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California, United States

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Industry Fellow & Faculty, Chair & Lead Faculty for the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Boot-camp (https://scet.berkeley.edu/bmoe-bootcamp/), Lecturer at SCET Executive Programs (Engineering Leadership Professional Program & Silicon Valley Innovation Leadership) - https://scet.berkeley.edu/engineering-leadership-professional-program/Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology is the premiere institution on the UC Berkeley campus for the study and practice of “technology-centric” entrepreneurship and innovation. Since 2005, SCET has created the foundation of Berkeley’s entrepreneurship ecosystem including SkyDeck, the Fung Institute, the Engineering Leadership Professional Program, Global Venture Lab, and an extensive ecosystem of Silicon Valley and Global partners (see our history).SCET is also known for developing the Berkeley Method, an internationally recognized approach to teaching technology entrepreneurship for undergraduates, innovation for Ph.D. students, and technology firm leadership for professionals and executives. As part of the Berkeley Innovation ecosystem, SCET also collaborates closely with the Jacob’s Institute for Design, the Haas Business School, and CITRIS Foundry.The Center is located within the College of Engineering of UC Berkeley and its academic home is the Department Industrial Engineering & Operations Research.

Bandar Sunway, Selangor, My

Design and teach entrepreneurship programs to Sunway University students in the School of Science & Technology. Mentor student entrepreneurs in the Sunway iLabs Startup Foundry.

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Programs and services for innovation/entrepreneurship, strategic marketing and international business development. Clients include and have included SAP, Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship, EU FutureEnterprise Workgroup, Vidiator, Zoove, PolarisWireless, GreenPlug, Alliance for Univeral Power Supplies, Chinese European International Business School, World Investment Conference (EU), iGlobe Partners, Kyushi University Innovation Centre, IDEPA (Development Agency for Asturia, Spain), Avise Partners.

Stanford, Ca, Us

VLAB, originally the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB: www.vlab.org) is the premier high-tech forum of Silicon Valley. VLAB is dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people. We host one of the largest ongoing gatherings of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and thought leaders at our monthly events at the Stanford University, with an ecosystem that includes 30,000+ Bay Area influencers.

Stanford, Ca, Us

High tech forum connecting investors, entrepreneurs, technologists, corporates, and academia around the leading edge hi-tech business opportunities.

Berkeley, California, Us

Bringing my background of teaching entrepreneurship and innovation in both Europe and the US to the advisory board. Helping to foster relationships between start-up communities and initiatives and IES.

Singapore, Sg

iGlobe is a leading Asia Pacific Venture Capital firm headquartered in Singapore and having presence in Silicon Valley, Shanghai and Auckland. Our extensive international relationships have enabled us to work with emerging growth companies in the United States, Europe and Asia as these entrepreneurs-led companies pursue global expansion making us one of the very few Asian based Fund Managers with global investing reach and experience. Since our incorporation in 1999, we have built a reputation as a value-added investor with a strong operational track record in helping our portfolio companies achieve growth objectives and exploit market opportunities. Our role is to help you and your company in its journey to the global stage.

Amsterdam, Nl

Chairing the jury to select the winners of the prestigious Amsterdam Science & Innovation Awards in 2019 and 2021. The Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award is the Amsterdam competition for innovative ideas with a societal and/or commercial impact. It is an annual competition for the best applicable innovation resulting from Amsterdam research. The feasibility of the idea and the social benefit play an important role in the jury assessment. This award is open to all researchers, staff and students in all disciplines from all Amsterdam universities, universities of applied sciences, academic hospitals and public research centers. The finals of the Award will be held for the fourteenth time on Thursday, 26 November 2019.

Amsterdam, Nl

ACE Venture Lab - The hatchery for science based start-ups in AmsterdamA brilliant idea or groundbreaking innovation is not yet a successful business. The Venture Lab bridges the gap between knowledge and entrepreneurship and supports promising science based start-ups on their way to growth. With the Bootcamp and a biennial growth-program, the Venture Lab is the incubator for PhD-students, researchers and start-ups in Amsterdam.Twice a year ACE Venture Lab organises a Bootcamp – a fully sponsored intensive training program for researchers, senior scientists and MSc students. Offering unique workshops and mentorship from the best startup experts, the Bootcamp helps you to convert your idea into a successful business.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Taught and mentored original Lumicks founders from an university research project to the formation of a start-up venture, then joined as board member. LUMICKS is spin-off company from the VU University in Amsterdam, rooted in the research groups of Prof. Gijs Wuite and Prof. Erwin Peterman. They have brought to market the revolutionary C-Trap Correlative Tweezers-Fluorescence Microscope (CTFM) and Acoustic Force Spectroscope (AFS). These instruments for single-molecule studies enable the disruptive techniques of live measurement and imaging of interactions at the single molecule level.

