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Reid Hoffman Reid was LinkedIn’s founding CEO for the first four years before moving to his role as Chairman and President, Products in February 2007. While CEO, Reid built the company to over 9 million members and profitability. He now drives product and business strategy for LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal. At PayPal, Reid was in charge of all business relationships: business development, corporate development, international, government relations, and banking/payments infrastructure. During his tenure at PayPal, Hoffman was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid also has held management roles in large technology companies, including Fujitsu Software Corporation and Apple. Currently, in addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart and Mozilla Corporation. Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and from Oxford University with a Master’s degree in philosophy. |
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Katherine Barr Katherine Barr is a Consultant in the Outsourcing practice area at Vantage Partners. At Vantage, Katherine focuses on helping Fortune 500 clients to more effectively negotiate and better manage their critical business relationships (including customer relationships, supply relationships, and internal relationships across business units and functions). She works with companies across a variety of industries, including high tech, energy, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and financial services. Katherine recently co-authored a cross-industry study entitled Managing Outsourcing Relationships: Essential Practices for Buyers and Providers, and was selected as a keynote speaker for the HR Sourcing Strategies Europe 2005 conference. She teaches a Professional Education negotiation program at Stanford University, and previously taught in a negotiation program at Harvard Law School. Prior to joining Vantage, Katherine was a Product Development Manager at HSA Corp, an education technology startup. She worked for the Japanese government in international relations prior to her graduate program. Katherine received her B.A. from McGill University, and completed an M.A. and the M.S. core curriculum in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. While at Stanford, Katherine helped to run the E-Challenge business plan competition and was VP of Marketing for BASES. |
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Carlos Baradello Carlos S. Baradello combines unique academic and business credentials as an entrepreneurial technology executive, with hands-on experience in the USA and global markets, including Europe and Latin America. Carlos teaches at the University of San Francisco’s School of Business and Management in the areas of Globalization, Risks and Opportunities of a Networked World, Global New Product Development, Wireless Telecommunications, Social Entrepreneurship, the Growing Importance of the USA Hispanic Market and its Role in the Economic Development and Integration of the Americas; and leads transnational entrepreneurship research projects. He is also a Mentor of the Global Social Benefit Incubator at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society of Santa Clara University. His current interests include the fast-growing US Hispanic market and its relationship with the respective communities of origin in Latin America. He is an opinion leader in Northern California on the “Hispanicization of the USA” and its impact throughout the US and Latin America. Utilizing Mexico/ California as a case study, he has performed field research in transnational entrepreneurship and its economic impact, and has documented the socio/cultural, political, and economic transformation caused by the arrival of this minority ethnic group acquiring majority status. Carlos has built high-performance teams, and accumulated rich management experience both nationally and overseas working in positions of increased responsibility in Technical and General Management roles with Motorola, Advanced Fibre Communications, Hubbell, Digital Equipment Corporation, NYNEX and ITT. His most recent corporate assignments include Corporate VP and GM for Motorola Latin America & Caribbean as Chief Business Development and Strategist, and CTO, and VP of Engineering of AFC—one of successful IPOs in 1996 which was recently acquired by Tellabs. He was cofounder and General Partner of the Sienna 2006 Hispanic Fund, a growth capital venture fund focused on the US Hispanic market. As an advisor and international consultant to several prestigious NGOs, universities, and governmental development agencies, Carlos works at the intersection of Technology, Social Impact, and Economic Development in Latin America and the European Union. He serves on multiple business, academic, and non-profit boards supporting areas such corporate and business development, management of technology, and strategic planning. He is currently an international consultant for multi-national corporations, international NGOs, and Canadian, Chilean, and Mexican government agencies devoted to the promotion of entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprises. He has authored over 50 technical and management papers and has received US and EU patents for six of his inventions. Carlos’ academic background includes an Electrical-Electronic Engineering Degree from the Universidad Catòlica de Còrdoba, Argentina, a Masters Degree in Electronic Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in the US. Carlos is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of ACM. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Italian. |
