At Yale, I want to create an impact by stimulating creativity and new approaches while organizing

Design + Innovation Club workshops, Marketing Club conferences, and Latino Leadership events.
After Yale, I will contribute to the mentorship program by mentoring students and helping them
advance their careers.
 
Phillips. His practical experiences in the Hi-Tech industry will surely help me
grow TechMaster, making his course a unique choice for me.
Participating in Professor Joanne Sveld’s “STRATEGY - Global Business
Project” will also be a powerful experience, as Professor Sveld enjoyed 13
years of senior leadership with Hewlett Packard and 22 years of VP/CEO
experiences in the Hi-Tech sector. Under her precious mentorship, I will
strengthen my global competency in the Hi-Tech distribution business, thus
helping TechMaster grow into the future.
 
Furthermore, the unique “Entrepreneurship and Ideas” concentration, with
many of its courses specifically evolved from Hi-Tech topics, will deepen
my understanding of my customers and help me sustain a competitive
advantage. This concentration also offers a “Marketing of Innovation”
elective. Through the unique marriage of marketing knowledge and Hi-Tech
industry know-how, I will learn how to better assess customer needs in
technology-intensive environments.
 
Since TechMaster currently focuses on global manufacturers, I am eager
to contribute my global experiences and perspective to discussions. I will
provide my insights on how the value of various electronic components
are added as they go through design (mostly in US, Germany, Japan and
Korea), production (mostly in US, Taiwan and Korea), distribution (global)
and final assembly (mainly in China, Taiwan, South East Asia, Mexico and
East Europe).
I will share with my Duke classmates my background in entrepreneurship,
leadership, and self-development from a humble salesman to a visionary
leader. I will tell them my stories of how I assumed the burden of family
debts and became an entrepreneur, how I set an example for my teammates
and built a collaborative team with great success, and how I motivated my
salespeople to hit 20% annual sales increase in 2009 during the global
economic downturn.
I intend to take great interest in the Tech Field Society, which provides
opportunities to network with various technology companies, potential global
customers, and to keep abreast of the latest technology trends. In the Asian
Business Club, I will network with like-minded students who aspire to focus
their future careers on emerging Asian markets. For example, had I attended
the “Asia Business Conference” this past February, I would have participated
in the discussion with such business leaders as Gary Sousa, an IBM director,
and learned more about contemporary Hi-Tech industry trends in the East
from his perspective.
I will also share my working/start-up lessons in Japan and Singapore with
my fellow classmates. I will help those students who determine to launch
their own businesses in Japan to socialize with or even visit my Japanese
entrepreneur friends, who engage in a broad range of industries from
financial services to textiles trading. I have more than eight years of close
friendship with those entrepreneurs, and they will sincerely contribute their
guidance to my Duke classmates.
Lastly, I am also eager to learn from my creative, entrepreneurial classmates,
all of whom will have exciting, powerful experiences of their own to share. I
cannot be more excited to meet and exchange ideas with Duke students; their
diverse global experiences and vision will surely capture my imagination, and
we will inspire one another to achieve even more.