2011 Workshop

Speakers

Keynotes

Chang-Gyu Hwang - National CTO of Korea

Dr. Hwang was the former President & CEO of Samsung’s Semiconductor Business. He joined Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. in 1989 and had been in charge of developing the world’s first 256Mb DRAM in 1994. In 2008, he was named the corporate technology officer of Samsung Electronics. And, in April 2010, he was named the National Chief Technology Officer and the Secretary General, the... [more]

... head of Office of Strategic R&D Planning in Korea. He has been adorned with distinguished awards such as the ISI Citation Classic Award (2000), the Technology Leadership and Innovations Award by Electronic Industries Alliance (2004), Best Scientist Award by Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (2006) and the Andy Grove Award (2006). He was also chosen as "25 Stars of Asia" by Businessweek (2003), "One of the Ten Big Thinkers" by Newsweek, (2005) and one of "Top Executives of 2005" by Asiamoney (2006). He hold BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University in Korea, and a Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts. [hide]

William (Bill) K. Aulet - Managing Director of MIT Entrepreneurship Center

Bill Aulet is a serial entrepreneur who has run three companies, directly created hundreds of millions of dollars of market value, raised over raised over $100 million in funding for his companies, produced award winning products and developed numerous business leaders in his 30 year business career.  He started his career at IBM (11 years) and subsequently founded and/or ran three companies... [more]

...(Cambridge Decision Dynamics, SensAble Technologies and Viisage Technologies) with each becoming increasingly successful as he gained wisdom from his experiences.  Today Bill teaches four courses at MIT and speaks globally on the topic of entrepreneurship and innovation.  His programs have won global recognition for their leadership and excellence.  He sits on the boards of a number of high growth companies, consults with large companies on how to be more innovative, works with foundations and governments to develop innovation/entrepreneurial ecosystems and also conducts workshops throughout the world working directly with entrepreneurs to increase their skills to be more successful.  [hide]

Nader F. Darehshori - CEO and Chairman of Novium Learning

Nader F. Darehshori has more than 40 years of experience in all aspects of publishing beginning with sales, and including editorial, marketing, technology, globalization, and acquisition of organizations. He began his career with the Houghton Mifflin Company in 1966 as a sales representative in the College Division, then in 1990, Nader was elected Chairman and CEO of the Company and... [more]

...assumed the title of President in October 1991. 
He then founded Cambium Learning, a publishing company focused on K-8. Cambium became the premier education company delivering research and evidence-based outcomes for students at risk for academic failure. The company was sold to Veronis Suhler in early 2007.

In mid 2007, Nader co- founded Aptius Education a publisher of quality instructional materials developed to advance careers and enhance job skills. Content areas are selected for their focus on skills demanded by the 21st-century workplace, and distribution channels make the materials easily accessible - and customizable - for virtually any educational setting. 

Nader is a director and member of the Executive Compensation Committee for State Street Bank. He is Director of the Audit Committee for Aviva USA, Chairman of the Boston Public Library, and a trustee of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He a supporter of the U.N.[hide]

Sanjay Nayak - Co-founder and CEO of Tejas Networks

Sanjay Nayak, is the Co-founder & CEO of Tejas Networks, Bangalore. Tejas Networks is a pioneering telecom product company from India which has successfully grown to become the market leader in India as well as Top-10 global player in optical networking. [more]

Sanjay is a technocrat with over 23 years of experience ranging across Telecom, Networking and Semiconductor industry- both in India as well as the US. Prior to founding Tejas Networks, Sanjay was Managing Director of Synopys India.

Sanjay is a sought after speaker on the subjects of telecom industry, innovation and entrepreneurship from India. He is on the governing council of Government of India's Telecom Export Promotion Council (TEPC), Executive Council of Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA), CII National Committee on ICTE and a Trustee of Deshpande Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (India).

