Jing S. Vivatrat was most recently the Director of Workforce Development at the Federal Communications Commission. Jing is also the founder and Principal of JSVI, an international strategy consultancy. Prior to forming JSVI, she served as the Executive Director of Mergers & Acquisitions at AOL's International Division where she structured and negotiated strategic partnerships for AOL in Greater China, Japan, Australia, Canada, and Latin America.
While at AOL International, Jing played a major role in negotiating AOL's joint venture with Lenovo Holdings and thereafter spent one year in China to set up AOL's China joint venture operations and run the Business and Legal Affairs department for the joint venture. Jing left AOL to join Blackboard Inc., a leading education platform software company, to serve as the Executive Director of International Operations, where she developed and managed Blackboard's international expansion strategy. Prior to AOL and Blackboard, Jing spent several years as an investment banker structuring telecommunications and infrastructure M&A transactions in Southeast Asia. Before working in Asia, Jing was a consultant with Accenture.
Jing is a graduate of Wellesley College and commands native fluency in Mandarin Chinese.