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Cammie Dunaway Cammie Dunaway joined Yahoo! in June 2003 as chief marketing officer, responsible for leading Yahoo!’s worldwide branding efforts and driving the company’s product marketing initiatives. A seasoned executive with over 20 years of marketing experience, Dunaway oversees all of Yahoo!’s consumer, enterprise and partnership marketing initiatives, from brand and marketing communications to product planning and positioning to execution of customer acquisition and retention strategies. In 2005, Dunaway oversaw Yahoo!’s tremendously successful 10th year anniversary campaign, including a massive global marketing and branding initiative that the Promotional Marketing Association recognized with the 2006 Gold Reggie Award. Dunaway’s numerous other achievements at Yahoo! have included the launch of Yahoo! Music Unlimited at the Yahoo! Music Penthouse in Miami for the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards and Yahoo!’s global “Life Engine” advertising campaign in 2004. Dunaway also led the Yahoo! Personals “Live Billboard” campaign, which won the 2005 Gold Effie Award and was recognized by Mediaweek as the “Best Out of Home” marketing campaign of the year. She was named as one of the 100 Top Marketers by Advertising Age and has led Yahoo! to numerous industry recognitions including the Clio Awards, the Obie Awards and the Promo PRO Awards. Prior to joining the company, Dunaway spent 13 years at Frito-Lay, supervising prominent brands such as Doritos, Cheetos, Lays, Ruffles and Rold Gold Pretzels. Dunaway holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of Richmond and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. |
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Ngai-Chi Chung Ngai-Chi Chung graduated in June 2006 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Management Science and Engineering. His interest in business started when he pledged Alpha Kappa Psi in the Fall of his sophomore year. His first experience with consulting was with Stanford Consulting on an alternative energy start-up case. He is interested in energy markets, environment, corporate social responsibility and how these factors can co-exist with business interests. He is a co-founder of Stanford Students' Environmental Consulting Group, and is currently working at Marakon Associates, a strategy consulting firm. |
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Lesley Dobbins Ms. Dobbins received her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She is currently earning her J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law, where she received the Dean's Fellowship and the Witkin Award in Legal Analysis, Research and Writing. |
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Alex Gould Alex brings to the table a unique mix of finance, venture capital/private equity, and entrepreneurship. He completed his B.A. in Economics, Mathematics, and History at the University of Pennsylvania/Wharton School, received his J.D. at Stanford Law School, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics (with a focus in finance) at the Stanford Economics Department. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation, “The Long Run Performance of Venture Capital Returns.” Alex is well known for the popular senior economics seminar in Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship seminar he started in 1999. Alex worked at Seattle-based Voyager Capital as the sole analyst in the new Palo Alto office for two years before opting to return to Stanford to work on his other entrepreneurial ventures and to complete his dissertation. In the entrepreneurship realm, Alex has co-founded a digital music company and is the co-owner of a patent on the leading model for distribution of downloadable subscription music services. He is also co-founder and co-owner of a patent involving cutting-edge innovations to the current methodology employed by search engines such as Google, co-founder of gourmet health cookie company, Margo's Marvels, LTD and founder of Revolution Media, a company specializing in radio station acquisition and leasing. |
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Tom Kosnik Tom Kosnik is a Consulting Professor, Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), in Stanford School of Engineering. He currently serves on the teaching teams of three courses: Global Entrepreneurial Marketing, Global Entrepreneurial Leadership, and the Draper Fisher Jurvetson Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Program. He is a member of Board of Advisors of the Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students (BASES) and the National University of Singapore Entrepreneurship Association (NUSEA). He has provided guidance for the Stanford Entrepreneurs’ Challenge (a business plan competition) since 1996, and numerous Global Business Plan competitions since 2000. Kosnik has worked with over 100 startups since 1978. He also provides consulting and executive education to global companies in imagination-intensive industries. Some of his past clients include: American Management Systems; Apple Computer; Applied Materials; Electronic Arts; Ericsson; Ernst & Young; Genesys; Hewlett Packard; Microsoft; Nuance Communications; and numerous startups. Kosnik earned a BA in History and International Relations from Duke University (1972), an MBA from the University of Virginia (1977) and a Ph.D. from Stanford Graduate School of Business (1986). |
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Vikram Kumar Vikram graduated from Stanford with an M.S. and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a B.A. in Economics. While at Stanford, he actively participated in AKPsi, Stanford Consulting, and BASES. Vikram was also a Mayfield Fellow, a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, and a Terman Awardee. After graduating from Stanford, Vikram joined XDx Inc., a leader in the field of personalized medicine. Before arriving at his current position, Vikram contributed in the areas of financial planning and market development. The time Vikram has spent at XDx has strengthend his passion for the intersection of entrepreneurship and the life sciences. |
