Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell Tsai

CEO, Spiritual Business Companions [Retired and enjoying dance & travel]

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Retired Traveler at World
  • CEO at Spiritual Business Companions
  • Volunteer Coordinator at International Enneagram Association
  • Board Member at Footloose Dance Company
  • Organizer and Coordinator at Dance New England
  • Self-Employed at Mitchell Tsai Consulting
Past
  • Principal at Parabola Group
  • Board Member at Choreographers Performance Alliance
  • Volunteer Organizer at Northern California Dance Collective
  • Volunteer Staff, Photographer, and Videographer at Camp Fareta
  • Volunteer Photographer at San Francisco Dance and Drum Festival
  • Volunteer at Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation
  • Board Member at AXIS Dance Company
  • Co-Founder at Southern California Dance Collective
  • Temporary IS Manager at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
  • Guest Dancer at White Oak Dance Project
  • Head Wizard at DotCom Director, Inc.
  • Speech Group Intern at Microsoft Research
  • Faculty at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
  • Violinist, Composer, & Dancer at Corps de Phunque
  • Vice-President at Financial Modeling Specialists - FMS Inc
  • Research Assistant at Harvard Medical School
  • Research Assistant at Harvard University
  • Violinist at Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
  • Research Assistant at Liquid Crystal Institute
  • Research Assistant at Kent State University
  • Consultant at Theodore Roosevelt High School
  • Solo Violinist at Kent State University Sinfonia
Education
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • George Mason University
  • Harvard University
  • Kent State University
  • Kent Roosevelt High School
Connections
280 connections
Industry
Management Consulting
Websites

Mitchell Tsai’s Summary

I'm currently retired, but enjoy supporting new ventures and helping people manifest their visions and dreams.

CEO and Founder of Spiritual Business Companions, a network supporting "sustainable abundance", "healthy employee growth", and other ethical business practices, emphasis on US micro-businesses.

Since 1990, I have advised entrepreneurs and companies in 98 industries - managing small teams of 1-10 and medium teams of 400-600 people.

I enjoy helping people bootstrap ideas and early-stage companies (US Micro-businesses; e.g. starting a company with US $50 - $500), helping them develop into successful "lifestyle companies" (US $200,000 - $5 million), and navigating dangers and finding opportunities as they become growth and/or venture-capital-backed companies (US $10 million - $1+ billion).

Co-Founder of DotCom Director, a business incubator that provided venture funding, strategy, and technology - Clients included Legal Research Network (LRN.com) which was funded by Softbank for $30 million, and medi.com (medical claims) which was acquired by WebMD for $280 million and was one of Deloitte & Touche's "Technology Fast 50".

Consulting since 1980 in the business, military, government, academic, and non-profit sectors. Designed, produced, and/or implemented projects for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Science Foundation (NSF), DARPA, Department of Defense (DoD), Harvard University, Fortune 500s, Global 2000s, NGOs, colleges and universities, and medical schools.

Projects range from small US $0-$100 micro-business and non-profit bootstrap projects to multi-billion dollar projects such as distribution ($14 billion), communication ($32 billion), finance ($50 billion), and logistics ($302 billion).

My first consulting project at age 13 was a financial analysis program to assist my high school teachers in salary negotiations as they compared various salary/benefit packages.

Mitchell Tsai’s Specialties:

Began college at age 10, was a concert violinist at age 12, and danced with Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Since 1972, taught and given invited lectures at IBM, Microsoft, Carnegie-Mellon, Harvard, Fortune 500s, NGOs, and international think tanks and conferences.

Started programming in 1977 on IBM, Burroughs, and DEC mainframes using Fortran 66, Cobol, C, Basic, Forth, and Lisp. Managed teams with 1950s-1970s legacy applications & 1990s-2000s server farms and Top-500 Alexa Websites.


Mitchell Tsai’s Experience

  • Retired Traveler

    World

    (Entertainment industry)

    May 2007Present (1 year 5 months)

    I'm currently retired, but enjoy supporting new ventures and helping people manifest their visions and dreams.

    Visiting fellow souls & spirits in our global communities (Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Canada, China, Culebra, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia (USSR in 1984), Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vieques).

    Last 4 countries visited: Bahamas, Morocco, Israel, Egypt.

