Sunny Zhang on Clubhouse

Bio

🚀 Founding Partner of Z LAB Ventures, a venture studio and fund building and investing in impact-driven software startups from conception to traction.
📚 Marketing Professor at U. of St. Thomas
🧠 Program Advisor at Women in AI
🇺🇸🇨🇳Board of Advisor at George H. W. Bush Foundation of US China Relations
💸 Strategic Partner of Business Angel Minority Association (baMa)

🎓 PhD in Marketing & MBA at Kelley School of Business, Minor in Social Psychology, Indiana University
🎓 MS in Applied Psychology at Chinese Academy of Sciences

Passionate about
🦄 The Startup Studio Model
🧏🏻‍♀️ Underrepresented Founders
🙆🏽‍♀️ Underserved Communities
🗺 SDGs2030. Impact Investing

🌐 20 years in digital marketing, social networks, innovation adoption, and international business as a researcher, educator, entrepreneur, and venture builder.

👩🏻‍🏫 17 years teaching marketing, management, entrepreneurship, e-business including 9 years online/hybrid.

🏫 Currently pilot testing smart LMS in schools and nontraditional education programs

*** Z LAB namesake ***
LAB stands for Linking Academia with Business. Technology transfer. Rapid experimentation. Applying scientific methods in venture building.
Z as the last letter of the alphabet stands for innovation, new ideas, newcomers, little ones, underrepresented, underestimated, underserved, underdogs, last ones on the line.

Enjoy 🧘🏻‍♀️yoga 📿meditation 🎼 music 🚲cycling 🛫travel 📖reading 📝writing

📍 Houston TX
WeChat: sunnyzlab
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drsunnyz

Happy to connect! 🖖