Sanjay has an M.S. degree in ECE from North Carolina State University and B.E in ECE from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra. [hide]

Jae Woong Lee - Founder of Daum Foundation

Jaewoong Lee is a retired entrepreneur spending time as part-time partner at "sopoong" which is a social venture incubating company focusing on social ventures. He is also founder of Daum Communications Corp. which is one of the leading Internet portal service company in Asia. He also has served as CEO of Lycos Inc., which was acquired by Daum in 2004 and also served as CEO of Daum for... [more]

...12 years since he founded the company in 1995. He also founded and served as CEO of Daum Foundation which is a non-profit focusing on solving media divide problems. He is an entrepreneur interested in social ventures and internet/media industry and he has served as board member of various internet/media companies and non-profits. Jaewoong holds B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science from Yonsei University. He is also one of Young Global Leader from World Economic Forum. [hide]

Oh Yeon-Cheon - President of the Seoul National University

Professor Oh Yeon-Cheon is the 25th President of the Seoul National University where he has been a professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration (GSPA) for nearly three decades. Professor Oh graduated from Seoul National University in 1974 then obtained both master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Public Administration from New York University (NYU). From 2000 to 2004 he... [more]

...served as dean of GSPA for 3 years and contributed to establishing Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and the Bio-Max Research Center. He is the recipient of the prestigious Red Stripes Order of Service Merit award for the contribution to the development of Information and an IT powerhouse in 2005. He has also helped fight cancer in children through his leadership of the Children's Leukemia Foundation, Korea in 2009 as its Chairman. [hide]

Lee Soo Man - Founder & Chairman of S.M. Entertainment

Lee Soo Man (born June 18, 1952) is a South Korean entrepreneur and the founder & chairman of S.M. Entertainment Co.,Ltd. Group, including two subsidiaries (SM Academy and SM TinTin Entertainment) specializing in K-pop groups.

Lee started his career as a singer... [more]

... while attending Seoul National University in 1972. He co-founded the agency in 1989 that has taken place an important position in the South Korean entertainment. SM is now the biggest record label in South Korea, due to the success of artists such as H.O.T, S.E.S., Shinhwa, Super Junior, BoA, TVXQ, Girls' Generation, and SHINee. [hide]

Innovation Fireside Chat

Howard Califano - Director of MIT-Singapore Innovation Center

Howard leads and manages the overall operation of the Innovation Centre. He brings experience from the academic, industry and financial sectors focused on developing businesses around emerging technology. He has founded, held executive management positions, acted as Member of the Board of Directors and CEO of multiple companies in the United States and Asia. He was... [more]

...Consulting Director of Bio*One Capital Pte Ltd and acted as the interim CEO of several of their portfolio companies.

Howard was the CEO of Johns Hopkins Singapore and The Johns Hopkins-NUH International Medical Centre. At Johns Hopkins Singapore, he led and managed a team of 80 researchers, physicians, administrators and staff, to establish a Center of Excellence in research, education and patient care. From 1995 to 1999, Howard was Assistant Dean of The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, where he was responsible for its business development activities, including the Office of Technology Licensing which is tasked to commercialise all medical discoveries originating at Hopkins.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a Juris Doctorate from University of Maryland.[hide]

Richard Kivel - Chairman of Rhapsody Biologics

Richard Kivel presently serves as Chairman of Rhapsody Biologics, a biotech company focused in the field of vaccine development, with offices in the US and Singapore. Prior to this, Richard served as CEO of TheraGenetics, a UK-based pharmacogenetic diagnostics company. In January 2009, TheraGenetics was acquired by UK based Avacta Group plc. LSE: (AVCT). Richard remained...[more]

...CEO and continued to lead the growth of TheraGenetics under the new ownership until June 2009.

Richard serves as Chairman of the global Board of Directors of the MIT Enterprise Forum and is a member of the MIT Alumni Association Board. He is a frequent lecturer at MIT as well as a judge for the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.

Richard serves as a Board member of both public and private companies in the biotech and high-tech space, such as Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE:RNN), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel cures for cancer and disorders of the central nervous system (CNS).

Richard is a sought after speaker and lecturer and has shared his insights on innovation and development of global entrepreneurial ecosystems as well as future trends in life sciences, personalized medicine and technology, with audiences throughout the US, Europe, UK, Asia, the Middle East and South Africa.

