Vicky Zhang

I'm the founder and CEO of Shanghai Waystar Consulting Corporation, which I founded one and a half years ago in New York. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis with my MBA, I worked at the United Nations in a nonprofit organization in the sustainability department for about one year in 2024 and 2025. When we ran out of funding, I realized I needed to figure out something to do, and I thought I should start up some business by myself. That's when I started SVCC after I left the UN - it was a journey of becoming an entrepreneur. When I started the company, I was thinking about helping small and medium-sized businesses in Asia launch their market in the United States, especially focused on the new energy industry, which was originally my focus at the UN. I focus on sustainability, and many things like solar panels, clean water, and clean energy were our research areas. I continued this journey after I started SVCC, so we consult a lot of companies in Asia, especially in China, on how to leverage their technology and experience to land in America from the technical part, supply chain part, and product parts. We think that new energy is the future and should be applied in many industries, like EV cars and solar panels installed in residential areas. The first quarter wasn't easy because when Trump announced last year in April, he canceled all the subsidies for new energy products, so we faced a lot of challenges. I've been working in New York for five years total, and before starting my company, I also worked for Estee Lauder Company in Manhattan for four years.