About

Eric Chan 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), Lexar (MU), MCN, Pixo (acquired by Sun Microsystems), and Sun Microsystems (ORCL), Tanla Mobile, Wells Fargo Bank (WFC), Xerox PARC.

I am also an 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 social applications, mobile data services, and convergence of mobile and social media.

Mentions

05.2010
GigaOM
GigaOM Pro: Mobile Payments Glossary
2010
BOOK: Mobile Marketing: Finding Your Customers No Matter Where They Are (tech editor)
05.2009
Bloggy Award
09.2008
Media Magazine
Mobile – Mobile technology just wants to get close to you, Media Magazine, Sep 2008 (reg req’d)
06.2008
Forbes.com
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?

google.load("language", "1"); var curstate = 0; var hasloaded = 0; function bnc_show_translated() { if (hasloaded == 0) { bnc_lang_callback(); hasloaded = 1; } for (i = 0; i < 0; i++) { var elem = $("bnc_original_" + i); if (elem) { if (curstate) { elem.show(); } else { elem.hide(); } } } for (i = 0; i < 0; i++) { var elem = $("bnc_trans_" + i); if (elem) { if (curstate) { elem.hide(); } else { elem.show(); } } } if (curstate) { $("bnc_trans_state1").show(); $("bnc_trans_state2").hide(); curstate = 0; } else { $("bnc_trans_state1").hide(); $("bnc_trans_state2").show(); curstate = 1; } } function bnc_detect_div(div_id) { var text = document.getElementById(div_id); if (text) { text = text.innerHTML; if (text.length > 0) { google.language.detect(text, function(result) { if (!result.error) { if (result.language != "en") { if (result.confidence > 0.25) { $("bnc_translating").show(); bnc_xlate_div(result.language, div_id, "en"); } } } } ); } } } function bnc_xlate_div(src_lang,div_id,o_lang) { var text = document.getElementById(div_id); if (text) { text = text.innerHTML; google.language.translate(text, src_lang, o_lang, function(result) { var translated = document.getElementById(div_id); if (result.translation) { translated.innerHTML = result.translation; } }); } } function bnc_lang_callback() { } function bnc_startup() { bnc_xlate_div("en", "bnc_translate_info", "en"); bnc_xlate_div("en", "bnc_translate_info2", "en"); } google.setOnLoadCallback(bnc_startup);