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Podcast/Video Interviews by Stephen Ibaraki

A 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 WongJoanne 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.

TO WATCH THE VIDEO INTERVIEW, CLICK ON THIS MP4 file link