Schoolteam (Asia) Ltd

“Education shapes our society, so we need to provide good learning tools for our young people,” said Anthony Koo.

His company, Schoolteam (Asia) Ltd, first started building IT networks for schools in Hong Kong back in 1995. “We had students and parents from over 1,000 schools gathering together on our platform to access necessary information, administer school activities and share resources. But that was over 20 years ago.”

Now, almost every school has its own IT system and using email is free for students. As a result, Koo has had to change his company’s business model several times over the years.

Schoolteam is currently contemplating a “free” model with a courseware system that Koo has built. “Technology has allowed us to make the new system deployable online. That will be yet another change in our business direction, and I hope it can be enjoyed by both elite and underprivileged students.”

Koo helped build up a brand of a digitalized collection of “Master Chinese writings,” which he has sold to numerous universities, colleges and national libraries, such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, Tsinghua University, and the Library of Congress in the U.S. He is currently undertaking two mentorship programmes for young executives and SMEs.