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Jason L. Ma
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Short Bio:
Jason Ma is Founder, CEO, and Chief Mentor of ThreeEQ and Chief Business Officer and an investor at AdXero. His work advances human capital, applied AI/tech innovation and distribution, and global business growth and investment outcomes.
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.
Across his previous education company and his current family business ThreeEQ, Ma has personally guided hundreds of select students, 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; and legacy building. He was also a Thiel Fellowship mentor from 2013 to 2015.
As a senior advisor and rainmaker, Ma helps select enterprises and single family offices sharpen strategy and positioning, improve decisions and execution, and access key decision-makers worldwide for major customers, partnerships, capital, and acquisitions. He was a seven-time, invitation-only delegate to the prestigious Forbes Global CEO Conference.
Across 12 G20 presidencies (Australia, Turkey, China, Germany, Argentina, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, India, Brazil, South Africa, and the United States), Ma has contributed B20 policy recommendations to G20 leaders and governments on the future of work, employment, human capital, skills, and education, with additional engagement in AI/tech innovation, trade, and investment.
Ma’s perspective is grounded in 40+ years across technology, education, finance, media, telecom, and global business, plus more than 2 million miles of global travel. He is the acclaimed author of Young Leaders 3.0, a contributor to Worth and Impact Wealth, and a former Forbes contributor whose articles attracted 2+ million views. He is a sought-after keynote and fireside speaker, moderator, forum chair, and media guest.
Full Bio:
Jason Ma is Founder, CEO, and Chief Mentor of ThreeEQ and Chief Business Officer and an investor at AdXero. His work advances human capital, applied AI/tech innovation and distribution, and global business growth and investment outcomes. 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. Across his previous education company and ThreeEQ, he has personally mentored hundreds of high-achieving students and adults 1:1.
As a senior advisor and rainmaker, Ma helps select enterprises and single family offices sharpen strategy and positioning, improve decisions and execution, and access key decision-makers worldwide for major customers, partnerships, capital, and acquisitions.
AdXero. Ma is actively co-building a new category in a $700B+ global market. AdXero combines a patented applied AI/tech system, a powerful B2C+B2B2C distribution engine, proprietary first-party intelligence, and structural drivers designed to support strong revenue and free cash flow growth at scale, with the potential for orders-of-magnitude value creation.
Engineered to deliver distinct benefits to consumers, brands, and distribution partners in multiple verticals, the company remains low-profile by design while systematically mitigating key risks.
Speaking & Media. Jason 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 across AI/tech innovation and investing, global business building, and geopolitics.
Ma’s 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.
Organizations he has worked with include corporates, Opal Group, Worth Media, AI Summit @ Stanford, Silicon Valley Economic Forum (SVEF), Campden Wealth/IPI, LinkBridge Investors, DC Finance, 361, JABOY, universities, alumni clubs, and select family office media and platforms.
At the SVEF, which he chaired, and the AI Summit @ Stanford in 2026, Ma moderated its “Single Family Office Trends in the Age of AI” panel. He will also chair Opal Group’s flagship Family Office & Private Wealth Legacy Summit 2026 in the Hamptons for the third consecutive year since its 2024 launch.
Ma is the acclaimed author of Young Leaders 3.0 and, a contributor to Worth and Impact Wealth, and a former Forbes contributor whose articles on Ivy League and elite college admissions, Next Gen leadership, and entrepreneurship attracted 2+ million 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 B20 policy recommendations to G20 leaders and governments on the future of work, employment, human capital, skills, and education, and also engages on AI/tech innovation, trade, and investment. He has served across 12 G20 presidencies: Australia, Turkey, China, Germany, Argentina, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, India, Brazil, South Africa, and the United States (2026).
Global Industry Experience. With 40+ years in AI/tech, education, media, finance, telecom, and global business, and more than 2 million miles traveled in North and Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, Ma brings strategic foresight, cross-border insight, and intergenerational perspective.
After early data-intensive network operations and systems analysis at Tymnet and technical sales support and marketing at Fujitsu America, Ma held and led Asia Pacific sales and marketing roles at U.S. mobile/wireless communications and networking infrastructure, security systems, and internet services companies, including Digital Microwave, Cylink, Peninsula Engineering, Celcore, and iPass.
He later co-founded and exited YeePay, a Beijing- and Silicon Valley-based mobile/e-commerce and fintech venture, serving as interim EVP of Corporate Development and Chief Strategy Officer.
Then he joined an Asia-based edtech SaaS startup as CEO, relaunched it, and led its merger with a U.S. chain of learning centers to form IvyMax, where he served as co-founder, interim CEO, and Senior College Counselor.
He was a Thiel Fellowship mentor from 2013 to 2015, and a seven-time, invitation-only delegate to the prestigious 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. 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 helped launch 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 a parent of two happy, compassionate Gen Z daughters. The Ma family (affectionately, the “MAfia”) values unconditional love, humor, and high standards in what truly matters. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from UC Berkeley College of Engineering.
Jason Ma and his Gen Z daughters, Lydia and Sabrina
Faith and Philanthropy
At ThreeEQ, we contribute time, talent, connections, energy, and/or capital to select faith-based and philanthropic causes aligned with our values.
Faith
Grateful for and grounded in God’s Word, Jason Ma supports Christ Community Church in Milpitas (C3) and Transforming the Bay with Christ (TBC). He served as a Faith Driven Entrepreneur facilitator and supports Faith Driven Investor. See his baptism on Easter Sunday 2021. Watch Ma on the Anchoring Hope Podcast: “Leading Like Christ in Silicon Valley: The Mission Greater Than AI” and on The Authenticity Journey: “Faith Made Me a Better Father, Husband, Leader, and Human Being.” If you’d like encouragement or practical resources for spiritual growth, feel free to contact us.
St. Jude
As a senior member of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital/ALSAC Executive Council since early 2020, Ma helped launch its family office strategic initiative and has provided leadership guidance and high-level introductions to family office principals, UHNWIs, Next Gen leaders, and business leaders. ALSAC, part of St. Jude, is America’s largest healthcare charity. St. Jude’s operating expenditures are around $3 billion per year, funded mostly by generous private donors. Ma also served on the Host Committee for the 2026 Legends for Charity Dinner, a Super Bowl week event benefiting St. Jude.
Opportunity International
Ma supports Opportunity International (OI), which stands out for exceptional efficiency, effectiveness, and measurable impact. In 2024, with about $36 million in philanthropic funding, OI reached more than 20 million clients and helped mobilize $2.5 billion in capital to help them grow. Read Ma’s reflections on his private mentee Austin Fowler’s $1 million gift to Opportunity International.
The B20 / G20
As a longstanding member of the B20, the G20’s private sector engagement group, since 2014, Ma has contributed policy recommendations to G20 leaders and governments on the future of work, employment, human capital, skills, and education, and also engages on AI/tech, trade, and investment.
Others
Ma is a founding board member of Cal Alumni of Silicon Valley and is a Silicon Valley Community Foundation community partner.
Jason Ma and Steve Schwarzman, Chairman and CEO of Blackstone, at B20/G20 China