Isaac (Xianghui) Mao

Current

• Board Director at Tor Project
• Advisor at Global Voices Online
• Co-founder and Director at Social Brain Foundation

• Director at Shanghai Youth Development Foundation
• Vice President at United Capital Investment Group Limited
• Co-Founder at CNBlog.org
• Memeber, Board of Directors at Tangram Software
• Founder and Major Contributor at Isaacmao.com

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Isaac (Xianghui) Mao’s Summary

Isaac Mao is a software architect, entrepreneur(also investor) and learning technology, social technology researcher. Isaac divides his time between research, social works, business and technology. He is now directing/advising some non-profit programs and several for-profit businesses in China.

Isaac has a long history leads developing both business and consumer software. He worked as a Chief Architect in Intel HomeCD project and Tangram BackSchool suite. He applied many HCI methodogies into software design process and improved the usability of software so much. He turns to Social Computing research and organized the first Social Software Forum in China.

Isaac is now in advisor board for Global Voices Online project initiated by Berkman Center of Harvard University. He co-founded CNBlog.org to evangelize grassroots publishing in China. The team then transformed in to Social Brain Foundation later on. As one of the ealiest and so called "blog father" in China, he writes a lot on his own web site as well other columms to populize blog as an enabling tool for grassroots' learning, expression and and emergent democracy.

Isaac also lead the Creative Commons China team. Creative Commons organization (co-founded and chaired by Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford) is dedicated to building a body of creative works free for copying and re-use v.s. DMCA.

Isaac Mao earned BS degree in Computer Science and got MBA training program at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Isaac is also a pedagogy consultant to some local institutions. He acts as advisors for some local hi-tech firms on their business strategy. Isaac Mao was listed as the people of "2006-2016, Map of the Decade", by Institute for the Future. He is also as director of Shanghai Youth Development Foundation.

For more information, please visit his website, http://www.isaacmao.com.

Isaac (Xianghui) Mao’s Specialties:

software architect, human computer interaction, people management, project management, business envision, principle research

Isaac (Xianghui) Mao’s Experience

• Board Director

  Tor Project

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — Present (9 months)

  Tor Project arose from a community project now wide adopted by Internet users around the world. It can help users access Internet anonymously. In some countries, it is now used as tool to bypass censorship.

• Advisor

  Global Voices Online

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  November 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/about/advisors

• Co-founder and Director

  Social Brain Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Think Tanks industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  Social Brain Foundation was formed since 2003, however, the non-profit organization was registerred until 2005. Isaac Mao is the co-founder and idea maker of this steering group in China.

• Director

  Shanghai Youth Development Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  October 2004 — Present (4 years)

  I was elected to be the diector of Shanghai Youth Development Foundation, a non-profit charity organization in Shanghai. The organization is supported by local government. It's also the local execution force on "Project Hope", the biggest donation program in China.

• Vice President

  United Capital Investment Group Limited

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  April 2004 — Present (4 years 6 months)

  Taking in charge of industry outlooking, project due diligence and portfolio management

• Co-Founder

  CNBlog.org

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2002 — Present (6 years)

  CNBLOG.org seeks to catalyze new collaborative projects(Social Software, Emergent Democracy and Grassroots Culture, etc.), to spread its ideas and methodologies to
  other individuals/organizations and encourage the practical applications of its results.

• Memeber, Board of Directors

  Tangram Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2002 — Present (6 years 6 months)

  Outlook business strategy and financing issues.

• Founder and Major Contributor

  Isaacmao.com

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  April 2002 — Present (6 years 6 months)

  Isaacmao.com is my personal research, publishing and connection site, including CES Blog.

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