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CIPS CONNECTIONSPodcast/Video Interviews by Stephen IbarakiA Chat with Joanne Wong: Serial Entrepreneur; Chair of IEEE Entrepreneurship; Mentor/Advisor for mutliple startups; General Partner of REDDS Capital This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Joanne Wong. Joanne Wong is the Chair of IEEE Entrepreneurship - Connecting tech entrepreneurs to an engineering-driven global Innovation network. Joanne is General Partner of REDDS Capital, a Californian VC firm investing in global early-stage IT startups. She has worked with IBM, HP, SAP, and Cisco in multiple technical, market development, and strategic investments positions. Joanne was the Executive Director of a healthcare charity start-up, providing free green access to high performance computational resources for biomedical researchers. She has co-founded startups in 3D simulation for learning, and a startup of a multi-modal research data management platform for longitudinal clinical studies. She is a mentor/advisor for multiple startups. Joanne has served on several boards including the Government of Canada ICT sector council setting research and advising ICT policy for the country. |