Leadership

Jason L. Ma  馬良傑

Founder, CEO and Head Mentor

ThreeEQ, Inc.

JMa@ThreeEQ.com

As a values-driven international education leader and loving father of a teen and a tween, Jason L. Ma is passionate about mentoring and creating future generations of young leaders worldwide, especially in Asia. Thus, in 2011, Mr. Ma founded ThreeEQ, which is headquartered in Silicon Valley but serves the children of industry and government leaders and entrepreneurs internationally. ThreeEQ prepares high-achieving students for top universities or graduate schools and a lifetime of leadership, unleashing the students’ potential, bringing out their authentic best and maximizing their chances for admissions.

As a visionary and pragmatist, Mr. Ma brings to ThreeEQ clients the good fortune and distinction of knowing the secrets to success by having counseled hundreds of students who have been admitted to the Ivy League (Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Brown and Dartmouth), Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Washington U, Rice, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon, UMichigan and other top US universities and liberal arts colleges, including Williams, Claremont McKenna and Pomona.

Mr. Ma leverages his in-depth experience as former Co-Founder, CEO and Senior Counselor at IvyMax, a leading college prep service provider with US and China operations for which he continues to assist as Senior Advisor. A voracious reader and an active listener, he also utilizes his experience as Founder and CEO at Congruent Partners, a Board advisory and acting CEO consulting firm recently acquired by ThreeEQ. Having traveled millions of miles on business, Mr. Ma applies a powerful global network of advisors and experts to benefit and bring valuable perspectives to ThreeEQ clients.

Prior to his immersion in the education industry, Mr. Ma trailblazed as an international technology business leader. He co-founded and served as Chief Strategy Officer at YeePay, a leading Chinese e-payment service provider. Earlier, he served as Managing Director of Asia Pacific and Japan at iPass, a leading global Internet roaming service provider. Before iPass, he served as Managing Director of Asia Pacific at Celcore, a mobile network infrastructure provider. He also served as Senior Advisor at SVCWireless, the largest NPO in Silicon Valley for the wireless and mobile industry, for ten years. 

Mr. Ma attends the exclusive Forbes Global CEO Conference annually as a VIP Delegate and is regularly invited to speak at the influential Global China Business Meeting in Europe. As a guest speaker at Stanford, UC Berkeley, INSEAD in Asia, NUS, magnet high schools and international education conferences, he motivates and guides today's and tomorrow’s leaders.

Beyond his appearances on a variety of international press and media, including multiple appearances on CNBC Asia, Mr. Ma is FORBES contributor on Mentoring Young Leaders and is the columnist who covers a related theme for Wealth Briefing Asia, Wealth Briefing and Family Wealth Report.

Mr. Ma holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley and attended Santa Clara University's graduate school of business. An immigrant from Hong Kong to the US, he speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

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Advisors and Experts Network 

ThreeEQ Founder, CEO and Head Mentor Jason Ma applies an exciting, powerful global network of advisors and experts in the know, intellectually stimulating and benefiting ThreeEQ clients. 

We often confer with and learn from former and current folks at high places and on the ground in the admissions and administrative offices at elite universities and graduate schools, and work with and learn from other influential, relevant, institutional and individual constituencies, in the US. 

In addition, our network constituents include seasoned, Harvard-educated editors that are well trained in ThreeEQ's high-quality methodology and standards. Our students find our team of editors most helpful and enjoyable to work with during the stressful and highly demanding top-tier college application (and highly competitive internship or summer program application) processes. Under Mr. Ma's guidance, our editors help our students shine authentically.

Distinctively knowledgeable and well connected as insiders in the education industry and in the business world, we actively use our expertise to wholeheartedly help each of our clients. Each student or family is different. Our students' successes are our successes.