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Meet our Speakers
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Market Kurly
Sophie Kim
CEO
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Republic of Korea
Sophie Kim majored in politics at Wellesley College from 2003 to 2007. She started her career at Goldman Sachs from 2007 to 2010. Since then, she has served on McKinsey & Company, Temasek Holdings, and Bain & Company. In 2015, she founded Kurly and launched 'Next Morning Delivery' which delivers fresh foods such as vegetables, fruits, and seafood to the front of the customer's house at dawn. -
SM Entertainment
Chris Lee
CEO
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Republic of Korea
Chris Lee, CEO of SM Entertainment, joined the company’s A&R Division in 2005. He became Head of Producing Division in 2015, CEO of SM USA in 2019, and CEO of SM Entertainment in 2020. He shares future plans with Soo Man Lee(Head Producer/Founder) and has developed the company’s core technology CT(Culture Technology). Especially, he has cultivated the A&R system to globalize and break new grounds for future K-Pop. Chris has initiated and developed new ventures such as EDM record label SCREAM Records. -
BCG
Yeon Hee Kim
Senior Partner/Managing Director
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Republic of Korea
Yeon Hee Kim is a Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group Seoul office. She was elected to Partnership in January of 2002, and to Director in January of 2009, making her the first female partner and director in a global consulting firm in South Korea. Ms. Kim has over 29 years of consulting experience in transformation and change management, organization, and leadership design. She has extensive transformation consulting experience in the fields of consumer products, retail, banking, credit cards, and digital. She has led several multi-year large-scale transformation projects. Ms. Kim is a frequently-featured columnist and advisor in the business press and in seminars, on the topics of consumer products, marketing, talent management, and growth strategy. Prior to joining Bain, she worked as a consultant for Anderson Consulting. She holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree from the Seoul National University Business School. -
Noom
Sae Ju Jung
CEO
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Republic of Korea
Sae Ju Jeong is the CEO and co-founder of Noom, a pioneering behavior change startup disrupting the weight loss and healthcare industries. A serial entrepreneur from the age of 19, Sae Ju has always had an intense desire to help people. He was raised in a family of doctors in South Korea and started Noom with the mission of helping people everywhere live healthier lives. That mission has never changed. Noom is a pioneering behavior change startup disrupting the weight loss and healthcare industries. Noom leverages the latest innovations in science and technology to help people change their habits and live healthier lives. Noom has grown more than 100X within the four years and reported revenue in 2019 of $237M and supporting over 2.5M users in 2019. Noom, Inc. is backed by Sequoia Capital, RRE, Samsung, and Translink Capital. -
Bear Robotics
John Ha
Founder/CEO
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Republic of Korea
John Ha is the Founder and CEO of Bear Robotics, Inc. John ran a Korean restaurant in Silicon Valley where he felt the need of innovation in the hospitality industry. From John’s hands-on restaurant experience, Bear Robotics is creating AI robotic products to innovate the way food services are operated. Prior to this role, John was a Technical Lead at Google and Adjunct Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. -
Coursera
Betty Vandenbosch
Chief Content Officer
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United States of America
Dr. Betty Vandenbosch is Chief Content Officer at Coursera, where she oversees the company’s content and credential strategy and partner relationships. Before joining Coursera, Betty was chancellor of Purdue University Global, an institution resulting from Purdue University’s 2018 acquisition of Kaplan University. At Purdue, Betty oversaw academics for more than 32,000 students -- most of whom earned their degrees online. Before that, Betty held a number of leadership positions at Kaplan University and served as associate dean and associate professor at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Throughout her career, Betty has won several awards in teaching and research. She earned her PhD in Management Information Systems and MBA from Western University in Ontario, Canada. -
Schneider Electric
Emmanuel LaLagarrigue
Chief Innovation Officer
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France
Emmanuel Lagarrigue is the Chief Innovation Officer of Schneider Electric and a member of its Global Executive Committee. His mission is to create new profitable growth platforms for the company and to drive a culture of open and collaborative innovation. He has the direct responsibility of Schneider Electric’s Corporate Ventures, Electromobility, Solar Power, and China Energy Transition Hub units. He is also directly involved in the creation of new joint ventures with other large institutions across the world. Emmanuel was previously the Chief Strategy Officer of the company. He also held multiple operational and general management positions within Schneider Electric in Europe, South America, Asia, and the United States. Emmanuel graduated from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, and from ENSEEIHT in Toulouse, France. -
