Anferny Chen

A serial entrepreneur and seasoned business development professional with experience executing innovative initiatives and partnership strategy for banks, tech startups, incubators, and universities in Canada and China. He is currently leading the business and data science team at Dataraction. He and his talented team is working on the implementation of hyperledger fabric (blockchain), building customized analytics dashboards using Dash (Python) and D3.js(JavaScript), and integrating GPT-3 by OpenAI. The talent at the firm is specializing in advanced AI/ML tools from IBM, GCP, and AWS. Anferny is a recognized Distinguished Research Fellow at Tsinghua University and is an Ambassador of the Harvard Business Analytics Program.

He holds MBA from The Schulich School of Business and an MMA from Queen's University.

Experience

• Chief Executive Officer
  Dataraction

• Tsinghua University
  Lecturer and Program Lead, Technology Entrepreneurship/ Advisor to the Deans - Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Advanced Analytics

• Distinguished Research Fellow
  Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute

• Board Advisor
  StartupFuel

• Ambassador
  Harvard Business Analytics Program

• Entrepreneur-In-Residence
  Fundica

• Head, Canadian Division & Executive Member, North America
  Shenzhen Entrepreneurship Star Competition

• Co-founder & President
  NSG Inc.

• Consultant
  Alipay Contract

• Founder and President
  Magellan Gateway

• Peking University HSBC Business School
  Project consultant for "RMB Trade Settlement and International Financial City Development" Project
  Co-initiator-"VC/PE International Academic Forum"
  Project Researcher for “Quota standard and trading mechanism of Carbon Emission” Project

• Derivatives Analyst
  RBC Dexia Investor Services

• Researcher
  Peking University HSBC Business School

• Investment Specialist
  ScotiaMcLeod

• Founder/President
  TAC Internatioanl

Education

• Harvard Business School
  Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP)

• Smith School of Business at Queen's University
  Master of Management Analytics (MMA), Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning

• Peking University HSBC Business School
  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (dropout), International Economics

• York University - Schulich School of Business
  IMBA, Organization Studies and Marketing

• University of Toronto
  Certificate, Project Management

• Harvard Business Analytics Program
  Executive Certificate