Ep 53 - Vanessa Liu - How to create an impact from where you are

If you can unlock a way for people to continue finding their purpose, how much better would our society be??

Well, the actual question is, Do you live a life from a space of creating an impact, and if you are, what kind of impact are you creating? On this episode of The xMonks Drive, Vanessa Liu joins us to explore what it means to live a life of impact.

Vanessa Liu is a technology innovator, a business builder, and a digital media entrepreneur. She's been creating, launching, and re-launching businesses for a long time. Vanessa has over 23 years of experience as a serial founder, operator, strategist, and investor at SAP, Trigger Media, and McKinsey, and has a proven track record of value creation. She supervises SAP.iO's North American Foundries in New York and San Francisco, including programmes focused to women and diverse-led B2B business IT companies, and has recruited and accelerated 70+ enterprise software startups in her role as Vice President of SAP.iO, SAP's early-stage venture arm. Vanessa was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Trigger Media Group, a $22 million digital media company.

InsideHook (a digital media firm and a men's lifestyle brand) and Fevo (a women's lifestyle brand) are two of Trigger's portfolio companies she co-founded (SaaS technology for group experiences at live events). She began her career as an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company's Media and Entertainment Practice, with offices in Amsterdam, London, and New York.

Vanessa is a Non-Executive Director of Appen Ltd. at the moment (ASX: APX). Bounce Exchange (Wunderkind), Crave Global, Grata Data, GroundSignal, Kable AI, and Narrativ are among the start-ups in which she is an advisor or investor.

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