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Mobility Ventures is a team of VENTUREPRENEURS™ -- entrepreneurs and venture capital investors with shared values and a common vision. Our core investment thesis is Mobility. Our team leverages decades of extensive wireless industry, operational, marketing, financial and entrepreneurial experience to nurture today's entrepreneurs into tomorrow's industry leaders. Mobility Ventures focuses on early-stage, cutting edge companies that enable Mobility and promote a mobile lifestyle.

EU’s Future Enterprise project’s primary goal is to bridge research with entrepreneurship and the enterprise resulting in a report with recommendations for the European Commission. To achieve these aims, a number of high calibre individuals were recruited as experts in order to successfully bring valuable insights, understanding and wider perspectives to the results across the Future Enterprise Project. The expert advisor’s expertise in specific areas of research, innovation, and entrepreneurship, is being utilized to provide written input and recommendations to the core team. In addition, the expert advisor participates in the various workshops that are being conducted throughout Europe during the project by delivering presentations and engaging in the strategic discussion among the members of the consortium.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

SRI innovation partner working with clients including governments, universities and start-ups around the globe to promote innovation and commercialization. Teach and facilitate SRI innovation best practice workshops in Five Disciplines of Innovation (5DOI), Business Terminology, Venture Plan Essentials (VPE) and entrepreneur boot-camps and mentoring. Clients have included Universiti Putra Malaysia, Chilean Economic ministry, Swedish government incubators, Finnish government and more.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

The Wireless Communications Alliance (WCA) is a non-profit forum for companies and organizations dealing with wireless technologies with appeal to a broad spectrum of companies ranging from multinational corporations to start-ups.The goals of the WCA follow the Joint Venture Silicon Valley model:1) Promote education, networking, and exchange of non-proprietary information2) Work to increase awareness of Silicon Valley's vast wireless capabilitiesThe LBS SIG is focused on the area of location-based services and as Co-Chair, identify leading topics and organize events to present those topics and facilitate exchange and collaboration.

Mobile start-up providing global marketing and retailing platform and services. Acquired by Cisco.

AsiaQuest provided marketing, strategy, and business development services for US companies entering Asia and Asian companies entering the US. Team of 10 people across 10+ countries with clients including Garage Technology Ventures, Alteon Websystems (acquired by Nortel), QALA (Singapore), Alcatel, July Systems, NetDevices and others.

Singapore, Sg

Taught entrepreneurship classes in areas including competitive marketing, start-up culture, steps in launching a start-up to undergrad and graduate students. Mentored teams of students in developing their business ideas and plans. Judged Start@Singapore, a nationwide business competition. On team organizing a global business plan competition with participants from Cambridge, MIT, IIT, and more.

Started up the team to market directly to international service provider customers at Ascend. Customers included British Telecom, Telstra, China Telecom, and many more across all Europe, Asia, S. America, Africa, and Australia. Created the long-running ISP Forums bringing together the Internet Service Providers to share the latest technologies and best practices.

Singapore, Sg

Launched the 2nd Internet Service Provider in Singapore, which went public on NASDAQ several years later. Led the marketing strategy, business development, and customer service departments. Built the organization from 2 people to over 100 people. Beat SingTel in number of Internet subscribers in Singapore in six months.

Dallas, Tx, Us

On the first sales team selling digital services, networks and solutions including Switched56, ISDN, Frame Relay, ATM, optical fiber and more. Variety of customers including large corporations, mediums sized companies, and start-ups implementing their first digital communications networks.

At Quaker Oats, now part of Pepsi Corp. Worked on new product development teams where new product and new markets were evaluated and launched. Responsibilities included package design and installing the production lines for the new products.

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EXXON Refinery, Benicia, CA. Responsible for several key projects including re-tubing a high-temperature furnace, redesigning hydrogen furnace internals, optimizing crude distillation out put (jet fuel, diesel fuel, gasoline, reducing refinery emissions. 95% of projects were completed on-schedule and on-budget. Projects completed totaled over $20 million with several improving the refinery revenue by millions of dollars per year.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Teaching assistant in Mechanical Engineering department in thermosciences concentration - thermodynamics, fluids, heat transfer, engine lab. Lectured, ran labs, graded students.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Worked on research project on mono-clonal anti-bodies for early stage cancer detection.SRI Biosciences works with academic, biopharmaceutical and biotechnology, foundation, and government clients and partners to bring new medicines and devices to market through basic research, pharmaceutical discovery, preclinical development and clinical translation. We have been a trusted partner to organizations worldwide for more than 50 years.Today, combining the approaches of a nonprofit research institute, a biotech venture, and a contract research organization (CRO), SRI Biosciences integrates the R&D resources necessary to take drugs from Idea to IND® and beyond—from initial discoveries to first in human studies

Bs & Ms, Mechanical Engineering

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