ABOUT US
The Student Entrepreneurship Network is a global platform dedicated to empowering student entrepreneurs by connecting them with like-minded peers, mentors, and institutions worldwide. Our mission is to create a space where innovative ideas can thrive, collaboration is fostered, and students have access to the resources they need to transform their concepts into impactful ventures.
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Zsolt Bugarszki, an Associate Professor in the Social Entrepreneurship MA program at Tallinn University, has long recognized the need to support students' entrepreneurial journeys beyond the traditional academic framework.
He believes that real-life development, active engagement with innovation ecosystems, and access to networking and collaboration opportunities are essential for unlocking the full potential of student initiatives. Out of this vision, the Student Entrepreneurship Network was created—to boost student projects, foster meaningful connections, and significantly increase the likelihood of successful spin-offs. Through this initiative, Dr. Bugarszki aims to bridge the gap between academia and the entrepreneurial world, enabling students to achieve both academic and professional success.
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Leslie Hsu brings her 30 years of successful corporate executive experiences to Student Enterprise Network (SEN). Until end of 2023, she served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for a Private Equity-backed, Singapore-based, multinational consumer healthcare company, valued at multi-billion dollars. Prior to that, she worked at the world’s largest medical device company and the largest pharmaceutical company as their Asia Pacific regional CFO and Greater China regional CFO. In addition, she has worked and lived in 3 different continents, including the United States and Switzerland, and managed Middle East and Africa region. She had directly led organization of over 1000 people in Strategy and Business Development, Finance, IT, Supply Chain functions, and had mentored hundreds of talents as a senior corporate executive.
Leslie studied at Columbia University in New York for her BS and MBA and qualified as Charter Managing Consulting in San Francisco. In recent years, she also completed a Master of Arts degree in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of Roehampton in London, UK.
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Today Leslie lives in Singapore managing financial portfolio and acting as an angel investor and a funding partner for SEN.
Impact Investor
Steve Koon is the leading social innovation expert in China and Hong Kong. He started to work in the field right when he learned the term social enterprise as Mason Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School over 15 years ago.
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Before working in the social enterprise field, Steve has over 15 years of executive and consulting experiences at multinationals. He started his career at The New York Times in New York when he attended graduate school at Columbia University. When he moved back to Hong Kong, he worked for Merck and Honeywell Greater China in Training and PA Consulting in strategic consulting.
In 2009, he partnered with the British Council to launch the Social Entrepreneurs Training Program the first social entrepreneurship program in China.
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He has trained over 2,000 aspiring social entrepreneurs and helped transform dozens of NGOs into social enterprises. In 2011, Steve brought in one of China’s first impact investment from Hong Kong in special education.
In 2017, he became the lead consultant for Innopower, the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s social innovation project, training talented social workers to become Change Makers.
He has trained hundreds of social workers in Hong Kong to design innovative social services that impacted thousands of people in needs, from pre-mature babies, isolated youth and lonely elderly. Those projects have received millions of funding from the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
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Steve is currently running his own consulting business in China and working with leading NGOs in Hong Kong in social innovation and leadership development.
Impact Investor, social innovation expert