Meiling Li 李媚玲 Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

New York, New York, US

• A 24/7 real-time crypto news service platform for global Web3 VCs and startups
• Build and lead a 20-member team to monitor 24/7 breaking news and deliver in-depth analysis of industry trends, fundraising, regulations, investments, and startups on crypto, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, and GameFi.
• Interview founders and VCs to evaluate emerging technology, products, trends, & investment opportunities.
• Conduct user and market research, analyze market scale, the competitive landscape, and business models.
• Maintain a network of founders, VCs, influencers, researchers, and policymakers in the crypto community.
• Oversee editorial calendar strategy, train the global editorial team to meet deadlines, and ensure SEO results.

• Provided investor relations strategy, including ESG communications for Fortune 500 company clients such as Industrial Bank.
• Maintained relationships with stakeholders and financial outlets, including Bloomberg, Reuters, and the WSJ.

Seychelles, SC

• Led the planning and execution of public and media relations strategies, including crisis management.
• Maintained relationships with stakeholders and financial outlets, including Bloomberg, Reuters, and the WSJ.
• Oversaw cross-market efforts with business development partners to drive PR initiatives with growth plans.
• Drove brand visibility by pitching stories and interviews, resulting in 20% growth in new clients in six months.
• Supports product teams’ oversea marketing and branding campaigns by creating PR strategies, content planning and social media promotion such as Twitter.
• Communicates with the mainstream crypto media and KOLs regularly, write and distribute PR articles, pitching the stories to build up the business community and ecosystem.

Bonn, DE

• Followed U.S.-China competition’s impact on businesses like TikTok sued the U.S. government over Trump.
• Provided exclusive features of the U.S. presidential election and US-China relations under a Biden presidency.
• Captured post-pandemic world economy trends like Chinese sellers monopolizing the U.S. consumer market.

Established a 3–10 video production team to launch a social media video startup, Cosmopolite Media, which focuses on sustainability in business and public interest.

• China’s most influential digital media, specialising in financial and business news
• Established and trained a team of 50 writers within one month.
• Reported on many business topics of interest to Chinese business leaders, including researchingrelevant company information and industry trends, such as Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, Alibaba,Apple, Huawei and writing.
• Covered top news topics, including US presidential election, Orlando mass shooting and NYPDofficer Peter Liang and so on.

• Established news website with other Co-Founders. Attracted 2 million active registered users, including hundreds of prominent business leaders within 1 year. Achieved No. 5 ranking in news products On Apple’s app store.
• Recruited and trained employees, assembled team of 10 reporters and interns, and supervised investigation on topics including airlines, railways, logistics, hotels and tourism industry.
• Created and marketed travel channel of Jiemian.com without hiring one more employees. Oversaw overall design and content quality. Sought potential partners and developed new profit models.
• Brought in approximately $3M in profits by collaborating with online travel website in 2015.

New York, NY, US

Wrote business feature stories such as "The Dilemma of Rongsheng Highlights Chinese Manufacturing Challenges"

New York, New York, US

• Explored business climate in China by producing feature stories and cover stories such as Xi Wine brand’s sudden increase in popularity with Xi Jinping’s presidency.
• Reported on Ya 'an Sichuan earthquake in 2013 under extremely dangerous circumstances; managed to deliver reports while trapped in mountain area alone for one week.

• Online travel website, customized personalized travel products for millions of club members, and sold to "Qunar"
• Designed and created the website from 0-1, organized and coordinated a 5-person content, technology and marketing team, and brought 2 million RMB in revenue to the company in the first 6 months.

东城, 北京, CN

• The Beijing News: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beijing_NewsA newspaper with daily circulation of 576,000, the only market-oriented newspaper subscribed by Zhongnanhai
• Composed stories on airline, aviation manufacturing, and macro economy, covering formation and bankruptcy of 10 Chinese private airlines and calling for fair market competition rule.
• Conducted interviews overseas, covered the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, and reported on Singapore Airlines, Air France-KLM, and American Airlines etc.
• Won award for “Most Popular Aviation Reporter” in 2010 in China, received by only 10 reporters each year.

• A newspaper with daily circulation of 120,000
• Produced in-depth feature stories on China’s economic and social development.
• Won “Beijing News Prize” in 2006, awarded to only 8 reporters in China per year.

Wrote stories on the technology sector, including semiconductors, e-commerce, and the internet industry, interviewed Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma and Baidu’s founder Robin Li and maintained relationships with regulators and VCs.

Master'S Degree, Mpa

Entrepreneurial Journalism

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism