Our Team
Living the dream
Gao Rui | 高瑞
Co-founder & CEO
Gao Rui is co-founder and chief executive officer at That Spark.
Before That Spark, Gao Rui spent two years leading the implementation of Geneva Global's program work in China, strategically bridging international donors with pioneering domestic organizations, across several social issues.
Before joining Geneva Global, Rui was a partner at China Donors Roundtable (CDR), which is a peer-led, member-based learning platform, aiming to connect and engage China’s grant makers in the exploration of effective funding to solve social issues. Rui led CDR’s monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) consulting service. Previously she worked for Social Resources Institute for 7 years as a MEL consultant to advance utilization-focused monitoring and evaluation.
Rui’s experiences of working with and for various professionals and changemakers in China inspired her to make her personal commitment as a supporter of the social-impact sector for the past decade and for the future. She believes that everyone has the potential, and deserves the opportunity and support, to make a meaningful change.
Rui holds a bachelor's degree in computer science.
Jennifer Brady | 贝嘉灵
Co-founder
Responding to the lack of affordable, online learning options for nonprofit professionals in mainland China, Jennifer and Rui co-founded That Spark to enable these changemakers to have a better journey to impact.
Jennifer started That Spark having worked with some of the world's most innovative foundations to design initiatives to bring about lasting change.
In her roles as a program director and consultant with Geneva Global, Jennifer built strategies for donor collaboration on a wide range of global health and development issues, and worked on capacity building solutions with dozens of frontline organizations across Asia and Africa.
Before her work in philanthropy, Jennifer held positions in arts organizations in the US and with a social enterprise in Laos. She was also an English teacher in Shenzhen. Her wide range of places and experiences ignited her passion to connect global changemakers to the ideas and tools that help them make their contributions toward a better world.
Jennifer holds a bachelor's degree in art history and an MBA with a specialization in economic development.