Mr. Kivel holds B.A degree from American International College, an M.S in management from Boston College, and is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania Executive Program: Drug Discovery, Therapeutics & New Innovations. [hide]

Panelists & Case Studies

Maria Adamian - Director of Business Incubator at HSE, Moscow

Maria is the lead organizer of TechCrunch Moscow and Creative Director of business plans competition Business of Innovative Technologies. She worked in both commercial and non-profit organizations in Tomsk (Russia), Moscow (Russia), Seattle, Boston and New York. Her experience includes starting a business in New York, managing a gold mining project in Tanzania, developing... [more]

...educational programs for the Nuclear Cities Initiative and doing business development at the US-Russia Center for Entrepreneurship. Co-founded the Iron Entrepreneur competition in Russia. Holds an MBA degree from Albers School of Business and Economics (Seattle, USA). [hide]

Mohammad Asfour - Chairman of Jordan Green Building Council

Mohammad Asfour is the Chairman of Jordan Green Building Council, Amman-Jordan. Prior to this he was the Environment, Water and Energy Sector Lead at the USAID Jordan Economic Development Program (SABEQ), and an Advisor to the Board of Trustees of Princess Sumaya University for Technology. He also founded the Queen Rania Center for... [more]

...Entrepreneurship and worked on conceptualizing and developing El Hassan Science City. He has also served at the Jordan Investment Board and worked as a consultant for the UNDP, UNIDO, and USAID 's AMIR Program.

Mohammad has served as a regional advisor to OECD' s MENA Investment Program and is currently Secretary to the board at Al Shajarah NGO. He has continuously maintained a presence in the business world through a fourth generation diversified family business. [hide]

Min Bang - General Manager & Studio Head - Electronic Arts Seoul Studio

Min Bang is the General Manager and Studio Head of the Electronic Arts (EA) Seoul Studio. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of J2M, an online game development company that released 3 titles in 8 global markets over the course of 4 years. In 2009, J2M was acquired by Electronic Arts. From 2000-2004, Min held the roles of lead software engineer, marketing manager, and lead producer at... [more]

...Nexon, a major publisher of online games and MMORPG's based in Seoul. Min graduated from Seoul National University, where he studied electrical engineering. [hide]

Stephen Brown - Founder of Innovate4Growth Consulting

Innovate4Growth recommends specific steps and programs to increase the rate of innovation at organizations and regions based on an analysis of the innovation environment. The recommendations are based on the experienced gained by working with over 100 startups at MIT and consulting engagements in 15 countries. Innovate4Growth also provide lectures and workshops on... [more]

...creating innovation clusters, enhancing existing networks, and building international partnerships and customers. Coaching for teams and businesses is also provided.

Prior to founding Innovate4Growth, Steve was focused on the management of new products, business development, and commercialization activities at MIT. Steve lectured on these and related topics at MIT Sloan and other MIT departments since 2001. From 1996 to 2006 Steve worked for the MIT Technology Licensing Office in the chemicals, materials, biopharma, and medical devices areas. As a Licensing Officer he managed patent prosecution and licensing; as the Licensing Office Ambassador he provided advice and contacts to inventors, entrepreneurs, and investors; as a judge in MIT's 100K Entrepreneurship Contest he evaluated business plans; and he evaluated proposals for funding by the Deshpande Proof of Concept Fund.

Prior to joining M.I.T., Steve was the Assistant Dean for External Partnerships at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at University of Pennsylvania. There he was responsible for helping the departments create their strategic plans and for building relationships with external organizations important to the school's educational and research mission. At Arco Chemical, Steve was a Commercial Development Manager with responsibility for a commercialization team that developed a composites program from lab inception to approval by two major auto manufacturers. Previously he revamped Arco's National Distributor Sales Program. Earlier in his career he worked for Dow Chemical in a variety of research, development, sales, marketing, and business management positions. In 1979, Steve was nominated by Dow's CEO to be a President's Executive Interchange Executive and selected to serve at the Small Business Administration where he helped to streamline their bank loan process, revise their energy loan program for high technology startups, and lobbied for the agency before the US Congress. Steve received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Princeton University. Prior to Princeton he attended Oundle School in England as an English Speaking Union Exchange Scholar after having graduated from Tabor Academy in Marion, MA where he received the general excellence in scholarship award. [hide]

Eimear O' Carroll - Director - Restored Hearing Ltc.

Eimear O' Carroll is a director of a physics based start-up, Restored Hearing Ltd. Restored Hearing offers a unique online sound therapy which gets rid of ringing in the ears experienced after loud noise and music on www.restoredhearing.com.