Singularity University
Gary A. Bolles
Chair for the Future of Work
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United States of America
Gary A. Bolles is an internationally-known lecturer, writer, and consultant on the future of work, learning, and the organization. His focus is on helping individuals, organizations, communities, and countries to thrive in the transition to a digital economy, and to develop actionable strategies to deal with what he calls “The Great Reset.” He is the author of nine video courses on LinkedIn Learning, with more than 330,000 students. -
UC Berkeley
Henry Chesbrough
Professor
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UC Berkeley
United States of America
Henry Chesbrough is best known as “the father of Open Innovation”. He teaches at the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley. He is also Maire Tecnimont Professor of Open Innovation at Luiss University in Rome. He has written books such as Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), Open Business Models (Harvard Business School Press, 2006), Open Services Innovation (Jossey-Bass, 2011) and Open Innovation Results (Oxford, 2020). He has been recognized as one of the leading business thinkers by Thinkers50. He received an Innovation Luminary award from the European Commission in 2014. He received the Industrial Research Institute Medal of Achievement in 2017, and has two honorary doctorates. -
Matterport
RJ PIttman
CEO
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United States of America
RJ’s career spans startups, venture capital, and the biggest companies in technology. Now at the helm of Matterport RJ is redefining how we experience, engage and manage property in the real world by leading the evolution of 3D capture technology and data. Before joining Matterport, Pittman spent five years leading product, design, engineering, and brand as Chief Product Officer for eBay. Prior to eBay, he led the global e-commerce platform for Apple’s online stores, and led product innovation for Google’s next-generation consumer search properties. -
Hashed
Simon Kim
CEO/Managing Partner
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Republic of Korea
Simon Kim is CEO & Partner at Hashed. He is one of the leading blockchain evangelists in Korea. Prior to Hashed, Simon was a serial entrepreneur co-founding and successfully exiting numerous companies. Most recently, Simon served as Chief Product Officer of an ed-tech startup called Knowre, named one of the World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education by Fast Company. Simon is also a Venture Partner at Softbank Ventures Asia and serves as Blockchain Advisor to the South Korean Parliament. Simon studied Computer Science from Pohang Science University. -
DSC Investment
Yo Han Kim
Executive Director
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Republic of Korea
Yo Han Kim, Executive Director of DSC Investment, has invested in global/domestic bio ventures since 2013. He is currently in charge of the Bio Investment Team at DSC Investment. His portfolio includes ABLBio, Genome & Co, SCM Life Science, Cell Lead and much more. He is also showing great results in overseas investment. Eloxx Pharmaceuticals, Addict Bio are companies that are preparing for an IPO or have already gone public. He has much experience in co-investing with noted venture firms such as Orbimed, Novartis Venture Fund, etc. Yo Han has invested approximately 100 billion won in 45 companies with a double amount of return earnings. Among his portfolio, 10 companies are listed on KOSDAQ and 3 more companies are preparing for an IPO. He is a leading investor in the domestic bio venture sector with many companies seeking his guidance on establishing milestone, assessment of technology and more. He got his BS/BS at Seoul National University College of Pharmacy and started his career at Hanmi Pharmaceutical Medicine Research Team. He started his adventure in bio investment at IMM Investment. -
Seoul Wise Hospital
Chi Weon Kim
CEO
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Republic of Korea
Chiweon Kim is a physician and a healthcare strategist based in South Korea. Chiweon Kim obtained his medical degree at Seoul National University and his MPH at School of Public health at Yonsei Uniersity. He completed his residency in the Department of Internal Medicine at Seoul National University Hospital. After residency, he worked at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant and at Samsung Medical Center as a strategy specialist before starting his own hospital. In addition to running his hospital and taking care of patients, Doctor Kim is interested in digital healthcare and works as a columnist and a speaker. He is a founder and partner of Digital Healthcare Partners, a digital healthcare accelerator. He also advises and works with start-ups in digital healthcare field. -
VoyagerX
Se Dong Nam
Founder/CEO
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Republic of Korea
Se Dong Nam, CEO of VoyagerX, launched the beloved South Korean internet community SayClub while he was working as an Intern Developer at NeoWiz. He led the Planning Team and Development Team at Chutnoon, a search engine which was acquired by Naver. At Naver, he was in charge of the Web Crawler Team. He led the Service Department at Line Co. and made one of the world’s most famous selfie camera applications, B612. He has a deep understanding in development, planning and design. He founded Deep Learning startup VoyagerX in 2017. VoyagerX offers services such as Vrew(AI based Video Editor), vFlat(AI based Mobile Scanner), Ownglyph(AI based Handwriting Font Creator), etc. -
