Our Leadership

Dr Jacky W. Tang

Founder and Executive Director

Dr Jacky W. Tang specializes in innovation and growth. He is Executive Director of the Synintel Institute and Professional Consultant in the CUHK Business School at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been advising organizations, teams and individuals and teaching MBA, Master and undergraduate programs. Jacky brings an innovative and analytical approach to help clients proactively identify opportunities to transform, ignite innovation development, and formulate market entry solutions that address complex and highly competitive business challenges.

Prior to joining academia, Dr Tang was an experienced business executive and serial entrepreneur. He founded and co-founded four companies; he also held management positions in leading multinationals, including Philips, Renesas Electronics and Towngas, with over 25 years of industry experience in marketing, innovation development, business management and consulting. He founded Synintel Institute in 2013 and has been providing consulting services and executive training to multinational and startup companies, such as Hitachi, China Telecom, Baidu, Huawei, Galanz, STMicroelectronics, IBM China, Henderson, Vtech, Bank of China, and Mizuho Bank.

Jacky received his Doctor of Business Administration (Innovation) from City University of Hong Kong. And he graduated with an Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation at MIT Sloan School of Management and completed an executive program in innovation management at Harvard Business School.