    Next country: Japan (5/13-5/28/08)

    Would like to visit: Machu Picchu (Peru), Angkor Wat (Cambodia), Galapagos Islands, Tigris & Euphrates (Iraq), Persia (Iran), South Africa, Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe), TIbet, Vietnam, Timbuktuu (Mali), Guinea (West Africa), Australia, New Zealand

  • CEO

    Spiritual Business Companions

    (Management Consulting industry)

    July 2006Present (2 years 3 months)

    Helping People's Visions Manifest into Reality with the 5 C's - Community, Connections, Coaching, Consulting, Capital

    CEO and Founder of Spiritual Business Companions, a network supporting "sustainable abundance", "healthy employee growth", and other ethical business practices, emphasis on US micro-businesses (starting companies with US $50-500+).

    "Sustainable abundance" - There's plenty of support for our projects and visions if we use our capital, labor, emotional, health, and spiritual resources in effective sustainable ways.

    Burning people out through poor management is no better than wasting our environment. :-)

    The beginning of a network of companies and private funds to create an "educational network to support entrepreneurs".

    I believe there's a huge gap in "entrepreneurial support" sub-$20-50 million companies. A single-person "lifestyle company" can produce $1-10 million gross revenue.

    http://spiritualbusinesscompanions.blogspot.com

  • Volunteer Coordinator

    International Enneagram Association

    (Privately Held; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

    2005Present (3 years)

    IEA Values and Ethics

    Because the Enneagram is such a powerful and profound system for understanding the human character, it is especially important that those who use the Enneagram with others do so in a values-based, ethical manner. The system can be utilized by individuals and professionals from a variety of backgrounds, including educators, business consultants, artists, therapists, spiritual directors, and medical professionals, all of whom use the Enneagram in an increasing range of contexts and applications.

    We encourage each professional to use the Enneagram within his or her areas of training and expertise. For example, we expect that business consultants would use the system for organization development, team building, and leadership training; coaches might use it with clients to help them improve their personal and interpersonal effectiveness and work performance.

    2008: Thu 7/31/08 - Sun 8/3/08 National Conference in Atlanta

    http://internationalenneagram.org

  • Board Member

    Footloose Dance Company

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Performing Arts industry)

    2003Present (5 years)

    Footloose is an arts-presenting and producing organization that creates and develops work in collaboration with artists from all fields of the performing arts, especially emerging and established women artists.

    We provide resources and a home base for women to develop their work from initial through exhibition stages of the production process in order to promote their professional careers.

    http://ftloose.org

  • Organizer and Coordinator

    Dance New England

    (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Performing Arts industry)

    2000Present (8 years)

    DNE is a creative collective of individuals who love to dance, and a consortium of cooperatively-run, freestyle barefoot dances.

    Dance provides us with the opportunity to enrich ourselves and the greater community.

    We are committed to the acceptance of and respect for all people and cultures, the empowerment of children, and the acknowledgement that our bodies and our environment are sacred.

    Each of us needs to safely express who we are and be acknowledged for the value of our contributions to our community.

    These include a cooperative spirit, interdependence, and sustainable volunteerism.

    Consensus decision-making, non-violent conflict resolution, collective work, personal responsibility, educational inreach and outreach, and flexibility in the face of the need to change are tenets of our organizational democracy.

    Conserve our planet's resources and promote a fair distribution of the fruits of our labor and play.

    2008: Thu 8/21/08 - Sun 8/31/08

    http://dne.org

  • Self-Employed

    Mitchell Tsai Consulting

    (Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Services industry)

    1980Present (28 years)

    Since 1990, I have advised entrepreneurs and companies in 98 industries - managing small teams of 1-10 and medium teams of 400-600 people.

    Consulting since 1980 in business, military, government, academic, and non-profit sectors.

    Designed, produced, and/or implemented projects for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Science Foundation (NSF), DARPA, Department of Defense (DoD), Harvard University, Fortune 500s, Global 2000s, NGOs, colleges and universities, and medical schools.

    Projects range from small US $0-$100 micro-business and non-profit bootstrap projects to multi-billion dollar projects such as distribution ($14 billion), communication ($32 billion), finance ($50 billion), and logistics ($302 billion).

