PROFILES OF SPEAKERS

Dado BANATAO Managing Partner, TallWood

Dado Banatao is the managing partner of Tallwood Venture Capital. With his experiences as an entrepreneur, Dado provides Tallwood with a unique perspective in technology investments. Tallwood invests in unique and hard-to-do semiconductor technology solutions for computing, communication, and consumer platforms.

Prior to forming Tallwood, Dado was a venture partner at the Mayfield Fund. He co- founded three technology startups: S3 (SBLU), Chips & Technologies (INTC) and Mostron. He held positions in engineering and general management at , Seeq Technologies, Intersil and Commodore International. Dado pioneered the PC chip set and graphics acceleration architecture that continue to be two of the foundation technologies in every PC today. As an engineer, he is credited with developing several key semiconductor technologies and is regarded as a Silicon Valley visionary.

Dado serves as Chairman of Ikanos (IKAN), Inphi Corporation (IPHI) and is on the board of directors of Wave Semiconductor and Wilocity. He also served as Chairman and led investments in SiRF Technology, acquired by CSR; Marvell Technology Group (MRVL); Acclaim Communications, acquired by Level One (INTC); Newport Communications, acquired by Broadcom (BRCM); Cyras Systems, acquired by Ciena (CIEN); and Stream Machine, acquired by Cirrus Logic (CRUS).

Dado holds a B.S.E.E., cum laude, from the Mapua Institute of Technology in the and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from .

Steve CHEN Co-founder, YouTube

Steve Chen is the co-founder of YouTube. Steve arrived in Silicon Valley in 1999 to join PayPal. On his first day at PayPal, Steve met Chad Hurley, who would become his YouTube co-founder, together with Jawed Karim.

Steve was instrumental in building YouTube into a viral video phenomenon. He helped lead YouTube through the acquisition for $1.65 billion, less than a year after launching the site. As the key technologist, Steve developed the company’s massive data centres and helped build YouTube into a premier entertainment destination, and one of the most popular websites on the Internet today.

Steve has received several prestigious honours and acknowledgments from the business and entertainment communities including: Business 2.0′s “50 Most Influential People,” GQ’s “Men of the Year,” Time magazine’s “Best Invention of the Year”, and Fortune’s “Most Powerful People in Business.” Steve joins Google Ventures from AVOS, the incubator he founded with Chad Hurley in 2011.

Roelof BOTHA Partner,

Roelof Botha focuses on internet services and software investments. He is currently a Director of Eventbrite, Evernote, Inside.com, Jawbone, MongoDB, Natera, QuizUp, Square, Unity Technologies, Weebly, , and Xoom (XOOM).

Roelof is also involved with Sequoia Capital portfolio companies including AssureRx. Previously, he was a Director of YouTube.com (GOOG), Insider Pages (IACI), Meebo (GOOG), TokBox (Telefonica Digital), Nimbula (ORCL), Tumblr (YHOO), and Cue (AAPL), and led Sequoia's investment in Instagram (FB).

Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Roelof served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal (EBAY), an online payments company. Earlier, he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Roelof is a certified actuary (Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries) and holds a B.S. in Actuarial Science, Economics and Statistics from the University of Cape Town and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

John JEANS Former Chairman, GE Healthcare Ltd

John is Chairman of the Council of Cardiff University and Imanova (an imaging research partnership between three London Universities and the MRC). In addition he chairs the Trustee Board of MRC Technology, is a non-executive Director of Renishaw plc and a Board member of the University and College Employers Association.

An advisor to public sector organizations, he was appointed by the Prime Minister (UK) in 2014 as a Life Science Champion for the medical technology sector. John also leads the Technology Strategy Board’s Stratified Medicine advisory Board and is Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board to the Singapore Government’s Diagnostics Hub. He has served on several UK Government and Clinical bodies including the Co-Chairmanship of a Ministerial Committee on Medical Technologies, was an inaugural member of the Science Advisory Council for Wales and a founder Trustee of the Francis Crick Institute.

Until July 2011 John was the Deputy Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council and continues to sit on the MRC’s audit and risk committee.

