Chuck Eesley

Assistant Professor and Morgenthaler Faculty Fellow, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University

 

Chuck Eesley is an Assistant Professor and Morgenthaler Faculty Fellow in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. As part of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, his research focuses on the role of the institutional and university environment in high-growth, technology entrepreneurship. Prof. Eesley was selected in 2015 as an Inaugural Schulze Distinguished Professor. His National Science Foundation of China and Kauffman award supported research focuses on rethinking how the educational and policy environment shapes the economic and entrepreneurial impact of university alumni. Over the past three years, Prof. Eesley has been playing a growing role in national and international meetings on fostering high-tech entrepreneurship, including advising the U.S. State Department in the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) program, Chile (CORFO), Taiwan (ITRI), and the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the Strategic Management Journal. Before coming to Stanford, Prof. Eesley completed his Ph.D. at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management in 2009 where he won BPS Division and Kauffman Dissertation Awards for his work on high-tech entrepreneurship in China.

 

He started his first company while earning a Bachelor's degree from Duke University in 2002 (Biological Basis of Behavior). Prof. Eesley spent 2002-2005 doing research at the Duke University Medical Center (schizophrenia) and Duke’s Center for Health Policy (vaccine innovation). His work has been published among other places in Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, and Biological Psychiatry. Prof. Eesley previously was an entrepreneur (Lobby 10, Sun Dance Genetics, Learning Friends), early employee (NovoEd.com), board member/advisor (Blackbird, LessonFace, TommyJams), and investor (Flagship Ventures, Lux Capital). NovoEd.com launched around his online course, which was the first entrepreneurship MOOC and has taught over 200,000 students in over 100 countries. He currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Startup Chile as well as private companies in online education and AI/Deep Learning. He has given invited talks in forums with the Prime Minister of Slovenia and keynote addresses in Taiwan, China, and Brazil. His research findings have been featured in outlets such as Forbes (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015), Bloomberg, Smart Money, Stanford News, 2012, 2016, Wall Street Journal, SFGate, The Independent, Boston.com (Bill Gates), Inc. magazine, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

 

 

Mike D. Lepech

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University

 

Michael Lepech is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Mike’s research focuses on the integration of sustainability indicators into engineering design, ranging from materials design, structural design, system design, to operations management and finance. Such sustainability indicators include a comprehensive set of environmental, economic, and social impacts. Within civil engineering, his research has led to the development of new building materials and building practices for more sustainable built environments. As leader of a new banking initiative at Stanford, the application of his research is rethinking the definitions of value, risk, and innovation within the financial services sector.  

 

His research, teaching, and practice have taken him around the world teaching green design and entrepreneurship topics. As a researcher in residence at the Stanford Center at Peking University (SCPKU) in Beijing, he is introducing new financial accounting metrics to better balance economic development with environmental protection throughout China. As an instructor, he has taught numerous executive education and professional education courses on topics of finance, leadership, sustainability, and entrepreneurship in the US, Brazil, France, Korea, South Africa, and China. He has co-founded four companies in the US and China based on his research in advanced construction materials.  These companies are currently developing and marketing products produced with “bendable concrete,” or Engineered Cementitious Composite (ECC).

Michael joined the Stanford University faculty from the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering (Materials) from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, and his MBA in strategy and finance from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. 

 

 

 

Ashmeet Sidana

Ashmeet is the Founder and Managing Partner of Engineering Capital, a seed-stage venture capital fund based in Silicon Valley that specializes in IT infrastructure.

 

Ashmeet’s experience includes managing venture capital funds, serving on multiple Boards of Directors, and helping build the industry leading products VMware ESX Server and Silicon Graphics WebFORCE. Before this last decade as a venture capitalist Ashmeet was an operating executive with hands-on operating experience as a CEO and Entrepreneur. Previous investments and Boards include Azure Power (NYSE:AZRE) Freewheel (acquired by Comcast), InQuira (acquired by Oracle), Palerra (acquired by Oracle), Altor (acquired by Juniper), Appurify (acquired by Google) and PrivateCore (acquired by Facebook). Current investments include Baffle, Datos IO, Kentik, Menlo Security, SignalFX, StackStorm and YotaScale. Ashmeet came to venture from VMware, where he ran product management for their flagship product - ESX Server. Before VMware, Ashmeet was the Founder and CEO of Sidana Systems, Inc. He started his career at Hewlett Packard and Silicon Graphics as an engineer. 

 

Ashmeet received an MBA from Wharton, MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS in Computer Science from USC. In his spare time he can be found planning his second trip to Mt. Everest.

 

 

Charles C. Koo(戈家霖)

 

Experience

Founded and led seven venture backed startups in 29 years. Raised over $80M from premier venture funds in the US, Taiwan and China.  Two companies were acquired and three other are currently active.  Designed and developed multiple successful products with advanced technologies. 

 

Envive Technology, Ltd.

CEO & Chairman /Current

Founded the artificial-intelligence-based medical diagnosis company.  Raised $12M venture funding. Architected the AI system. 

         

RenalPro Medical, Inc.         

CEO /Current

Co-founded the medical device company.  Designed, developed the novel device that protected kidneys from acute injuries from contrast media.  The device was successfully proven in animal studies at Stanford.  Raised funds and lined up distribution partners. 

 

Stanford University, EE & d.School     

Visiting Scholar

National Taiwan University,

Visiting Expert  

Invented revolutionary Noxipoint® therapy that cured chronic pain. Completed multi-centered clinical trial at Stanford and NTU as the principal investigator, and published the report at Nature’s Scientific Reports in 2015.  Obtained FDA approval and US patent on Noxipoint devices. 


Evincii, Inc.

CEO & Chairman

Founded the knowledge-based medical search engine company. Designed expert system for automated diagnosis and proprietary deductive search engine for consumer health and medicine.  Concluded contracts with pharmaceutical manufacturers and major retailers. Architected online and mobile app platforms. Invented multiple technologies in knowledge-based search.  Raised $15M venture funding.

 

iMedica Corporation (Renamed to Aprima)

CEO & Chairman

Founded the clinical information and electronic medical record (EMR) system company. Raised $25 million investment in three venture rounds during the venture capital draught.  Envisioned and architected the mobile, knowledge-guided EMR system for physicians.  Led the company to the Top EMR System provider rated by Forrester Research. Named “Movers and Shakers” by Frost & Sullivan.  Consummated landmark deals with strategic clients such as HCA, the largest hospital group in the US.  Recruited a new CEO and an elite executive team for the next phase.  

 

Envive Corporation

Chairman

Founded the real-time enterprise system performance and availability management company.  Raised $40 million in two venture rounds from Mayfield, SAP and other funds.  Envisioned a suite of system management platform for enterprise software including SAP, Oracle, Informix and large websites. Formed global partnerships with competitors such as HP and BMC.  Led the company to Upside’s “Hot 100 Growing Companies” in 1999.  Company was acquired by Keynote Corporation (KEYN). 

 

Intellisys Corporation

CEO & Chairman

Founded and self-funded the software development company. Architected a high-availability client-service application development platform. Won near-monopoly share of the insurance and banking enterprise system markets in Taiwan.  Led the company to top-tier ERP system integration company in Asia. Company was acquired in 1997. 

  

Teknekron Management Systems

President & Division Manager

Founded the management system development division/company, providing manufacturing management solutions to the process industry. Re-engineered management processes and developed systems for clients.  Pioneered and developed large-scale client-server enterprise systems. 

 

Stanford University. 

 

Honors, and Patents