    My first consulting project at age 13 was a financial analysis program to assist my high school teachers in salary negotiations as they evaluated the overall value of various salary/benefit packages.

  • Principal

    Parabola Group

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

    December 2007April 2008 (5 months)

    It’s sad to see how poorly project management has
    progressed in the past 30 years.

    The vast majority of projects are still over-budget, inadequately planned, and poorly executed. Moreover due to poor management and oversight, the people working in the projects are often overworked and badly treated.

    A fan of “fail fast” strategies, I hate all the wasted effort and "wealth destruction" in early companies because our US business processes & US educational system provide so little quality support to empower entrepreneurs.

    http://parabolagroup.com

  • Board Member

    Choreographers Performance Alliance

    (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Performing Arts industry)

    20042007 (3 years)

    Dance organization which provides support for emerging artists. Since the 1980s, the number of available venues for emerging dance artists has steeply declined.

    http://www.worksintheworks.org

  • Volunteer Organizer

    Northern California Dance Collective

    (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Performing Arts industry)

    19992007 (8 years)

    Northern California Dance Collective (NCDC) is a diverse group of people who love to dance.

    We are especially interested in the place where dance and community meet, and one of our goals is to create more of these places in our lives.

    We put on a variety of events, from one-day commuter workshops to our nine-day summer dance camp, all focused on bringing together dance and community, often in beautiful and natural settings.

    2008: Fri 6/13/08 - Sun 6/22/08 Summer Camp in Sierras

    http://ncdcdances.org

  • Volunteer Staff, Photographer, and Videographer

    Camp Fareta

    (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Performing Arts industry)

    20072007 (less than a year)

    Camp Fareta is a weeklong residential workshop hosted by Youssouf Koumbassa, a master dancer, choreographer, and teacher from Guinea, West Africa, and featuring many other master dancers and drummers from Guinea, Mali, and Senegal

    An immersion in West African drum and dance, held at a beautiful setting in the southern Sierras of California in early July.

    2008: Sun 7/6/08 - Sun 7/13/08 Summer Camp in Sierras

    http://dancingvillage.com/camp_fareta.php

    My Photos: http://spiritualbusinesscompanions.com/fareta2007

  • Volunteer Photographer

    San Francisco Dance and Drum Festival

    (Privately Held; Entertainment industry)

    20072007 (less than a year)

    Join us as we bring the spirit of Africa to the Bay Area with renowned international dancers and drummers!

    2008: Wed 11/5/08 - Sun 11/9/08 in Oakland, CA

    http://www.celebrateclitoris.com/SFafricandance.html

    My Photos & Videos: http://tinyurl.com/4savhm

  • Volunteer

    Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation

    (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Performing Arts industry)

    20042006 (2 years)

    The annual Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation (SFADI) is a full week of dance classes, jams, performances, and discussions.

    SFADI brings together a wide range of local, national, and international dance artists and movement educators to teach the over 100 students (both recreational and professional dancers) who attend the festival each year.

    2008: Sun 7/27/08 - Sun 8/3/08 Workshop in Seattle

    http://www.danceartgroup.org/sfadi/sfadi.html

  • Board Member

    AXIS Dance Company

    (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Performing Arts industry)

    20042005 (1 year)

    Since 1987, AXIS Dance Company has been a pioneer in the world of dance, creating and presenting cutting-edge, contemporary works by dancers with and without disabilities.

    AXIS teaches dance and educates about collaboration and disability through community outreach and education programs.

    AXIS was founded by Judith Smith, a champion equestrian who became disabled in a car accident at age 17.

    http://www.axisdance.org

  • Co-Founder

    Southern California Dance Collective

    (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Performing Arts industry)

    20002005 (5 years)

    Co-Founder of Southern California Dance Collective (SCDC), a community of people who love to dance.

    Our aim is to create low cost, not-for-profit, smoke and alcohol-free, freestyle barefoot dances.

    We produce special dance events that everyone can afford and anyone can attend, including dance weekends and an annual weeklong dance camp in nature.

    http://scdance.org

  • Temporary IS Manager

    Spirit Rock Meditation Center

    (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Religious Institutions industry)

    September 2004February 2005 (6 months)

    Spirit Rock Meditation Center (founder Jack Kornfield) is one of the 2 largest US Buddhist retreat centers.

