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Seek demanding business projects/roles that matter and use my wide network of connections. Former international banking and VC professional with long and deep experience crossing what Geoffrey Moore insightfully calls "the chasm" in high tech. I prefer working with mezzanine round start-ups to IPO, and market-entry projects. Deeply familiar with the work on innovation and marketing of Clay Christensen, Geoffrey Moore, Steve Blank, etc. Worked internationally for Chase Germany, Citibank in three countries (in VC in two of them), and the Industrial Bank of Japan, plus three major consulting firms and manufacturer Nippon Motorola in telecom. Have held three interim CFO roles. Sophisticated early implementer/user of IT in banking and manufacturing. Very early and heavy user of financial modeling, accounting, database & graphics software at Citi, as well as a relationship manager involved in selling major Citi systems to other large banks. Also was an ops manager in Manila with 75 direct reports. While focused on due diligence on possible VC deals at Citi, also managed the creation of a relational database to track our $300MM VC portfolio consisting of our direct VC investments and limited partnership shares. I had also introduced sophisticated graphics software for our institutional investor presentations by the early 80s. And I also passed CFA I exam at the same time. (I didn’t sleep much.)Later marketing manager of Internet-based, Japanese financial info start-up and implementation expert in a Tokyo-based distance education effort. Most recently, recruited a board member, etc. for a European medtech company.Speak and read Japanese and German well, and can more than "find my way around" in half a dozen other languages. Educated at Caltech, HBS, Cornell, etc., with sufficient post-graduate work in "the school of hard knocks" to be a very realistic and mature team-player. Some think I have a wry sense of humor.Born and raised in Minneapolis. Married, three generally delightful sons.
Willow Vc Advisors
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FounderWillow Vc Advisors Feb 2015 - PresentAdvisors for international tech businesses (US, Europe & Japan), generally for pre-IPO companies, possibly with some aspects of IP strategy. I maintain several other affiliations as well, especially with ex Citi colleagues.
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Senior Development OfficerOle (Open Learning Exchange) Dec 2017 - May 2018OLE was then a 10-year old non-profit founded by entrepreneur and former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Richard Rowe, whose son is the founder of the Cambridge Innovation Centers.
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Researcher For Prof. Clay ChristensenHarvard Business School 2010 - 2016Boston, Ma, UsProf Christensen was the author of "The Innovator's Dilemma" and other books on Innovative Disruption, as well as creator of the BSSE course at HBS.Clay Christensen's writing crystalized and extended my understanding of earlier VC and entrepreneurial experiences in the US, Japan, Germany, and the UK ranging from: - VC and banking automation within Citicorp's innovative and risk-taking culture, to - Burton Klein's discussion of Schumpeter's theories in 1969 at Caltech. (Burt had done his PhD under Schumpeter at Harvard). -
Managing DirectorIq Venture Partners 2003 - 2009UsBusiness development and VC fund-raising in this boutique of largely ex-Citi colleagues.Phil Smith, our Vice Chairman, was the founder of Citicorp Venture Capital. -
Research Associate, Harvard Program On Us-Japan RelationsHarvard University Jan 1996 - Aug 1996Cambridge, Massachusetts, UsResearch and course work related to the Japanese and US Intellectual Property systems in a broader context. Attended the summer IP licensing seminar at Franklin Pierce Law Center (now part of UNH). Audited Bill Alford's course at Harvard Law School in Chinese law and a course in US science policy at the Kennedy School. -
EvpTrimble Navigation Japan 1991 - 1992EVP of a joint venture in Tokyo of this pioneering leader in GPS equipment. This JV itself had a JV with Pioneer Electronics, which did the manufacturing of many Trimble products.
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Bucho (Department Head)Motorola, Japan 1990 - 1991Business Planning Manager in Cellular phone group during introduction of MicroTac cell phone to Japan. Promoted to Manufacturing and QC Manager in the Pager division. Coordinated problem-solving between Motorola factories in Boynton Beach FL, Singapore, and our operations in Tokyo.
