i2Cool Co-Founder and CEO Prof. Martin Zhu Honoured with 2025 Leader of the Year Young Entrepreneur Award
Prof. Martin Zhu, CEO of i2Cool, has been honored with the 2025 Young Entrepreneur Award in Hong Kong. The award recognizes his leadership in commercializing passive radiative cooling technology to combat climate change.
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HONG KONG and SHENZHEN, China , July 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- i2Cool today announced that its Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Martin Zhu, has received the Young Entrepreneur Award at the 2025 Leader of the Year Awards, organised by Sing Tao News Corporation.
Established in 1994, the Leader of the Year Awards are among Hong Kong's longest-running and most respected annual leadership recognition programmes. The awards recognise outstanding leaders whose vision, innovation and contributions have advanced Hong Kong's economic development, technological progress and social impact across a wide range of sectors, including business, finance, innovation and technology, education, healthcare, culture and public service.
The 2025 award presentation ceremony was officiated by The Hon. John Lee Ka-chiu, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and attended by representatives from government, industry, academia and the wider community to celebrate leadership and innovation across Hong Kong.
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