Edgar Chiu is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of SparkLabs Taiwan, a startup accelerator and venture capital fund founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs with a vision and mission to help founders go global. Prior to SparkLabs Taiwan, Edgar was the founding COO of Gogolook. There, he headed global partnerships for the Whoscall app, a global caller ID service, developing major partnerships in Japan, Korea, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In 2013, Gogolook was subsequently acquired by NAVER, the South Korean Internet Giant.

Previously, Edgar worked at IBM as a management consultant strategizing new market entry plans and discovering emerging business opportunities for top clients in the Asia Pacific. He received IBM’s Value Role Model Award in 2011. Edgar is also the Co-founder of Jumpstart Global, a talent acceleration program with a charity fund behind, cultivating over 300 entrepreneurial leaders for fast-growing organizations since 2014. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Quantitative Finance from National Tsing Hua University.

Alex Wu is currently a Founding Team and VP Strategy, Marketing, and Partnerships at NEX Team, a mobile artificial intelligence company comprised of seasoned, former Apple, Google, and Facebook engineers and second-time entrepreneurs, announced today the launch of HomeCourt, a basketball training App that uses the latest mobile Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to record, track, and chart shots for basketball players in real time. He is also Managing Partner at Cavalier Venture Partners, a venture capital firm with a focus on early and late stage technology and healthcare investments. Prior to starting Cavalier Venture Partners, Alex was Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Newsela, an education technology company backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Before joining Newsela, Alex led product marketing efforts at Uber, helping to bring affordable transportation options to thousands of small and medium-sized businesses all over the world.

Tony Ling was formerly a Managing Director at Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm focused on investments in the technology, tech-enabled, and related growth industries. While at Silver Lake, Tony led investments across a range of technology sectors including internet, semiconductor and hardware-related companies. Previous boards include GoDaddy (NASDAQ: GDDY) and IPC Systems. After Silver Lake, Tony co-founded IQ License, a marketplace connecting brands with licensed manufacturers, where he served as COO and CFO. IQ License customers included global brands across fashion, sports, and entertainment such as Christian Siriano, Chinese Laundry, Remington, and Alessandra Ambrosio. Tony has been an active angel investor throughout his career and enjoys supporting startups in the technology and health tech sectors. Tony received his BA in economics from Harvard University (1996) and MBA from Harvard Business School (2002).

Bernard Moon is a Co-founder & General Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures. He is also a Co-founder & General Partner at SparkLabs, a startup accelerator in Korea. Previously, he was Co-founder & CEO of Vidquik, a web conferencing & sales solutions platform. Bernard was a Managing Director at the Lunsford Group, which is a private investment firm with holdings in real estate, healthcare and other industries. Bernard was Co-founder & VP of Business Development of GoingOn Networks, a social media platform for companies, and also led their product development where BusinessWeek recognized them in their "Best of the Web" list. Previously, Bernard was a Director at iRG, a leading boutique investment bank in Asia, where he focused on TMT companies.

Bernard co-founded a couple of other startups, raised over $50 million in venture capital, and enjoys helping other entrepreneurs as much as possible: He serves as a mentor to MuckerLab, a startup accelerator in LA, and SixThirty, a fintech accelerator in St. Louis.. He is a frequent guest writer to various technology journals, such as VentureBeat, Mashable, TechCrunch, and ReadWrite, and has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications.

Bernard has spoke and lectured about startups and entrepreneurship at Stanford University, Global Entrepreneurship Congress, American Chamber of Commerce in Korea and other organizations. He was selected as one of 8 global judges for EDF's innovation contest (EDF is the world's biggest electricity producer based in France) and serves on the Advisory Board for GAN (Global Accelerator Network), which is the global champion of the seed-stage, mentorship-driven accelerator model and includes over 50 of the most respected accelerators from six continents around the world.

