Ming Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of PROVEN, the expert in personalized skincare.
At the age of 12, with no understanding of English, Ming immigrated from China to the United States. Within three years of her arrival, she achieved a perfect score on her verbal SATs.
Ming began her career as a Strategy Consultant at Boston Consulting Group, where she advised Fortune 500 companies on their strategy, operations and distribution. She spent several years as a private equity investor at Bain Capital, where she specialized in investments in consumer, technology, and biotech companies globally. After, she was a fund of hedge funds investor at the Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO), before building and leading the partnerships team at NerdWallet. She was rated by NPS as one of the best managers at NerdWallet.
In 2017, Ming joined forces with Dr. Amy Yuan to found PROVEN.
Ming earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a third-generation entrepreneur.