Episode Details

EE402T: Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries
The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Ecosystems Across Southeast Asia: Views of a Venture Capitalist
Speaker: Peng T. Ong, Managing Director, Monk’s Hill Ventures

Uploaded 05-04-17

Over the course of our public seminar series, we will explore the most recent trends, patterns, and challenges of entrepreneurship in Asia and their relevance to Silicon Valley and the U.S. Guest speakers include entrepreneurs, investors and mentors, and other experts on the current entrepreneurial ecosystems of major Asia economies. Read more about the course here: http://asia.stanford.edu/?page_id=7818

About the Speaker:
Peng T. Ong is an entrepreneur who invests in entrepreneurs. He does so primarily through his role as Managing Director at Monk’s Hill Ventures — a technology venture fund based in Southeast Asia that he co-founded. Peng is an independent board director of YY Inc. [NASDAQ:YY], IE Singapore, IMDA, and Solve Education!. He is a trustee of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) where he chairs the Investment Committee of SUTD’s Endowment Fund.

Venture Funds. Peng was the chair of Infocomm Investments from 2006 through 2013. He was also Venture Partner at GSR Ventures in Beijing from 2010 to 2013 and was Chairman of Jungle Ventures from 2011 to 2013.

Companies. Peng founded Encentuate in 2002. From 2008 through 2009, he was an executive at IBM, after Encentuate’s acquisition. Prior to founding Encentuate, Peng was the founder and chairman of Interwoven, Inc. (now part of HP), the leading provider of content infrastructure. He was the president and CEO of Interwoven through 1997, and its chairman through 2002. During his tenure at Interwoven he led the company to a successful IPO [NASDAQ: IWOV]. In 2002, for his leadership in building Interwoven into the world’s leading provider of enterprise-class content infrastructure software, Peng was awarded the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Engineering’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Service. Before Interwoven, Peng was co-founder and chief architect of Electric Classifieds, Inc.—the creators of Match.com (now part of IAC). The three businesses he started now generate annual revenues that total more than US$1 billion.

Peng has also held various engineering and management roles at Sybase, Inc. (now SAP), Illustra (now IBM Informix), and Gensym Corporation. Peng co-authored numerous patents for technologies developed at his companies.

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