Jeanne has over 25 years of business management and marketing experience in the technology industry. She began her career as a general management trainee in the Swire Group and worked on rotational assignments within the group’s shipping, trading, and aviation businesses. She joined Apple Computer as a business analyst, later moving up to product management, product marketing, and business management roles. She led the launch of many of Apple’s groundbreaking products, as well as developed a custom desktop publishing solution for the China market. She served as the Asia Pacific head of marketing for several leading enterprise technology companies including 3Com, Cisco-Tandberg, Dell, where she built marketing teams, launched new businesses, and championed intrapreneurial projects. She was also the corporate head of marketing at an internet startup funded by Intel Capital, Greylock, and H&Q Asia Pacific, and then acquired by a Nasdaq-listed company. Also, she founded a consulting company that provided marketing strategy and services to multinational corporations and technology startups looking to commercialize new products or enhance the results of their marketing efforts in Asia Pacific.

Jeanne has a Ph.D. degree in integrated and holistic health from the Energy Medicine University in the United States, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is an angel investor of several startups and a board director of Hanson Robotics, Kami, BioSmart Investment Group, and Himalayan Consensus Institute–an NGO involved in social enterprise development and climate protection.