New Venture Creation Workshop
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Previous Workshop Facilitators
The Workshop Program will be facilitated by experienced lecturers from NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. In addition, experienced technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, venture consultants and angel investors will be invited to share their relevant practical insights on each of the workshop topics.
Mr. Douglas Abrams
Managing Director, Parallax Capital
Adjunct Associate Professor, NUS Entrepreneurship Centre
Mr. Abrams is a Managing Director at Parallax Capital Management in Singapore , where he co-manages the private equity business. Prior to joining Parallax, Mr. Abrams managed information technology at J.P.Morgan for 13 years. From 1997 to 1999, he was Global Markets Head of Internet Marketing, and from 1991 to 1997, he was VP and Manager of Investment Banking Technology. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore's Entrepreneurship Centre, where he lectures on New Venture Creation and Technopreneurship. Mr. Abrams graduated from the Annenberg School , University of Pennsylvania with a BAs in Communications and received an MBA from The Wharton School.
Dr. Aw Chye Huat
Director, UOB Venture Management
Dr Aw is currently a Director with UOB Venture Management. His experience ranges from R&D, marketing, to venture capital, having started his career as an IC design engineer. He was the Executive Director of CeHage Ventures, a company that helps grow technology ventures by providing value-add services in the area of strategy and fundraising. Before that, he was a Strategic Investment Manager at Intel Capital responsible for Intel Capital's investments in the ASEAN countries. Prior to venture capital, he was the marketing manager at Hewlett-Packard responsible for the worldwide product marketing of infrared data communication components. Chye Huat graduated from Stanford University , USA , with a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management. He also holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (First Class Honours) degree from the National University of Singapore.
Mr. Chow Yen-Lu
Founder & Managing Director, WholeTree TechnologiesEntrepreneur, Angel Investor, Mentor
Yen-Lu Chow's career in the technology industry spans over two decades, with the past 12 years in executive management and leadership capacities in research institutions, multinational companies as well as start-ups. Since 1997, he's been actively engaged in venture creation activities -- starting up companies, turning around troubled ones, building teams and organizations, and serving as advisor and mentor to budding new ventures. He was a venture partner of Venture TDF, a Singapore-based VC firm with a global footprint, and venture advisor to S.AI.L Port , regional incubation center for speech and language technology companies. An active angel investor, he sits on the advisory board of several start-up companies in Asia and the US . He also consults for government organizations including Institute for Infocomm Research (member of A*Star) and the Economic Development Board.
Mr. Chow is an active contributor in the annual National University of Singapore's StartUp@Singapore business plan competition, as a speaker, advisor, judge, facilitator, and mentor, and is an adjunct professor at the NUS Entrepreneurship Center . He has founded or co-founded three companies: AsiaWorks, a technology startup focused on multi-modal Chinese language computing; WholeTree Technologies, a speech and language technology venture, and Expara, an Entrepreneurial Leadership Consulting & Training Practice. As a internationally recognized technologist, and a Distinguished Technologist at Apple Computer, Mr. Chow was responsible for the development of several award-winning technology products, including: Byblos, a state-of-art continuous speech recognition system; PlainTalk, Apple's continuous speech recognition system for the Macintosh; Apple Chinese Dictation Kit, Apple's ground-breaking Chinese dictation product; SPK, the world's first integrated multi-modal speech, pen & keyboard input solution for Chinese computing; and WholeWeb, WholeTree's globalization management platform. He is the holder of 6 international patents, with 12 patents filed. Mr. Chow received his MS and BS degrees in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and successfully completed Apple's MBA and Mentoring programs for senior managers.
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