Serica is a global technology and financial advisory firm that empowers innovators to leverage the agility and scale of the Chinese market to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.www.serica-group.com

As Global Thought Leadership lead for Communications, Media & Technology, I am responsible for Accenture's point of view on emerging trends and technologies. This involves research, analysis, writing, and speaking around the world on a variety of topics from AI to online safety, regulation to geopolitical threats, technology breakthroughs to consumer trends. I lead our relationships with academia, analysts, and our Industry Luminaries Program. At the same time, I lead Software & Platforms Industry Consulting in North America, working with platform clients on growth, adoption, engineering and integrity projects. This includes direct sales and delivery of consulting services, with revenue and profitability targets.

Program Fellow at the World Economic Forum. Our project is "Defining and Building the Metaverse", which is looking at the impact that the Metaverse will have on society, industries, and individuals as more and more people adopt it and its economy grows. We are defining governance principles to ensure interoperability, inclusion, and protect privacy & identity. We are also looking at the impacts of the consumer, industrial and enterprise Metaverses on individuals, industry and society. A series of papers have been published in 2022, and will continue through at least 2024.

As Software & Platforms Industry Lead for Greater China, I build client relationships, sell and deliver work to Chinese platforms to understand market opportunities, deploy technologies, scale operations, and build globally competitive organizations. With an insider's view of both Silicon Valley and China, I help my clients navigate a fast-changing world. My global team of professionals work side-by-side with our clients on projects to improve experience, technology, scalability and strategy. I also work closely with global companies who want to understand and compete in the rapidly evolving Chinese market.As part of the Software & Platforms global industry leadership team, I am responsible for offerings and innovation programs for our industry clients across the globe. Recently I've incubated our offerings in gaming, commerce, trust & safety, SMB, and cloud services. I lead our global multi-industry initiative on Social Commerce.

I develop client relationships and sell & and deliver management consulting to software and platform companies to help them run better and faster. This includes strategy, operational support, and technology with a focus on innovation. My projects help platforms improve ecosystem engagement, redefine user experiences, and build platform trust, while decoupling growth from cost. I continue to work closely with research, technology and AI teams to build a portfolio of intelligent tools that save our clients millions of dollars each year.For example, recently I've helped several clients develop and implement machine learning and RPA solutions to manage content or ads better. I've helped a policy executive implement global standards while respecting country customs & laws. I've helped an experience team transform customer adoption, and a Chinese player plan for international expansion. I've helped traditional players become platforms, and native platforms evolve their operating model to be more flexible and efficient. Over the past few years, I've been doubling down on China. I've been spending a lot of time in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and elsewhere helping Chinese platforms grow and evolve. Despite all the drama in international relations right now, I have an optimistic outlook for China-born platforms and their place in the digital world.

Led Cognizant's high tech and platform industry business consulting practice. Provided technology-enabled strategy to software, online and high tech manufacturing clients in areas like product management, go-to-market strategy, pricing, operating model design, strategic use of technology and organizational change management. Built and led a world class management consulting team to serve our clients. Responsible for the segment P&L, client relationships, direct sales, IP and offerings.

Founded and ran Groove Yoga in Berkeley 2010-2014, a studio offering 50+ classes per week and named Best of the East Bay. Lead yoga and meditation trips globally. Run local workshops and events. Instructor for Yoga Alliance certified yoga teacher trainings, mostly in Northern California. Taught yoga at UC Berkeley 2004-2016. Founded and ran ManyDoors Yoga for international retreats.

Strategy consulting for media and high tech companies worldwide, with a specialty in channel strategy & operations, pricing, operating model design and go-to-market growth strategies. Taught extensively and created content for Strategy College, Accenture's training program for management consultants.

Taught "Venture Capital and Start-up Financing" and "Entrepreneurial Strategy" in the Ageno School of Business.

* Sold and led technology and strategic consulting projects for clients from start-up to Fortune 500.

Responsible for identifying investment opportunities, evaluating business models, negotiating terms, serving as an active board member for all of our portfolio companies and managing liquidity events, including a $150m gain on the sale of two companies and a distressed sale netting a 35% return. Created detailed strategic studies of the e-recruiting and interactive TV markets, which were the impetus for investments and for a shift in overall corporate strategy in these areas and produced a comprehensive financial analysis of Knight Ridder’s media competitors, which became a cornerstone of the company’s message to Wall Street analysts.