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龔明鑫
副主委 @
國家發展委員會
簡志宇
投資人@
AME Cloud Ventures
黃耀文
執行長@
阿碼科技
郭大經
總經理 @
開發創新管顧
詹益鑑
合夥人 @
之初創投
Tom Chiu 現任毅創投資基金合夥人和美國前五大天使團隊 Sand Hill Angels的董事會顧問。在著名育成中心 SparkLabs 和 PlugAndPlay擔任業師。至今投資超過50個項目，7個創投基金，擔任8家新創公司的顧問。經常在史丹佛大學商學院、卡內基美隆大學，加州大學柏克萊分校創新創業與科技中心，以及許多新創論壇或MBA課程擔任講師。擁有超過20年經驗橫跨新創、中小和大型企業；在物聯網、行動、電子商務、虛實整合、消費性電子、專利授權等領域擁有豐厚經驗。
專長：品牌研究
陳播暉
大和企業投資@
副總經理
專長：Entrepreneurship and venture investment
簡志宇是無名小站創辦人。無名小站在他帶領的團隊經營下成為台灣第一大社群網站並由雅虎併購。他在雅虎四年內管理數個國際團隊與產品。簡志宇現在是一名創投。他在取得史丹福商學院學位後加入雅虎創辦人楊致遠的創投公司AME Cloud Ventures.
郭大經總經理在中華開發負責早期創業投資項目。目前負責籌集一檔早期創投基金，搭配創業加速器計畫，協助新創企業連結中華開發既有投資戶等之企業資源．同時負責阿里巴巴台灣創業者基金．
曾任宏全、州巧、新盛力等公司之董事。現擔任雲端科技公司Zentera 公司董事，自2008年即擔任時代基金會青年領袖培育計畫YEF及創業加速器Garage+之導師．
加入中華開發以前，曾共同創立MosArt Semiconductor Corp. 並擔任CEO，帶領研發及業務部門．
50 Ways to Leave Your Problems
阿碼科技創辦人，現任Proofpoint 技術副總
國際級資安專家，曾多次應邀 RSA、OWASP、SyScan、WWW、PHP 及 DSN 等全球知名科技年會發表演講，並為首位學術論文連續兩年(2003,2004)榮獲極富盛名的國際 WWW 年會最佳論文獎提名作者。合著有《21世紀之電腦安全》之〈網路應用程式安全〉（Springer US, 2005）。
曾任中央研究院資通安全專題中心（TWISC）資深顧問，及資訊科學研究所研究工程師。具國立交通大學資訊工程碩士學位、國立臺灣大學電機工程博士學位。
2005年創辦阿碼科技，獲得美國那斯達克上市公司Proofpoint用7.5億新台幣收購，創下近十年來台灣軟體商被收購的最高金額，成功打造一家躍上國際舞台的資安軟體公司。
專長：資訊安全
創業與創投雙軌經歷，自 2004 年起先後服務於誠信開發、台灣工銀及聯訊創投。於台北市政府服替代役時，參與了無線網路城市計畫。2007 年起投身新創事業，累積不少募資與事業發展歷練。於 2010 年與 Jamie 共同創辦 AppWorks，推動創業與投資環境變革。自許為務實的理想主義者，熱愛三項運動與閱讀思辯。台大電機博士，政大商學碩士
The Pilot and the Crew
The Grass Is Greener on Your Side
陳播暉博士為台大化工系博士 (研究專長：生醫材料之開發及改良)，並擁有特許金融分析師(CFA)之證照，同時具備生醫及財務之背景。
陳博士曾服務於南港生技育成中心、經濟部生醫產業發展推動小組、財團法人生物技術開發中心等單位，負責企業育成、投資媒合、商務規劃、新創事業、產業推動等事務，期間歷任多項主管職務並參與多項重要專案，熟悉產官學研之協調運作，以及生技產業之商業模式。
於生技中心服務期間，陳博士代表生技中心與日本大和證券集團旗下之大和企業投資(DCI)合作，成立大和台日生技創投基金，隨後並加入大和團隊，負責生技領域之投資業務。
PAUL HICKS
CO-FOUNDER @
BROOKMAYER & SMITH
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The Wealthy Mind
PAUL HICKS
CO-FOUNDER @
BROOKMAYER & SMITH
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邀請國際知名天使聯盟團體或資源促進機構的貴賓（例如：美國天使資源研究機構ARI、英國創業天使協會/ UKBAA、中國青年天使會），進行專題式演講
Speakers
In the discussion of “Bridging with Venture Capital for New Taiwanese Industrial Value”, we are honored to have Tom Chiu from Enspire Capital, Wretch Chien from AME Cloud Ventures, and the Pricipal of 500 Startups, as our panelists.
