Mr. Ken Zou
Founder and President
The Founder of BGA has lived for more than 26 years in the U.S., both as a student and as a working professional. He obtained his Masters in Public Administration from Suffolk University in Boston in 1992 and his Masters of Science in Accountancy from Bentley University in Waltham, MA. Upon graduation, Mr. Zou passed all parts of the CPA exams on his first try and worked for Arthur Andersen LLC in Boston from 1994 to 1999 as a CPA. He later worked at Celerix Inc. in Cambridge as the Corporate Controller before returning to China in 2001.
Mr. Zou’s work in China was comprised of a combination of both corporate and teaching positions. As a business professional, he worked as a General Manager of Finance and Accounting at Taikang Life Insurance in Beijing and as CFO of Sinosafe General Insurance Ltd. in Shenzhen. During this time, Mr. Zou became involved in education. As a visiting professor, he taught accounting at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He also lectured in Financial Management to the Executive Students at the School.
Mr. Ken Zou, over these past 20 years has advised many students on the best ways to attain an American education. He found tremendous satisfaction in helping Chinese students understand the nuances of coming to the US to pursue their educational goals. In the end, Mr. Zou decided to follow his own dream of helping Chinese students and their families follow theirs to the US.
