As the Executive Director of the HKAI Lab, Mr Timothy Leung has supported and coached many start-ups along their entrepreneurship journey to become a successful business, including in areas of fundraising, product and business development, and team management. He leveraged his own experience as a start-up co-founder and network in the start-up ecosystem.

Mr Leung has accumulated over 20 years of experience in the Information and Internet field. He worked in esteemed companies such as Alibaba, Apple, and PCCW. He is now the Executive Director of the HKAI LAB, which is a not-for-profit initiative fully funded by the Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund and SenseTime focusing on advancing the frontiers of AI with cutting-edge technologies and expertise, and empowering startups to commercialize their new inventions.

Mr Leung is strong at business strategic planning and implementation. He had managed direct sales team and channel partners for technology products and internet services. Such background has equipped him with comprehensive experience in sales, marketing, product development and senior management. He had also achieved many successes in government and private sector partnership development and management.

His 20+ years' experience in the technology field covers Asia, Europe and the Americas. He directly managed staff and partners in Japan, Korea, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey, USA, UK, Italy, Brazil and Peru.

(Updated as at Jan 2022)