Douglas is a social innovator, non-profit executive and small business consultant with over 30 years of experience, specializing in entrepreneurship, economic development, and organizational capacity building. His particular interests are food-related businesses, day care centers, and small business technical assistance. He has helped small business clients prepare business plans, execute market expansion initiatives, and originated over $6 million in small business loans, including multiple SBA 504 loans.

He has also consulted for Asian-American community development organizations across the country, and has helped them establish programs in economic and affordable housing development, and small business training. Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, he has been serving under the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) as the program officer coordinating a coalition of technical assistance providers across Massachusetts, to help minority- owned enterprises access COVID-relief resources.

Douglas was previously the Director of Economic Development and Executive Director of the Asian Community Development Corporation. He is a co-founder of the MIT Entrepreneurship Club and the MIT 10K (now $100K) Business Plan Competition, the Cambridge Business Development Center (one of the first small business incubators in Mass.), and founding board member of the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD). Douglas earned engineering degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed minor studies in the Sloan School of Management. He grew up in Hong Kong, and is fluent in Putonghua, Cantonese as well as Shanghainese.