DHP
Yoon Sup Choi
CEO
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Republic of Korea
Yoon Sup Choi is an interdisciplinary life scientist, medical futurist, entrepreneur, investor, and evangelist in digital healthcare. He is the one who introduced digital healthcare sector to South Korea through vigorous researches, writings, and lectures. He majored in both computer science and life science at POSTECH, and earned a Ph.D. in computational biology at POSTECH. He was a visiting researcher at Stanford University and a research professor at Cancer Research Center of Seoul National University College of Medicine. He published over 10 research papers in top scientific journals including 『Science』. He is a co-founder and managing partner of Digital Healthcare Partners, which is the only startup accelerator, dedicated to digital healthcare in South Korea. He has invested in 15+ digital healthcare startups, including VUNO (medical AI), 3billion (genomics), MediHere (telemedicine), Mabo (meditation), Dr.Diary (diabetes). Also, he is an author of best-selling books, 『Healthcare Innovation (2014)』, 『Medical AI (2018)』, 『Digital Healthcare: the Future of Medicine (2020)』. -
Woods Bagot
Amanda Stanaway
Principal
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Australia
Amanda Stanaway sits at the forefront of workplace design and has been instrumental in creating some of the most cutting edge workplaces in Australia and globally – workplaces that have delivered real business advantage and positive change for the organization. Her role as a principal at international firm Woods Bagot encompasses strategy and interior design across the commercial, lifestyle and public sectors and her diversity of knowledge and skills provides a unique, comprehensive and innovative approach to projects for her clients. Amanda also contributes to the industry through her role as a public speaker, writer and lecturer, and remains focused on promoting and evolving workplace design. -
Hololux
Christian Glessner
CEO
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Germany
Christian Glessner is the founder and CEO of Hololux. In an emerging digital world, Christian helps his clients to become more successful by using the latest technologies like Serverless Computing, Mixed Reality, and AI. His parents were entrepreneurs, and he grew up between IT technology and economics. As a kid, he was deeply inspired by amber, sparkling screen, and it's blinking and promising cursor of an AS/400 in his parent's office - "ready." The Tabula Rasa, or in other words, the chance of creating something entirely new from scratch is still driving his passion for information technologies. This year he was honored for the 11th time in a row for receiving the 'Microsoft MVP Award,' an Oscar-like accolade conferred by Microsoft. -
98point6
Robbie Cape
CEO/Co-Founder
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United States of America
Robbie Cape passionately believes in the critical importance of primary care and its role in improving the quality of life for individuals, communities and the world. With that in mind, he co-founded 98point6 in 2015 to provide consumers with on-demand access to affordable, high-quality care. The evolution of digital health is paving the way for doctors to engage with patients in a new and dramatically more accessible manner. 98point6 is leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to extend the reach of physicians, allowing them more time to focus on patients while changing the economics of delivering care. Robbie’s 25-year career has centered around building consumer technology businesses and products, including Cozi Inc., which he co-founded and where he served as CEO from its inception until it was acquired by Time Inc. in 2014. Under Robbie’s leadership, Cozi became the number one brand in the family technology category, with more than 14 million family members in 150 countries. Career highlights also include 12 years at Microsoft, where he led projects such as Microsoft Money, a program that he ushered to profitability. Robbie holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Princeton University. -
Deargen
Kil Soo Kang
CEO
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Republic of Korea
Kilsoo Kang is the co-founder and CEO of DEARGEN. By taking charge of the management of DEARGEN, Kilsoo promotes cooperation between DEARGEN and many other experts in pharmaceutical and biology fields so that the biomedical data and AI technology can lead to the discovery of the fundamental treatment of diseases. Also, he is an expert in big data and a software architect who has 15 years’ experience in the IT field. Before establishing DEARGEN, he worked as a leader of big data platform development in NAVER. -
MEDIHERE
Ki Hwan Kim
CEO
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Republic of Korea
Ki Hwan, Kim is a Co-founder and CEO of MEDIHERE, a digital healthcare startup that provides medical concierge & telehealth membership service in the United States and South Korea. MEDIHERE was founded with a mission to connect doctors and patients effectively using IT technology to resolve the imbalance in medical information and innovate the medical industry. MEDIHERE is the first telemedicine platform in South Korea and is moving a step forward its services around New York state in the U.S. Prior to his start-up, he worked in strategic marketing, technical marketing, and brand marketing in the Global Sales & Marketing of SK Hynix. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Hanyang University.
