme since 2015, and the Venture Investment Connect Programme since 2019. He is also a frequent speaker in universities, incubators and co-working spaces on entrepreneurship and fund-raising.

Mr Yung was the Honourary Trainer, and currently a member of the Hong Kong Business Angel Network (HKBAN). He is a Certified Programme Facilitator of Kepner-Tregoe’s Problem Solving and Decision Making course and Learning International Limited’s Professional Selling Skills course. He received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Loyola College, Montreal Canada and his MBA from University of British Columbia, Canada.