Laurence Xu

Founder & CEO, DeepMENA

Laurence Xu is the co-founder and CEO of H&T Communications Group. Under his leadership, H&T Group has grown into a diversified content and industry group spanning women’s consumer and fashion, healthcare, and frontier technology, reaching more than 50 million users in China and around 10 million globally. He also serves as CEO of DeepMENA, China’s most influential Chinese-language business media focused on MENA, with more than 400,000 subscribers across entrepreneurs, investors, industry operators, and senior professionals, serving China’s top enterprises, including multiple Fortune Global 500 companies.
Laurence graduated from the University of Hong Kong with an Honours Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance. Before founding H&T Group, he was a serial entrepreneur, co-founding and serving as CEO of Kinlonlife Biotech, which was later acquired by Buchang Pharma (603858.SH). He built multiple media properties and was named in 2024 to EqualOcean’s “36 Young Leaders of Globalization.

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