He completed a post-graduate fellowship with the Coro Foundation. He received his MPA in Telecom and New Media Policy from Columbia University and a BA in English and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jimmy Kim is Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures. He is also a Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs, a startup accelerator in Korea. Jimmy is Co-founder and President of N3N, an IoT platform company and Cisco’s first global IoT investment. They service numerous Fortune 500 companies and governments, such as Samsung Electronics, POSCO, Port of Singapore, The North Face, and Hyundai Motors. He previously served as N3N’s CEO. Previously, Jimmy was CEO of Nexonova, a game development studio of Nexon Corp that specializes in Social Network Games. Prior to Nexonova, Jimmy served as Executive Vice President of Nexon Corp, and Head of Nexon’s Portal (www.nexon.com, market cap: $5 billion) and Web Services. Nexon is one of the most successful online gaming providers, with games such as Maple Story, Dungeon and Fighter, Combat Arms, and Kart Rider. Nexon services over 20 games across 60 countries to an audience of 300 million.
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Jimmy was the founding investor and active deal adviser of Studio Ex, an online gaming studio that was acquired by Disney in 2012. Jimmy is sought-after speaker on online gaming and technology and has spoken at various conference such as LeWeb, Ad:Tech, and Web 2.0 Expo. Jimmy received his B.S. in Bio-medical Engineering from Northwestern University, and also a M.S. in Bio-medical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Jimmy also completed the Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business’s Executive Management Program.

Eugene is currently the Partner of Sparklabs and manages the day–to-day operations of the Sparklabs accelerator program.
Eugene previously served as a Director of Global Business Development at Tencent Korea. He was responsible for the sourcing of Korean game titles to China and Tencent’s global publishing network, headed the global sales of Tencent game titles, and he managed relationships with Tencent’s global publishing partners. Prior to Tencent, Eugene was Director of Business Development and Marketing at Podotree, an online educational app developer in Korea. He was responsible for their marketing and launch effort into the U.S. Previously, he was with Vertigo Games as the Group Manager of the Overseas Business Group.
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Eugene led all overseas sales efforts and service support, and all business development and game engine licensing activities.
Eugene was a Manager and Group Head of the Quality Assurance and Localization Group for NHN USA. He previously served as Project Manager of the Publishing Group at NHN USA and Assistant Manager of Global Strategy & Marketing Development at NHN Corporation. He began his career at The Contents Company, an SK company, in business development and played a key role in launching Korea’s first pilot IP TV service with overseas partners. He earned his BA in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Michigan.

Flora Hsieh is the program director of SparkLabs Taiwan. She was previously the Head of Operation of Junyi Academy, an EdTech online education platform that provides K-12 students personalized learning tool, and was responsible for fundraising, recruitment and finance.

Prior to Junyi Academy, She got the return offer from J.P. Morgan and started her career at J.P. Morgan Corporate Bank, Investor Services, as a client relationship analyst.

Flora is also an alumni of Global Shaper community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum and is a global network of young leaders driven to make positive local impact and share a spirit of entrepreneurship in the global public interest. Her focuses are on impact investment and nonprofit sustainability.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in Accounting from National Taiwan University.

Kenny is the finance manager at SparkLabs Taiwan, mainly responsible for day-to-day operation, tracking fund performance, and financial reporting. Kenny is experienced in FP&A, risk assessment, and resource management.

Prior to SparkLabs Taiwan, he was the CFO at a startup in the EV industry and led the business team. He drove the company to improve operational efficiency through financial analysis and risk management, creating record high revenue and profit. He also helped the company with fundraising and equity framework design.

Prior to working at the startup, Kenny worked as a senior auditor at PwC Taiwan for assurance service. He had extensive audit experience in various industries such as biotechnology, retail, and electronics. He also supported business clients to improve their internal control procedures.

Kenny graduated from National ChengChi University with a bachelor's degree in Accounting.

Mallory is a Program Manager at SparkLabs Taiwan and mainly supports the operations of the accelerator program.

Prior to SparkLabs Taiwan, Mallory was a product and project manager at the medical imaging AI company, aetherAI, where she was responsible for the product development and project implementation of the B2B medical software. She was also in charge of the company’s oversea market expansion, especially the business development in European market.

