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Jason Ma co-MC’ed the Sustainable Gala during UNGA in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Fashion 4 Development)
Jason L. Ma
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Jason Ma is Founder, CEO, and Chief Mentor of ThreeEQ and Chief Business Officer and an investor at AdXero. His work advances education, leadership, 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 who has privately guided hundreds of mainly high-achieving students and adults 1:1 to strong outcomes with well-being. His work includes elite college and graduate school admissions, career and leadership advancement, business and personal success, and legacy building. He has logged 20,000+ hours of private mentoring and coaching, writing, speaking, and applied research. His 4S + 3EQ framework integrates practical psychology, strategic positioning, pragmatic execution, and holistic development.
As a senior advisor and global rainmaker, he helps select enterprises and single family offices sharpen strategy, strengthen discernment and execution, and access prospective major customers, partners, investors, and acquirers worldwide.
Young Leaders 3.0, the highly acclaimed book by Jason Ma
At AdXero, Ma is co-building a new category in a $700B+ global market through a patented applied AI/tech system, a powerful B2C and B2B2C distribution engine, and proprietary first-party intelligence. The business model is designed for strong revenue and free cash flow growth at scale, with potential for orders-of-magnitude value creation.
Ma brings 40+ years of industry experience and 2M+ miles of global travel. A longstanding B20 member, he has contributed to policy recommendations for G20 leaders and governments across 11 G20 presidencies (Australia, Turkey, China, Germany, Argentina, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, India, Brazil, and South Africa). His B20 task force work has focused on the future of work, employment, human capital, skills, and education, with additional engagement in AI/tech innovation, trade, and investment. He was a seven-time delegate to the invitation-only Forbes Global CEO Conference and a Thiel Fellowship mentor (2013–2015), supporting cohorts that produced young AI/tech billionaires and centimillionaires.
Ma is the acclaimed author of Young Leaders 3.0, a Worth and Impact Wealth contributor, and the former Forbes contributor on Mentoring Young Leaders, whose articles attracted 2M+ views. A sought-after keynote and fireside speaker, moderator, and forum chair, he addresses Next Gens, family offices, AI/tech innovation and investing, leadership, geopolitics, legacy, and 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. Ma holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from UC Berkeley College of Engineering.
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ThreeEQ
A family business Jason Ma personally leads, ThreeEQ serves select, values-aligned students, parents, professionals, founders, executives, and CEOs. His private 1:1 mentoring and coaching work includes elite college, graduate, and professional school admissions; leadership and career advancement; business and personal success; intergenerational leadership; and legacy building. His mentoring experience includes both ThreeEQ and IvyMax, his former education company (see below).
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 family offices, AI/tech innovation and investing, global business building, geopolitics, and education.
His audiences include Next Gens and parents, 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, Expert Dojo and Angel Launch, DC Finance, 361, JABOY, as well as corporations, universities, alumni clubs (HBS, Harvard, Wharton, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley, and Berkeley Haas), and family office media and platforms.
In 2026, for the third consecutive year, Ma chaired Opal’s flagship Family Office & Private Wealth Legacy Summit in the Hamptons and moderated its opening panel on wealth transfer dialogues. There, he also spoke on geopolitics and its implications for investing.
Other 2026 engagements included chairing SVEF and moderating its “Single Family Office Trends in the Age of AI” panel; moderating the “Family Office Allocations” panel at LinkBridge Investors’ Global Investors Annual Meeting; moderating the “Family Offices: Where Smart Capital Is Going” panel at AI Summit @ Stanford; and speaking on “Elite College Admissions in the Age of AI” at Worth’s Beyond Wealth Summit. In November 2026, he will discuss “The Art of Intergenerational Wealth Transfer” at Worth and Family Wealth Report summits.
Ma’s acclaimed book is Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers. 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.
Global Industry Experience
Ma’s industry experience includes AI/tech, education, media, finance, telecom, and global business. His work and 2M+ miles of travel have taken him across the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East.
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, network and IT 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 and then Alcatel); and Managing Director of Asia Pacific and Japan at iPass (subsequent IPO).
Ma later co-founded and exited YeePay, a mobile/e-commerce and fintech venture based in Beijing and Silicon Valley with a Cayman Islands holdco, serving as interim EVP of Corporate Development and Chief Strategy Officer.
He then joined a Beijing-based edtech SaaS startup as CEO, relaunched it with a Cayman Islands holdco, and led its merger with a U.S. chain of top-tier college prep learning centers to form IvyMax. He served as co-founder, interim CEO, and Senior College Counselor. He recruited investors including a former Stanford provost, former and current Stanford and Berkeley professors, and Eric Yuan; some also became board members. Yuan founded Zoom during Ma’s IvyMax tenure.
Languages
A U.S. citizen born in Hong Kong, Jason also is fluent in Cantonese and speaks basic Mandarin.
The Ma family, playfully the “MAfia,” includes two happy, compassionate Gen Z daughters, both AI-savvy senior software engineers and young leaders. Sabrina, a Georgetown graduate, is a team leader at Google (her 8th year there). Lydia, a 2022 summa cum laude graduate of Penn Wharton, chose engineering over the typical paths of finance and consulting. She is a top performer and rising leader at Stripe, following 2 years as a top performer at Salesforce Slack.
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
Jason Ma’s Christian faith shapes how he practices love, stewardship, and service. He began his faith journey in late 2019 and continues to grow and contribute spiritually. 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 or listen to his conversations:
- Anchoring Hope Podcast: “Leading Like Christ in Silicon Valley: The Mission Greater Than AI”
- The Authenticity Journey: “Faith Made Me a Better Father, Husband, Leader, and Human Being”
For encouragement in your walk with God, Jason shares his curated worship playlist. If you’d like practical resources for spiritual growth, feel free to contact us.
St. Jude
Since early 2020, Jason has served as a senior member of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital/ALSAC Executive Council, focusing on the West Territory’s 13 states, including California. He guided St. Jude/ALSAC in launching its family office fundraising strategy and has provided leadership guidance and high-level introductions to family office principals, UHNWIs, Next Gen leaders, and business leaders.
Part of St. Jude, ALSAC is America’s largest healthcare charity. St. Jude’s operating expenditures are funded mostly by generous private donors. Jason also served on the Host Committee for the 2026 Legends for Charity Dinner, a Super Bowl week event benefiting St. Jude.
Opportunity International
Jason 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 generous gift to Opportunity International.
Others
Jason serves as 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