Melissa Mobray-d'Arbela is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute (Class of 2010). Melissa has a law degree from NYU. In 2007, she co-founded PathFinders Limited, a Hong Kong-based organization that helps pregnant, undocumented migrant women and their children In the past, Melissa worked as a corporate lawyer at Skadden Arps in the US and Asia, as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers in Asia, and a private equity investor at GE Equity (Asia) and Maven International, which she also co-founded.
Prior to 2013, Melissa was the CEO and co-founder of Filligent Limited, a company developing disruptive innovations in disease prevention. She directed the company's vision, and in addition to product development, focused on strategic, policy and regulatory matters. Filligent's mission was: save lives, stay strong.
She provides strategic advice to a broad range of clients from billion dollar companies to first time entrepreneurs. The common theme is disruptive technology and innovation. Melissa applies innovation to her pro bono work where she concentrates on gaps among the disempowered, especially children. Melissa has mastered innovation to the extent that one of her designs was deemed as one of the 100 objects that have defined human history. At TEDx HKUST, Melissa will tell us what outliers are to innovation!
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