Eric Chan

Current

Wireless SIG Chair at VCTaskforce
Founding Partner at Mobileslate
Adjunct Lecturer, Consulting Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University

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Past

Products Guy and Co-Founder at Caboodle Networks
Product Evangelist at Sun Microsystems

Education

Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
University High School of SF

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Industry

Wireless

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Eric Chan’s Summary

Avid proponent of wireless technology and mobility.

Lecturer and Panelist about mobile technology and software.

Blogger about mobile at: http://www.mobileslate.com/blog/

Eric Chan’s Specialties:

Mobile wireless data networks, wireless content and services

Eric Chan’s Experience

Wireless SIG Chair

VCTaskforce

(Wireless industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Established to provide a system of services including: business, legal and financial programs that provide real-time, strategic and tactical information addressing imminent concerns of venture capitalists and portfolio companies.
Founding Partner

Mobileslate

(Wireless industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )

Consulting Services for mobile and social media:

Creative Mobile/Social Media Product Development
- Focused on building compelling user experiences for marketing and advertising
- Drive revenue from digital media, not just branding and awareness

Global Business Development
- Targeted market expansion into Asia and Europe for US-based companies
- Targeted market expansion into North America for Asian-based companies
- Strategic Partnerships and Alliances within the Mobile Ecosystem

Venture Advisor:
- Early-stage Silicon Valley mobile and social media start-ups: Business plans, funding strategy, venture funding

Mobile Evangelist:
- Speaking Engagements about Mobile Technology

Professional Blog about Mobile and Wireless:
http://www.mobileslate.com/blog
Adjunct Lecturer, Consulting Faculty

Carnegie Mellon University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

2003 — Present (6 years )

Affiliations:
School of Computer Science (http://www.cs.cmu.edu)

Enable practical technology solutions for companies:

Patroline
- Built Tablet PC touchscreen application for real-time pipeline monitoring
- Utilize external camera (on outside of aircraft) and integrate photos for incident assessment and archiving
- Client/Server application for data collection, report generation and billing using OpenSource Content Management software

Sylvan Source
- Built web based pricing calculator, system configurator, proposal generator

Wells Fargo Bank
Project 1: Building a SWIFTNet implementation
Project 2: Launching Mobile Commercial Banking initiatives
Project 3: Building a Global Bank Payment Hub
Project 4: Architect RIA prototype for new commercial banking portal
Products Guy and Co-Founder

Caboodle Networks

(Privately Held; Wireless industry)

2003 — 2007 (4 years )

From inception created an idea to make mobile search more powerful and easy to use. Help build a team to make ideas into software reality and filing two patents along the way based on the semantic web, agents and ontologies. From that came mobile operator trials and an open source version of the software that hundreds of people downloaded.

Caboodle was acquired by MCN (Mobile Content Networks) in 2007.
Product Evangelist

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Telecommunications industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )

Pixo (Content Download Server) acquired by Sun in 2002
Product Marketing Manager
- Promote and evangelize the benefits of being able to download content to a mobile device such as ringtones, wallpapers and games when it was just emerging as a viable data revenue stream. Created collateral, PR, events and leveraged press, analysts and other channels to maximize marketing efforts.

Product Manager, Solaris Product Marketing
- Launched and evangelized one of the first Open Source products from Sun Microsystems, Solaris 8. Utilized existing company marketing channels, both online and offline, events, and leverage marketing and distribution partnerships to effectively drive exposure to millions of developers worldwide to download or purchase a copy of the software.