David Ta-wei Chang

President, China Credit Information Service, Ltd.

 

Vice President, National Association of Small & Medium Enterprises

Chairman, Vertrust Property Management & Consulting Co. Ltd.

MBA of Southern California University, U.S.A.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carol Lin

NCCU/ Professor

 

Dr. Carol Yeh-Yun Lin (PhD, the University of Texas at Austin) is Distinguished Professor of Department of Business Administration at National Chengchi University. Dr. Lin published extensively on strategic HRM, SME management, intellectual capital, and corporate social responsibility. Recently, Springer New York published her 12-booklet series, examining financial crisis from the perspective of national intellectual capital for 48 countries. Before Dr. Lin changed her career to academia, she served as Customer Service Manager in Singer Sewing Machine Companies Taichung Factory for two years and Office Manager in K-Mart Taipei Purchasing Office for six years.

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew Chu

California State University San Marcos / Professor

 

Dr. Chu is an independent business consultant and university business course lecturer.  He currently teaches “Strategic Management in Global Environment” at MBA level at several universities.Dr. Chu has over 35 years of technical and business management experience in the automotive component industry. His expertise covers corporate strategic planning, innovation management; international business development, new product introduction, and company turn around. Dr. Chu holds a Ph.D. degree in engineering from University of Wisconsin (1971).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nick Vasiljevic

UXswiss / consultant

 

In the past 15+ years Nick gained work experiences working for technology and medical companies. Nick worked with start-ups, private, pre-ipo & public companies from 40+ to 35,000+ employees in size located in Switzerland, France, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Taiwan & USA. Nick was awarded with various international awards such as international product design awards as well as an entrepreneurial leadership award from Taiwan. Nick is an often invited speaker and jury member and also acted as a mentor on past start-up events, such as startup weekend. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yen-Sung Chao

Hands-Up Startup Incubator / Manager & Co-Founder

Manufacturing of Freiheit Co., Ltd. / Director

 

Past: External Consultant, Procurement Department Italcementi Marketing Consultant, New Life Import Mannheim Germany MBA of Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Specialized in: 1.Software and Hardware integration. Currently managing an metal industrial components manufacturing firms in Taichung. Especially love to build prototype in order to get a high profitable potential products by CNC Machines. Incubating Startups Helping Startups build their new business, strategic planning and marketing analysis....

 

 

 

 

 

Richard deVries

Affinity-Asia / Founder & Senior Consultant

 

Richard, the founder of Affinity-Asia Consulting, has over 12 years of training, consulting and sales experience. Over the past 7 years, he has worked extensively with leading multi-national and local companies inTaiwan. Richard is a graduate of the International MBA program of National ChengChi University (NCCU), and an Honors Graduate of the University of Waterloo (Canada).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kevin Ho

TMI / CIO & Partner

 

Kevin Ho serves as Vice President of ITIC ( Investing Arm of ITRI), responsible for investment evaluation, due diligence, and other venture operational activities. He was stationed in US to manage portfolios and develop new investment in past 6 years, gained experiences to work with entrepreneurs. His previous deals include Kiss Technology(acquired by Cisco), Teknovus (acquire by Broadcom), Force10 Networks(acquired by Dell), Azalea Networks ( acquired by Aruba Networks), Array Networks (TSE: 3664).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ryan Yang

Internet City Digital Marketing / President

 

Ryan Yang founded Internet City Digital Marketing and currently serves as the president of the company. He co-founded an e-tailer in the Silicon Valley area in 2001 which was named among the US Top 500 Online Retailers. Earlier in his career, Ryan was with a Nasdaq-listed software company, where he led the global online marketing efforts. During the dot-com era, Ryan worked for a JP Morgan and Softbank Group-owned internet company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ryan also actively invests and participates in various start-ups. 

 

 

 

 

 

Scott Miau

MiTAC ITC. / Vice President

 

Scott is a Director of MiTAC ITC. Innovation R&D Center. MiTAC Information Technology Corp. focuses on system integration, with the goal of incorporating ICT and business domain knowledge to improve customers' competitiveness, productivity and workng efficiency, and providing customers with comprehensive solutions including e-government, e-society, e-industry, e-banking, intelligent transportation, smart city, professional services, customized manufacturing, voice communication, network communication and other fields via information products and consulting services.