Meet our Investors
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Acceleprise
Akul Penugonda
Associate
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Republic of Korea
Akul is an East Coast native who joined Acceleprise from Yext, a large SaaS company in New York. He joined Yext after college and stayed through IPO. He has spent time in various positions in both Software Engineering and Product Management, and spends time volunteering in his free time. Akul graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. -
BPI
Albert Shyy
Managing Director
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Singapore
Albert is a Managing Director and leads Burda Principal Investments' Singapore office, where he focuses on looking for Series B stage investments in Southeast Asia. He currently sits on the board of Zilingo, Carsome, Hmlet, Priceza, and Coc Coc. Previously he was at GREE Ventures from 2014 to 2017, where he eventually led the fund's investment team in Southeast Asia and India. Prior to this, he served as a Director at Lazada Group, helping build the company’s Marketplace business across the region. Other professional experience includes co-founding an online menswear company in the US and spending 5 years as a management consultant at Monitor Group. He completed his MBA at the University of California, Berkeley and did his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. -
Sequoia Capital
Andrew Du
Associate
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China
Andrew Du is an investor at Sequoia Capital covering both China and South Korea, focusing on internet/entertainment/ecommerce/education etc. Prior Sequoia Capital , he worked for Tencent. Andrew graduated from Peking University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. -
Sierra Ventures
Ben Yu
Managing Director
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United States of America
Ben Yu is a Managing Partner at Sierra Ventures, a 38 year old Silicon Valley based early-stage venture firm investing globally with a focus on Next Generation Enterprise and Emerging Technologies. Ben has been with the firm since 2000. Ben is an engineer and inventor by background. He is passionate about emerging sectors and breakthrough ideas. His investment philosophy is finding early-stage companies with great technologies that can truly make a difference and helping entrepreneurs turn ideas into market leaders. His current portfolio and selected past companies can be found on the Sierra Ventures website. -
Collab Fund
Bryan Chang
Principal
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United States of America
Bryan Chang is a San Francisco-based principal at Collaborative Fund. Collaborative Fund is an early-stage investment firm in NYC, backing the entrepreneurs pushing the world forward. Its notable investments include Lyft, Beyond Meat, Kickstarter, Impossible Foods, Reddit, Blue Bottle Coffee, and more. Prior to Collaborative Fund, Bryan was on the investment team at Social Capital and founding team at Mattermark, having raised over $17m+ total and later acquired by Fullcontact. He started his career at UBS Investment Bank in San Francisco. -
Alpha JWC
Chandra Tjan
Founder/Managing Partner
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Indonesia
Mr. Chandra Tjan started his tech investment career over a decade ago, making him the first venture capitalist in Indonesia. Before co-founding Alpha JWC Ventures in 2015, Mr. Tjan founded the country’s first VC East Ventures in 2009. Since then, he has invested in more than 60 early-stage startups — including two unicorns: online marketplace Tokopedia and all-in-one travel booking platform Traveloka — and was also the first board member of both unicorns in their early days. He currently sits on the board of some of the regional leading tech companies, including FundingSocieties, Carro, GudangAda, Bobobox and OnlinePajak. Mr. Tjan graduated from University of Sydney, and is currently taking a three-year residential Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School. Mr. Tjan is also a member of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). -
Ahoy Capital
Chris Douvos
Managing Director
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United States of America
Chris Douvos founded Ahoy Capital in 2018 to build an intentionally right-sized firm that could pursue investment excellence while prizing a spirit of partnership with all of its constituencies. A pioneering investor in the micro-VC movement, Chris has been a fixture in venture capital for nearly two decades. Prior to Ahoy Capital, Chris spearheaded investment efforts at Venture Investment Associates, and The Investment Fund for Foundations. He learned the craft of illiquid investing at Princeton University’s endowment. Chris earned his B.A. with Distinction from Yale College in 1994 and an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management in 2001. -
Grab Ventures
Chris Yeo
Head
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Indonesia
Chris is Managing Director, Head of Grab Ventures (GV), whose mandate is to develop the next generation tech leaders in SEA. Grab Ventures does this through Venture Building and Venture Investments. For Venture Building, internal startups that Chris has launched include: GrabFresh (online groceries), GrabWheels (eScooter sharing), GrabKitchen (Cloud Kitchen) and GrabHealth (online healthcare). For Venture Investments, GV focuses on Series A+ strategic investments in sectors related to Grab’s O2O businesses and across all geographies. This also includes Grab Ventures Velocity (GVV), a scale up program for post-seed stage startups, which already has 15 startups in its portfolio across 2 batches. -
