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Asian Tech Leaders
by Justin Pang
Learn from Asian CEOs, entrepreneurs and thinkers in technology on what led to their success and how you can apply their lessons to your life. Join host Justin Pang as he uncovers inspiring stories from Asian leaders in technology and unpacks how their Asian culture and identity impacted their life choices. Learn more at: www.asiantechleaders.com
Episodes
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Himanshu Verma - Country Lead and VP Engineering at Eventbrite
Himanshu Verma, VP of Engineering and Country Leader at Eventbrite - the world’s largest and most trusted events marketplace. At Eventbrite, Himanshu oversee’s the development team that builds cutting edge cloud, mobile and marketplace technology. Himanshu’s career spans more than two decades of...
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Dorothy Chang - Partner at Next Wave NYC and Co-Founder of Lynx Collective
Dorothy Chang is an early stage tech investor for Next Wave NYC and Co-Founder of Lynx Collective, a community to bring together tech founders in NYC. Previously, Dorothy served as the President of Kode with Klossy, where she led the organization's mission to create learning experiences to help...
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Jason Fan - CEO and Co-Founder of Dealwise
Jason Fan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dealwise, a platform that helps founders of SAAS startups get acquired through its innovative marketplace. Dealwise came out of stealth mode in 2023 and gives founders access to vetted buyers and provides them with flexible liquidity options while buyers get...
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Jae Lee - Founder and CEO of Twelve Labs
Jae Lee is the Founder and CEO of Twelve Labs, a video understanding platform that uses AI to help developers and companies search and understand videos quickly. Using its state-of-the-art multimodal foundation model for videos that can accurately and instantly search exact moments within…
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Vivian Sun - Head of Automated Driving at Amazon
Vivian Sun is the Head of Automated Driving at Amazon and an accomplished autonomous vehicle and AI expert. Vivian previously served as the Chief Commercial Officers at Waabi and the VP of Business Development at TuSimple, two leaders in autonomous trucking. In this episode, Vivian shares more...
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Albert Tai - CEO and Founder of Hypercare
Albert Tai is the Founder and CEO of Hypercare, a VC-backed healthcare technology company that helps connect the right healthcare providers at the righttime to improve patient outcomes in hospitals and community settings. Albert started Hypercare in 2016 when he realized how challenging it was to...
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Francois Le Nguyen - CEO and Co-Founder of Staging Labs
Francois (Frankie) Le Nguyen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Staging Labs, a startup that secures crypto and NFT assets by intercepting dangerous transactions in real-time. Frankie previously built and launched startup incubator Entrepreneur First in Canada and served as GM in both its Toronto and...
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Jaclyn Ling - Co-Founder of Hatchways
Jaclyn Ling is the Co-Founder of Hatchways, a Y-Combinator-backed startup that is modernizing the technical interview process for start-ups and developers looking for their next great job. Prior to starting Hatchways, Jaclyn was the co-founder of a fashion bot company Blynk which was acquired by...
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Ivan Zhang - Co-Founder and CTO of Cohere
Ivan Zhang is the co-founder and CTO of Cohere, a leading GenAI startup that provides natural language processing models to help developers and companies build new products and unlock business value with language AI. Cohere’s models power interactive chat features, generate text for product...
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Thomas Park - Partner at BDC Deep Tech Fund and Co-founder of Asian Canadian Ventures Collective
Thomas Park is a leader in global venture capital and is a Partner at the BDC Deep Tech Fund and the Co-founder of Asian Canadian Ventures Collective. Tom has been at the BDC since 2017 and currently leads a $200M venture capital fund that invests in Canadian startups developing cutting edge...
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Shruthi Rao - Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer at Vendia
Shruthi Rao is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Vendia, a multi-cloud, distributed data platform. Previously, Shruthi launched Amazon’s managed blockchain business and led business development for various AWS’ services. Shruthi also held a variety of leadership roles in Corporate...
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Linda Ho - Chief People Officer at Seismic
Linda Ho is the Chief People Officer at Seismic, an AI-powered sales enablement platform that improves team productivity, collaboration and knowledge sharing. As the Chief People Officer, Linda leads the company’s initiatives around culture, org development, talent acquisition, total rewards and...