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Vice President, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
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Director, Department of International Affairs, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
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Director, Division VI, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
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Director, Economic Development Strategic Planning Center, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
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Director, Regional Development Research Center, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
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Research Fellow, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
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Advisor, the Ministry of Economic Affairs
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Commissioner, Trade Commission of Industrial Development Advisory Council, the Ministry of Economic Affairs
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Deputy Executive Secretary, Industrial Commission of Industrial Development Advisory Council, The Ministry of Economic Affairs
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Committee Member, Technology Service Division, 2015 National Science and Technology Project Committee, The National Science Council
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Committee Member, Economic Development Committee, Taipei City Government
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Committee Member, The State-Owned National Stabilization Fund Management Committee, The Executive Yuan
Expertise/Fields of Specialty: Digital Marketing, eCommerce, Search Engine Optimization
Ryan is the chairman of Taipei Angels Investment and the president of Internet City Digital Marketing. In 2001, he co-founded and served as president of an e-tailer in the Silicon Valley area which was named among the US Top 500 Online Retailers.
During the dot-com era, Ryan worked for a JP Morgan and Softbank Group-owned Internet company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ryan was also with a Nasdaq-listed software company, where he led the global online marketing efforts.
RYAN YANG
Chairman@
Taipei Angels Investment
MING-HSIN KUNG
Deputy Minister @
National Development Council
Expertise/Fields of Specialty: Econometrics, Industrial Development & Economic Growth, International Economics, Financial Investment, Time Series Analysis, Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis
In the discussion of “Creating Ecosystem for Early Stage Investment”, we are honored to invite Deputy Minister of National Development Council to moderate the panel. We will have Ryang Yang, Chairman of Taipei Angel Investment, I-Chien Jan, a member of the Executive Yuan Youth Advisory Council and the co-founder of AppWorks Ventures, and Director, Taipei Computer Association and Startup Service Centeras our panelists.
In the discussion of “Surviving the Winter with Early Stage Investment”, we have invited Professor Lin Huan to moderate the panel, and will have Po-Hui Chen, the Director of Daiwa Corporate Investment Co., Ltd, investor Wayne Huang, and the CEO of NCTU Angel Club, as our panelists
In the discussion of “Winter is Coming to the Startup World”, we’ll have Ryan Kuo, the General manager of China Development Industrial Bank, Eugene Kim from SparkLabs Korean branch, and Kevin Ho,the Co-founder of Taiwan Mobile Internet (TMI) , as our panelists.
MARIANNE HUDSON
Executive Director @
Angel Capital Association
Ms. Hudson leads the Angel Capital Association (ACA), the world’s leading professional and trade association focused on fueling the success of accredited angel investors and portfolio companies in high-growth, early-stage ventures. ACA provides professional development, public policy advocacy and significant benefits and resources to its membership more than 13,000 individual accredited investors throughout North America.
Ms. Hudson led the angel initiative at the Kauffman Foundation and also oversaw many of the Foundation’s entrepreneurial education and mentoring programs designed to ensure that more entrepreneurs develop sustainable, innovative businesses. An angel investor herself, Ms. Hudson is a member of three angel groups and two platforms for accredited investors. Ms. Hudson has worked in the entrepreneurial support field for more than 25 years. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Kansas and an M.A. in Public Policy from Rutgers University.
Expertise/Fields of Specialty：Angel Investing, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Business Development, Marketing Strategy
YORK CHEN
Founing Partner@
iD TechVentures Ltd.