7911 Partners
Denny Kim
Founder/Principal
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United States of America
Denny Kim is the Principal & Founder of 7911 Partners, a private investment and advisory firm focused on the FinTech sector. Denny also serves as an Advisor to Gemspring Capital, a lower middle market private equity firm with $1.1 billion in assets under management. Prior to 7911 Partners, Denny spent eleven years as a private equity investor focused solely on investing in financial services companies, having worked at WL Ross & Co. as well as J.C. Flowers & Co. Denny began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston. Denny received a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University and MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. -
White Star Capital
Eddie Lee
Principal
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United States of America
A Principal at White Star Capital based in New York, Eddie invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs in both New York and Seoul. Eddie was previously an Associate at the Asset Management division of J.P.Morgan in New York, where he led internal strategy for the Big Data and Business Intelligence Group. He started his career there as an Analyst of the Private Equity Group. -
Central Capital VC
Eric Hendrickus
Investment Associate
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Indonesia
Eric joined Central Capital Ventura (CCV) as an Investment Analyst after graduating from Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Entrepreneurship. Now an Investment Associate, Eric is responsible for leading the investment process at CCV as well as managing the firm’s portfolio companies. To date, he has been involved in 18 investments across different fintech verticals such as payments, lending, robo-advisory, and others. Outside of CCV, Eric likes to contribute back to the startup ecosystem through mentoring. He is currently a mentor at Gerakan Nasional 1000 Startup Digital (1000 Startup Digital Movement), an initiative from the Indonesian government to grow and groom the local startup ecosystem. -
Angel Ventures
Hernán Fernández
Managing Partner
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Mexico
Hernán is the Founder and Co-Managing Partner at Angel Ventures, where he manages deal-flow, investor relations and share duties in creating value for the investment portfolio. He is also the founder of the largest angel investment network in Latin America. He currently serves as a Board Member at the Mexican Association of PE & VC Funds (AMEXCAP). Prior to Angel Ventures, Hernán started his professional career as a corporate lawyer in PwC's Mexico City and Paris branch offices, as a consultant for the Sustainable Business initiative of the United Nations Development Program in the U.S. and Paraguay and later as a management consultant for Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) in Mexico City. He has been named one of CNN/Expansion 30 Mexico's Promises and the Most Influential Angel Investor in Mexico according to TechCrunch. Hernán holds a master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a law degree from ITAM in Mexico. AV has put together a strong and flexible team, bestinclass, in-house developed processes and attracted a multidisciplinary group of advisors, mentors and allies that not only provide capital, but most importantly, talent, relationships, and brain power. The managing team has extensive experience in company development and growth, private equity transactions, management and operation of venture capital funds, mergers, and acquisitions launching startups and new business units, as well as strategic consulting and operational administration of multinational conglomerates. -
Tekton Ventures
Jai Choi
Managing Partner
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United States of America
Jai Choi is a founder of Tekton Ventures, a global seed stage venture firm he started in 2010. In addition, Jai has been a partner with Partner Partners since 2007, a global venture firm that invests across all stages in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Jai has spent over 18 years in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur and early stage investor. Jai has invested in over 100+ early stage companies internationally including Coupang, Toss, Outdoorsy, Frontier Car Group, Signifyd, MyRealTrip, and Kyash. Jai was a partner with Ignite Ventures, a venture fund and advisory group with limited partners from major Asia-based technology conglomerates. Jai was an early employee at OnePage Software, a content personalization platform acquired by Sybase in 2001. Jai previously co-founded On-Air Networks in 1997, an online radio company acquired by Loudeye (Nokia). Jai started his career in management consulting at PA Consulting Group, working for major telecom and energy companies. -
Gobi Partners
Jamaludin Bujang
Managing Director
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Malaysia