Currently a second year undergraduate physics student in the... [more]

...University of Edinburgh, Eimear is from Ireland originally but now living in Scotland. As a Scottish Institute for Enterprise, SIE, Student Intern Eimear also helps promote and inspire student entrepreneurship in Edinburgh with Launch Edinburgh (www.launch.ed.ac.uk) and across Scotland with SIE. [hide]

Minhee Cho - Founder and CEO of Pristones

Minhee Cho was a former president of SNUSV.net and a panel of GSW 2004 at UK and 2005 at UAE. He majored in Mechanical Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University. Despite his engineering major, he was also interested in business development, so he worked for SAMSUNG electronics Marketing Communication group in 2003. [more]

He was elected as the SNUSV.net's president of 2004 and invited to MIT GSW Panel for the first time. He raised the fund for the continuous relationship with GSW and SNUSV.net. Late 2004, he successfully hosted Seoul National University Business Plan Competition with Korean government. After his presidential years, he founded a mobile software company CIZIX in 2006. Starting from 2008, he worked for Gretech, which is well known as Korea's no.1 media software 'GOM Player'.

Recently he founded new start-up 'Pristones', the Happyware company. The Happyware here is defined as a thing that makes people happy or helps people find their happiness. By combining mobile & social network revolution, data mining techniques, and game dynamics, he and his friends want to help people find 'small happiness' in their daily lives.

Minhee Cho also loves to play Kendo. He has been practicing Kendo for nine years and was one of the leading players of SNU Kendo Team from 2006. [hide]

Lee Dong-Hyung - Founder of Cyworld

Lee Dong-Hyung founded Korea's most popular social network service Cyworld in 1999 and is the current CEO and Co-founder of Now Profile, a social scheduling service. Cyworld is the largest Social Networking Service in Korea with over 25 million members, which is more than the local followers of Facebook or Twitter. From 2005 he has also been the CEO of Cyworld Japan. From he has been the... [more]

...Vice president at SK communications. He was the project manager of the National Tax office project team at LG-CNS in 1994. He also served as S/W engineer at LG Electronics IT support team in 1991. [hide]

Cyril Ebersweiler - Investor in SOSventures International

Cyril Ebersweiler is an entrepreneur and globe-trotter investor in SOSventures International, an early stage venture capital firm. He has been hanging out in Asia for the last ten years, and founded the first mentorship-driven seed funding program in China, Chinaccelerator. The program has successfully incubated several startups already. [more]

Before he became investor, Cyril was building and running operations in the fields of retail, travel and consulting. He also likes to play all kinds of sports (football, marathon, etc.) and video games.[hide]

Daniel Gutierrez - Co-Founder of Nanigans

Daniel is a cofounder of Nanigans, a social games advertising company with clients including some of the largest names in Facebook gaming such as Kabam, KlickNation, and The Casual Collection. At Nanigans, Daniel has created an automated ad-buying system which has placed Nanigans as one the advertising industry's leading social-network analysis companies. Daniel was also an early-stage engineer... [more]

...and shareholder in Pongr, a brand-based social advertisting game startup that has helped shape how large-named brands interact with their customers in the past 2 years. Previously, Daniel worked on indie game collaborations for 2 years, selling one of his games to ArcadeTown. Daniel studied Computer Science and Comparative Media Studies at MIT, specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Systems Architecture. His research focused on the interaction between technology, people, and urban spaces. [hide]

Perry Ha - Founder of DFJ Athena

Perry Ha is the founder of DFJ Athena, a venture capital firm focused on investments in Korea and the US.  He has been an active venture investor since 1997 when he founded Athena Technology Ventures, a Silicon Valley based venture capital fund with a focus on early-stage startups.  He has invested in and/or served on the board of many successful companies including Ipivot (INTC),... [more]

...Demandtec (DMAN), Imparto Software (PKS), ProfitLogic (ORCL), and Zantaz (AUTNF).  He also served as interim CEO in two different companies.  He currently serves on the board of several companies in Korea and the US.  Prior to venture capital, he led the Technology Management Practice at Gemini Consulting, a global management consultancy, helping Fortune 1000 clients manage technology portfolios and develop new products.  Prior to that, he managed an R&D Group at Amicon, a life sciences device company, which was successfully sold to Milipore in 1994.  He was granted two design patents during his tenure at Amicon.  He serves on the board of Korean American Society of Entrepreneurs (KASE), on the Visiting Committee at MIT, and on the Leadership Board of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research.  He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.  He was the captain of his collegiate volleyball team and was selected to NCAA All-American Third Team.  He is a life-long student and teacher of Tae Kwon Do, a Korean martial art of which he is a certified Master Instructor. [hide]