    Inwardly, as human beings we need settings where we can renew our connection to ourselves, to nature, and to life itself through silence and mindful attention.

    Started improving typical low-quality IT & database system for analytical Internet marketing.

    Installed Issue/Bug Tracking system and Real-Time Wireless Network monitoring. Brought Raiser's Edge address database of 60,000 people from 40% out-of-date to 90% accurate. Bought automatic address updating software to interface with Raisers Edge (Non-Profit Funding Management Software). Instituted ROMI analysis of on-line targeted NetMail marketing from Raiser's Edge (Achieving 1-4% purchase rate).

    Unable to bring $6 million non-profit out of IT fire-fighting mode.

    Non-profit management & scarcity mindset is really tough to improve.

    http://spiritrock.org
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kornfield

  • Guest Dancer

    White Oak Dance Project

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Performing Arts industry)

    20002000 (less than a year)

    Danced with Mikhail Baryshnikov in a Judson-era postmodern dance piece.

    The White Oak Dance Project was a dance company founded in 1990 by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Mark Morris to be the touring arm of the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Oak_Dance_Project
    http://baryshnikovdancefoundation.org

  • Head Wizard

    DotCom Director, Inc.

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

    19992000 (1 year)

    Co-Founder of DotCom Director, a 33-person business incubator that provided venture funding, strategy, and technology.

    Our client Legal Research Network (LRN.com) was funded by Softbank for $30 million.

    medi.com, a medical claims company, was acquired by WebMD for $280 million and was one of Deloitte & Touche's "Technology Fast 50".

    Our team helped raise $120 million.

    http://dotcomdirector.com

    Our employee Xing Li created FanFiction.net, currently ranked #281 at Alexa in April 2008. Xing was a UCLA student, and we are the company mentioned anonymously in this history of Fan Fiction as hosting his website. Xing Li was a great coder.

    http://www.fanhistory.com/index.php?title=FanFiction.Net

  • Speech Group Intern

    Microsoft Research

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    19981998 (less than a year)

    Worked on a multimodal gesture-language PowerPoint interface in LEAP (Language Enabled APplications) for Xuedong Huang under Rick Rashid at MSR (Microsoft Research).

    Bill Gates did a nice job starting Microsoft Research.

    Wonder if Google Research founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will do as well, while Bill heads to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Or Yahoo Research. Will anyone ever match the productivity of IBM Research?

    It's a godsend that Warren Buffet trusts Bill Gates to handle his billions!

    Perhaps Bill Gates's tough accounting will raise the accountability of the non-profit industry (who's overhead ratio and efficiency is abysmal).

    http://research.microsoft.com
    http://research.microsoft.com/srg
    http://research.microsoft.com/srg/slu.aspx
    http://www.microsoft.com/speech/speech2007/default.mspx

  • Faculty

    Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; WPO; Education Management industry)

    19921995 (3 years)

    Taught all subjects of MCAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, and SAT.

    http://kaplan.com

  • Violinist, Composer, & Dancer

    Corps de Phunque

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Performing Arts industry)

    19921993 (1 year)

    Modern dance company including poets, musicians, and dancers.

  • Vice-President

    Financial Modeling Specialists - FMS Inc

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

    19871990 (3 years)

    In 1987, FMS (Financial Modeling Specialists, fmsinc.com, not the other company of this name) was a 2-person company. I joined my college roommate Luke Chung as the first employee after he founded this company in 1986.

    Helped create a 22-year-old award-winning consulting firm designing database solutions for Global 2000 corporate and government clients.

    FMS developed an award-winning family of software products -- mostly products designed to help people manage medium-large software projects based on our own project experiences.

    FMS's software used by 10,000+ customers, including 90% of the Fortune 100 and 95% of the Fortune 500.

    Software Development Times: 100 Top Software Innovators and Leaders

    Winner of over 40 industry awards for FMS products

    Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

    http://fmsinc.com

  • Research Assistant

    Harvard Medical School

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; HMS; Research industry)

    19841986 (2 years)

    Anti-viral research with Professor Donald Coen (Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology).

    http://coen.med.harvard.edu

  • Research Assistant

    Harvard University

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

    19831984 (1 year)

    X-ray Crystallography with Professor William Lipscomb (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1976)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lipscomb
    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1976/lipscomb-autobio.html
    http://www.chem.harvard.edu/research/faculty/william_lipscomb.php

  • Violinist

    Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra

    (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Music industry)

    19821984 (2 years)

    Violinist in Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) which toured England, Netherlands, France, and Berlin-Wall-era Russia in 1984.

