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Yvette has always been committed to transforming young lives. She has served on numerous charity boards, including Diocesan Girls’ School (Council Member and PTA Chairman) and Changing Young Lives Foundation (Co-Chairman). Yvette graduated from Brown University and serves on its President’s Leadership Council. She is an honorary fellow of Oxford University St. Hugh’s College. Yvette is also on the Hospital Governing Committee for Tuen Mun Hospital, a trustee at Design Trust, and a council member of HK Breast Cancer Foundation.

Renée has pioneered innovative learning and entrepreneurship education in Hong Kong for over a decade. She taught as a secondary school IB teacher before founding Baker and Bloom, a K-12 organization that fosters creativity and helps students achieve academic and admissions success. Renée holds a BA in English from Harvard, an MPhil from Cambridge, and a PGDE from HKU. Before launching Bloom KKCA Academy, a bilingual primary school of innovation , Renee completed training at Harvard's The Principals’ Center.  She co-chaired the Harvard Book Prize Scholarship and served on the Board of the Harvard Club of Hong Kong. Renée is on the Asia Council and Executive Committee of the Alumni Association of St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH.

As someone who brings a balanced outlook to life, Joyce appreciates Bloom’s unique bilingual, global, and holistic approach to education. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford. After starting her career as a Management Consultant working with Fortune 500 companies in South East Asia, she was drawn to education and since worked for a range of educational companies from offering teachers professional development in leading petagologies, providing overseas university admissions advice and supporting schools in their resources. Joyce embraces Bloom’s future-centered vision for cultivating positive innovators. She believes Bloom’s creative, bilingual approach is particularly timely for students in this period of rapid change.

Mei is an accomplished scientist and engineer who has over a decade of industry experience at Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Lockheed Martin, and NASA. Mei is also a Google Certified Educator with over 15 years of teaching experience. She completed her BS in Computer Science at UCLA and MA in Software Engineering & Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

Carlos is an experienced educator with a strong academic background, having dedicated himself to the field of education since 2001. He holds a PhD in Education from the University of Hong Kong, an M.A. in Education from San Francisco State University, and a B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley. Carlos has held various positions throughout his career, at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels, including Associate Division Head at Avenues World School in Shenzhen, Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, and Program Coordinator at the Making Waves Education Program in the USA. He has also worked as a teacher and Primary Division Head at the Baker and Bloom Education Center in Hong Kong. Through these wide ranging experiences, Carlos has developed expertise in program development, literacy, multicultural and multilingual education, needs-based student support, and teacher development. Moreover, he has learned the importance of building responsive communities that allow both students and teachers to thrive. He is also father to two children and a big fan of music and art. He brings this rich professional, academic, and personal experience and knowledge to his work at Bloom with students and families.

Theodore Ma is the co-founder of CoCoon, one of the largest entrepreneurship communities in Hong Kong with over 1200 members and alumni. CoCoon helps to bridge the business innovation community with the startup community through hosting startup events, developing entrepreneurship education and angel investing. Theodore earned his Masters in E-Commerce & Internet Computing from HKU and his BA in Digital Communication from Stanford University. He is a board member of ASTRI, advisor of Our Hong Kong Foundation and HKSAR Elderly Commission, and was former president and current board member of Stanford Club of Hong Kong.

Bruce is a philanthropic grantmaker who started out as a financial analyst on Wall Street. As a Senior Charities Project Manager, he currently supports The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Trust-Initiated Projects in his focus areas of talent development, technology education and community resilience. He was previously a founding Director of Operations at Character Lab, a New York-based NGO that advances scientific insights that help kids thrive. Bruce had also been a strategy consultant who specialised in serving mission-oriented enterprises, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank. He holds an MPA in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Bruce went to local schools in Hong Kong and is a graduate of Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong.

Larry Rosenstock is CEO and founding principal of High Tech High, a network of sixteen K-12 public charter schools in California,  and is the Special Advisor to the President of the HTH Graduate School of Education. Larry taught carpentry in urban high schools in Boston and Cambridge and was principal  of the Rindge School of Technical Arts, and of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.  A member of the Massachusetts and U.S. Supreme Court Bars, he served as an attorney  at the Harvard Center for Law and Education, and was an instructor at the Harvard  Graduate School of Education and at the University Of California at Berkeley. He  directed the federal New Urban High School Project. Larry and his work have been  featured on Oprah, Lehrer, Newsweek, and Forbes. He is a winner of the Ford  Foundation Innovations in State and Local Government Award, is an Ashoka Fellow, was  awarded the McGraw Prize in Education and is the 2019 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Laureate.

Li Ping is the Vice Principal of the Chinese Program at United World College (UWC) Changshu, China. In 2017, she was voted "Most Influential International School Principal" in Mainland China. Li Ping worked at Xiamen University’s Chinese Language and Literature Department for 13 years before teaching IBDP Chinese A courses for 20 years at Li Po Chun UWC Hong Kong. She is an accredited Senior Examiner of the International Baccalaureate Organization. Li Ping has hosted training workshops for teachers on behalf of the IBO, and in 2013, was named "Outstanding Educator" by the University of Chicago.

Orly Friedman is the Founder of Red Bridge School, a new K-8 school in San Francisco with a mission to develop a sense of agency in every child as the foundation for academic and life success. Earlier in her career, Orly spent five years teaching elementary school in Washington DC. She moved to California to get her MBA at Stanford, after which she joined the founding team of Khan Lab School and worked there for four years, serving as Head of Lower School and Assistant Head of School. Orly also holds a BA in Urban Studies/Affairs from Yale University and a MA in Early Childhood Education and Teaching from George Mason University.

Dickie is a recognised expert and practitioner on entrepreneurship and innovation with more than 30 years of experience in global technology management and advisory. Dickie has held executive and leadership roles at companies such as Microsoft and Nokia. Dickie is a Guest Lecturer for leading universities and business schools, and is also an admissions interviewer in prestigious postgraduate leadership degree programs for Tsinghua University and London Business School.