John Harthorne - Founder and CEO of MassChallenge

John Harthorne is the Founder and CEO of MassChallenge, a startup competition and accelerator designed to catalyze a startup renaissance by connecting high-impact startups from around the world with the resources they need to launch and succeed. The first annual competition launched in April 2010 and 16 winners split a prize pool of $1 million in cash in October 2010. The 2011 competition launches... [more]

...officially on March 8 with an entry deadline of April 11. In January of 2011, President Barack Obama identified MassChallenge as one of America’s most effective startup accelerators and announced MassChallenge as an inaugural member of the Startup America Partnership to promote high-growth startups across the country and around the world. John has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management where he graduated with a near perfect GPA. John also won the 2007 MIT $100K Business Plan Competition along with two MIT engineers, and was granted the 2007 Patrick J. McGovern Award for his impact on the quality and visibility of entrepreneurship at MIT. [hide]

Jung-Joon Hwang - Investment Director at BRV Korea

Jung-Joon (J.J.) Hwang is Investment Director at BRV Korea. He joined the firm in 2005 and is based in Seoul. J.J. actively works with Corea Titanium and HI-DIS. J.J. brings extensive experience in venture capital investment in Korea, having served as an investment professional at both local and global venture capital/private equity firms (KTB and CDIB). Prior to joining the VC community, J.J. worked in... [more]

...the R&D division of LG-EDS, a leading IT firm in Korea. J.J. received his B.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto (engineering) and M.A. from H.U.F.S (Korea). [hide]

Barbara Igel - Dean at the Asian Institute of Technology

Barbara Igel is the Dean and Associate Professor at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) School of Management. Her research covers topics in commercializing new technology through entrepreneurship, innovation in complex product systems, managing knowledge for innovation and entrepreneurship in NTBFs in China, Thailand, and Vietnam. [more]

Dr. Igel has been working with the Thailand Science Park and Software Park, National Science & Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) to support entrepreneurial technology start-ups in Thailand. She has been invited several times as a visiting professor, among others, at the Helsinki University of Technology where she conducted courses on innovation and environmental management for senior executives in design management programs. Her work has been published in Technovation, Intl. J. of Technology Management, Intl J. of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management, Intl. J. of Learning & Intellectual Capital, Intl. J. of Quality & Reliability Management, J. of Asian Business, and Asian Case Research Journal.

Dr. Igel holds a doctorate degree in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.) from the Freie Universaet Berlin, Germany. [hide]

Dal Yong Jin - Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Dal Yong Jin is Associate Professor and Associate Director in the Graduate Program of Science Journalism at KAIST. His major research interests are on new media and convergence, video games and entrepreneurship, globalization and media, and science journalism. He was a newspaper reporter for 10 years before coming to the U.S. in 1998 and was Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University... [more]

...in Canada. He is currently analyzing the shifting media business paradigm, from convergence to de-convergence, in the communication industries, including both audiovisual and telecommunications.

He is the author of several books and numerous articles, including Korea's Online Gaming Empire (MIT Press, 2010), Hands On/Hands Off: The Korean State and the Market Liberalization of the Communication Industry (Hampton Press, 2011), and Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics (IGI Global, 2011). His recent work has also appeared in several scholarly journals, including Games and Culture, Telecommunications Policy, Television and New Media, Information Communication and Society and Media, Culture and Society,.

Dr. Jin holds a doctorate degree in Communications from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, U.S. [hide]

Song Seung Keung - CEO of Solar Science Co. Ltd.

Song is the CEO of Solar Science Co. Ltd. which has a sales target figure of KRW 10 Billion this year. It is a promising export firm supported by the small & medium business administration, Republic of Korea. Song obtained a patent for a Solar Electric bike in 2008. He set up Solar Science in 2009 and won KRW 10 million in the Kyungwon University Incubation Center. He also won the... [more]

...Small Business Success Story Competition Prize. In late 2009 he also selected a venture company and in 2010 he was invited to Bluehouse to give one of presidential speeches of the day. He is currently in Kyungwon University studying Electronic Engineering. [hide]

