Eric Chan is an aspiring Renaissance Man and 100% Mobile Evangelist. I currently advise and consult companies in the mobile space, around Product Strategy (defining mobile products and services) and Business Development (helping companies with International expansion from the US to Europe and Asia) and for startups, preparing them for formal venture capital investment.

I also speak regularly at conferences and event around mobile content and services. Also, for those of you who wonder, you can see what mobile devices, I am currently carrying, as well as what I have used in the past in my Device Gallery. My experience has been in Technology Marketing and Business Development for companies: Caboodle Networks (acquired by MCN), FXI, Gamelion Studios, Inktomi (acquired by Yahoo!), Keynote (KEYN), MCN, Pixo (acquired by Sun Microsystems), and Sun Microsystems (SUNW), Tanla Mobile, and Wells Fargo Bank (WFC).

I am also a Consulting Faculty and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and in the past have been the Education Director for the Robotics Academy at NASA Ames.

I am currently the Wireless SIG (Special Interest Group) Chair for VC Taskforce, a professional non-profit organization that connects the Venture Capital community with relevant topics as well as Entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley.

Current interest include: mobile payment, SMS voting, mobile search, mobile social applications, mobile data services, and the Semantic Web.

Mentions

05.2009
Bloggy Award
09.2008
Mobile – Mobile technology just wants to get close to you, Media Magazine, Sep 2008 (reg req’d)
06.2008
Samsung’s Basic Instinct, Forbes.com
05.2008
Recommendations & Mobile Search Via Verizon’™s Get It Now: Performs Better Than Some, But Does It Really “Get” It
04.2008
Mobile Search May be On Track, But When Will The Industry Deliver On Recommendation?
02.2008
Mobile World Congress 2008 [in Japanese]
01.2008
UMPCs: The Promise and the Uncertainty Remain
12.2007
Mobile advertising and marketing suffer the fate [in Russian]
10.2007
CTIA: Orange Partner Camp party @ The Supper Club
CTIA 2007 (SF) Parties
09.2007
Will Emerging Mobile Marketing Evolve to Measure ROI, Deliver Passionate, Relevant Users and Reporting?

Speaking Events

09.2009
MetaPlaces 09: How to Monetize Location Data and Services, San Jose
08.2009
VCTaskforce – Mobile Monetization: Real Cash or Virtual Bucks, Palo Alto
Silicon Valley Wireless Economic Development Summit, Mountain View
07.2009
Mobile Technology for the Business Traveler, Webinar
06.2009
Nuit du Mobile 2.0 + Mobile Monday Mediterranée, Marseilles, France
Ascend Inspire Across Generations Conference, San Francisco
05.2009
Interop/Mobile Business Expo, Las Vegas
VCTaskforce, Rise of the Mobile Application Store, Palo Alto
12.2008
Search Engine Strategies Chicago
Navigation and Location USA 2008, San Jose
09.2008
Interop/Mobile Business Expo, New York
Office 2.0, San Francisco
04.2008
The Mobile Future: Technology Revolutionizing Our Lives, Santa Clara
03.2008
CeBit Navigation Europe, Hannover, Germany
02.2008
Transforming OSS, Dallas
11.2006
Mobile Business Expo, Chicago
10.2006
Mobile Content Partnership Summit, Palm Springs
06.2006
National Youth Leadership Forum on Technology, San Jose
04.2006
ASES Stanford Summit, Stanford University
10.2005
Mobile Wireless Data 101 Workshop, Carnegie Mellon University
06.2005
National Youth Leadership Forum on Technology, San Jose