Terry Hsiao

蕭ㄧ白

Managing Director/ BonHope Capital

Terry Hsiao is an entrepreneur, advisor, and investor with extensive experience in cloud software, mobile apps, wireless networks and fintech. He has founded multiple companies in the mobile ecosystem that got acquired by Sybase, Verifone, and Kaleyra where he helped its public listing on NYSE in November 2019. For the past 4 years he has taught New Venture Financing and Entrepreneurship at Marymount University and George Washington University. Terry has shown a knack for transforming novel ideas into thriving businesses, emphasizing innovation and scalable growth. In his entrepreneurial journey, Terry won multiple pitch competitions and received awards such as Entrepreneur of the Year from Asian American Chamber of Commerce and Top 100 Minority Entrepreneurs in 2017.

In Taiwan, Hsiao started a program to teach key concepts and frameworks directly to entrepreneur in March 2023. More than 300 entrepreneurs have taken these classes or attended workshops. He is an advisor to the Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the National Taiwan University. He has an Honors BSEE degree from Rutgers University and SM in Technology Management from MIT Sloan School of Management.

蕭一白(Terry Hsiao)是一位企業家、教授和投資專家,擁有豐富的科技創新經驗。他曾經創立過三家雲服務的企業,包括移動應用、無線網路和支付金融領域。他創辦的這些公司後來被Sybase、Verifone和Kaleyra收購,他還協助Kaleyra於2019年11月在紐約證券交易所成功上市。過去4年多的時間裡,他在華盛頓特區的瑪麗蒙特大學和喬治·華盛頓大學教授了一系列的企業創新和創業課程。Terry 在創業過程中表現出將突破創新想法轉化為蓬勃發展企業的天賦,領導公司取得資金擴展增長到退出。他曾經贏得了數次新創競賽,並在2017年獲得了亞裔美國商會的年度企業家獎和華府百大少數族裔企業家獎。

為了回饋台灣蕭先生於前年3月啟動了一個教學項目,直接向對創業有興趣的同學教授矽谷的創業概念和運作框架。經過兩年多的努力已經有超過300名創業者參與了這些課程或研討會。他還是台大創業與創新中心的顧問。Terry 曾任弗吉尼亞州兩屆州長指定任命在創新創業中心擔任董事會成員。他在羅格斯大學獲得了電機和電腦工程學士學位,並在麻省理工斯隆管理學院獲得了科技管理碩士學位。