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Dr. Bodi Zhang - Chief Strategy Officer of Thorne HealthTech
Dr. Bodi Zhang is Chief Strategy Officer at Thorne HealthTech (Nasdaq: THRN), a leading healthcare company that utilizes innovative testing and data to deliver personalized solutions for consumers, health professionals, and corporations. Previously, Bodi served as the Chief Science Officer for...
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Eden Full Goh - CEO and Founder of Mobot
Eden Full Goh is the CEO and Founder of Mobot, a venture-backed company that automates testing of mobile apps using robotics technology. Previously, Eden built products that spanned the energy, healthcare and government sectors at Palantir Technologies and Butterfly Network. Eden also founded and...
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Percy Hung - CEO and Co-Founder of Choco Up
Percy Hung is the co-founder and CEO of Choco Up, one of the largest revenue-based financing and growth platforms in Asia that provides funding to fast growing start-ups. Choco Up utilizes data analytics and third party integrations to automate funding decisions and provides companies with growth...
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Amelia Lin - CEO and Co-Founder of Honeycomb
Amelia Lin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Honeycomb, a private social app for families. Honeycomb offers families a way to curate and share their favorite moments and memories in a private and secure way. Prior to starting Honeycomb, Amelia was previously a product leader at Udacity and Optimizely....
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Judy Lai-Norling - COO at Carbon Mapper
Judy Lai-Norling is the COO at Carbon Mapper - an organization developing a new way to locate, quantify and track carbon emissions from air and space. Prior to joining Carbon Mapper, Judy spent 14 years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion lab in both business and engineering roles. Judy holds Master’s…
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Vivian Shen - CEO and Co-Founder of Juni Learning
Vivian Shen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Juni Learning - an education platform that helps connect kids to expert mentors to help empower them and learn topics like Coding, Storytelling, and Investing. Prior to starting Juni Learning, Vivian had a variety of experience including being a software...
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Rob Chang - CEO and Co-Founder of Gryphon Digital Mining
Rob Chang is the CEO and Co-Founder of Gryphon Digital Mining, a company focused on sustainable Bitcoin mining. Rob has deep experience in the cryptocurrency space including previously being the CFO at Riot Blockchain where he helped turn around the company during the midst of the last Bitcoin…
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Dr. Raj Das Gupta - COO at Electrovaya
Dr. Raj Das Gupta is the COO at Electrovaya, a publicly traded (TSX:EFL) (OTCQB:EFLVF) company that designs, develops and manufactures proprietary Lithium-ion batteries. Raj has been with Electrovaya for over 10 years and has been involved with every aspect of the business from cell…
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Faisal Abid - CTO and Co-Founder at Eirene Cremations
Faisal Abid is a serial entrepreneur and currently the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Eirene Cremations, a direct-to-consumer service that helps families plan affordable and high-quality cremation services. Faisal is also currently a Google Developer Expert, CTO at Bitstrapped.com and...
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Lakhveer Singh Jajj and Traci Cheng - Co-Founders at Moselle
Lakhveer Singh Jajj and Traci Cheng are the Co-Founders of Moselle, a tech platform that helps small-medium businesses to create stable, sustainable, and scalable supply chains. Lakhveer and Traci launched Moselle just a couple months before the pandemic hit in 2020 and quickly adapted to help…
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Lynne Takagaki - Co-Founder at Welcome Aboard
Lynne Takagaki is the Co-Founder of Welcome Aboard, a start-up that finds the perfect fit between job seekers and companies with strongly aligned missions and cultures. In addition to leading Welcome Aboard with her two co-founders, Lynne is also a business development leader at AnyRoad, an...
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Danni Pi - COO at Rowan
Danni Pi is the COO at Rowan, a venture-backed health and wellness company re-imagining ear piercing. Prior to joining Rowan, Danni led operations at Uber where she helped grow ridership and reliability of the ride-sharing service in New York and also helped launched UberEATS in several cities....