Tiger Lee - Co-founder of SpeakCare

Tiger Lee was the 6th president of SNU student venture network. He was also president of the 1st SNU Business Plan Competition. He was co-founder of ETOOS, the second largest high school e-learning company. He produced Nude Textbook, which is a million seller educational book. He was founder of Speakcare, the most fast growing VOIP tutoring service. He also produced SpeakingMax, which... [more]

...combines games and videos with e-learning. Tiger was a Seoul National University computer engineering major. [hide]

Greg Moon - CEO & President of Softbank Ventures Korea

Greg Moon is currently the CEO and President of Softbank Ventures Korea (SBVK) and Representative Director of SOFTBANK Korea which is investment Holding Company owned by Japan's Softbank Corporation. Mr. Moon is managing several venture investment funds with about USD 150 Million in SBVK. [more]

Mr. Moon's experience is borne out of 22 years of experience in the dynamic field of Information Technology. His role began in the top PC manufacturing company called TriGem Computer Inc. in Korea at the time, where he began by gaining hands-on experience on how a large business runs. Following his position there, he went on to become more specialized in setting business strategies, planning and implementing new business development, capital investment in start-up companies, and setting up mergers with global entities.

Mr. Moon's most memorable contribution to Korea's IT industry was his leading role in developing and implementing the birth of the "pager" business, a forerunner of the mobile phone for Naray & Co.

Mr. Moon led a merger between CNET Networks and Softbank Media to create one of the strongest IT online media entities in Korea, while restructuring it to make it profitable. For 3 years beginning 1996, Mr. Moon was located in Silicon Valley as an Investment Associate at Softbank Venture Capital, giving him invaluable knowledge in investment and operational experience.

Mr. Moon attended Korea University and has a degree in Literature, and also an MBA from Drexel University located in Philadelphia, USA. [hide]

Gary Palin - Executive Dir. of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Gary Palin is the Executive Director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at Elon University and a senior lecturer of the Love School of Business at Elon University. He brings a combination of over 30 years experience in both the academic and entrepreneurial communities. He founded the Entrepreneurship Education Initiative at NC State University in 1993 and served as the... [more]

...Executive Director until 2008. He was a faculty member of the NC State College of Management for 17 years. Palin's areas of expertise include new venture development, social entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and venture growth.

He was a founding member of the MIT Global Startup Workshop Board of Advisors, founder of the Social Entrepreneurship and Education Consortium, founder of the Entrepreneurship and Education Network and a participant in the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, Academy of Management, International Council for Small Business, North Carolina Center for Entrepreneurial Development and the North Carolina Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs.

Palin has been named a recipient of the 2008 Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Award from the Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence. He has served as Director of NC State University's Small Business Technology and Development Center where he assisted hundreds of business launches, expansions, and acquisitions. He has developed executive education programs in business planning, new venture launches, and technology commercialization. He has consulted for numerous entrepreneurial ventures and also with major corporations such as Texas Instruments, FMC Corporation, and Thomas Register. Palin serves on a number of high growth company advisory boards. [hide]

Anish Parikh - Vice President of Onsemble

Anish Parikh is Vice President of Onsemble, which he co-founded in early 2009. Prior to founding Onsemble, Mr. Parikh headed Southern California Development for Airtricity North America through its acquisition by E.On, acquiring land for greenfield wind projects in Southern California. He had previously worked as Director of Business Development for Appa Renewable Energy Systems, a start-up... [more]

...focused on bringing a revolutionary wind turbine technology to market. Mr. Parikh also worked in The Boeing Company's "Phantom Works", helping to design a next-generation Scramjet Engine Demonstrator vehicle (now known as X-51). Mr. Parikh received a Bachelors of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from M.I.T., and an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from University of Michigan, where he focused on turbulence modeling, and researched embedded active materials as ameans for reducing rotor blade vibrations. [hide]

Ramesh Ramachandra - Managing Director of Business Breakthrough Technology

Ramesh Ramachandra is the Managing Director of Business Breakthrough Technology Pte Ltd, a Singapore based boutique consulting company specializing in elevating business performance and leadership capacity of individuals and companies. The company operates primarily in Asian markets. [more]

Prior to this, Ms. Ramachandra founded and ran several businesses in the Asia Pacific region. She has successfully raised millions in venture funding, managed business mergers and acquisitions, and expanded organizations into new regions as well as undertaken the liquidation of an unsuccessful business.

