Advisory Board
David Chen
Co-founding Chairman, AngelVest Group
Shanghai, China
david.tc.chen@gmail.com
Term 2023-2026
Biography
Mr. David Chen co-founded AngelVest Group (angelvestgroup.com), an investment platform comprising of individual angel investors to curate and invest in early-stage companies. AngelVest Group has grown to be one of the largest branded angel groups in Greater China comprised of mostly American expats based in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Mr. Chen is an avid supporter of disruptive innovation and entrepreneurs who have great vision and high levels of consciousness for making large-scale positive social impact. His areas of investment focus in recent years include robotics, AI, blockchain, and other Internet businesses.
Mr. Chen is also a Board member of the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels – with the mission to provide an educational and networking forum for individuals interested in angel investing. Previously, he worked in a variety of corporate finance and product development roles at companies including Salomon Brothers, Advanced Micro Devices, and Honda Motor.
Mr. Chen earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and MBA from Harvard Business School. Originally from New York, Mr. Chen recently lived in Shanghai, China for over 12 years and currently spends his time between the USA and Asia.
Tanzeem Choudhury
Cornell
HealthRhythms, Inc
tanzeem.choudhury@cornell.edu
Term 2023-2026
Biography
Tanzeem Choudhury is a Professor of Computing and Information Sciences at Cornell Tech where she holds the Roger and Joelle Burnell Chair in Integrated Health and Technology and a co-founder of HealthRhythms Inc, a company whose mission is to add the layer of behavioral health into all of healthcare. At Cornell, she directs the People-Aware Computing group, which works on creating the future of technology-assisted well-being. Tanzeem received her PhD from the Media Laboratory at MIT. She has been awarded the MIT Technology Review TR35 award, NSF CAREER award, TED Fellowship, Kavli Fellowship, ACM Distinguished Membership, and Ubiquitous Computing 10-year Impact Award. For more information, please visit: http://pbh.tech.cornell.edu.
Howard Chu
GO Capital
Hong Kong
howardchu@gocapital.com.cn
Term 2023-2026
Biography
Mr. Chu has 30 years of business experience. Mr. Chu is a partner of Go Capital Limited which is a private equity firm based in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Mr. Chu is an independent non-executive director of BOE Varitronix Ltd., Guolian Securities Co., Ltd. and Crypto Flow Technology Limited which are listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.
From 2012 to 2018, Mr. Chu was the chief executive officer of Referral Corporation (HK) Limited which is a leading mortgage referral company and is a joint venture of Midland Holdings Limited and Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited. From March 2012 to June 2012, he was the chief financial officer of China Smart Electric Co. Ltd.. From July 2009 to October 2011, he was the chief financial officer of Trony Solar Holdings Company Limited which was a publicly listed company on the of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.
He has previously worked for Shanghai Century Acquisition Corporation, as Chief Investment Officer, a company listed on the American Stock Exchange, and United Energy Group Limited, a company listed on the Stock Exchange. He was an investement banking director at ABN AMRO Asia Corporate Finance Ltd. and was also an investment banking director at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd.. He was an independent non-executive Director of Weichai Power Co. Ltd. and Directel Holdings Limited which are listed on the Stock Exchange.
He obtained an MBA from the Columbia University and a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1990 and 1986 respectively.
Michael Fisher
Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
KaVo Kerr Group
Hatfield, PA
michael.fisher@dechert.com
Term 2023-2026
Biography
Michael Fisher is the chief intellectual property counsel at Dechert LLP, a full-service, international law firm, where he represented clients in patent litigation, licensing, and other intellectual property matters.
Before becoming a lawyer, Dr. Fisher was a research engineer in the areas of superconducting materials, superconducting devices, thin film materials, and micromachined devices. He worked for Hypres, Inc., an Elmsford, NY company that produces superconducting electronics.
Prior to that, he spent two years as a postdoctoral associate at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, investigating new superconducting materials and devices. He holds two patents relating to infrared detector arrays and micromachined flat panel displays.