Jamal joined the firm in 2019 and is overseeing operations and investment activities at Gobi’s Kuala Lumpur office. He has 15 years of experience in equity research, investment evaluation, corporate finance, and M&A and an additional 14 years of experience in venture capital. Prior to Gobi, he was the CEO of MAVCAP, Malaysia’s largest venture capital firm and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ministry Of Finance Inc, which has directly and indirectly invested in over 1,100 startups since 2001. While at MAVCAP, he created, managed, and participated as LP in 9 funds with a combined size of over $500m. At Gobi, he successfully launched a $20m venture fund in Pakistan, in collaboration with the Fatima Group, one of the country’s largest conglomerates. He is active in the Malaysian startup scene; and has served as the Chairman of the Malaysian Venture Capital Association, a member of the Malaysian Venture Capital Development Council, a founding member and Treasurer of the Global Entrepreneurship Movement and as member of investment committees in several VC funds and government grants. -
Prysm Capital
Jay Park
Co-Founder/Managing Director
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United States of America
Jay Park is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Prysm Capital where he provides growth capital to disruptive management teams across the technology, consumer, and healthcare markets in the US and Asia. Prior to Prysm, Jay spent 18 years with BlackRock helping lead private equity investing activities across the US and Asia. Prior, Jay was a principal investment officer with Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity focused on investing in the emerging markets, after starting his career in Merrill Lynch M&A. Jay earned a BS degree in applied mathematics and economics from Brown University, and an MBA degree, with honors, from Columbia University. -
T Fund
Jay Zhao
Partner
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United States of America
As an entrepreneur-turned-VC, Jay is a Partner at T Fund (aka TCL Ventures), a global CVC arm by TCL Corp, one of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world. Jay is also responsible for helping define TCL’s strategic roadmap as well as corporate's M&A and partnerships. Previously, Jay was a Senior Director / Partner at Walden Venture Capital, one of the pioneer venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, with a global presence in Asia and Israel. Prior to Walden, Jay was a Principal at Granite Ventures (ex- H&Q venture group), a premier San Francisco based VC firm that manages over $1 billion AUM. -
Vickers
Jeffrey Chi
Vice Chairman
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Singapore
Dr. Jeffrey Chi is a veteran in the venture capital industry. Dr. Chi co-founded Vickers Venture Partners in 2005. He is also former Chairman and currently Ambassador of the Singapore Venture Capital Association. Dr. Chi also sits on board of SEEDS Capital (Investment arm of Enterprise Singapore) and on the advisory panels of the MAS, A*Star and the National University of Singapore Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management. Dr. Chi is a CFA Charter holder and graduated from Cambridge University in Engineering. He earned his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in organizational knowledge and information technology. -
KCA
Jenhao Han
CEO
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KCA Capital Partners
Singapore
Mr. Jenhao Han is the CEO of KCA Capital Partners (“KCA”), a growth equity investment firm focusing on value creation through cross border market expansion. KCA is sponsored by China International Capital Corporation (“CICC”) which has extensive business and government relationships to facilitate market expansion in China and South East Asia. Prior to founding KCA, Mr. Han led the Asia business for ARDIAN (formerly known as AXA Private Equity) as Head of Asia for 10 years based in Singapore. During his tenure at ARDIAN, Mr. Han was responsible for investment to over $1.3bn in Asia. He advised various financial institutions on investment strategy in alternative assets and companies on strategic cross-border initiatives in Asia. Mr. Han holds an MBA degree from INSEAD and undergraduate from Cornell University. He has extensive professional and personal experience in Asia, and is fluent in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. -
Gen 1 VC
Julian Cheng
Managing Director
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United States of America
Julian Cheng focuses on deep technology investments in areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, computer vision, space, AR, connected car, healthtech, fintech, insurance, and others. Julian is passionate about supporting and mentoring founders to help them build world-changing businesses and building their character. Before becoming a venture capital investor, he managed and developed software and hardware for enterprises, microprocessors, satellites, and co-founded two start-ups in the Internet of Things and education spaces. After working at large tech companies and start-ups in SF, LA, Austin, and Chicago he transitioned to venture capital to invest in and cultivate the technical and entrepreneurial ecosystem in hopes to transform the community. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois and studied engineering management at Stanford and Northwestern Universities where he obtained his Masters.
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DG Daiwa VC
Junichi Nakajima
Executive Manager
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Japan
Junichi joined Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in 2000. After this, he worked at KPMG FAS, Lone Star Funds, Marubeni (US), and Cool Japan Fund (government fund). Joined DG Daiwa Ventures in 2018 as the head of investment Dep. He graduated in 2018 from Keio University, Business and Commerce, and received his MBA, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania.
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