ABOUT US – Palo Alto Education

Our Mission

Educate and inspire the next generation to tackle the biggest challenges of our time with top educators and state of the art programs. We aim to ignite the passion and maximize the potential of each individual student with social equity, in preparation for global competitiveness

Founders & Directors

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Jay Feng
Founder

Graduated with PhD in computer science from Northwestern, Jay was co-inventor and co- founder of HyperLOCK and Commerce Information. He has founded Palo Alto Education to invite the most experienced mentors from top universities to ignite the passion of the next generation. .

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Ling Wu Feng
Managing Director

Ling is an accomplished finance and operations management professional with over 20 years of proven leadership, managing high caliber global and multinational teams at Fortune 500 high tech companies in Silicon Valley. After leaving the corporate world, Ling founded Addup Capital, a women-run hedge fund. She also started Palo Alto Moms Investment Club in 2017. She is passionate on driving the effort to raise financial literacy education for teens. “Teen Investment Hour” is an online investment education program launched in 2018 for middle and high school students around the world.

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Margaret Chai Maloney
Executive Director

Margaret has 25 years of experience in strategic communications. She has worked on the consulting side representing Fortune 500 companies, startups and nonprofits and served as the head of PR for Tigo Energy. Additionally, she has developed a young women’s leadership academy for Mount Holyoke College. She is on the Fullbright board and serves on the board of Cinequest and Heart Across America.