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    Richard Jhang

    Richard Jhang

    Founder/CEO, STRΛTMINDS. Investor and advisor in AI, Commerce, and UX. Lover of all things oceanic or electric. 🌁🏄🏻🍁

    Angel Investor San Francisco Bay Area Stanford University '17
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    Experience
    NWTM Management
    NWTM Management
    Advisor
    BeWearthy
    BeWearthy
    Advisor
    O Intelligence
    O Intelligence
    Advisor
    Creative Destruction Lab
    Creative Destruction Lab
    Advisor
    SKAEL
    SKAEL
    Advisor
    Hyperspec.ai
    Hyperspec.ai
    Advisor
    CHIRP
    CHIRP
    Advisor
    StratMinds
    StratMinds
    Founder, CEO 2018 - Present (over 8 years)
    STRΛTMINDS is a San Francisco-based Venture Capital and Advisory firm. We support exceptional entrepreneurs with an ambition to generate an outsized impact. We help them reach... more their full potential with early-stage investment and strategic advice. We are a thesis-driven firm, focusing on key areas of development that are disrupting the world for the better.
    IBM
    IBM
    Chief Innovation Officer, Hyper Growth Business / Global Partner of Digital Strategy 2017 - Present (over 9 years)
    Advises IBM as well as IBM’s key clients on strategic / disruptive technologies and innovative business / operating models. Also leads the Applied AI & Automation Strategy... more practice – a specialty business strategy practice with its focus on helping our clients reimagine and reengineer their businesses with intelligent machines at the core. I have extensive technology and strategy consulting background, having been in leadership roles at preeminent consulting firms.
    Strategy& (part of PWC network of firms and formerly Booz & Co.)
    Strategy& (part of PWC network of firms and formerly Booz & Co.)
    Senior Partner 2004 - 2017 (over 12 years)
    * Strategy& - Leader of Technology Strategy (including Digital, Innovation, M&A / Corp Dev, etc)
    * PwC - Leader of Technology Advisory (including IT Due Diligence... more & Merger Integration, Cyber Security, Information Management & Analytics, Technology Function Transformation, and several industry-focused practices)

    Corporate Development, Business Development / Sales, Practice / Operation Management, Strategy, Architecture / Design, Implementation and Operationalization.
    Cap Gemini
    Cap Gemini
    Senior Manager, Leader of Technology Infrastructure / TME Technology Architecture 2001 - 2004 (over 3 years)
    Led the North American Technology Infrastructure practice (large-scale telecom and enterprise data center infrastructure, including enterprise-class servers, storage and networking... more infrastructure) and TME (Telecom / Media / Entertainment) Technology Architecture practices.

    Business Development / Sales, Practice / Operation Management, Strategy, Architecture / Design, Implementation and Operationalization.
    Global Professional Services Spyn
    Global Professional Services Spyn
    Senior Enterprise Architect 1999 - 2001 (over 1 year)
    Served large-scale global clients that were building the internet / data center / server / storage / web infrastructure with high reliability, availability and scalability... more needs.

    Business Development / Sales, Operation Management, Strategy, Architecture / Design, Implementation and Operationalization.
    Axent Technologies (acquired by Symantec)
    Axent Technologies (acquired by Symantec)
    Senior Security Architect 2000 (7 months)
    Served large-scale enterprise clients in need of highly available / highly secure network and server infrastructure. Served telcos and financial services, primarily.

    Business... more Development / Sales, Strategy, Architecture / Design and Implementation.
    TD Canada Trust
    TD Canada Trust
    Senior Technical Analyst / Architect 1997 - 1999 (over 2 years)
    Worked as a senior technical analyst and architect in the Systems Architecture team to develop plans, architecture and prototypes production systems, including data warehouses,... more decision support / analytics systems, web banking, intranet, etc.

    Strategy, Architecture / Design, Implementation and Operationalization.
    Netizen
    Netizen
    Senior Technical Consultant 1997 (4 months)
    Worked as the technical consultant who developed the initial systems architecture and supporting business case for the prototype build-out and venture capital pitch (for the... more web-based enterprise collaboration system built on Java).

    Strategy and Architecture / Design.
    Founder
    StratMinds
    Employee
    Netizen, TD Canada Trust, Axent Technologies (acquired by Symantec), Global Professional Services Spyn, Cap Gemini, Strategy& (part of PWC network of firms and formerly Booz & Co.), IBM
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    Advisor
    CHIRP, Hyperspec.ai, SKAEL, Creative Destruction Lab, O Intelligence, BeWearthy, NWTM Management
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    Accounting Acquisitions Agile Artificial Intelligence Automation Bilingual Budgeting Business Case Development Business Development Business Management Consulting Cyber Security Due Diligence Enterprise Architecture Infrastructure Integrity Leadership Management P&L Professional Services Recruiting Security Services Sourcing Training Vendor Management
    Locations
    Palo Alto San Francisco
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