He received his JD from Columbia University in 2000, his PhD, MS and BS in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester in 1993, 1989, and 1987 respectfully.
T.S. Khurana
Omniva
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tskhurana
Term 2023-2026
Biography
T.S. Khurana is curently in Supply Chain Leadership at Omniva . He was previously Vice President of global sourcing and operations engineering at Facebook and is based in the Menlo Park campus. His team manages the complete ecosystem of source through delivery functions spanning compute, storage, network, data center infrastructure and connectivity. During his 9 -year tenure at Facebook, T.S. led the company’s transition from mainstream data center equipment channels to custom designed and manufactured infrastructure saving the company over $2B in capital expenditures.
Prior to Facebook, T.S. worked at Cisco for 12 years, where he held several domestic and international leadership positions in operations. T.S. began his career at KLA -Tencor where over the course of 11 years he held several roles in manufacturing, engineering and international sales management.
T.S. attended the United States Air Force Academy and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
Linda Marchese
Senior Terahertz Architect for RaySecur
Boston, MA
Linda.Marchese@gmail.com
Term 2023-2026
Biography
Linda Marchese is Senior Terahertz Architect for RaySecur, a startup company headquartered in Boston. She led the development of and is first author of the patent for RaySecur’s flagship product, MailSecur. MailSecur is a real-time non-invasive see-through mail scanner that has received a 2019 R&D 100 Award and a 2021 SPIE Prism Award and had been adopted by numerous Fortune 100 companies. Before moving to RaySecur, she was an Expert Researcher at the National Optics Institute (INO) in Quebec City where she was the technical lead for Terahertz and Millimeter-Wave Imaging Systems.
Born in Philadelphia, she earned her BS in Physics in 1991 and her MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1993 and 1997, respectively, all from the University of Rochester.
Inna Partin-Vaisband
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607
vaisband@uic.edu
Term 2023-2026
Biography
Inna Partin-Vaisband is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She received the B.Sc. in computer science and M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in, respectively, 2006 and 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, in 2015. Between 2003 and 2009, Dr. P.-Vaisband held a variety of software and hardware R&D positions at Tower Semiconductor Ltd., G-Connect Ltd., and IBM Ltd., all in Israel. Dr. P.-Vaisband is an Associate Editor of the Microelectronics Journal.
Her research is focused on innovation in the area of distributed power delivery and locally intelligent power management that facilitates performance scalability of heterogeneous ultra-large scale integrated systems. Special emphasis is placed on hardware security and emerging technologies such as wireless power transfer, simultaneous wireless information and power transfer, and photonic networks. A method for distributed power delivery and management in heterogeneous ICs has been proposed and patented by Dr. P.-Vaisband in 2017. Her research into heterogeneous power delivery and management has been published in her book On-Chip Power Delivery and Management, 4th Edition. A distributed system of ultra-small high-efficiency on-chip power supplies previously designed, fabricated, and tested by her was in mass production within the Galaxy S5 android smart phones as part of the Qualcomm Snapdragon product line.
Sam Salloum
Tektronix Inc.
Sayvill, NY
sam.salloum@tektronix.com
Term 2025-2028
Biography
Sam Salloum is a Regional Sales Manager for Tektronix Inc, a premier supplier of electronic test and measurement equipment for the semiconductor, automotive, data center, IOT and Power markets. Mr. Salloum has 40 years of experience in high-growth technology fields. He sits on several committees focused on Education and Semiconductor Test Solutions.
Prior to Tektronix, Mr. Salloum held positions at JDS Uniphase, various startup companies and ran his own Sales Representative Firm. Through his career he has developed a key understanding of the challenges engineers, and the skillset required to accelerate innovation.
Mr. Salloum graduated from the University of Rochester in 1987 with a BS in Physics and Astronomy and holds an MBA in Management from Hofstra University.