Jack Chen, MBA
Founder & CEO
Jack is one of the leading experts in cross-border investment between the United States and Asia and an experienced entrepreneur. He founded Cognitive Leap Solutions, Inc. in 2015 and its subsidiary, Cogleap Center for Achievement, Inc., in 2022. Before that, as the founder and CEO of Transworld Capital Group, he completed some of the largest investment and merger transactions between the United States and Asia. One of these transactions was hailed by The Wall Street Journal as "one of the most landmark deals of this era" and was used as a case study by a think tank founded by former U.S. Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson, for use in leading business schools across the U.S. His transactions generated billions of dollars in documented returns for investors.
Jack has served as a board member of the Asia Society Southern California, the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine Foundation, the Chinese CEO Organization, and the Committee 2005. He has also been appointed as a mentor for the Master of Applied Psychology program at Fudan University. Jack is an early investor in the leading cognitive science company Magceutics/Neurocentria and has served as a board member, actively participating in the company's strategic planning. He also helped raise $1.1 billion for Claremont McKenna College, the largest amount ever raised by any liberal arts college in the U.S.
Jack has delivered speeches on some of the world's most prestigious platforms, including Harvard University, MIT, UCLA, the Brookings Institution, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, and Tsinghua University, earning widespread acclaim.