NECINA NEW session 3-19 in KPMG at CIC, Cambridge

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ON behalf of NECINA, please see NEW 3.0 announcement below:

 

(NEW 2014) SESSION 6 
NECINA ENTREPRENEUR 
WORKSHOP

 

Time

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Thursday, March. 19, 2015

Venues 

One Broadway, 15th Floor (KPMG)
Cambridge Innovation Center, Cambridge MA 02142

Registration:    http://new2014-session6-2015-3.eventdove.com/ 

Event

We are honored to have Ms. Rose Lee Askin, senior VP of East West Bank, who will share her experience and insights on how to work with a bank for start-up companies. Dr. Yi Qian, a senior director at GSI group, who will share his experience and advice on new product development for start-up business. Our star of NECINA Entrepreneur Programs Mr. Eddy Zhong, who was the winners of both YES and NEW in the past, will share his real life success story and answer any questions NEW teams may have from a young entrepreneur point of view. Lastly, Director of NEW1.0 and NEW 2.0 Tony Tian will give an overview of NEW1.0 and NEW2.0 with examples of success stories of NEW teams in the last two years.  Tony will introduce the MiTi Venture where is he is founding partner.

 

The final 8 NEW 2014 teams will present again on the sixth NEW meeting with their updates and questions on finance and business operation.

Many NEW teams are recruiting!!! Come join and gain valuable startup experience (Mobile Development, Marketing, Finance, Sales, Hardware, Software, Medical). Event open to NECINA NEW teams, YES program, E-CLUB program, members, and general public.

Agenda

6:00 - 6:15 pm Registration/Dinner
6:15 – 6:20 pm Opening remark by NEW host

6:20 – 6:40 pm Rose Lee Askin. How to work with a bank for start-up companies

6:40 – 7:00 pm Yi Qian: Product Development for new start-ups

7:00 – 7:20 pm Eddy Zhong: How I start and grow my business succesfully

7:20 – 7:40 pm Tony Tian: Successful NEW1.0, 2.0 teams and MiTi Venture introduction

7:40 - 8:30 pm Presentations by NEW final teams (5 minute presentation by team, 4 minutes Q&A by mentors). 
8:30 -9:00 pm Networking

Event Contact
N...@necina.org

Speaker Bio:

Rose Lee Askin:

Rose is a Senior Vice President with East West Bank’s New England region. With over $27 billion in total assets and a market capitalization of $5.2 billion, East West Bank is currently ranked within top 25 public banks in the U.S. Rose is responsible for developing and servicing commercial banking relationships with middle market companies, including inbound Chinese companies for the New England region. With over 20 years of extensive banking experience, she has successfully assisted multinational companies, large and midsize Chinese enterprises, as well as U.S. domestic companies with their international expansion, streamlining their financial platform, and cross border financing needs. Prior to her current role, Rose headed RBS Citizens’ China Initiative, managing its cross border banking business between the U.S. and Greater China. Rose has experiences working in both the U.S. and Asia, and gained an in-depth understanding of both marketplaces and business cultures. She was previously with Bank of Boston’s Hong Kong and Los Angeles offices, where she worked with local Hong Kong manufacturers and later helped Asian multinationals establish locations in the U.S. Rose was born in Shanghai, China and she speaks multiple Chinese dialects fluently.

 

Dr. Yi Qian:

Dr. Yi Qian has about twenty years of leadership experience developing technologies and managing products/customers in startups and large international corporations for medical, industrial and teleco market.  Most recently he was heading the product management and marketing at Cambridge Technology of GSI Group that makes lasers and 2D/3D precision optical scanning devices and systems. He spent six years with Corning (through Lasertron acquisition) designing and selling industry leading high power diode lasers; and more than two years with Oclaro, where he managed advanced 40Gps/100Gps optical transponder products for optical communication networks. As a funding team member, he was VP Engineering in a startup (Dimensional Photonics International – acquired by Danaher Dental) that successfully developed large scale 3D industrial laser scanning system and miniature real-time 3D digital medical imaging and sensing system.  He was also a VP for a bioprocessing equipment startup selling into worldwide pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Qian did his postdoctoral research at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University. He has ten issued or pending patents and more than 45 publications.

 

 

 

Eddy Zhong:

Winner of NECINA YES and NEW final competition in 2014. Founder of Blanc Inc. (wearblanc.com).  Successful entrepreneur who was featured on FOX Business Channel, The Wired, The Gadget Show, The Daily Dot and many media when he was still in high school.

 

Tony Tian

Tony is a founding partner at MiTi Venture, an early-stage investment company based in Cambridge, and director of incubator MiTi Workshop. He is passionate about working with up and coming entrepreneurs and helping take these ideas to successful businesses. His primary investment areas include mobile health, intelligent devices and data analytic. Tony co-founded NECINA NEW incubator in 2012, to encourage professionals and students experiment new ideas at early stage. Under his watch, multiple businesses advance from concept to Series A and continue to grow. He successfully raised fund for a new SAAS B2B sales platform backed by Intel Service Capital back in 2011 and led the team successfully through concept and received excellent customer traction in this Intel pilot.

Tony is an industry veteran in Internet of Things with proven track record in high volume product market success. His focus areas include communications, intelligent devices, and how these devices connect data and people. He is passionate about contributing to the community and building startups. Products he contributed and played important roles include Intel(R) IXP425, IXP2350 network processors, Intel(R) 89xx Communication Chipset, and Intel(R) Xeon and Core processors and Intel(R) Atom C2xx Processors in Embedded and Communication Space. He is also an influencer in hardware/software co-design practice at corporate level and marketing lead for Intel Virtual Platform for Communications & Storage devices.

 

About NECINA

New England Chinese Information and Networking Association (NECINA) is a non-profit, non-political organization. It was founded in 1996 by a group of network computing industry leaders who recognized the need to advocate cutting-edge technologies and entrepreneurship.

Today, NECINA has grown to be one of the premium high tech professional organizations in New England. NECINA has its reach to thousands of people with members covering diverse industries such as software, telecommunications, networking, bioinformatics, venture capital, finance, and law.