Hua Wang

Hua C. Wang is Executive Director of the Global Innovation Forum (GIF). Its mission is to inspire, promote, and facilitate international trade and investment to enhance global economic growth and job creation. At GIF, Hua leads strategy and partnerships to make trade and digital policy more inclusive. She engages an international network of small, minority, and women-led businesses, nonprofit leaders, and government officials to improve access to the global marketplace. Hua amplifies the voices of entrepreneurs in public policy discussions in the U.S. and with organizations like the WTO, APEC and UN. Previously, Hua led a top tech accelerator in Alabama, where 15 startups collectively raised $20 million and generated $11 million in revenue. She also founded SmartBridge Health, a cancer telemedicine startup, and served as an entrepreneur-in-residence with Start-Up Chile, the Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre, and Halcyon Incubator. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Hua worked as a private equity attorney at Proskauer and K&L Gates, as in-house counsel at Cisco Systems, and as a global scholar at the Kauffman Foundation. Earlier in her career, she was an investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers and a healthcare strategy consultant at Accenture. Hua is a graduate of Duke University and Northwestern University School of Law.