Phil Inje Chang

Current

• Lecturer in Start-up Business Management at Keio University
• Business and Product Development at Practical Innovation & Change

Past

• Technology Partnering Manager at Khazana, Inc.
• Head of Business Development, Asia and Europe at doubleTwist
• Head of Asia at Thirdeye - T Limited

• Product and Project Manger at Picsel Technologies
• Technology Director at Staellium UK
• Co-founder, CEO and President at e-Acumen
• New Media Services Director at AT&T
• Director of Marketing at StarNine Technologies
• Marketing at Macromedia
• Marketing at Graphisoft

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Education

• UC Berkeley

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Industry

Computer Software

Phil Inje Chang’s Summary

Wide-ranging career in high tech and telecommunications, culminating in co-founding and leading e-Acumen from start-up to leading energy industry solution provider for six years. After guiding e-Acumen through initial development, a major acquisition, early revenue growth and second round funding, Phil consolidated his experiences in innovation and entrepreneurship helping others achieve success.

Now offering business development, product development and management skills and expertise to Western companies seeking to expand in the East.

Phil Inje Chang’s Specialties:

Business Development, Sales and Marketing Management, Executive Management, Product Management, Growth and Change Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Leadership

Phil Inje Chang’s Experience

• Lecturer in Start-up Business Management

  Keio University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

• Business and Product Development

  Practical Innovation & Change

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2002 — Present (7 years 10 months)

  Consulting to technology businesses large and small, especially regarding digital media and messaging and mobile software

• Technology Partnering Manager

  Khazana, Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  2008 — 2009 (1 year )

  Identifying and creating alliances with Western technology companies seeking to do business in Japan and Asia.

• Head of Business Development, Asia and Europe

  doubleTwist

  (Computer Software industry)

  2008 — 2009 (1 year )

  Managing market growth in Japan initially, working closely with HQ in SF

• Head of Asia

  Thirdeye - T Limited

  (Computer Games industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• Product and Project Manger

  Picsel Technologies

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  2005 — 2008 (3 years )

  Developed product strategy for European mobile content solution, eventually deployed on Vodafone Live!. Helped develop and launch embedded mobile web browser for NEC on NTT DoCoMo network in Japan. Managed UI development of embedded photo viewing application in Japan. Developed strategy for mobile Value-Added Services based on innovative user experience.

• Technology Director

  Staellium UK

  (Computer Software industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year )

  Helped launch StealthText, self-destruct secure mobile messaging.

• Co-founder, CEO and President

  e-Acumen

  (Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 2002 (6 years )

  - Defined a product roadmap of high-value solutions for the rapidly changing energy industry
  - Working with co-founders, secured initial customers, including Shell Trading, and investors, including venture capital funds and GE Power Systems, amounting to $10 million in investment
  - Recruited top talent in sales, finance, development, product management, consulting and CEO/board level, including individuals with unusual skills and knowledge
  - Acquired a division of a consulting company with complementary technology and skills
  - Grew the company to 50 employees, 30 blue-chip customers and $6 million in revenue
  - Steered the board through numerous changes as the company grew
  - Implemented all marketing programmes and established a high-end market position
  - Directly supported sales, product development, product management, and support

• New Media Services Director

  AT&T

  (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

  1993 — 1996 (3 years )

  - Online Transactions Architect and Co-founder, bringing entrepreneurial principles to a rapid roll-out of the company’s first e-commerce service, called SecureBuy
  - New Media Services Director, leading a transformation of Downtown Digital, a 50-person R&D and production lab focused on interactive TV that spent $200 million on market trials, into commercial high-end web hosting for clients like 800-Flowers, Goodyear and Toys R Us, re-vamping its bloated cost structure and aligning the division with market trends and corporate direction
  - Technology Industry Specialist, acting as one of two Silicon Valley marketing experts within an internal special projects agency, assisting various business units with joint venture partnering and commercialising R&D from Bell Labs

• Director of Marketing

  StarNine Technologies

  (Computer Software industry)

  1992 — 1993 (1 year )

  - Created an elevated market presence for the company through intense PR and marketing
  - Advocated SMTP over X.400 as the most viable path forward for email in the early days of the commercial Internet
  - Steered the company into broader markets than the corporate LAN including what became the web
  - Increased the company’s attractiveness to larger players, leading to its acquisition by Quarterdeck

• Marketing

  Macromedia

  (Public Company; MACR; Computer Software industry)

  1991 — 1992 (1 year )

  - Managed marketing communication, product documentation and PR
  - Assisted in product managing ModelShop, a 3D design tool for architects and interior designers
  - Developed user case studies and created the first Macromedia product catalogue
  - Managed investor relations and learned about packaged software distribution from the VP of Sales and Marketing, a former VP of Sales from Symantec
  - Assisted the CEO of Paracomp in the merger with MacroMind

• Marketing

  Graphisoft

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1989 — 1991 (2 years )

  - Educated the company in the mores of American marketing
  - Launched their U.S. presence and helping to establish the company as a market leader in the Architecture Engineering and Construction vertical
  - Helped to ramp annual revenue to $2 million
  - Learned from a retired sales veteran at Hewlett Packard (one of our customers)

Phil Inje Chang’s Education

• UC Berkeley

  BA , Semiotics (Humanities and Neurobiology) , August 1982 — May 1986

  Activities and Societies:

  Shades of Gray journal of the arts

Additional Information

Phil Inje Chang’s Honors:

Cum Laude, Haverford School, Haverford, Pennsylvania
Regents Scholar, University of California, Berkeley