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Given the recent crisis in credit and liquidity, how do venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in Asia best steer their ventures through this difficult period? And how should they formulate strategies and visions for the future?
Speakers
Alex GroveFounding Partner, AKAD Education GroupAlex Grove is one of the founding partners of AKAD Education Group, a firm he founded in late 2008. AKAD is an education and career consulting firm serving clients across the Asia Pacific region. AKAD currently has offices in Hong Kong, Seoul and Shanghai, with Taipei and Beijing offices in the works. To date, the firm has financed its startup and rapid international expansion entirely with its own earnings. Prior to founding AKAD, Alex worked at Morgan Stanley Principal Investments and Special Situations Groups in Hong Kong, primarily conducting late-stage pre-IPO financing of Chinese corporations. Alex has also worked as a management consultant at Monitor Action Company’s Beijing and Hong Kong offices. Alex received a dual MBA/MA from the Wharton-Lauder (Mandarin track) joint degree program in 2007. He received dual BA/MA degrees in contemporary Chinese political economics from Harvard in 2001. Alex is fluent in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese.
Ted LinFounder, Business Connect China (BCC)Ted Lin is the Founder, President and CEO of Business Connect China, a China-based investment research firm with an extensive expert network in China. Previously, he was an investment professional at Bessemer Venture Partners in Menlo Park, CA, focused on cleantech and technology investments. Ted has also worked at McKinsey & Co as a management consultant, TSMC in the Corporate Development department, and KLA-Tencor as a software engineer and an engineering manager. Ted holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, summa cum laude, from University of California Irvine, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and an MBA from Harvard where he served as the co-chair of Harvard Asia Business Conference.
Hiro MashitaHead of Venture Capital, Hikari TsushinMr. Hiro Mashita is Head of Venture Capital and Internet Businesses at Hikari Tsushin Inc., listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, First Section. Hikari Tsushin is one of Japan's leading IT/Mobile companies. Mr. Mashita is also a board director of SBI-Hikari P.E. Inc, a joint venture of SBI and Hikari, and Chairman of Hikari Private Equity, a fully-owned subsidiary of Hikari Tsushin. In these roles, he has experienced hundreds of venture capital deals in Japan/Asia and in the US over the last ten years. He is also CEO of e-machi town Inc., listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Mothers Section. E-machi is Hikari Tsushin's internet business subsidiary. From 2000 to 2001, he restructured Hikari Tsushin Group as the firm's CFO. Before joining Hikari Tsushin in 1999, Mr. Mashita worked in the Investment Banking Department of Nomura Securities NYC with responsibility for Securitization and Private Equity. He currently serves on the board of directors of several Hikari Tsushin and VC-fund portfolio companies, including FishingVision, Didital Signage Solution, Beauty Holding, and Orimo in Japan, as well as Yicha Online, and 56.com in China. He received an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and a BA from Keio University in Japan.
Vincent MoFounder & CEO, Soufun HoldingsMr. Vincent Mo is the Founder and Chairman of SouFun Holdings Ltd. He started SouFun in 1999 and has grown the Company to be the largest real estate information provider in China with operations in 104 major cities. In 2006, Telstra acquired 51% of SouFun for $254 million. Prior to founding SouFun, Vincent was executive vice president of ADF. He had also worked for Teleres as General Manager for Asia and China. Vincent has a BA degree from South China University of Technology, an MBA degree from Tsinghua University, and a Masters degree in Economics from Indiana University and is a PhD candidate at Indiana University.
Victor TongVC investor, WebplusMr. Tong is an angel investor of Webplus and many other Internet/mobile games and social networking companies, a gaming/lottery company, an investment advisory company, and BPO outsourcing companies. Mr. Tong gained his consulting and technical expertise through his experience at Andersen Consulting (formerly Accenture), American Express Financial Advisors (now Ameriprise Financial), 3M, and the Superconductivity Center at the University of Minnesota. In 1994, Mr. Tong founded Talent Information Management ("TIM"), a leading internet application development and consulting company in Minnesota. In 1997, Mr. Tong successfully sold GoWeb, an internet consulting division of TIM to Key Investment, a leading technology and media investment company owned by Vance Opperman, a billionaire in Minnesota who founded West Publishing. Mr. Tong became the President of KeyTech, a leading information technology consulting company based in Minnesota. In 1999, he was recognized in "City Business 40 Under 40" as one of the future business and community leaders in Minnesota. In 1999, Pacific-Net.com was spun off from TIM and TIM became talentsoft. In 2002, talentsoft became Webplus. Mr. Tong served as the President of PacificNet from 2002 to 2008.
Daniel Isenberg (Moderator)Professor of Management Practice , Babson CollegeDaniel Isenberg is Professor of Management Practice at Babson College where he helps governments around the world create the policies, structures, programs and climate that foster entrepreneurship. In addition to Babson, he has taught entrepreneurship at Harvard, Columbia, Insead, Reykjavik, and the Technion, and has been both an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Prior to joining Babson in July 2009, Dan taught for eleven years at the Harvard Business School: From 2005-2009 Dan taught in the Entrepreneurial Management unit, where he was responsible for designing and teaching the popular second-year elective, International Entrepreneurship. Dan also taught in the required first year course, The Entrepreneurial Manager. From 1981-1987 Dan was assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior unit. In the interim 17 years Dan lived in Israel and was founding CEO of Triangle Technologies, which specialized in executing cross-border transactions between Japanese companies and non-Japanese technology companies, and has concluded over 100 discrete deals. In 1981 Dan received the Ph.D. degree in Social Psychology from Harvard University under the mentorship of Robert Freed Bales.
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