York is one of the most active VCs in China for 16 years. He founded iDT VC in China in early 2000. iDT VC, renamed from Acer VC in 2005, manages four generations of US$500M offshore LP funds and two RMB funds. For past two years, he did some angel deals across the Taiwan Strait.
Termed by media as a “VC Evangelist” and “VC Scholar”, he unselfishly shares his deep observation and advice on China VC to the peers at home and abroad. His Chinese book “China VC: 20 Years” highlights the fast development of VC and PE in China by profiling key players and twisting events.
York is a Visiting Professor to MBA program in NSD, Peking Univ., and as an Entrepreneur Mentor for MoST, AAMA and others. He founded Yanxing China in 2003, a student charity in 11 univ. in Beijing and Nanjing for less privileged students to learn, grow and adjust their new life in campuses
York is a PC veteran with Acer Computer. He is the first Chinese to deliver a public speech in the Kremlin in May 1991 to some 2000 Russian political and industrial leaders.
York started his career in the public sector. He holds a B.S. from National Taiwan University, a MBA from Fordham University, and an EMBA from Peking University.
Expertise/Fields of Specialty: Angel and VC Investment, startups fund raising, entrepreneurship mentoring, high tech operation and management, VC researching and teaching
JENNY TOOTH OBE
Chief Executive @
UK Business Angels Association
Expertise/Fields of Specialty: Venture Capital, Start-ups, Angel Investing, Private Equity, Corporate Finance, Portfolio Management, Business Planning, Business Strategy, Executive Management
Jenny is CEO of the UK Business Angels Association www.ukbaa.org.uk, the trade body for angel and early stage investing, representing over 15,000 investors around the UK. Jenny has over 20 years’ experience of facilitating SMEs access to investment, both in the UK and internationally. She ran her own consultancy on Access to finance for SMEs, including spending nine years based in Brussels, working closely with the EC. She has developed a wide range of investment readiness programmes, including projects supported by national and EU funding. She has also participated in a number of expert groups on access to finance and chaired the EC Knowledge Intensive Services group under DG Enterprise. In 2006 she took on the role of Director of Business Development at Greater London Enterprise. In 2009, Jenny co-founded Angel Capital Group and which incorporates London Business Angels, one of the most established and active angel networks in the UK.
Jenny sits on the Steering Group for Emerging Technologies and Innovations for Innovate UK, is on the Advisory Group for the Enterprise Research Centre , member of the Mayor of London’s SME and Finance Working Group and sits on the Advisory Board for the new London Co Investment Fund. Jenny is an experienced speaker on Angel Investing and Entrepreneurship both in the UK and internationally. She has an MSc in Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science. Jenny was awarded an OBE in the New Years Honours 2015 for services to Small Businesses.
In the “Join Hands for Value Creation” keynote speech, we are honored to invite guests from world-famous Angel Capital Association, UK Business Angels Association, and iD TechVentures to give us some speeches.
KEVIN HO
Chief Investment Officer/Co-founder@
Taiwan Mobile Internet (TMI)
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Chief Investment Officer/Co-founder of Taiwan Mobile Internet (TMI)
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President of Sunsino Development Associate Inc..
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Director of Industrial Technology Investment Corporation
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President of ITRI International Inc.
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Sector Manager of ITRI CCL
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Engineer in ITRI Opto-Electronics & Systems Laboratories (OES)
Expertise/Fields of Specialty: Fundraising, Investment & Management, Investment Evaluation, Early-Stage Development of Case Source
EUGENE KIM
Principal @
Sparklabs
Eugene manages the day-to-day operations of the Sparklabs accelerator program, and previously served as a Director of Global Business Development at Tencent Korea. He was responsible for the sourcing of Korean game titles to China and Tencent’s global publishing network, headed the global sales of Tencent game titles, and he managed relationships with Tencent’s global publishing partners. Prior to Tencent, Eugene was Director of Business Development and Marketing at Podotree, an online educational app developer in Korea. He was responsible for their marketing and launch effort into the U.S. Previously, he was with Vertigo Games as the Group Manager of the Overseas Business Group. Eugene led all overseas sales efforts and service support, and all business development and game engine licensing activities.