In an industrial career spanning 35 years he held senior international leadership positions in global companies including Smith & Nephew, Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson and Amersham plc (now GE Healthcare). John headed the commercial function of GE’s Life Science business and was the Chairman of its UK Healthcare Company. His domain experience ranges from medical devices and therapeutic pharmaceuticals to in-vivo and in- vitro diagnostics; encompassing research, product development, manufacturing and commercialization.

John is engaged with local and national charities including the Abbeyfield Beaconsfield Society, Thames Valley Enterprise, Young Enterprise, and the Clare Foundation.

He was awarded the CBE for services to Life Sciences, Healthcare and Science in 2012.

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Phil LIBIN CEO, Evernote

Phil Libin is the CEO of Evernote, the company that's helping millions of people worldwide remember everything, work effectively and achieve personal and professional success. He is an entrepreneur and executive who has led two Internet companies from the very beginning to proven commercial success, and helped three others through rapid growth.

Prior to joining Evernote, Phil founded and served as president of CoreStreet, a company that provided smart credential and identity management technologies to governments and large corporations throughout the world. CoreStreet was acquired by ActivIdentity, now owned by HID Global, in 2009.

Previously, Phil was founder and CEO of Engine 5, a leading Boston-based Internet software development company acquired by Vignette Corporation (VIGN) in 2000, where he went on to serve as principal architect and chief technologist for applications.

Howard HARTENBAUM Partner, August Capital

Howard Hartenbaum joined August Capital in 2008. Prior to joining, he served as a General Partner at Draper Richards LP where he was the founding investor in Skype. Before entering the venture capital field, Howard was at Hughes Electronics, Honda Motor Company and Teledyne Relays. Howard has worked overseas for a total of ten years in Luxembourg and Japan. He is a graduate of M.I.T.

Current Investments: Beckon, Bubbli, DITTO, Eat Club, Gigwalk, Luminate (formerly Pixazza), Reputation.com, and RelayRides.

Previous investments: Skype (acquired by eBay – EBAY), Photobucket (acquired by Fox Interactive Media – NWS), Bebo (acquired by AOL – TWX), Netkraft (acquired by Adea Solutions), PowerReviews (acquired by Bazaarvoice - BV) and DimDim (acquired by Salesforce.com – CRM).

PROFILES OF PANELLISTS

Huifen CHAN Independent Consumer Services Professional

Huifen Chan was the CEO of online bridal party apparel business Perfect Bridal. Before that, she was the director of products at Mark Logic, a provider of information infrastructure software, serving the media, government, software, financial services, healthcare and other industries. She has also served as the senior product manager of the new ventures department at eBay.

Born in Singapore, Chan holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science from the Carnegie Mellon University. She also holds a MBA in Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

James FINLEY Ex-Vice-President, Rolls-Royce PLC

James Finley is a retired senior executive with extensive global business experience with a major UK FTSE 100 Company. Mr Finley is an executive committee member directly involved in running the business day to day, which has a turnover of approximately 1.0 billion UK pounds. His specific skills and experience is in leading the front-end global sales and service organisations including having responsibility for customer relationship and satisfaction, developing and executing strategies to enter new markets and geographies on a global basis and developing/mentoring young and mid-career talent. Currently active as a business consultant, Mr Finley advises and mentors small and medium sized companies on commercialising start- ups and on accessing international markets. He is also an angel investor and serves as non-executive director of Histoindex Pte Limited, IPTEC Pte Limited and Zicom Equipment.

FONG Saik Hay Chief Technology Officer, ST Engineering Limited

Mr. Fong Saik Hay is the Chief Technology Officer of ST Engineering Limited. ST Engineering is one of the largest engineering corporation in Singapore with over 23,000 employees; revenue of US$5 billion, presence in 23 countries with products covering land, air, sea and electronics.

Mr. Fong graduated from National University of Singapore with First Class Honors in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Information and Control Engineering from University of Michigan. He had also attended a management course in Harvard.

Parag KHANNA Adjunct Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore

Parag Khanna is a leading global strategist, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is a Director of the Hybrid Reality Institute, Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, Adjunct Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS, Senior Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Senior Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. He is co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012) and author of How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011) and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008). In 2008, Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.”

