ABOUT
Drawing from the best of Eastern and Western practices and beliefs, we, at Swando, are adept at leveraging your strengths in the Asian and Middle Eastern regions. With decades of experience, we focus on establishing platforms from which you can build future-proof business. In addition to success in commerce, we help integrate balanced living amongst community and environment in areas of family, health, and wealth.
April Swando Hu
FOUNDER
Hi, I’m April Swando Hu 胡雙多.
Born and bred in America and Taiwan, I am cognisant and bilingual in both Western and Chinese environments. I have comfortably bridged cultures, people, and technology in Asia for the past 30 years. My passion is to close the gap between the have’s and have not’s by enabling unconditional access to education, energy, and water.
Building on a corporate foundation that started with companies such as IBM, Honeywell and McKinsey, I embraced entrepreneurship to pursue planet-positive projects in 1990s. I founded Swando to focus on green technologies such as hydrogen fuel cells, plasma-activated water, and Virtual Reality (VR) for effective leaders and teams.
I hold a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Yale, a MBA from Stanford, and come from a long lineage of educators, which has prepared and emboldened me to pioneer relevant education programmes, that are accessible and scalable. Over the past two decades, I developed Asia’s largest distance-learning MBA programme, led a global online alliance of 10 universities, and was the founder of the Zigen Fund Hong Kong [link to section in www.swando.co] which offers 130,000 scholarships to girls in rural China.
In the reset year of 2021, I co-founded NINEby9 [link to section in www.swando.co], a non-profit research initiative to engage more white-collar women in the workplace in Asia. During this complex times of constant change, I believe increased organizational diversity, in particular more women in management, is a sweet spot for investment to catalyse solutions for strong, swift, and sustainable business transformation in readiness for the Asia Century.
Thank you for helping me in this adventure to create a heart-based, sustainably positive world.
Vision & Values
Founded in 1995 in Hong Kong and in 2019 in Singapore, Swando’s vision is to facilitate equal opportunity for all of humanity to manifest spiritual and material health and wealth, in tandem with planet-positive joy and resonance.
The values of SWANDO are:
S eismic
W orld-class
A uthentic
N ourish
D iscipline
O pportune
In Chinese, the name Swando means in Chinese “abundance twice-over” depicted by the characters 雙多 which is a twin palindrome.
Logo
The logo is an invitation for a mutual meeting of minds. The flame is symbolic of new ventures being initiated, tempered with watery flow. The two swans represent duality, intimacy, and trust. Our logo incorporates the letter “S”, number “8”, and the lemniscate. The top extends to the sky (vision) whilst the bottom is grounded (diligence).
The colors reflect balanced duality and the 5 elements of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth 金木水火土.