Eugene was a Manager and Group Head of the Quality Assurance and Localization Group for NHN USA. He previously served as Project Manager of the Publishing Group at NHN USA and Assistant Manager of Global Strategy & Marketing Development at NHN Corporation. He began his career at The Contents Company, an SK company, in business development and played a key role in launching Korea’s first pilot IP TV service with overseas partners.
Expertise/Fields of Specialty: Global sales, Business development, Business marketing
RYAN KUO
President @
CDIB Capital Innovation Advisors Corp.
Ryan Kuo is the Vice President of CDIB Capital Management and President of CDIB Capital Innovation Advisors , focusing on early stage investment. He is the leader of a new startup fund in CDIB. This new startup fund will have an accelerator program to help new startup to access CDIB’s portfolios’ corporate resources. Ryan is also the fund manager of Alibaba Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund.
Ryan served on the board of directors of Honchuan, JoChu and STL. He currently serves on the board of a cloud technology company Zentera. Ryan also became the mentor of epoch foundation “Young Entrepreneurs of the future” and accelerator “Garage+” since 2008.
Before join CDIB, Ryan was the co-founder and CEO of MosArt semiconductor corp. He leads R&D and marketing department
50 Ways to Leave Your Problems
Anderssen Tu
CEO@
Angel Club under NCTU Alumni Association
Anderssen Tu work in networking field as engineer and system engineer before 2002. After that, He joined one venture capital firm in 2002.He started to study how to do due-diligue, deal sourcing, industry analysis, co-incubation and business plan suggestion in early-stage startup companies. And the firm he joined, they invested 70% for the fund in early stage (calculation based on Taiwan NDF, National Development Fund), and after 10 years, the return rate for shareholders were 3X. He is partner and vice president of Pisces Capital, CEO of Angel Club under NCTU Alumni Association and co-founder/vice president of Rich IP Technology. He has a passion in working in early stage venture capital firm to help entrepreneurs in their startup plans.
Expertise/Fields of Specialty: Venture Capital, Management, Funding strategy
WAYNE HUANG
Founder & CEO@
Armorize Technologies
Expertise/Fields of Specialty: Information Security
Dr. Wayne Huang was Founder & CEO to Armorize Technologies, and is now VP Engineering at Proofpoint. Wayne is a frequent speaker at security conferences including BlackHat (10), DEFCON (10), RSA (07, 10), SyScan (08, 09), OWASP (08, 09), Hacks in Taiwan (06, 07), WWW (03, 04), PHP (07) and DSN (04). Wayne is a diligent blogger on cyberthreats, and his posts have been covered by the most influential media.
Into security since 7th grade, Wayne has lead teams to develop security products ranging from source code analysis, web application firewall, vulnerability assessment, exploit & malware detection, anti-malvertising, email security, and APT defense.
Wayne received his PhD in EE from National Taiwan University, and his BS and MS in CS from NCTU. He holds two US patents on source code analysis.
PO-HUI CHEN
Director @
Daiwa Corporate Investment
Dr. Brian Po-Hui Chen owns Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University (research interest: improvement of biomaterials). He also owns the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) credential.
Dr. Chen used to work for Nankang Biotech Incubation Center, MOEA Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries Promotion Office (BPIPO), Development Center for Biotechnology (DCB), in charge of incubation, investment, spin-off, business/corporate development, industry promotion. Acting as a BD director and managing many important projects, he is familiar with the coordination among various stakeholders in biotech industry, and also experienced in the business operation of biotech enterprise.
During the period at DCB, Dr. Chen collaborated with Daiwa Corporate Investment (DCI) to establish the Daiwa Taiwan-Japan Biotech Fund, then he joined DCI as a fund manager in charge of biotech investment activities.
Expertise/Fields of Specialty: Biotech investment, Business and corporate development, Resources integration
HUAN LIN
Associate Professor@
Law School of Soo-Chow University
Expertise/Fields of Specialty: Mass Communication Law, Commerical Law, Contract Law, The Arbitration Law, Government Procurement Act
From 1996 to 2001, Huan Lin was Deputy Director of Center for Economic Deregulation and Innovation, Council for Economic Planning and Development, Executive Yuan, Taiwan. He was also Associate Professor of Law, Law School of Shi-Hsin University, Taiwan. Now, Huan Lin is Executive Secretary of National Development Fund, Executive Yuan, Taiwan and Associate Professor of Law, Law School of Soo-Chow University.