He has been featured on CNN, BBC, PBS, Al Jazeera, CCTV, Russia Today, National Public Radio (NPR), and other media all over the world. From 2008-9, Parag was the host of “InnerView” on MTV. He spoke on “Invisible Maps” at TED Global 2009 and was a guest host of TED Global 2012.

In 2009, Parag was honored as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2002 he was awarded the OECD Future Leaders Prize. He speaks German, Hindi, French, Spanish, and basic Arabic.

Stephen LEE Head of i3 (Innovation, Investment, Incubation), StarHub

Stephen leads StarHub i3, which supports the company’s transformation into a new media organisation for the next generation. His team focuses mainly in discovering and delivering new engines of growth outside the traditional info-communications business. This is achieved through forging new partnerships, forming regional think tanks, and incubating new ideas from innovative entrepreneurs. These initiatives are underpinned by StarHub’s big data platform – SmartHub, a National Research Foundation-supported project aimed at creating new classes of applications and solutions, in collaboration with higher learning institutes, start-up companies, and large and multinational organizations.

Prior to his current role, Stephen headed the Advanced Multimedia Services team at StarHub that manages a comprehensive suite of mobile entertainment and broadband value-added services.

Stephen has spent 14 years in the Digital VAS industry and donned the hat of product development for the last 16 years. Previously as the Head of Products and Projects in Soundbuzz, he was responsible for the development and deployment of key strategic products across the territories of Australia, India and Singapore.

Bernard LEONG Vice President, Digital Services for Singapore Post Pte Ltd

Dr Bernard Leong is currently the Vice President, Digital Services for Singapore Post Pte Ltd, where he oversees the digital, mobile & social media strategy, products and innovation across the organisation. While not in his corporate hat, he operates as a connector to the Southeast Asia entrepreneurial ecosystem as an entrepreneur in residence for INSEAD Business School & mentor for JFDI.Asia and an angel investor (Lunch Actually, Ideal Workspace & Prizle).

Dr Alex LIN Head, Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd

As Head of Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd, Dr. Alex LIN led the team of investment professionals to develop the infocomm start-ups ecosystem in Singapore, through strategic investments in promising companies.

For last 10 years, Alex had been actively building companies, mentoring entrepreneurs and investing in promising start-ups. He held entrepreneurship and investment related roles in several organizations working closely with Singapore universities promoting creation of rapid-prototyping capabilities and incubators. He invests and coaches young technology startups from ideation to maturity. Regionally, Alex led several technology infrastructure investments in China, such as technology park development, and High Temperature Conversion of Waste installations.

Prior to his investment and mentoring roles, Alex was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Operation & Technology in SembCorp Logistics, where he led teams of professionals in sales acquisition and maintenance of technology infrastructures.

Before joining SembCorp Logistics Ltd, Alex started Asia first wireless ISP, and successfully expanded regionally to China and Indonesia before merging into larger incumbent telco in the territories. Alex also started and exited several technology- based companies.

Steven MYINT Consultant, ETPL

Professor Steven Myint MD PhD is a physician with global experience in health and biomedical management. He is currently a Senior fellow to A*star, and consultant to its commercialization arm, ETPL. He is also Adjunct Professor at Duke-NUS in the Center for Technology, Enterprise and Development. In these capacities he is involved in the commercialization of biomedical and bio-engineering research. He is also Chairman of Inex Private Ltd. In Finland he is chairman of Plexpress Oy and Inc, a diagnostic technology company with a US subsidiary and non-executive director of Aplagon Oy and Primex Oy, both biotech companies. He was also founding partner of a Finnish Vigo accelerator, Ukko Partners. In addition he is a partner in the Palo Alto based venture fund, Pharma Capital and a non-executive director of Lipid Genomics, a diagnostic company spun out of Johns Hopkins, now based in Boston.