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Marcelo de Lima Marcelo is a successful Silicon Valley marketing executive. For the last 6 years Marcelo has been Director of Marketing for the high-tech company ViVOtech Inc , provider of contactless payment technologies. Previously he was Marketing Manager and Business Development Manager for Amniventure.com an accelerator of high-tech start-ups and Netprospect.com, an online marketing website. Before coming to the Valley, Marcelo was part of the marketing team at Philip Morris where he helped bootstrap the newly formed Key Accounts Management division in Brazil, and a planning specialist at Promon Telecommunications, one of Latin America's leading Telecommunication Service Providers in his home country, Brazil. Marcelo was always engaged in building a network of Hispanic professionals in the Silicon Valley, founding LatinsInIT.org in 2000 to provide a forum for Hispanic professionals working in IT to network and exchange experiences (Latins in IT merged into the Hispanic Net in 2004). He holds a Business Degree from the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil and a marketing certificate from UC Berkeley. |
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Yipeng Liu Yipeng uses her engineering expertise to consult in the areas of video, imaging algorithms, applications, and high performance software implementation. Yipeng has built her experience in the areas of algorithm design, software development, engineering management, and project management. She has held positions at Polycom and PictureTel. Before life as an engineer, Yipeng was a researcher and a faculty member at Beijing Institute of Technology, where she received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in space engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology. |
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Bruce MacGregor Brue heads a multidisciplinary studio in IDEO's Palo Alto offices, where he is responsible for the quality of work and resources for all the projects in the studio. Since joining IDEO in 1996, Bruce has been involved in a wide range of industries such as consumer electronics, computers, medical devices, and workplace furniture. Specific projects have included development of a new home appliance for clothes, a new-generation slot machine, research for a high-speed electronics device, a bioreactor package for growing skin tissue, a revolutionary energy storage and delivery product, new concepts for computer peripherals and personal communications, and advanced concept projects for the future of work spaces and for the future of computing. Bruce holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta and an MS in Product Design from Stanford University, where he still occasionally lectures. |
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Constanza Nieto That broad experience has allowed her to successfully assist governments, new entrepreneurs, and corporations, in their plans of international expansion during the last years. Currently she is CEO of GaussSoft Inc, the US subsidiary of a Latin American software company; Marketing and Business Development consultant for TECHBA, the Business Accelerator for Mexican Companies in San Jose , California; Consultant for several IT Latin American Companies, and Founder and Partner of Globaltech Bridge a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and consultant’s company dedicated to support Technology companies, governments, and business organizations from countries such as Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Dominican Republic, with their global expansion plans. Constanza has an Industrial Engineering degree with a minor in statistics from the University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, and is a Certified Marketing Specialist from University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), in the USA. During her professional life she has been University professor and counselor, international lecturer, and member and president of Boards of Directors at several companies and organizations. |
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Burke Robinson Dr. Robinson currently leads his own consulting firm where his primary areas of consulting expertise are: strategic leadership, strategic management, business development, risk management, and decision analysis. He has worked in a broad range of industries worldwide, including energy, oil & gas, utilities, pulp & paper, forestry, mining & metals, chemicals, software, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, telecommunications, insurance, and financial industries. Dr. Robinson completed his Masters and PhD in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, where he also received a B.A. in Psychology. Dr. Robinson holds a MA in Technology and Human Affairs from Washington University, St. Louis. |
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Celina Rodrìguez Celina Rodriguez is the CEO of Rodriguez Media Productions and hosts a daily radio talk show on La Kaliente AM-1370 about news and issues in the Bay Area Latino community. Previously, Celina Rodriguez has been an anchor for three years at CNN En Español. Before CNN, Celina anchored the newscast at Telemundo/KSTS 48 from 1987 to 1999 and again from 2003 to 2006. Ms Rodriguez’s experience in the Bay Area began in 1985 when she was awarded a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. Soon afterward she worked at El Mensajero, a newspaper as well as KIQI radio. In June 2003 Ms Rodriguez received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Honored Causa from the National Hispanic University. Celina holds a degree of Science in Communication from Guadalajara, Mexico. She has been the recipient of many awards both in Mexico and in the United States including a Leadership Award of Outstanding Contributions and Dedication to the Hispanic Community from the National Hispanic University and a State Award in Journalism from Comunicación Cultural, A.C., Guadalajara, México. |
