MEET YOUR EMW HOSTS

Maya Rogers
President & CEO, The Tetris Company; Partner, Blue Startups
Maya Rogers is President and CEO of The Tetris Company, where she has lead the worldwide business initiatives of the Tetris® brand since 2007. Maya’s expertise encompasses game development, global licensing, brand management, merchandising, and IP enforcement. Prior to heading Tetris, she steered cross-culturalization and development efforts for Tetris Online China, Sony Computer Entertainment America and American Honda. Maya co-founded Blue Startups in 2012, and serves as Partner.
​www.bluestartups.com​​​​

Chenoa Farnsworth
Managing Partner, Blue Startups
Chenoa Farnsworth has more than 20 years experience in business strategy and private equity investing. Chenoa is the Managing Partner at Blue Startups and was formally the Managing Director of the Hawaii Angels, Hawaii’s only angel capital investment network. Interested in strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Hawaii, she has a particular passion for scalable start-ups with an environmental or social mission.
​www.bluestartups.com​​​​​​​

Casey Lau
Head of Asia, Web Summit
Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Casey Lau is one of Hong Kong’s tech startup pioneers, having launched one of the first HK-based web design studios; co-founded Hong Kong’s first e-commerce company; a new media development agency and Hong Kong’s first blog network. Casey is currently Head of Asia at Web Summit, hosting some of the largest technology conferences around the world.
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He formed StartupsHK – a community of startups, investors and connectors – in 2009 to ignite the tech startup scene in Hong Kong through pitch and networking events as well as a community site that links 10,000+ people to the Hong Kong startup scene from around the world.
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In his spare time, Casey writes his original comics book series Super Kaiju Hero Force which he publishes for smartphones only.
www.websummit.com​​