Business Seminar
Title: Can Japanese venture companies really challenge the global market?
~Startup importance and global potential in the context of Japanese society~
Speaker : Mr. Allen Miner (Founder/CEO, SunBridge Corporation, USA)
Date and Time: May 29, 2014 (Thursday), 15:00-17:00 (Free of charge)
(Discussion Party 17:00―18:00 Fee: 1000 Yen)
Venue : Kumamoto Shintoshin Plaza 5F Plaza Hall
Kumamoto City, Nishi-ku, Kasuga 1 Choume 14-1
About the speaker:
Allen Miner is a founder/General Partner of SunBridge Partners and the founder/CEO of SunBridge Corporation.
After graduating from Brigham Young University with degrees in Computer Science and Asian Studies, he joined Oracle Corporation in 1986 and was dispatched to Japan, where he founded and helped lead Oracle Japan. He returned from Japan in 1996 to serve as Oracle's Vice President in charge of Linux/Open Source.
He created SunBridge Corporation in 1999. As SunBridge CEO, he aims to create a dynamic, collaborative environment in which Japanese information technology startups develop at a globally competitive pace. SunBridge provides a variety of growth-enabling services to both startups and global enterprises.
Allen currently serves on the Boards of several SunBridge portfolio companies, as an advisor to government-affiliated organizations focused on innovation and entrepreneurship, and on the boards of NPO ETIC, a Tokyo organization promoting social entrepreneurship and providing entrepreneurial training for university students. He was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Japan Venture Capital Association upon its founding in 2002.
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