Xiao Ma
Professor Of Entrepreneurship & Director, Centre For Business And Industry Transformation (CBIT)
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolXiao Ma is a professor of entrepreneurship and director of the Centre for Business and Industry Transformation at Nottingham Business School, combining a decade of academic leadership with two decades of hands-on venture building and investment experience. He has founded and scaled award-winning ventures and accelerators (CBITX, Dataswift/HAT) while securing over £3M for CBIT and participating in strategic partnerships with institutions like Oxford, UCL and Peking University. A seasoned board advisor and private equity partner, he has led multi‑million pound portfolios, guided IPOs, and shaped corporate governance across sectors. His research bridges digital innovation, machine learning and AI with practical business transformation, and he has translated that into curriculum innovation, evolving an Eduniversal-ranked MSc into a bespoke MSc Business Transformation. Notably, his work on the HAT personal data ecosystem influenced policy discussions at the UK House of Lords and supported international regulatory frameworks. Based in Greater Nottingham, he blends academic rigor with entrepreneurial pragmatism to drive measurable impact in industry and education.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Artificial Intelligence, PhD Artificial Intelligence at University of WarwickBSc (Hon) Computer Science, BSc (Hon) Computer Science at Beijing Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
slick9
api9
hat8
stack8
akka7
database7
scala7
golang5
json2
location1
markdown1
typesafe1
location-tracking1
ios1
client-library1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dataswift/HAT
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:72 commits, 26 pushes in 11 months
Hub-of-all-Things/open-source-developer-portal-backup
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:101 pushes in 16 days
jekyll-basedjekylldeveloper-portalportal
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