Prior to aetherAI, Mallory worked as a technical partnership manager at Huawei Technologies Munich Research center, where she led the technical cooperation with the local enterprises, startups and academic institutions.

Mallory graduated from Technical University of Berlin with a master’s degree in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.

Milly is Government Relations Manager at SparkLabs Taiwan. Mainly supports the operations of governmental projects and communications. She began her governmental career with Ministry of Culture(MOC) and Taiwan Creative Content Agency(Taicca) since 2011.

Prior to SparkLabs Taiwan, she was an Minister’s assistant and an Executive Officer at MOC. During her 10 years cultural and governmental career, she participated with the establishment of Ministry of Culture, where she conducted strategic external negotiation plans to pursue constant organization for potential partnership in the early stage of forming government policies. She served as a Senior Project Leader at Taicca afterwards, where she led market-related analysis, strategic decisions-making and a cross-functional communication internally, piloted the fellowship program for Taiwan contents industry especially for publication.  
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Prior to MOC, she was a specialist at era Ogilvy Public Relations Agency, where she was responsible for managing daily news clippings mostly for leading technology company in Asia, provided business PR consultant and executed crisis problem solving evaluation.
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Milly graduated from Swinburne University of Technology with a master’s degree in Media and communications.

Sandy is a Program Manager at SparkLabs Taiwan, focusing on business development, assisting corporates connect to startups. She also supports the operations of acceleration program.

Prior to SparkLabs Taiwan, she was an IT consultant at a tech company where she analyzed clients business needs and provided consultant services with tailored IT, security solutions, including digital transformation plans to various industries such as leading manufacturing, biotech enterprises.

She was also a sales representative at iKala Interactive Media, Google Cloud Platform BU. Responsible for gaming, media, e-commerce industry.In her leisure time, she likes to work with startups and have some related side projects.

Sandy was also a secretary-general of AIESEC Alumni in Taiwan and the board of AIESEC in Taiwan. Focus on cross industry business and government engagement and cultivate young leaders to make positive impact to the world.

Sandy graduated from National Sun Yat-sen University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.

Sarah is a Program Manager at SparkLabs Taiwan and mainly supports the operations of the accelerator program. Prior to SparkLabs Taiwan, she was a co-founder at Twin Oaks Education, a startup that develops oversea project-based courses for Taiwanese students.

She led the marketing team, and was responsible for student acquisition, product co-development, supplier management and logistics arrangement.

Prior to Twin Oaks Education, she served as a Marketing contractor for Google Play and Google AI Education, where she was responsible for brand strategy and execution, oversaw the management of social media, content creation and performance marketing.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in International Business from National Taiwan University, and a Master of Administrative Sciences from Tampere University as well as a Master of Educational Science from Eötvös Loránd University.

Stacy is an executive assistant at SparkLabs Taiwan and supports the managing partner by handling critical administrative tasks.

Throughout her professional career, Stacy has played key roles across multiple industries and company types, and helped set up the foundations for various business functions, including customer service, administrative support, finance, and human resources.

Stacy is an alumni of the University of California, Irvine.

Sylvia is a Events Manager at SparkLabs Taiwan and responsible for planning accelerator program related events.

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Prior to joining SparkLabs Taiwan, Sylvia served as the Director of Events at Coolism advertising co.,Ltd. She was responsible for developing potential clients, maintaining client partnerships, budget control, assisting with event planning and supervising event execution.

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Sylvia graduated from Leicester University of UK with master's degree in Marketing.

Wei Ma is a Program Manager at SparkLabs Taiwan and mainly supports the operations of acceleration program.
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Prior to SparkLabs Taiwan, he was a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, where he advised leading financial institutions, private equity firms, retailers, and TMT companies across the Greater China region to develop business strategies and transformation plans.

Prior to BCG, he served as a project manager at a cryptocurrency startup handling payment partnership and as a business consultant at Applied Predictive Technologies (a MasterCard company), where he worked with leading restaurant chain, retailer, and bank in Asia to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of various business initiatives.

Wei graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.