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Camille Samuels Camille Samuels specializes in biotechnology investing at Versant. Camille joined Versant in early 2000, shortly after its formation. Prior to Versant, Camille was responsible for business development at Tularik, Inc. (subsequently acquired by Amgen) where she in-licensed two of the company's clinical-stage products and led Tularik’s Technology Acquisition Group. Before Tularik, Camille worked in business development/strategic planning at Genzyme and Millennium Predictive Medicine, and as a management consultant to healthcare and biotech companies at LEK Consulting. Camille currently serves as a board member of the following private companies: Achaogen, Kythera, Novacardia, as well as Novacea (NOVC), a public company. Camille was previously a board observer at several companies, including 5 AM, Alexza (public), Genomic Health (public), Parallele (acquired), and Syrrx (sold) as well as Pathwork Diagnostics (formerly Predicant Biosciences). Camille earned her Bachelor's degree in Biology from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar. In 2002, The Aspen Institute named Camille a Henry Crown Fellow. |
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Ricardo Sardenberg Ricardo Sardenberg has been delivering successful software products for more than 30 countries and during more than 15 years. An ardent advocate for the Latin America software industry, he has presented at Stanford, Georgia Tech and SJSU on the strengths and opportunities in that region, particularly in Brazil. As one of the first Brazilian software developers to be invited to work in Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto in the late 80's, Ricardo developed an ERP product for small business units. While at HP/Agilent, he focused on delivering software products for Support, Sales, Distribution and Corporate initiatives. Upon relocating to the US in 2000, he was promoted to Global Software Product Manager for 4 different products and customers in Europe, Asia and Americas. As founder of Movelus Technologies, his vision is to do to “location”, what Google has done to “search”. He is currently focused on empowering the mobile workforce and smb companies with the best technology available. Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese, Ricardo has a BS in computer science from Unicamp University (Brazil) and a MBA from Santa Clara University. |
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Lynda Kate Smith As Nuance's Vice President and General Manager for the Care Business Unit, Lynda Kate Smith is responsible for the strategy and execution of the Company's care/call center business, which includes solutions for business to consumer, business to business and business to employee operations. Prior to assuming the General Manager role, Smith served as a strategy consultant to the Company and was the Chief Marketing Officer for the legacy Nuance operation prior to the Company's acquisition in 2005. Smith began her call center/customer care career in the late 90's with Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories (a subsidiary of Alcatel) where she served as a marketing executive and ultimately the Company's SVP of worldwide marketing. Smith has also held executive marketing and/or sales positions at Lockheed Martin Telecommunications, American Eurocopter, MBB Helicopter Corporation and Multi-Service Corporation. Smith holds a bachelor of arts degree from Simpson College and a master degree in business administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. Smith is on the faculty of Stanford University where she serves as a guest lecturer for the Management Science and Engineering Department. |
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Seth Sternberg Seth is co-founder and CEO of meebo. Prior to meebo Seth worked at IBM in Corporate Development leading M&A transactions and working on strategy and venture capital initiatives. Seth flies airplanes, rides motorcycles and rollerblades. Seth majored in Political Science at Yale and attended Stanford Business School prior to leaving for meebo. |
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Harrison Tang Harrison graduated from Stanford with a B.A.S. in Economics and Electrical Engineering in 2004, and M.S. in EE in 2005. He was a member of Alpha Kappa Psi as well as Stanford IEEE, which is a student chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a global non-profit organization. He started his first company building the world's first Skype mouse in 2005. He is now working on another startup, Spokeo.com, with his Stanford roommates. Spokeo.com is a unique one-stop aggregator for online social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, LiveJournal, MySpace, etc. |
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Nicholas Teti Currently Mr. Teti is currently serving as the Chairman of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer of Isolagen Incorporated. Formerly, Mr. Teti has served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Inamed Corporation from July 23, 2002 and as a director at Inamed since August 1, 2001. Mr. Teti has over 30 years of management, operations and marketing experience in the pharmaceuticals & medical device industry. From January 1997 until December 2000, Mr. Teti was President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company, a company with $1.6 billion in sales in 1999. He spent 25 years at DuPont and DuPont Merck, which included a number of senior management positions. Mr. Teti holds an M.B.A. in Health Care Administration and a B.A. in Economics from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. |
