Executive Team

Mr. Shao has served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Beauty Diary, a medical aesthetics livestreaming e-commerce company based in China, since 2020. Prior to that, from 2015 to 2019, he was Co-founder, Executive Director, and Chief Operating Officer of Beijing QingPu Tourism Culture Development Co., Ltd., where he was responsible for operations and participated in financing and strategic transactions. From 2012 to 2014, Mr. Shao served as Executive Assistant to the Chairman at Grade Investment LLC (United States), where his responsibility included investment research, business analysis, and due diligence. Since 2012, Mr. Shao has been a co-founder of North America Student Network, a student services platform for international students in the United States. Mr. Shao holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from New York University (2009), and a M.S. in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from Columbia University (2011). He also pursued a Ph.D. program in Environmental Engineering from Columbia University (2011–2015, not completed).

Most recently, Mr. Anderson was a partner with Mazars USA, an independent member firm of Mazars Group, an international accounting firm servicing clients in over 90 countries worldwide. In this role, Mr. Anderson worked closely with the top executives and investors of companies in the TMT markets ranging from start-ups to companies with multinational/divisional components and revenues in excess of $500 million. As an audit, tax and advisory partner in the TMT Group of Mazars, Mr. Anderson’s clients included companies engaged in online media (B2B and B2C), entertainment, gaming, events, trade shows, digital marketing/advertising, SaaS platforms, eCommerce, AI, lead generation, Tech-enabled services, cybersecurity, software and software development. In addition, Mr. Anderson was a key member of Mazars’ SEC Practice Group. For the last several years, Mr. Anderson has been an invited speaker at key media and technology industry conferences and has presented numerous educational webcasts on various technical issues including revenue recognition, share based compensation, and business combinations. Mr. Anderson is a certified public accountant (CPA) who holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Long Island University’s School of Professional Accountancy.