Mario Ho

Chairman and co-CEO, NIP Group

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He is the youngest founder of a Nasdaq-listed company in Asia

Mario Ho, the son of the late Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho Hung-sun, is the youngest founder of a Nasdaq-listed company in Asia. His business NIP Group, the first Chinese esports company to be listed in the US, is a merger between Chinese digital sports group ESV5 and Sweden-based esports organisation Ninjas in Pyjamas. Ho, known for his talent in mathematics since his teens, is an MIT Sloan School of Management graduate. After graduation, he joined iDreamSky, a game publisher in China, and assisted the company’s IPO in Hong Kong. He has also appeared in TV programmes, such as the science show My Future and the game show Who’s Still Standing.

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