Gigi Wang

Gigi Wang runs a consulting firm, MG-Team, LLC, which delivers entrepreneurship and innovation programs, and services for international business development globally. She is also an Industry Fellow & Faculty at UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship where she teaches a start-up boot-camp and executive innovation programs. She advises and mentors dozens of start-ups from around the world. Clients have included SAP, Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship, Grupo Aguia Branca (Brazil), NATO, Ecole d’ Ponts Business School, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), SRI International, Verizon Wireless, Lagardere and numerous universities and global incubators. Before starting up MG-Team, Ms. Wang was on the executive teams of a number of tech startups in wireless, software, hardware, and services. As an Internet pioneer in the 90’s, she started up Pacific Internet in Singapore (IPO on NASDAQ in 1999) and launched the internationally reknowned TRUSTe Internet privacy program in 1996. Gigi holds BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University where she was President of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, and a MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. She is a frequent speaker at entrepreneur and innovation conferences around the world including the Chief Innovation Officer Summit, Asian Leadership Conference, World Investment Conference, Food Executive Europe, Silicon Valley Comes to the Baltics, IBM Global Start-Up Camp, and Global R&D Conference.