The main faculty members will be V/P Luda Kopeikina and Mr Tan Kim Seng. Mentors will also participate in presenting materials in the classes. Many classes will have invited speakers, entrepreneurs and VCs to share their experiences with students.

Visiting Professor Luda Kopeikina
Serial Entrepreneur & Senior Business Executive

Luda came to the US in 1982 from the Soviet Russia with $90 in her pocket and 40 lbs of luggage. Since then she became a VP at General Electric by implementing cuts in business cycles by fifty percent, turned around a public software company for which she was ranked in the top twenty CEOs of US high-tech companies, ahead of Bill Gates, became a serial entrepreneur and then an angel investor. She is an expert in executive decision-making, a published author The Right Decision Every Time and a business speaker. As a lead catalyst at MIT Deshpande Center, Luda worked with MIT researchers to commercialize breakthrough technologies. Using the decision-making methodology from her book that is based on her research into neuroscience at MIT Sloan she also works with CEOs and their teams helping them find and execute new growth paths.

Tan Kim Seng

Managing Director, 3V SourceOne Capital

Mr Tan is a Managing Director and co-founder of 3V SourceOne Capital Pte Ltd. He brings with him over 20 years of venture capital management and banking experience in addition to 5 years of operating experience with the IT and Electronics industries. He is currently the Honorary Treasurer of the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and has previously served as the Chairman of Industry Development Committee. Mr. Tan served as an Executive Director with UOB Venture Management Pte Ltd until he left the United Overseas Bank Group in 2000. He was its Principal Fund Manager responsible for the overall management of a S$105 million venture capital fund.

Pierre Hennes

Managing Partner, Extream Ventures Pte Ltd

Pierre has significant experience in Venture Capital and has been active in new venture creation across Asia since 2003. He is a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors and currently serves on the boards of several investment portfolio companies. Prior to Asia, he worked as an IT consultant to the financial services industry with Accenture in New York City. In addition to his role at Extream Ventures, he is a Partner of Upstream Ventures, a Singapore-based seed & startup investment firm launched in 2003. Pierre earned a B.A. with Honors in International Relations from Boston University, and an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business. He also studied at the Hochschule St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland as part of NYU’s International Management Program.

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