Singapore-MIT Alliance
Summer Conference 2001
The two-day Programme was held in the Wong Auditorium in the Tang Center (E-51)
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Speaker
Yonald Chery CTO & VP of R&D, Newbury Networks, Inc.; MIT Alum
Abstract Being An Entrepreneur
Drawing from his recent start-up experiences, Yonald will present a brief history of the evolution of both the entrepreneurial venture and the entrepreneur, presenting his viewpoints on what happens when one sets out to transform ideas into products. He will present the importance of entrepreneurial team formation, the role of intellectual property protection, fundraising pre- and post- the dot-com collapse, and other facts and questions that would-be entrepreneurs should consider.
Biography Yonald is the CTO and VP of R&D for Newbury Networks, a start-up company incubated at idealab's Boston headquarters, specializing in enabling software technologies for wireless applications development and deployment over short-range wireless networks. Prior to joining Newbury Networks, Yonald was a founder and CTO of Virtual Ink and the inventor of the mimio digital whiteboard system. Virtual Ink was a $10,000 winner in the 1997 MIT $50k Entrepreneurship Competition. His previous employment history includes working for Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and Motorola Cambridge Research Center. Yonald's academic, research, training, and teaching interests include: optimizing compilers for parallel supercomputing, VLSI CAD for circuit reliability analysis, distributed CAD tools for circuit engineering, software technologies for ad-hoc network appliances, award-winning instruction in digital system design, and technology and product strategy. Yonald holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT and is a member of IEEE, ACM, and the Boston chapter of the Young Entrepreneur's Organization (YEO).
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