Dominic Penaloza

Dominic Penaloza is a Chinese-Filipino entrepreneur and investor who was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He was the CEO & founder of Ushi, a Chinese professional network based in Shanghai.^[1][2] He was the CEO and founder of WorldFriends, a social networking service for internationally minded people, with offices in Shanghai and Tokyo and partnered with Yahoo Japan.^[3][4] He has received several awards including the Ivey Emerging Leaders Award.^[5] He was the Chief Innovation & Technology Officer at naked Hub, a company that was acquired by WeWork for USD 400 million.^[6] At WeWork China he was the Head of Innovation & Technology. After leaving WeWork in early 2020, he started REinvent, Asia's first proptech startup studio as CEO and cofounder.^[7] One of REinvent's ventures is Switch, a workspace on-demand platform.^[8]