Huan Lin has JD from Delaware Law School of Widener University, Willington, Delaware. He specializes in Mass Communication Law、Commerical Law、Contract Law、The Arbitration Law、Government Procurement Act, and has admitted to New York State Bar.
NORMAN CHANG
Principal @
500 Startups
Norman is the Principal of 500 Startups as well as an investment associate for 500 Greater China Team. Norman is a wonder boy who has done hardware, human resource, tennis coaching in US, Canada, and China. Or we can rephrase that he is a geek, sport fanatic, and people person. He got his master degree from Cornell University, Electrical Engineering.
Expertise/Fields of Specialty: Electrical Engineering, Hardware, Product Development, Project Management, Electronics, Business Development, Computer Architecture, Human resources
WRETCH CHIEN
Investor@
AME Cloud Ventures
Expertise/Fields of Specialty：Entrepreneurship and venture investment
Wretch created wretch.cc, the first and biggest blogging website in Taiwan. He built and led the team serving 6 billion page-views per month before selling the company to Yahoo!. He spent the following 4 years with Yahoo! and led teams located globally. Wretch earned his MBA degree from Stanford. He is now a venture capitalist at Jerry Yang’s investment arm AME Cloud Ventures. His current investment areas include robotics, AI, AI, Aerospace, healthcare, and bioinformatics.
TOM CHIU
Venture Partner@
Enspire Capital
Tom is a Venture Partner of Enspire Capital and Advisory Board of Sand Hill Angels (top 5 angel groups in U.S.), Anchor mentor at SparkLabs, PlugAndPlay, Stanford GSB, Carnegie Mellon University and UC Berkeley. He spent over 20 years in various high tech startups and large enterprises. Tom has been activly investing for the past 18 years with over 50 startups and multiple startup funds. Investment focus in IoT, mobile, O2O, enterprise, eCommerce and Consumer Electronics.
Expertise/Fields of Specialty: Brand Study
I-CHIEN(IC) JAN
Cofounder & Partner @
AppWorks Ventures
Dr. Jan is a Co-founder and Partner at AppWorks Ventures, the largest accelerator in Asia with 275 startups and 600 founders in its alumni network. Twice a year, AppWorks takes in 25 startups and help them find product-market fit, build scalable business models and fundraising to accelerate growth. AppWorks also manages a total of US$ 61M in VC funds. It typically leads seed and Series-A rounds for its startups, invests US$ 100K to 5M and aligning coinvestors based on each startup's needs.
Before co-founding AppWorks, he was VP & Acting CEO at ARDIC Instruments Co., an technology transformation and commercialization platform. Before joining ARDIC, Dr. Jan was a Director of Development Dept. at CYT and Vice President at OTO Science, as key member leading teams focus on miniature optical spectrometer based on MEMS technology.
Dr. Jan received his doctoral degree in Engineering from National Taiwan University (2004) and a MBA in Intellectual Property from National Chengchi University (2009).
Expertise/Fields of Specialty: Venture Capital, Start-ups, O2O, IoT, Business Strategy, Product Development
專長：Startup Investment, Business Incubation, Financial Planning, Business Model, Marketing Management, Briefing Techniques, Business Plan
Introduction:
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20 years of experiences as startup investment and incubation advisor
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12 years of compiling experiences for Taiwan Venture Capital Association yearbook
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NT$11 billion Asset under management (AUM) in National venture capital and angel fund
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Provide business consultancy service for over 500 startup teams and SMEs
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Invested over NT$5 billion on innovation, entrepreneurship, & industry development
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Secretary General & Office Director, Taiwan Venture Capital Association (TVCA)
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Vice Secretary, Taiwan Private Equity Association
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Adviser, Animal Technology Laboratories, Agricultural Technology Research Institute
STEPHEN LAI
Director @
Taipei Computer Association and Startup Service Center