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Trae Vassallo Trae Vassallo is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. Since joining the firm in 2002, Trae has put her technical and entrepreneurial background to work with new portfolio companies across several areas including wireless, consumer media, security, and green technology. Trae works closely with the management teams of Aggregate Knowledge, a stealth energy company, Digital Chocolate, Podshow, Fortify, 3vr, among others. Currently, Trae focuses primarily on new opportunities in consumer media, mobility, and green technologies. Prior to KPCB, Trae was a co-founder of Good Technology, a KPCB portfolio company (acquired by Motorola) that provides an end-to-end wireless corporate email solution. While at Good, Trae helped orchestrate the development of the G100 handheld device. Prior to Good Technology, Trae worked as a design engineer at IDEO Product Development where she developed a range of products including the PalmV, the Dell Latitude Docking station, and many others. Trae holds 13 patents. Trae earned a Bachelor's and Master's in Mechanical Engineering with honors from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Trae is passionate about new technology, good design, and spending time with her husband and two children |
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Marianne Wu
Marianne Wu brings a broad business and technology background to her role at MDV. She focuses on cleantech investments. Prior to joining MDV, Marianne was vice president of marketing at ONI Systems where she was responsible for product strategy and market development. Earlier in her career, Marianne was a consultant at McKinsey and Company where she advised major technology clients on strategic and operational issues. Marianne has conducted state-of-the-art research in materials, devices, and systems at Stanford University and started her career as a design engineer at Nortel Networks where she developed high-speed networking technologies. She is a member of Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA) VC Group; Environmental Entrepreneurs and is on Advisory Committee of the Western Governors’ Assocation. Marianne earned both her doctoral and master's degrees from the School of Engineering at Stanford University and her bachelor's in Applied Science at the University of British Columbia. |
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David J. Woodhouse
David is a Vice President in the Healthcare department of the Investment Banking Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Based in the San Francisco office, David works on both financings and merger transactions primarily in the biotechnology and life science tools industries. Transaction experience includes Abgenix sale to Amgen, Biogen’s merger with IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Sirna’s sale to Merck, equity or equity-linked financings for Amylin, Protein Design Labs, Renovis, Illumina and Bio-Rad Labs, and debt financings for Genentech and Bio-Rad Labs. Prior to earning his M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 2002, David worked in business development for Dynavax Technologies, an early-stage biotechnology company developing allergy therapeutics and vaccines. He has also held research positions at Amgen and Syntex in the areas of stem cell biology and pharmacology. David earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Pharmacology from the Stanford University School of Medicine, during which he was awarded a PhRMA foundation fellowship in support of his thesis work. He received his B.A. in Pharmacology from the University of California, Santa Barbara with highest honors at graduation. |
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Jorge Zavala As CEO, he joined the TechBA Program in December, 2004 to bring innovative Mexican technology companies to the US to expand their business. He is also responsible for developing awareness and mindshare within the US market, of Mexico's deep expertise and capabilities in high-technology. With a track record as a technologist, CEO and venture capitalist, Jorge Zavala's unique 360 degree perspective of technology development and value creation has him spearheading Mexico's entrepreneurial infrastructure and ecosystem in the high technology sector through TechBA. Jorge has more than 28 years of management experience and has been CEO of 7 companies. He has a unique entrepreneurial spirit and background combining the best of many worlds: a deep understanding of technology, experience as a venture capitalist, and as a CEO starting and growing successful companies. Prior to joining TechBA, he was as an Associate Partner and CTO of Visionaria, a venture capital group that provides funding, consulting and coaching to IT companies. Jorge has been a Guest Speaker at IPADE, the prestigious Graduate Business School in Mexico City, for several years on topics such as creating virtual communities for business environments, enabling innovation within the organizations, collaborative learning and deployment strategy: the knowing and doing gap. Jorge received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Universidad La Salle, Mexico and a MS in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.He is actually involved in supporting high innovative technology start-ups in their initial and turn around stages. He is bilingual in Spanish and English. |
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