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ConsultantThe Mac Group 1989 - 1990Worked on the Japan portion of a global strategy study for a leading British merchant bank, just before the "Bubble" burst in Japan. Gathered information in both English and Japanese.Noted Japan expert, Jim Abegglen, had introduced me to The MAC Group and shared offices and staff with them in Tokyo. -
Avp, The Industrial Bank Of Japan (Now Part Of Mizuho)Mizuho Sep 1985 - Jun 1988Tokyo, Japan, Jp* Large scale (>$50MM) corporate analysis and lending to American corporates, primarily in real estate.* Liquidity lines for bond issues, e.g. for a consortium of hospitals led by Yale Medical School, etc.Left IBJ to attend Cornell's best-in-the-US, 14-month long, Japanese FALCON Program on a FLAS fellowship. -
AvpCitibank/Citicorp Aug 1979 - Aug 1985New York, New York, UsIn reverse sequence: 5) New York: Venture Capital unit within Citicorp Investment Management, focusing on robotics and artificial vision companies.Passed the first of the CFA exams while in the VC unit within Citicorp Investment Management in NYC.4) London: CIBL (Citicorp Int'l Bank Ltd) Cross-border M&A involving Germany.Then CVC's (Citicorp Venture Capital's) UK-based Venture Capital. Wrote speech given by the head of CIBL Corporate Finance in Davos at the World Economic Forum which compared VC industries in four countries: US, UK, Germany and France.3) Manila: Operations manager (75 direct reports) and member of the Electronic Banking effort in Manila during the installation of a major new back-office software system. Then negotiated purchase of 100 PCs and helped develop an early network of computers linking Citi Manila to the treasurers of corporate clients.2) San Francisco: Relationship Manager in a Correspondent Banking subsidiary (BHC Resources), responsible for managing sales teams who sold Citibank technology ranging from funds transfer systems to ATM systems) to other major banks on the West Coast. 1) New York: Began in NYC as a product manager for a DEC-20 based software system we used for modeling deals as service to the M&A group and for corporate clients. -
Senior Consultant, It, Price WaterhousePwc 1977 - 1979GbWorked primarily in National Office on a large manufacturing software project to document, rewrite, and port it from mainframes to minis. Reference to Citi from the then Vice Chairman, Henry Gunders. -
Corporate Credit Trainee, Chase Manhattan Bank, GermanyChase Aug 1976 - Aug 1977New York, Ny, UsAttended this thoroughly bi-lingual (and often septi-lingual), year-long, international corporate credit officer training program. Our region included Scandinavia, the Benelux countries, Germany and Austria. We learned to do corporate credit analysis for all these countries, a demanding job. I translated six languages, ‘spread’ (converting various nation's accounting presentations to US GAAP Accounting), and then analyzed annual reports for companies in all these countries plus their S. American subsidiaries. Thus I translated from: SWEDISH, DUTCH, FRENCH, SPANISH, & PORTUGUESE as well as GERMAN to English. Fascinated, I wondered if I could do it in a Japanese, too...Years later, I could. -
Head Tutor (Tutorenleiter), Mathematics DeptUniversity Of Cologne Sep 1974 - Jul 1976Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, DeHead teaching asst teaching advance calculus and linear algebra to Math Majors in GERMAN for two academic years (taught 8 hours/week). Became truly fluent in German which I’d studied for 3 years in high school, worked on my French, and began trying to learn in Japanese.Also took classes, read very widely. Participated in a demanding “seminar” ( in the German sense) in which I made a 2-hour presentation on infinite dimensional matrices with continuous bands of eigenvalues (“spectra”) which occur in Quantum mechanics. Commended very highly by the professor.Also played the viola in a semi-professional orchestra (sponsored by Bayer Chemical) for 2 years and made concert tours to Switzerland, Belgium, and the UK, as well as in Germany. Was the “official translator” for the orchestra in England! -
Head Teaching AsstUniversity Of Cologne Sep 1974 - Jul 1976Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, De“Tutorenleiter” in the Mathematics department. I taught Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra IN GERMAN to math majors for 4 semesters (8 hours/week in class plus preparation and grading) and was promoted after my first semester to head tutor.Meanwhile I also studied math myself (largely in German) and was most proud of presenting (in German) a very difficult subject in functional analysis — continuous bands of Eigenvalues that occur in certain kinds of infinite dimensional matrices — in weekly seminar led by prof Norman Baisley at the beginning of my second year at the Uni Koeln. Norman Baisley (an American who’d previously worked in an American defense lab) was very impressed and encouraged me to generalize this to three dimensions.
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Stephen Elliott Education Details
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CaltechApplied Mathematics -
Harvard UniversityEducation And Entrepreneurship. Began Working At Hbs For Clay Christensen Fulltime Midway Thru.
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Cornell UniversityJapanese Falcon Program
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Harvard Business SchoolTechnology Management
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The Fletcher School At Tufts UniversityInternational Business
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University Of CologneApplied Mathematics
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Harvard Business SchoolInnovation Mgmt
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Harvard Business SchoolFirst Year Plus 3 Exec Courses
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Harvard Grad School Of DesignArchitecture
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