John B Chen
InvestorFounder & Managing Partner at Hive Ventures
Taiwan
Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M
About
Technical leader and entrepreneur with deep experience across US and Chinese technology ecosystems, particularly in Big Data and AI. Started career as a software engineer at Silicon Valley startups and has built global products in distributed systems. Holds an MBA from CEIBS and a Computer Science degree from Cornell University.
Experience
- Hive VenturesFounder and Managing Partnercurrent2019 — presentTaipei City, Taiwan
- Acorn Campus TaiwanPrincipal2018 — 2019Taipei City, Taiwan
- iClick Interactive Asia LimitedExecutive VP of Technology2015 — 2018
- BuzzinateFounder and CTO2009 — 2015Shanghai, China
- Acorn Campus VenturesAssociate2007
- Symphoniq CorporationSenior Software Engineer2003 — 2007
- ANDA NetworksSoftware Engineer2002
- Optimight CommunicationsSoftware Engineer2001 — 2002
- Nortel NetworksQA Engineer2000
- CiscoQA Engineer1999
Education
- China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)MBA2007 — 2009
- Cornell UniversityBS, Computer Science1998 — 2001
- Carnegie Mellon University1997 — 1998
- Phillips Academy1996 — 1997
Skills & more
Java13JavaScript7.NET2PHP3Scala1Hadoop5Apache11Perl4Subversion3BlockchainCassandra2Storm
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KestrelDevOpsScalabilityCross-functional Team LeadershipStart-upsTechnical LeadershipEntrepreneurshipProduct ManagementBusiness DevelopmentMarketing StrategyBusiness StrategyBig DataLanguages Chinese · English
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- John B Chen typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
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Also worked at iClick Interactive Asia Limited2
Also worked at Buzzinate1
Also worked at Nortel Networks43
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