    Fortunate to have performed in many famous concert halls (e.g. Concertgebouw in Amsterdam before they remodeled).

    Retired after 1984. Had to decide between a career in Music, Science, Medicine, Economics, or Government. And ended up as an Entrepreneur.

    Paris was the last place I performed Violin onstage until I joined the modern dance troupe Corps de Phunque in 1992 (8 years later).

    http://hcs.harvard.edu/~hro

  • Research Assistant

    Liquid Crystal Institute

    (Chemicals industry)

    19831983 (less than a year)

    Created liquid crystal database program from scratch to manage 3-D chemical structures.

    Yep. Wrote the entire database. Not something on top of dBase or IBM DB2, or a modern Oracle, SQL, or MS Access relational or object-oriented database.

    But coding all the database features directly in Fortran 66.
    3-D chemical structures were too messy for the databases of that era.

    Now, we've got XML, ODBC, JDBC, PHP / MySQL, yada, yada...

    Soooo much easier these days.

  • Research Assistant

    Kent State University

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    19811982 (1 year)

    Developed Apple ][e - Burroughs 5500 interactive interface for 3-D chemical visualization system.

    The kind of 3-D stuff that's commonplace in the 2000s, but needed a whole mainframe back then.

    And that darn Burroughs CANDE operating system (ahem JCL...Job Control Language).

    At least using video screens was better than the punchcards on the older IBM mainframes. We had to use printers to read our programs back then.

    Too bad Kent State University wasn't using the new-fangled DEC VAXs with VMS operating systems, or the competing versions of the new operating system called... :-) UNIX (Berkeley 3BSD or VMUNIX & IBM System 7).

    Yah.... 4-4.3 BSD Unix took 6 years to develop from 1980-86, and I started using BSD Unix in 1982 when I joined Harvard.

    IBM did the messy System V unix. Linux kernel started in 1991 with Linus Torvalds.

    Now Unix drives my MacBook Pro laptop. Times do change...

    "My, my. A body does get around." - William Faulkner

    http://www.kent.edu

  • Consultant

    Theodore Roosevelt High School

    (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

    19791980 (1 year)

    My first consulting project at age 13 was a financial analysis program on a Commodore PET microcomputer to assist my high school teachers in salary negotiations as they compared various salary/benefit packages.

    Didn't have spreadsheets back then (Before Visicalc, Lotus 123, Microsoft Multiplan, or... today's Microsoft Excel). So I created the whole flexible analysis program in Commodore BASIC.

    It was easier than coding 98 AA 6C in assembly language on the tiny 3-4" screens that our earlier microcomputers had.

    Oh, the days of loading assemblers into the computer with a cassette tape. If you were lazy and didn't want to wait, you coded directly in hexadecimal.

    http://kentschools.net/rhs

  • Solo Violinist

    Kent State University Sinfonia

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    19791979 (less than a year)

    Orchestral debut concert at age 12.

    Studied until Leopold Sipe and Professor Ma Si-Hon (Inventor of the SiHon Violin Mute)

    http://kent.edu
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Paul_Chamber_Orchestra


Mitchell Tsai’s Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles

    M.S., Computer Science, 2000

    Did research for Professor Jerry Popek (CTO, United Online) and Professor Peter Reiher in Active Networks and Wireless Distributed Operating System Laboratory.

    Did research for Professor Andrew Kahng and Professor David Jefferson in Collaborative Robotics with Rodney Brooks' R3 robots. Advisor: Professor Michael Dyer (Natural Language).

    Studied Bayesian Networks with Professor Judea Pearl, Search with Professor Richard Korf, and Network Queueing with Professor Leonard Kleinrock (one of the fathers of the Internet in 1969).