Until recently he was also executive chairman of Green Signal Bio, which he developed into one of India’s largest vaccine manufacturers. He has held non- executive directorships with several organisations in the public and private sectors. He is a former Professor and Dean of Medicine & Health at the University of Surrey and Professor/Chairman of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Leicester in the UK. He has been a biopharmaceutical senior and Board executive as global Medical Director at GlaxoSmithKline and Senior Vice-President for R&D/Chief Medical Officer at BTG International. He has been instrumental in over 50 successful IND and 12 NDA submissions. He was an NHS consultant in UK for over 20 years and is also a former Senior Independent Director, then chairman, of a hospital in the NHS and Board Member of Care International. He also has experience in the IT sector as executive chairman of Onmedica Group Ltd and Onmedica India Private Ltd (a health/IT and marketing organization). He has also been Chief Executive of the European Federation of Neurological Associations, consultant to several organisations in the medical and financial worlds and member of several national and international advisory boards.

He has authored over 120 peer reviewed publications and 6 books. He was also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Infection for 5 years. He is a Fellow or Member of several societies, including the Institute of Knowledge Transfer, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Society of Medicine. After his own first university spinout in

1995, he has been involved in the development of over 30 SME’s in life sciences and created over $1 billion value for shareholders.

Khailee NG Venture Partner, 500 Startups

Khailee Ng is a technology entrepreneur and investor. After building and selling an E- commerce company and a social news company, he joined 500 Startups, a Silicon Valley-based global seed fund and accelerator. 500 Startups has invested in over 750 companies in 40 countries since its inception in 2010.

Ulrich SCHRAUDOLPH Founding Company Director, Xentiq Pte Ltd

Ulrich Schraudolph is Founding Company Director and Director Design at at XentiQ Pte Ltd, a product development consultancy specialized in early stage Biomed and Industrial productization based in Singapore.

Ulrich has more than 25 years of product design experience, working many years in product design consultancies in France and Singapore, after studies in Germany, Switzerland and the , where he attended Art Center College of Design. He also holds a Masters in Human Factors Engineering (Ergonomics) from Nanyang Technical University (NTU).

Client record includes multinational corporations like Colgate, Unilever in fast moving consumer products, well-known consumer brands in the sports sector like Atomic, Look, Oxygen and Schuberth; Alcatel, Alstom, Sagem, Hyflux, Singapore Technologies in the technology sector; as well as SME's in fields ranging from electronics and industrial equipment to furniture, optical and medical products among others.

Ulrich has been a consultant with the Korean Institute of Design and Packaging (KIDP) and a lecturer at CREAPOLE design school in Paris, at National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore Stanford Biodesign (SSB), among other lecturing activities.

Meng WONG Co-Founder and Social Engineer, JFDI.Asia

Wong Meng Weng recently moved back to Singapore after a career as a technologist and entrepreneur in Philadelphia and Silicon Valley. During this time, he founded two Internet dot-coms, led the SPF opensource standard (RFC4408 & RFC6652) to successful worldwide rollout, and learned several painful lessons about early-stage entrepreneurship. His two previous ventures, pobox.com and karmasphere.com, explored the email security industry and developed Internet-scale big data analytics for reputation systems.

In Singapore, Meng is deeply engaged with the startup ecosystem in several roles: as an angel investor, a board member of the Business Angel Network of South-East Asia, and most recently as founder of JFDI.Asia, Singapore’s first seed accelerator. He designed a map of the money for the Media Entrepreneurs Guide to Singapore and maintains a web page for people new to the ecosystem. He invests in Internet start-ups that are based on original technologies serving new markets. These start- ups must exploit or answer a fundamental human need. He believes that after Web 2.0, energy, and biotech, the next rich wave of investment will be in the area of secular ethics, or Religion 2.0.

As one of Tim O’Reilly’s “alpha geeks” and a co-founder of Hackerspace.SG, he has organized and participates in Startup Weekend, TEDx, Barcamp, Startup Grind, and similar events spanning infocomm technology, media, and next-generation investment. He volunteers as a mentor with the Founder Institute and an Entrepreneur in Residence at the INSEAD Business School. At JFDI.Asia he mentors startups from idea to investment-readiness in 100 days, and continues to coach founders on leadership and management until they reach Series A funding.