Recognized as "one of the most influential women in Asia" by Asiaweek, Ms Ramachandra was also named a notable woman "barrier breaker" (Barrier Breakers - Women in Singapore), profiled in 50 Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow (Singapore Savvy) and featured in Commonwealth Businesswomen: Trade Matters, Best Practices, and Success Stories. Ms. Ramachandra is the author of The Big Jump into Entrepreneurship (2003).

She is passionate about mainstreaming the role of women in decision-making, power structures and entrepreneurial activities. She has been involved at grassroots and board levels with organizations including the Development of Economy for Women, DEW Credit Co-operative Ltd, Singapore National Co-operative Federation, Netball Singapore and the Singapore Council of Women's Organizations.

Ms. Ramachandra holds an MBA from Monash University and New York University’s Stern School of Business. [hide]

Sokwoo Rhee - Co-founder and CTO of Millennial Net Inc.

Sokwoo Rhee is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Millennial Net, Inc., headquartered in Chelmsford, MA, USA. Millennial Net is a pioneer and innovator in wireless sensor network technologies in commercial, industrial and military applications, bringing the concept of Internet of Things to reality. Sokwoo developed the breakthrough design for ultra-low-power wireless communication... [more]

...circuitry and the power-efficient ad-hoc networking protocol which make up the core of Millennial Net's wireless mesh networking systems. Since starting Millennial Net in 2000, he has raised multiple rounds of venture financing and guided the company to become a leader in the industry. Prior to co-founding Millennial Net, he was a research associate at MIT working on wireless biomedical instrumentation. In 2004, he was selected as one of top 100 young innovators by MIT Technology Review magazine (TR100), as one of 5 top innovators of the year by Red Herring magazine, and also received 2004 Douglas H. Annin Award from ISA. He has published numerous papers at top journals and conferences, and also holds several patents on wireless networks and biomedical instrumentation. Sokwoo holds a B.S. degree from Seoul National University, an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [hide]

Jimmy Rim - Associate Principal of Softbank Ventures Korea

Jimmy Rim is an Associate Principal of Softbank Ventures Korea, a venture capital focusing on early-stage startups in Korea. At Softbank, he has invested in more than 10 startups including KINX (KOSDAQ, 093320), Sundaytoz, Dadamgame, Gorilla Banana, and FXGear. His primary focuses are consumer internet, mobile service, game, and digital media. Prior to Softbank, Jimmy worked at... [more]

... The Boston Consulting Group and developed corporate strategies, performed M&A due diligences for Korean conglomerates. He also worked at the corporate strategy team at NHH (KOSPI, 035420), the largest internet search portal in Korea. Jimmy has a BS in Industrial Engineering from KAIST. [hide]

Ricardo Rossello - Biomedical Engineer & Neurobiologist at Duke and HHMI

By training, Ricardo is a Biomedical Engineer and Neurobiologist that currently works on stem cell research for neurodegeneration purposes in Duke University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). His research on stem cells and tissue engineering has been featured in the cover of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.[more]

Ricardo has worked in several national campaigns in the USA as a surrogate, policy writer, and strategist. Most recently, he was vice-chair for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in Puerto Rico.

As an entrepreneur, Ricardo founded, Auctoritas Labs, a privately funded company, focused on designing novel methods for public opinion polling, marketing research, technology and transparency. The results of which have been featured in magazines such as Campaigns and Elections and national blogs (e.g. Huffington Post). Recently, he co-founded Prosperous Biopharm, a biotech company working out of both China and the United States. Prosperous Biopharm aims to revolutionize the protein therapeutic market by introducing its patented products TransBody™; a class of re-designed, engineered stable proteins that can specifically bind intracellular targets, providing a powerful new way to create novel drugs and targeted delivery. [hide]

Daniel M. Shin - Founder Partner of KingsBay Capital

Daniel Shin is a founding partner of KingsBay Capital. Prior to founding KingsBay Capital, Mr. Shin was an executive director and the head of U.S. venture investments of BINEXT Capital, an international venture capital and private equity investment firm, where he sourced and executed debt and equity investments with venture capital backed emerging technology companies with focus on cross-border... [more]