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Kane Ma - Co-Founder and CTO at Kamo Digital Solutions
Kane Ma is the Co-founder and CTO, at Kamo Digital Solutions a full-service digital agency for start-ups. Prior to founding his company, Kane played junior varsity basketball at the storied University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which was also former home to NBA legends Michael Jordan, Vince...
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Dr. Marcia Liu - Counseling Psychologist and Mental Health Coordinator at HCAP
In light of the recent rise in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes we dedicated this podcast to learning more about the importance of mental health within the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. I was delighted to spend time on the podcast with Marcia Liu, Ph.D. who is a Licensed Counseling...
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Jeanne Lam - Chief Business Officer at Wattpad
Jeanne Lam is the Chief Business Officer at Wattpad, a global app and entertainment company that is used by 90 million people around the world and recently acquired by South Korean Internet giant Naver for $600M. Jeanne has over 15 years of experience in tech with a focus on high-growth consumer...
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Andrew Chang - COO at Paxos
Andrew Chang is the COO of Paxos, a fintech company that builds infrastructure on blockchain to facilitate the movement between physical and digital assets such as cryptocurrency. Before joining Paxos, Andrew had an array of experience including working in business development at Google, serving…
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Raphael Chow - CEO and Co-Founder at Wevat
Raphael Chow is the CEO and Co-Founder at Wevat, a platform that helps travelers get tax refunds on purchases made in the UK. To date, Wevat has helped travellers from 88 countries get tax refunds on purchases amounting to more than £16 million. In this episode, you will learn about how Raphael’s...
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Dr. Paul Bhatti - CEO and Founder at Sowingo
Dr. Paul Bhatti is CEO and Founder at Sowingo - a cloud-based eCommerce and inventory management solution for dentists. Founded in 2012, Sowingo's mission is to transform healthcare by offering dental and medical professionals with tools to more efficiently run their practices and improve patient...
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Qiaojia Li - CEO and Co-founder at Rosecut
Qiaojia Li is the CEO and Co-Founder at Rosecut - a wealth management platform to help you access the knowledge and advice you need to plan for the future you want. Prior to starting Rosecut, Qiaojia was a private wealth manager at Credit Suisse and Coutts in London. She started her career in...
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Lyn Chen - Co-founder and COO at LayerCI
Lyn Chen is the Co-founder and COO at LayerCI: a Y Combinator backed platform that helps developers review and publish code faster and better. Prior to co-founding LayerCI, Lyn was the co-founder and CEO of a food tech company, Candy Cutlery. In the episode, I chat with Lyn about her passion for...
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Josh Li - Chief Business Officer at Apifiny
Josh Li is the Chief Business Officer at Apifiny, a fintech company and digital asset marketplace utilizing blockchain technology. Prior to this, Josh was a business executive at Google for 12 years - which included time at Google X as its Chief Innovation Officer in Asia and founding the Asian...
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Professor Ellen Wu - Historian, Scholar and Author of "The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority"
Professor Ellen Wu is the Associate Professor in the Department of History at Indiana University Bloomington and Director of the Asian American Studies Program. She is the author of the book “The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority”. Her commentary has been...
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Jiaqi Pan - CEO and Founder of Landbot
Jiaqi Pan is the CEO and Founder of Landbot - a no-code chatbot platform that empowers businesses to acquire, engage and monetize customers in messaging channels. Landbot has over 50,000 customers including Uber, L’Oreal and LG. Prior to founding Landbot in 2017, JIA-CHEE was the CEO and founder…
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Buck Gee - Board Member at Ascend | Co-founder Asian American Executive Program at Stanford GSB
Buck Gee is a pioneer in helping to improve Asian representation in business and technology. Buck retired in 2008 from Cisco Systems, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Business Unit. He joined Cisco with its 2004 acquisition of Andiamo Systems where Mr. Gee was...
