Dr. Alex Liu started his entrepreneur career from consulting for a venture capital firm NED in 1993. Then, he founded CATE to organize high profile entrepreneurship development programs with speakers such as president Ramos of the Philippines and Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang. After that, Dr. Liu served as a director to the well known TEN that incubated eBay, and then served as a senior entrepreneurship consultant to the UC San Diego Beyster Institution. From 2005 to 2006, he directed the founding of an entrepreneurship center KACEBI in Uralk of Kazakhstan and an entrepreneurship center KACES in Osh of Kyrgyzstan. Most recently, he served as a research consultant to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and directed its GEM Kazakhstan survey. Based on his research and practice of promoting democracy and entrepreneurship, Dr. Liu has recently reached a conclusion that it takes 4Capital for any entrepreneurial team to be successful, and it takes 4Capital to achieve sustainable development.

Alex has a Ph.D. and a M.S. from Stanford University, in addition to a M.A. from Peking University and a B.S. from the Northwestern Polytechnical University of China. In the past, he taught advanced methods to the Marshall School of Business in the University of Southern California, and to the Paul Merage School of Business in the University of California at Irvine.