ThreeEQ

Jason L. Ma 馬良傑
Founder, CEO and Chief Mentor
ThreeEQ, Inc.

As a leading mentor, rainmaker, and speaker, Jason Ma helps shape both next-generation leaders and the G20 business and education world. Based in global Silicon Valley, Ma is Founder, CEO, and Chief Mentor of ThreeEQ, a premier global business, leadership, career, education, and personal success advisory firm to select high net worth families, family offices and enterprises, tech companies, and event planners worldwide. ThreeEQ helps clients achieve great outcomes in what are important to them—with pragmatic emotional, social, and leadership intelligence (3EQ). Ma is also a leading member of the B20, the private sector’s voice in the G20 community, serving on the Future of Work and Education Taskforce.

1. SELECT HIGH NET WORTH FAMILIES secure and add to their next generation’s bright future with ThreeEQ and Jason Ma’s personalized guidance as their trusted Chief Mentor of Next-Gen Leaders. As a father and tech CEO twelve years ago, Ma had started noticing that most young people had yet to unleash their full potential. He decided to dedicate his second career to transforming young achievers and preparing them to gain admission to great universities, thrive in impactful careers, and cultivate powerful mindsets and soft skills. Since then, he has privately guided 1-on-1 hundreds of Gen Zers and Millennials to successfully achieve great outcomes in elite/Ivy League college admissions, leadership, career, and life success, while being a trusted Confidant to Parents. He maintains a 100% success rate with coachable, committed high achievers.

Jason Ma is the acclaimed author of Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers. Ma is the former Forbes contributor on Mentoring Young Leaders for elite college admissions, unconventional higher education, next-gen leadership, and entrepreneurship success with over 1 million views. He also authored Gen Z: Understanding Tomorrow’s Digital Workers in an eBook.

Black Tie International Magazine has named Jason Ma Preeminent Mentor For Next-Gen Leaders. Clientele Luxury Global Magazine has featured him for “Leadership 3.0 Intelligence: Transforming Next-Gen Leaders” and as one of eight Industry Men of 2020. In addition, Ma’s been featured in Business Rockstars, Fast Company, JustLuxe, CNBC Asia (Managing Asia and Squawk Box), Channel NewsAsia, WealthBriefingAsia, iHeartRadio, IndiaWest, Teen Kids News, and other media.

In his own family (playfully, the “MAfia”), Ma values unconditional love, humor, and high standards on what matters. He and his wife are blessed with two happy, compassionate Gen Z daughters—a Google software engineer and a Wharton sophomore—both with tech industry leadership aspirations. Socially, Ma enjoys genuine people, deep conversations, culinary delights, and fine wine, while staying fit and healthy.

2. SELECT TECH COMPANIES and FAMILY OFFICES & ENTERPRISES work with Jason Ma as a well-connected, incisive Board/CEO Advisor and Global Rainmaker. They find Ma’s strategic and pragmatic advice and connections for global business and private equity dealmaking valuable in adding to their ROI, revenue, profit, and portfolio value growth, and rewarding exits.

Additionally, as a pragmatic Executive Coach, Ma privately advises chosen C-suite/senior executives in taking their own business and personal successes and fulfillment to next levels. Ma also inspires and enlightens audiences as a distinguished Speaker and Masterclass Leader in events.

Ma is a member of the Global Advisory Council at the World Chinese Economic Summit, member of the Steering Committee for family office events by DC Finance, and charter member of the Family Office Club. For eight years, Ma was a delegate to the Forbes Global CEO Conference.

Jason Ma is a leading member of the B20 at the G20, serving on the Future of Work and Education Taskforce, while observing Digital Transformation and Trade & Investment. As the private sector’s voice of the G20 community, the B20 recommends policies to the G20 Leaders and governments and fosters dialogue between the public and private sectors, representing the global business community across all G20 member states and all economic sectors. Through the G20 and B20 presided by Australia, Turkey, China, Germany, Argentina, and Saudi Arabia in 2020, Ma is one of only a few hundred business and education leaders worldwide perennially handpicked to engage and contribute as B20 members.

Ma’s perspective is enhanced by 35 years of seasoned industry operating experience in innovative technology, education, and other industries, and over 2 million miles of world travel across Asia Pacific/China, Americas, Europe, and Middle East ever since he earned his UC Berkeley engineering degree. As a senior tech business executive earlier in his career, Ma successfully sold big-ticket systems and services internationally to various major mobile operators, Internet service providers, and enterprises. He co-built leading tech companies and teams (subsequent IPO or M&A), and co-founded, invested in, and exited astutely from a few U.S. and Asian TMT, edtech, and education services companies. Along the way, he has amassed a high-level global network.

3. EVENT and MEETING PLANNERS invite sought-after Keynote Speaker & Masterclass Leader Jason Ma to inspire and enlighten their audiences, ranging from Gen Zers to Millennials to parents to (Gen X and Boomer) CEOs and executives to family offices to government leaders and to billionaires. Ma’s speaking topics include the future of work and education, intergenerational team leadership 3.0, G20/U.S./Asia/China business growth strategies and geopolitics in turbulent times, digital transformation, impact investing, high-net-worth family success, U.S. elite college admissions, and Generation Z. Ma is represented by various leading speakers bureaus worldwide.

PAST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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.

HONORS & ASSOCIATIONS

Ma is a member of HolonIQ’s Global Executive Panel. He was also a privately invited Pacific Basin Economic Council member, Kairos Society mentor, and Thiel Fellowship mentor.

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-expert for IfOnly, which provides clients with unique experiences with luminaries. 

EDUCATION 

Jason Ma is a Golden Bears Life Member at his alma mater UC Berkeley. 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.