ThreeEQ

Jason Ma is Founder, CEO, and Chief Mentor of ThreeEQ and Chief Business Officer and an investor at AdXero. His work advances education and human capital, applied AI/tech innovation and distribution, and global business growth and investing. Based in Silicon Valley, Ma is an award-winning Chief Mentor of Next Gen Leaders, AI/tech entrepreneur and investor, global business and education leader, acclaimed author, and longstanding member of the B20, the G20’s private sector engagement forum.

ThreeEQ. At ThreeEQ, a family business he personally leads, Ma guides select, values-aligned students, parents, professionals, founders, executives, and CEOs 1-on-1 to strong outcomes with well-being. His work includes elite college, graduate, and professional school admissions; leadership and career advancement; business and personal success; legacy building; and succession planning.

Through IvyMax, his former education company, and ThreeEQ, he has personally mentored hundreds of mainly high-achieving students and adults 1-on-1. He has logged 20,000+ hours of private mentoring and coaching, writing, speaking, and applied research. He served as a Thiel Fellowship mentor (2013 to 2015), supporting cohorts that produced young AI/tech billionaires and centimillionaires.

As a senior advisor and global rainmaker, Ma helps select enterprises and single family offices sharpen strategy and positioning and strengthen discernment and execution. He provides introductions to prospective major customers, partners, investors, and acquirers worldwide.

AdXero. Ma is actively co-building a new category in a $700B+ global market. AdXero combines a patented applied AI/tech system, B2C+B2B2C distribution, and proprietary first-party intelligence to benefit consumers, brands, and distribution partners across various verticals. Its business model is designed for strong revenue and free cash flow growth at scale, with the potential for orders-of-magnitude value creation. The company remains low-profile by design while systematically mitigating key risks.

Speaking & Media. Ma works with select event organizers, speakers bureaus, corporate hosts, and media outlets as a sought-after keynote and fireside speaker, moderator, panelist, forum chair, and featured guest. He brings a rare combination of deep intergenerational mentoring experience, high-level relationships, and perspectives on AI/tech innovation and investing, global business building, geopolitics, and education.

His audiences range from Next Gens and parents to entrepreneurs, CEOs and executives, investors, family office principals and CIOs, and billionaires. His topics include family offices and private wealth, Next Gens, AI/tech innovation and investing, leadership, geopolitics, faith, legacy building, and the future of work and education.

He has worked with Opal Group, Worth Media, AI Summit @ Stanford, Silicon Valley Economic Forum (SVEF), LinkBridge Investors, Campden Wealth/IPI, DC Finance, 361, JABOY, as well as corporations, universities, alumni clubs, and select family office media and platforms.

Recent examples: In 2026, Ma chaired the SVEF and moderated its “Single Family Office Trends in the Age of AI” panel. He moderated the “Family Offices: Where Smart Capital Is Going” panel at the AI Summit @ Stanford and co-chaired Opal Group’s flagship Family Office and Private Wealth Management Forum in Newport, Rhode Island. For the third consecutive year since its 2024 launch, he chaired Opal’s new flagship Family Office & Private Wealth Legacy Summit in the Hamptons and moderated its opening panel on intergenerational wealth transfer. There, he also spoke on geopolitics and its implications for investing.

Ma is the acclaimed author of Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers, a contributor to Worth Magazine and Impact Wealth, and the former Forbes contributor on Mentoring Young Leaders. His Forbes articles on Ivy League and elite college admissions, Next Gen leadership, and entrepreneurship attracted 2M+ views. His insights have appeared in Forbes, Worth, The CEO Magazine, Impact Wealth, Fast Company, Family Wealth Report, WealthBriefing, Family Office Magazine, and other media outlets.

The B20 / G20. As a longstanding member of the B20, the G20’s private sector engagement forum, Ma has contributed to B20 policy recommendations for G20 leaders and governments. His task force work has focused on the future of work, employment, human capital, skills, and education, with additional engagment in AI/tech innovation, trade, and investment. He has served across 11 G20 presidencies: Australia, Turkey, China, Germany, Argentina, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, India, Brazil, and South Africa.

Global Industry Experience. With 40+ years of experienc across AI/tech, education, media, finance, telecom, and global business, and 2M+ miles traveled across the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, Ma brings strategic foresight, cross-border insight, and intergenerational perspective.

His early career included data-intensive network operations and systems analysis at Tymnet and technical sales support and marketing at Fujitsu America. He later held Asia Pacific sales and marketing leadership roles at leading U.S. tech companies in mobile/wireless communications and networking infrastructure, security systems, and internet services. These roles included Area Manager of Asia Pacific at Digital Microwave, Regional Director of Pacific Rim at Cylink, Managing Director of Asia Pacific at Peninsula Wireless Communications (subsequent IPO), Managing Director of Asia Pacific at Celcore (later acquired by DSC then by Alcatel), and Managing Director of Asia Pacific and Japan at iPass (subsequent IPO).

He later co-founded and exited YeePay, a mobile/e-commerce and fintech venture based in Beijing and Silicon Valley, serving as interim EVP of Corporate Development and Chief Strategy Officer.

He then joined an Asia-based edtech SaaS startup as CEO, relaunched it, and led its merger with a U.S. chain of top-tier college prep learning centers to form IvyMax, where he served as co-founder, interim CEO, and Senior College Counselor.

Ma was a seven-time delegate to the invitation-only Forbes Global CEO Conference.

Faith & Philanthropy. Grounded in God’s Word, Ma supports Christ Community Church in Milpitas, Opportunity International, and Transforming the Bay with Christ (TBC). He served as a Faith Driven Entrepreneur facilitator and supports Faith Driven Investor.

A senior member of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital/ALSAC Executive Council since 2020, Ma guided the launch of its family office initiative and has provided leadership guidance and high-level introductions to family office principals, UHNWIs, Next Gens, and business leaders. He also served on the Host Committee for the 2026 Legends for Charity Dinner benefiting St. Jude. He is a founding Board member of Cal Alumni of Silicon Valley and is a Silicon Valley Community Foundation community partner.

Family & Education. Ma is the father of two happy, compassionate Gen Z daughters. The Ma family, affectionately the “MAfia,” values unconditional love, humor, and high standards in what matters. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from UC Berkeley College of Engineering. A U.S. citizen born in Hong Kong, Jason is fluent in Cantonese and speaks basic Mandarin.