Chin-Hock (C.H.) Low

Current

CEO at Orbius Inc(www.Orbius.com)
Internship Consulting Professor/Mentor at National University of SIngapore Overseas College- NCBV

Past

Special Projects Consultant at StarCite Inc
Chief Technology Officer at StarCite Inc
EVP Product Management at eMoneyAdvisor Inc

CTO/VP Technology Alliances at VerticalNet Inc
VP Development/Product Management at Reuters/ Reality Online
VP, Co-owner at Gnosis Inc

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Education

University of Pennsylvania

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Chin-Hock (C.H.) Low’s Summary

I have been involved in at least 7 startup/early stage companies since 1983. I have launched or was involved in the launching of over 60 major software products/projects/business lines. My main experience is web-based technology oriented products/companies.

I founded Orbius in 2007 to provide an affordable, social website or online community platform for small-medium busineses and organizations(non-profits, PTAs, alumni, church, golf clubs, etc) to interact and communicate their members more efficiently online. A Website on Orbius is easy to set up in days, and maintained without IT help. Broad suite of powerful interactive features can be configured and changed at any time.

Chin-Hock (C.H.) Low’s Specialties:

I enjoy the process of designing, building & managing software-oriented businesses or products especially small/early stage/startup, replatform later stage startups or just a vague idea stage companies in launch, relaunch or growth situations.

I perform technology and business due diligence for VC investors and mergers/acquisitions. Also serve as business advisor to various startups.

Chin-Hock (C.H.) Low’s Experience

CEO

Orbius Inc(www.Orbius.com)

(Internet industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

Orbius offers an affordable full-featured social website and online community platform for small-medium businesses and organizations. Our basic package creates a simple to maintain website that is structurally optimized to yield superior search engine ranking. Our broad suite of interactive, social and community tools allows different levels of openess and interactivity as appropriate for the business and organization.

Orbius provides capabilities to enable a full featured private label website with community platform. Our Content Management System enables an easy to maintain(without IT skills) website, that can be configured to include social and community features(Blogs, Ask the Expert, Content Library, Wiki, Forum, Member Pages, Groups, eNewsletter, Surveys, etc) later. Orbius also have a sophisticated security and governance mechanism to control the privacy of selected content or contents within groups.

Organizations(PTAs, clubs, alumni, non-profits, associations, etc), create a social website that communicates with members more effectively and at lower cost that custom built static website.

Contact us at sales@orbius.com.
Check us out with our FREE trial version at www.Orbius.com.
Internship Consulting Professor/Mentor

National University of SIngapore Overseas College- NCBV

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

Consulting Mentor to the National University of Singapore Overseas College internship program in partnership with University of Pennsylvania. Interns work, for a year, at startup companies in the Philadelphia area while taking courses at Penn.

For start-up companies in the Philadelphia area interested in participating in this extremely mutually beneficial program by having an incredibly smart intern work for you while they learn how startups operate from you, see more info at: http://www.overseas.nus.edu.sg/noc/
Special Projects Consultant

StarCite Inc

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

April 2006 — December 2006 (9 months)

Helped with special projects (Merger with OnVantage and several Business Development projects) and transition plan to new replacement CTO at StarCite while on professional sabbatical.
Chief Technology Officer

StarCite Inc

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

August 2003 — April 2006 (2 years 9 months)

StarCite provides an Enterprise Solution to enable procurement, requisition and management of Meetings and Incentive Events, and improve process efficiency to reduce cost and improve results.
• Responsible for the Program Management, Software Development and Systems Operations of StarCite’s on-demand applications.
• Integrated two acquisitions with technology operations in Connecticut and California.
• Implemented process and procedures, and built a new technology staffing configuration to achieve enterprise level quality of service. Improved system performance from 98.8% to 99.95% in 2 years.
• Initiated project to re-platform StarCite’s four separate applications into a single integrated solution.
• Stepped down as CTO in April 2006 to take a professional sabbatical.
EVP Product Management

eMoneyAdvisor Inc

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

June 2001 — August 2003 (2 years 3 months)

eMoneyAdvisor provides a platform for financial and estate planning advisors to high networth clients to manage their estate and financial plans.

eMoneyAdvisor was acquired by Commerce Bancorp (CBH) on January 2006.
• Joined the company as a member of the founding management team and helped to develop its business plan and financial projections to raise the initial funding; and recruited the product development staff.
• Responsible for developing product strategy and corporate strategy, product management, product pricing, legal agreements; and corporate and business development relationships with vendors and partners
• Joint effort with CEO to sign the first software service sale ($7+M five year contract). Transaction includes client injecting additional capital into the company for 20% of equity.
CTO/VP Technology Alliances

VerticalNet Inc

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; VERT; Internet industry)

February 1998 — June 2001 (3 years 5 months)

From February 1998 to December 1999, led the company's technology team as its CTO through a complete revamping of its technology and platform prior to its IPO and launch of the next 60+ online vertical communities.

In January 2000, as Vice President of Technology Alliances and Integration within the Corporate Development Group responsible for developing new products/markets by leveraging technology from partners and vendors. Additionally responsible for corporate and business development efforts involving technology partners.
VP Development/Product Management

Reuters/ Reality Online

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

February 1988 — February 1998 (10 years 1 month)

Developed or helped to develop a broad range of software products related to the consumer finance e.g FInancial Planning, Asset Allocation, Online Trading, Financial Information(Quotes, News, Historical Prices, Fundamental Information) , Portfolio Manager. Platforms include DOS, MAC, Windows and Internet.

Reality Online was acquired by Reuters in April 1995.
VP, Co-owner

Gnosis Inc

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)

May 1983 — February 1988 (4 years 10 months)

Gnosis provides manufacturing control software systems for the job-shop industry.

Chin-Hock (C.H.) Low’s Education

University of Pennsylvania

Bachelors , Finance & Computer Science (Jerome Fisher Management & Technology Program) , 1979 — 1983

Jerome Fisher Management & Technology Program is one of the best cross-discipline programs that merges entreprenuerial study, business management and technology. It helps you develop integral skills and thinking perspective of technology and its business & management.

Many alumni are founders of or are in leadership of many technology companies, or in related fields like Venture Capital.

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