Profile
Jeff Wang is the president of Poetica LLC, a business development firm focusing on market research, market entry, and business relationship management for business enterprises and educational institutes in U.S. and China, while working with Chinese investors in selecting emerging technologies and products for commercialization and further growth. Jeff has over 19 years’ experience in academic research, technology development, and business management. He worked at information technology companies ranging from IBM to startups. He started from the technical side as a developer, technical lead, and then architect of enterprise applications, and moved into management, and then business. As Director of Operations at Click Commerce and Merge Healthcare, he was responsible for P&L, and oversaw business development (in markets such as U.S., Canada, Germany, U.K., Italy, Australia, Japan, and China), product management, channel management, intellectual property management, professional services, vendor relationship (including offshore outsourcing in India and China), and engineering management. He is an adjunct professor at Colorado State University’s College of Business, and a member of Executive Advisory Board of the CSU Denver Executive MBA Program. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Colorado China Council. He is also on the Editorial Board of “China Dealmaker”. Jeff received a B.S. degree from Peking (Beijing) University, China, a Ph.D. from University of Rochester, and an MBA from Colorado State University. He is a member of international honor society Beta Gamma Sigma. He published research papers in a world-class journal, and is a co-inventor of four issued U.S. patents. Advisory Council Members, 2014-2015