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Dr. Joseph Choi - Co-Founder and COO of Hypercare
Dr. Joseph Choi is the Co-Founder and COO of Hypercare - a platform for clinicians to securely communicate and locate each other quickly and effectively. Dr. Choi is also an Emergency Physician in Toronto and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto's medical school. Dr. Choi earned…
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Hanmin Yang - CEO and Founder of Alike
Hanmin Yang is the CEO and Founder of Alike - a dating app for the modern North American Asian that celebrates our identity, culture and story as told by us. On this episode of Asian Tech Leaders, I chat with Hanmin about his upbringing as a Korean immigrant to Canada, how his background in film...
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Mikael Cho - Co-Founder and CEO of Unsplash
Mikael Cho is the Co-Founder and CEO of Unsplash, a crowd-sourced photo service platform with over 300 million users and over 1 million free high-resolution photos. Founded in 2013 as a humble Tumblr blog, Unsplash has grown into an industry-leading visual community. It’s become a source of...
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Meagan Pi - Vice-President at Google
Meagan Pi is a Vice-President at Google and has over 20 years of experience working in Silicon Valley. She’s an advocate for women empowerment and is dedicated to reinventing a new set of corporate cultural norms to unleash the true potential in each one of us. Her desire is to create a cultural...
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Donna Litt - Co-founder and COO Kiite
Donna Litt is the Co-founder and COO at Kiite, a B2B AI platform that serves as an intelligent sales coach. Before Kiite, Litt co-founded TribeHR, which was acquired by NetSuite in 2013. On this episode, I chat with Donna about her experience growing up in a mixed race household, how her…
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Paul Huynh - Entrepreneur in Residence | Social Entrepreneur | Ex-Googler
Paul Huynh was a Google executive for 11 years where he incubated, launched and led new sales and operations teams for products like YouTube, Google Display Network, DoubleClick Buy Side Platforms and DoubleClick Ad Exchange. He started his Google career in NYC working within the healthcare…
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Rain Takahashi - CEO and Founder of JAUNTIN'
Rain Takahashi is the CEO and Founder of JAUNTIN', an A.I.-backed on-demand insurance platform that makes obtaining insurance quick and easy. https://jauntin.com
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Emma Yang - Founder of Timeless
Emma Yang is the fifteen-year-old Founder of Timeless, a mobile app that helps Alzheimer’s patients stay engaged and connected to loved ones. In September 2017, Timeless was selected as the winner of the MIT Solve Brain Health Challenge and designated as one of the 38 Solvers out of nearly 1,000...
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Jimmy Chen - CEO and Founder of Propel
Jimmy Chen is the CEO and founder of Propel, a software company that aims to make America’s safety net more user friendly. Prior to Propel, Jimmy graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems, and worked as a Product Manager at LinkedIn and Facebook. On this episode, I talk...
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Sobhan Etemadi - CEO and Founder of Sobie Systems
Sobhan Etemadi is the CEO and Founder of Sobie Systems, a Canadian-based startup that builds smart-product solutions using advanced sensor technologies for monitoring of residential HVAC systems. Sobie Systems’ current product, Everest, monitors the energy efficiency and performance of the HVAC...
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Xiao Wang - CEO of Boundless
Xiao Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Boundless, helping families navigate the complex legal immigration system more confidently, rapidly, and affordably than ever before. Prior to Boundless, he held leadership roles at Amazon Go, Providence Equity, NYC Department of Education, and McKinsey.…
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Eva Wong - Co-founder and COO of Borrowell
Eva Wong is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Borrowell, a Canadian fintech company that helps consumers make great decisions about credit. Eva's career has spanned both the private and not-for-profit sectors, including leadership roles at The OTF Group (a Monitor spin-off), Maple Leaf...
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Tiffany Pham - CEO of Mogul
Tiffany Pham is CEO of Mogul, a global platform enabling women worldwide to reach their goals and realize their full potential. A coder, Tiffany developed the first version of Mogul, now reaching across 196 countries and 30,470 cities. She is the bestselling author of YOU ARE A MOGUL and GIRL...
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Learn from Asian CEOs, entrepreneurs and thinkers in technology on what led to their success and how you can apply their lessons to your life. Join host Justin Pang as he uncovers inspiring stories from Asian leaders in technology and unpacks how their Asian culture and identity impacted their life choices. Learn more at: www.asiantechleaders.com
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