Bringing innovations in insurance and resilience, digital health and wellbeing to SOMPO

Helping Asian entrepreneurs and corporations enter the U.S. market • Seed investor and advisor • www.poppyseed.co

Advisor at University of California, Berkeley accelerator program (skydeck.berkeley.edu).

Areas of interest include:• entrepreneurship, innovation and transnational technology transfer• psychometric studies of entrepreneurs and startup teams• impact of disruptive technologies in evolving business models and societal behaviors• mobile digital banking apps and services to reach the unbanked and underbanked . in emerging and developing countries• blockchain application stack ecosystem development

Moff developed the industry's first commercial platform for gesture and motion data for wearable devices and is the creator of the Moff Band, a wearable smart toy that turns movement into realistic sounds (www.moff.mobi). Beyond smart toys, Moff is now also focused on delivering wearable solutions for the elderly to improve their health.

Headed sales and marketing, business operations and ecosystem partnerships for ACCESS in the Americas; managed marketing operations and global ecosystem alliances team. Led ACCESS’ initiatives in connected home, connected car, cloud services, consumer mobile apps and digital publishing platform businesses in the Americas and Africa.

Created and led a Palm OS industry ecosystem of partnerships with mobile operators, infrastructure partners and strategic application developers. Managed corporate development activities for the PalmSource acquisition by ACCESS.

Recruited to bring emerging technologies out of AT&T Labs (formerly, Bell Labs) to market through industry partnerships and through AT&T business units. Closed licensing deals in speech recognition, digital music and compression and other technologies. Initiated and managed dozens of incubation trials for communications and entertainment services.

Oversaw product marketing, marketing communications, developer relations and strategy planning for industry-shaping products and solutions, including consumer multimedia products, Newton PDA, digital publishing in Japan. Managed key alliances with content and entertainment media industry. Various positions during 14 years at Apple, including Director, Product Planning & Strategy (Personal Interactive Electronics Division); Senior Manager (Apple Pacific and Apple International); Technical Advisor (Corporate Communications Division).