Senior Vice President at Zytech Solar, a GoingGreen 100 Winner
China
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- Senior Vice President at Zytech Solar, a GoingGreen 100 Winner
- Senior Vice President at Startech Global Corporation, the Outsourcing Hub for Tsinghua University (China's MIT)
- Contributing Author + "Letter from China" columnist at SemanticReport.com + AlwaysOn Network & Sand Hill Group
- President and Principal Analyst at IT E-Strategies, Inc. (on hiatus)
- Co-Founder & Member, Executive Committee at Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
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- Vice President, Electronic Business Strategies at META Group, Inc.
- Director, E-Business at Oracle Corporation
- Manager, New Market Development & Member, Worldwide E-Commerce Strategy Team at Microsoft Corporation
- Director, Strategic Planning at Samsung Electronics/AST Computer, Inc.
- President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Presence Information Design
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Engineering Management Review at Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
- Vice President, Business Development at Nouvas Manufacturing Technology Company/Nouvas Bio/Medical Automation
- Education
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- Stanford University
- Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
- Connections
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David Scott Lewis’s Summary
UPDATE: Noted in the August 2008 issue of Wired as the "model for David Lightman," the lead character in the cyberthriller movie WarGames. The Dark Tangent will be having a fireside chat with Mr. Lewis at the forthcoming DEFCON, the world's largest hacker convention.
Progressive management responsibility in both line (to CEO) and staff (to VP) positions, including nearly twenty years of technology marketing and new business development experience. Internet-related activities have been featured as far back as February 1994 in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Voice of America, Wired, and over a dozen other dailies and trades.
Mr. Lewis is a graduate of the accelerated MBA program at Stanford Business School and the Senior Executives program at Harvard Law School. He has held senior marketing, business development and strategic planning positions at Microsoft, Oracle and Samsung. He was also the CEO of the largest web systems integrator/e-services firm in Southern California (mostly Caltech alumni/ae), which developed the largest outsourced Web site circa 1996, PacBell’s $20 million “At Hand” site. Mr. Lewis also spent over seven years as VP, Business Development for the largest factory automation/robotic systems integrator in the bio/medical device industries. In his last U.S.-based position, he was VP, E-Business Strategies, for the world’s fourth largest IT advisory service, the META Group (acquired by Gartner). Since relocating to China in December 2003, Mr. Lewis served stints as VP, Business Development with the two largest U.S.-focused, China-based IT outsourcing firms.
Founding member of the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum Executive Committee; former editor of IEEE's high tech management magazine (1986-1994); chaired Internet and Web agents session during the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents. Frequent lecturer and speaker: APEC; AlwaysOn Stanford Summit; China's largest software fair.
David Scott Lewis’s Specialties:
Marketing strategy, new business development and global account management pertaining to computer security, enterprise software and semweb (Semantic Web) applications.
For reference only: IT E-Strategies, Inc., focuses on linking U.S.-based systems integrators, solution providers and software vendors with systems integrators, contract software development houses and contract R&D firms based in China.
David Scott Lewis’s Experience
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Senior Vice President
Zytech Solar, a GoingGreen 100 Winner
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year)
Although based in China, I head Zytech's U.S. business development (i.e., new business development and global account management), marketing (both corporate and product), and sales (including channel management) endeavors.
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Senior Vice President
Startech Global Corporation, the Outsourcing Hub for Tsinghua University (China's MIT)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2006 — Present (2 years)
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Contributing Author + "Letter from China" columnist
SemanticReport.com + AlwaysOn Network & Sand Hill Group
(Privately Held; Myself Only; International Trade and Development industry)
July 2004 — Present (4 years 1 month)
SemanticReport.com is a relatively new publication and I joined their "Contribution Authors" bullpen in December 2007. However, I have been writing the "Letter from China" column for AO and SHG longer than California has been a state (well, at least it feels this way).
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President and Principal Analyst
IT E-Strategies, Inc. (on hiatus)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2002 — Present (6 years 5 months)
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Co-Founder & Member, Executive Committee
Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
June 1984 — Present (24 years 2 months)
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Vice President, Electronic Business Strategies
META Group, Inc.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; METG; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2000 — February 2002 (1 year 8 months)
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Director, E-Business
Oracle Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
January 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 7 months)
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Manager, New Market Development & Member, Worldwide E-Commerce Strategy Team
Microsoft Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 1997 — November 1998 (1 year 6 months)
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Director, Strategic Planning
Samsung Electronics/AST Computer, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
July 1996 — June 1997 (1 year)
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President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Presence Information Design
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 1995 — July 1996 (1 year 6 months)
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Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Engineering Management Review
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1986 — July 1994 (7 years 8 months)
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Vice President, Business Development
Nouvas Manufacturing Technology Company/Nouvas Bio/Medical Automation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Biotechnology industry)
April 1986 — September 1993 (7 years 6 months)
David Scott Lewis’s Education
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Stanford University
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Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
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