Tom Lin Email & Phone Number

Taipei City, Taiwan

Taipei City, Taiwan

Pentium Network is an AIOps and automated cloud IT operations software startup, and a 2020 Neo Star Award nominee. - Led strategy, sales, business development, marketing, public relationship, and product management functions, gluing teams, customers, and partners together to explore and achieve common goals.- Led successful business entries to strategic customers, top-tier cloud & software distributor partnerships, leading public cloud providers/managed service provider/system integrator ecosystem collaborations, and a startup award recognition.- Expedited transformative customer success with real business results: 1) supporting one leading datacenter hosting company in Taiwan to transform into a leading hybrid cloud MSP (managed service provider), and 2) helping a multinational digital entertainment group in SEA to reduce IT operation manpower by 45% while growing business by 27 times in 2 years.

Taipei City, Taiwan

InfinitiesSoft/Infinitix is a software startup specialized in building software products for hybrid-cloud management (CloudFusion) and AI computing resource management (AI-Stack) for the public, financial service, and education sectors in SEA and Taiwan. - Tom was invited by the co-founder and the chairman of the board to transform the team, products, and practice altogether for growth, from her system integrator legacy to a full-fledged software company. - Tom streamlined product portfolio, strategized a roadmap aligned with 3 world-leading tech partners and trends, and redesigned service delivery and channel operations. - Led direct and channel sales, business development, product management, and marketing/PR functions, with an assisting role in fundraising. - Revenues growth at 30%+ YoY from 2019 with strong momentum to the present year;- Secured series A funding led by a strategic channel partner closed in early 2020;- Gained 45% market share in Taiwan's advanced education/research sector as NVIDIA DGX series companion software;- International BD across Asia and selective Eastern Europe countries with successfully business entries in Malaysia and Thailand.

Japan / Remote

KGAP+ Keihanna Global Acceleration Program Plus, is a startup acceleration program, launched in 2019 by ATR, to boost an innovation ecosystem in Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, Japan as one of the core institutes in the science city, participated by 48 startup companies from 7 countries: Japan, Israel, Canada, U.S, Spain, India, and Hong Kong/China by 2022.- Tom provided workshops and coaching sessions helping 4 B2B startups sensitize their sales operations according to their respective developing stages, in an effort to making their acceleration journey a success.

Taipei City, Taiwan

IKALA is a Martech, AI, and cloud startup specialized in developing and providing marketing-enabling PaaS and SaaS with services to KOLs, ad agencies and enterprises in East Asia. - Tom was hired by co-founders to steer growth for the video-commerce PaaS business STRAAS.io (Streaming as a Service), expand international business coverage in southeast Asia and Japan, build solution-and-channel-partner ecosystems, and support fundraising (Series A).

Taipei City, Taiwan

Ubitus is a metaverse software startup specialized in developing, productizing, and selling GPU-based cloud-gaming enabling technologies for service providers in major markets including Japan (Nintendo, NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, Yahoo-JP), US (EA, Comcast, Verizon), China (Alibaba), Korea (Samsung, LGE, SKT, KT), Thailand (Ture), and Taiwan (CHT, Yahoo-TW). - Tom was hired by founder & CEO to spearhead business development in China, southeast Asia, Middle East, Europe, and Taiwan;- Brought in strategic business entries with key customers in China and Taiwan, while steering product direction to win and support on-boarding world-class customers in all regions with multi-million-dollar deals to multiply company revenues with strong business result (from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions USD per year); and then was - Elevated to manage sales, business development, and marketing functions globally, including 4 VP-level regional heads overseeing regional operations, for continued business growth.

Taiwan

Provided strategic and operational support to the cofounders to establish localized initial structure and business presence in Taiwan.

Beijing, Prc

Nokia is the world’s leading mobile broadband, telecommunications technology and network equipment supplier. - Tom was hired by Global Consulting GM in Service Business Unit as a subject matter expert in VAS strategy to strengthen worldwide Telco clients' CxO relationships and transform Nokia to become carrier's business solution partner of choice, while growing consulting in China as a business in its own right. - Tom established GCR regional consulting practice and doubled YoY growth for 6 consecutive years, gained 11 key account entries, served state regulators and leading carriers like China Mobile in technical, operational and business aspects through complex transformations as an industry thought-leader, and grew consulting in China from nil to an annually €2.5 million business plus 5-10 times in multiplied downstream consulting-led solutions sales.

Beijing, Prc

Responsible for strategic business development (entries in key accounts in China Mobile, China Unicom, provincial cables), delivery leadership, practice build-up and regional team expansion with profit & loss accountability

Global

Responsible for consulting delivery support at global level, and then consulting practice start-up in China with new entries into major carriers, public references from quality delivery, and proven business case for expansion.

Taipei, Taiwan

Far EasTone is one of leading telecommunications companies in Taiwan, an AT&T joint venture and a global i-mode licensee with innovation deeply rooted in her culture. Tom was hired by VP Product Development & Investment as PM to lead critical innovation initiatives including location-based service (LBS). Tom led over 40 product development projects and 3 corporate-level transformation programs (including 3G, post-merger integration) managing virtual teams over 200 people, contributed to 2 LBS-related patents and 1 GSM Associated Award in Innovation with Fleet Management, actively influenced global i-mode alliance in service workgroups steering alliance product roadmap into 24-month-ahead of our time, mentored 29 PMs as a role model in project management excellence, and was developed into one of the select few executive candidates through various managerial positions in product innovation, product management, IT governance, and corporate strategy over his 5.5 years of tenure.

Warminster, Pennsylvania, Usa

OPUS was a POS solutions startup, serving mid-size retailers & restaurants in greater Philadelphia and LA. Tom supported system integration and user acceptance testing during product development, and led product delivery and go-to-market efforts in designing and running sales and channel partner operations to gain 3 customers in the first month as the product ready to ship.

Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, Usa

Micro Products Center was one of leading computer component wholesalers/resellers (VAR) in the East Coast US in late 1990s. Tom was hired by the founder and CEO as an internal salesperson, delivered over-target sales numbers as top salesperson for 6 consecutive months before promoted into sales leadership role, managed 7 salespersons for an annually US$ 20 million sales operation, and steered company direction into white-label system and integrator to boost profit margin against commoditization.

King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Usa

Atlantic is an AT&T/Lucent joint venture selling enterprise PABX & CTI solutions to SME and large enterprises. Tom was recruited to develop business in the ethnic minority communities in the greater Philadelphia area, and earned successful sales records across sectors in the China Town, Municipal Food Distribution Center (Russian-American community), and South Street (Italian-American community) districts.

Taiwan

Compulsory military service, 1993 National Military Innovation Award winner with a blueprint for super-sized band-aids fastened with velcro as first aid kits for battle wounds and fracture fixations.