ThreeEQ

Jason L. Ma 馬良傑 is Founder, CEO, and Chief Mentor of ThreeEQ Inc., a premier global education and business advisory firm that helps select families, enterprises, and institutions worldwide achieve great outcomes in what matters to them. ThreeEQ is forged and based in Silicon Valley. Passionate about mentoring, rainmaking, and speaking, Ma leads ThreeEQ to transform chosen young people into impactful, next-generation leaders and to help shape the G20 education and business world.

FAMILIES & HNWIs
Through the years, foremost college admissions, career, leadership, and life coach and mentor Jason Ma has successfully guided 1-on-1 hundreds of select, driven teens and young adults (Gen Zers and Millennials) while being their parents’ trusted advisor. Ma’s students include his own two happy, high-achieving Gen Z daughters—a Google software engineer and a Wharton sophomore. One of ThreeEQ founder Ma’s distinctions is his 100% success rate with coachable and committed high-achievers.

ThreeEQ Private Client families find Ma’s unique success coaching and mentoring process to be exceptionally effective, inspiring, holistic, data-driven, and personalized at a quality level unmatched at even top private schools. In sum, ThreeEQ client students not only achieve great results with authenticity and integrity, but also transform upward, become the best version of themselves, and unleash their full potential as next-generation leaders:

ENTERPRISES & THE B20/G20
In the business world, ThreeEQ Enterprise Clients (selected, tech startup to unicorn companies) find Jason Ma’s strategic and pragmatic help for them to be invaluable in adding to their ROI, bolstering their growth in revenue, profitability, and market capitalization (depending on market conditions), enhancing happiness and productivity, and even positioning for a very rewarding exit. As a globally connected, high-powered CEO/Board advisor and global rainmaker, Mr. Ma leverages and applies not only his worldwide network of billionaires/tycoons, government leaders, CEOs, and other decision makers but also his incisive G20 and B20 worldview, business acumen, executive coaching skills, and high-level sales, relationship building, and dealmaking skills.

Ma is a speaker and Global Advisory Council member at the World Chinese Economic Summit, speaker and Steering Committee member for DC Finance’s Family Office conferences, member of HolonIQ’s Global Executive Panel, and charter member of the Family Office Club. Ma was a privately invited APEC CEO Summit delegate, Pacific Basin Economic Council member, Kairos Society mentor, Thiel Fellowship mentor, and Forbes Global CEO Conference delegate for 8 years.

Ma is also a leading member of the Business 20 (B20) with the G20 through the G20 and B20 Presidences of Australia, Turkey, China, Germany, and Argentina. The G20 represents 85% of the global nominal GDP of close to US$90 trillion and 66% of 7.6 billion people. As the private sector’s voice of the G20, the B20 leads engagement with and recommends policies to the G20 on behalf of the entire international business community. Serving on the B20 Employment and Education Task Force, while observing the Digital Economy and other task forces, Ma has helped shape the private sector’s employment/human capital and education policy recommendations for the G20 Leaders and governments. Ma pays particular attention to the future of work/talent/education, impact of AI/ML, and digital economy/transformation.

PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA CONTRIBUTION
Jason Ma is the acclaimed author of the groundbreaking book Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers. He is also the former Forbes contributor on Mentoring Young Leaders (for elite college admissions, next-gen leadership, and entrepreneurship success) with over 1 million views. Ma’s work has been featured in various media, including CNBC Asia (Managing Asia and Squawk Box), Business Rockstars, Fast Company, Channel NewsAsia, Black Tie Magazine, and others. Ma is featured as the preeminent Gen Z success mentor in Black Tie Magazine, which also published this article in Chinese 中文.

Ma is one of “The World’s Top Experts” (fellow Experts include Tom Peters, Mark Thompson, Seth Godin, Heidi Roizen, Vinod Khosla, Guy Kawasaki) and an investor at Audvisor, a leading corporate communication and learning app. Ma is also a Luminary for IfOnly, which provides clients with unique experiences with luminaries, including Snoop Dogg and Hall of Fame 49er Ronnie Lott.

GLOBAL BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
Jason Ma’s perspective is enhanced by 35 years of seasoned industry operating and advisory experience and global connections in innovative technology, education, and other industries, and with over 2 million miles of world travel across Asia Pacific (Greater China, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Japan, Korea, and Australasia), Europe and Israel, and the Americas. As a tech business senior executive and entrepreneur earlier in his career, Ma successfully made deals with and sold big-ticket mobile and wireline communications and networking systems, information security products/systems, and Internet services internationally to major mobile/telecom operators, Internet service providers, and various enterprises. He co-built leading tech companies and teams (subsequent IPO or M&A), and also co-founded, invested in, and exited astutely from a few U.S. and Asian tech/media/telecom, edtech, and private college counseling/education services companies. Along the way, he has continued amassing a high-powered, high-level global network.

PAST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (prior to 2012)

PHILANTHROPY
The ThreeEQ Foundation, a small donor-advised fund, works with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) to give to causes that assist the disadvantaged. Jason Ma also informally advises the SVCF on Gen Z initiatives and family philanthropy. ThreeEQ donates pro bono services to select non-profit and charity causes as well.

EDUCATION & FAMILY
Jason Ma earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley College of Engineering in 1984. He is a Golden Bears Life Member. He also attended the evening MBA program at Santa Clara University Leavey Graduate School of Business for a few years but ultimately chose real international business over graduate school. Through the decades, Ma has also invested 6-figure USDs in learning from various high-quality programs and people, and has integrated key learning into his own foremost success coaching, mentoring, and rainmaking framework and processes.

Originally from Hong Kong, Ma is multicultural, fluent in Cantonese, and proficient in Mandarin. Proud Americans, he and his wife are joyful parents of two happy, high-achieving Gen Z daughters—a Google software engineer and a Wharton sophomore—both with longer-term, tech C-suite aspirations. In the Ma family (playfully, the “MAfia”), Ma values unconditional love, humor, and high standards on what matters.

These days, besides advising CEOs/C-suite executives, global rainmaking for business clients, and speaking on the world stage, Ma finds his own personal fulfillment by inspiring and guiding private family and individual clients to achieve great outcomes (college admissions, careers, and other key milestones) in their life stages (from driven teens to multimillionaire boomers) with joy and well-being, including pragmatic emotional, social, and leadership intelligence (3EQ).