    Studied Dance (Modern, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Ballet) & Cognitive Psychology

    Activities and Societies:
    Gymnastics Club (with Brian & Terry)
  • George Mason University

    Psychology & Communication 19881990

  • Harvard University

    A.B., Chemistry & Physics (Age 15), 19821986

    Did research for Nobel Prize winner Professor William Lipscomb (X-Ray Crystallography) and Professor Donald Coen (Harvard Medical School - Virology and Pharmacology). Advisor: Professor Gerald Holton (Physics)

    Studied graduate-level Economics, Math, and Biochemistry

    Activities and Societies:
    Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) 1982-84, Thayer Middle 1982-83, Quincy House 1983-86
  • Kent State University

    Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Violin (Age 10) 19761983

    Studied Violin with Professor Ma Si-Hon (Inventor of the SiHon Violin Mute)

    Began calculus, modern algebra, real analysis, factor analysis, etc... at Age 10

    Started computer programming in 1977 with punchcards on IBM, Burroughs, and DEC mainframes using Fortran 66, Cobol, C, Commodore Basic, Forth, and Lisp. We pulled "insects" out of the IBM mainframes every day when they would cause the computers to crash. The computers filled the room, and our printer was the size of a small car.

    I was just a tad too young for DEC PDP-10 paper-tape and sliderules. :-)

  • Kent Roosevelt High School

    19791982


Additional Information

Mitchell Tsai’s Websites:

Mitchell Tsai’s Interests:

Visiting our global communities (30 countries so far...) Dance (Modern, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Ballet), Gymnastics, Cycling, Rollerblading, Marathon Running, Competition Weight-lifting, Figure Skating, Ice Hockey, Gambling for Profit Concerts, Workshops, Performances (Art, Dance, Food, Movies, Music, Spirituality, Psychology, Science, Medicine, Health) -- Poverty Alleviation, Global Sustainable Abundance, World-wide Health, Spirituality, and Love, Encourage Creativity, Innovation, & Expression, Support Leadership & Entrepreneurship in Women & Minorities, Sustainably raise Global production 4X from $50-70 trillion to $250+ trillion, Raise Global wealth 10X from $98 trillion to $1+ quadrillion

Mitchell Tsai’s Groups:

Dance New England (DNE), West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival (WCCIF), Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance & Improvisation (SFADI), Northern California Dance Collective (NCDC), Southern California Dance Collective (SCDC), International Enneagram Association (IEA), Choreographers Performance Alliance (CPA, former board member), Footloose Dance Company (board member), AXIS Dance Company (former board member, contemporary dance with abled & disabled dancers), Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA), Microsoft Research - Speech Group Intern (MSFT), IEEE, Spirit Rock Meditation Center (SRMC), Westinghouse Science Talent Search (STS-1982)

  •    UCLA Alumni
  •    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
  •    KIVA
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    Obama for America
  •    Grameen Foundation
  •    Marathoners
  •    International Network of Social Entrepreneurs
  •    Facebook.com
  •    Worldwide Association of Professional Dreamers
  •    Harvard Club of Silicon Valley
  •    EEC Global Sustainable Development
  •    Web Analytics Association
  •    Virtual Networker Society
  •    Runners
  •    Las Vegas Travellers
  •    Musicians
  •    FlyerTalk.com
  •    Wikipedia Users Group
  •    Google Group
  •    Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup
  •    The Wall Street Journal Group
  •    Consumer Reports Group
  •    Ex-Microsoft Employees
  •    Green Group
  •    Harvard University Alumni
  •    Microsoft Excel Users
  •    Economist Group
  •    Venture Capital
  •    Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks Meetup Group
  •    Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA)
  •    Creative String Players

Mitchell Tsai’s Honors:

Danced with Mikhail Baryshnikov and White Oak Dance Project (Judson-era post-modern dance)

Violinist in Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) which toured England, Netherlands, France, and Berlin-Wall-era Russia in 1984. Fortunate to have performed in many famous concert halls (e.g. Concertgebouw in Amsterdam before they remodeled).

Solo violin debut with Kent State University Sinfonia 1979 (Age 12)

National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship
Westinghouse Science Talent Search (STS) Scholarship
American Academy of Achievement honoree

Helped Professor Richard Korf with program to find optimal solutions (God's solution) to Rubik's Cube

Lifetime ban from 2 casino chains in Las Vegas (for slot machines, not blackjack!)


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