...opportunities. Mr. Shin also worked with CJ Internet, an international online game company of CJ Group, food and entertainment conglomerates in Korea, where he oversaw international business expansion to North America and Europe and successfully secured key strategic business relationships. Mr. Shin also worked with Daesung Group, international energy and utility conglomerates, for various projects including the group's business expansion to North America, developing strategic plans, and advising capital allocation to a number of leading private equity and hedge fund capital partnerships. Mr. Shin briefly worked with Accenture, an international management consulting firm, in Shanghai and Seoul office for international market penetration projects on behalf of electronics and home entertainment clients. Mr. Shin began his career as an engineering intern at Dialpad Communications, an Internet telephony company which was eventually acquired by Yahoo. Mr. Shin is a founder of Megalos Asteria & Co., a private investment firm, where he has advised numerous technology startup companies and high profile entrepreneurs. Mr. Shin holds a BS in Business Administration from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University at Bloomington, where he received 4 year faculty merit scholarship and also received executive training in the areas of venture capital and private equity at the Harvard Business School. [hide]

Daniel H. Shin - Founder & CEO of TicketMonster Inc.

Daniel H. Shin is founder and CEO of TicketMonster Inc, the number one group buying website in South Korea. TicketMonster is currently operating in 24 regions nationwide and is recipient of various awards, including the 2010 Korea Internet Services Award (Korea Communication Commission) and Business Innovation Award (Joongang Daily). Prior to... [more]

...launching Ticket Monster, Daniel was an analyst at McKinsey & Company's New Jersey Office and participated in the founding of Invite Media - an ad technology startup which was recently acquired by Google.Daniel holds a BS from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. [hide]

Joshua Schuler - Executive Director of the Lemelson-MIT Program

Joshua is the Executive Director of the Lemelson-MIT Program, a non-profit organization within MIT s School of Engineering, which recognizes outstanding innovators and enables and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention. Joshua joined Lemelson-MIT in 2003 to develop and run InvenTeams, the program s nascent national grants initiative... [more]

...designed to foster inventiveness among high school students. A graduate of Tufts University (Political Science/Environmental Science) and MIT (Technology and Policy/Entrepreneurship), Joshua also holds a MBA from the Collège des Ingénieurs (Paris, France). [hide]

Noel Park - Founder & President of Lumiette

Noel Park is the founder and President of Lumiette, a startup lighting company repurposing flat panel lamp technology. This technology was developed in South Korea, transforming LCD back lighting into the general illumination market aimed at residential and commercial applications worldwide. Utilizing his extensive experience in multicultural working environments, Noel orchestrates Silicon Valley... [more]

...investors, South Korean design and manufacturing teams, Chinese production partners, global distribution channels, customers, and company headquarters in USA. Prior to founding Lumiette, Noel was Vice President of Business Development for Nanostellar, a startup implementing new technology developed at Stanford University, to reduce platinum in catalytic converters. He also explored other new technologies at startup companies Anthology and Cogency. Noel also served as Senior Vice President of Samsung USA responsible for the North American operation of Samsung System LSI. Previously Noel had accumulated extensive experience in working for LSI Logic in three different countries: Canada, South Korea and USA. [hide]

Bernard Yeung - Dean - National University of Singapore Business School

Bernard Yeung is the Dean and the Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor in Finance and Strategic Management at the National University of Singapore Business School. Previously he was the Abraham Krasnoff Professor in Global Business, Economics, and Management at New York University Stern School of Business. He was also the Director of the NYU China House, the honorary co-chair of the... [more]

... Strategy Department of the Peking University Guanghua School of Management, and Advisory Professor at the East China Normal University. His research covers topics in international corporate finance, corporate strategy, foreign direct investment, and the relationship between institutions, economic development, and firm behavior.

Professor Bernard Yeung is a member of the Economic Strategies Committee of Singapore, which is working towards developing strategies to build capabilities and maximize opportunities for Singapore as a global city. He is also a member of Management Advisory Committee (SPRING Singapore) and Financial Research Council (Monetary Authority of Singapore). Professor Yeung is on the International Advisory Board of the Korea University Business School, the Board of the Intellectual Property of Singapore, and of the Strategic Recruitment Advisory Committee at the National University of Singapore. He has been selected as the Dean Director on the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) Board. He also sits on the Maintenance of Accreditation Committee (MAC) and Asia Advisory Task force (AATF) of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). He is an Academy of International Business (AIB) fellow.

Professor Yeung received his bachelor of arts in economics and mathematics from the University of Western Ontario, his MBA and PhD from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. [hide]