Advisors
Eugene Park
Managing Director, Parallax Capital Management
Eugene Park is a Partner and Managing Director of Parallax Capital Management where he co-manages the private equity business. Prior to that, Eugene was involved in derivative and capital markets activities for 14 years in London, Hong Kong, and Singapore. From 1985-1991 he traded interest rate and currency derivatives in London at Manufacturers Hanover and at First Boston, where he managed the USD swap book.
From 1991 until 1999, he set up and managed 3 teams of derivative and capital markets specialists in Hong Kong and Singapore, first as Executive Director for SBCM in Hong Kong, then as Managing Director for Chase in Hong Kong and Paribas in Singapore.
Eugene has been previously selected by Global Finance magazine as a "Derivatives Superstar" and as an "Emerging Markets Superstar".
Eugene graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Chemistry and received an M.B.A. from INSEAD in France.
Eric Tachibana
Serial entrepreneur and venture investor
Eric Tachibana has been an entrepreneur focusing on the financial services space for the last twelve years - creating, building, and eventually exiting, successful small companies in Silicon Valley, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the U.K.
Today Tachibana continues his entrepreneurial endeavors as a regional angel investor, strategic adviser, and mentor for early-stage entrepreneurial ventures, serving as founding director for 7 companies regionally.
An author of 8 books on technology development and innovation management, and a professor at the NUS business school, Tachibana continues to focus on cutting edge theory and implementation.
Thor Alexander
Software Architect, Areae, Inc.
Thor Alexander has been working in the game industry for over 12 years as a designer, engineer, producer and entrepreneur. He has held lead designer and senior programming positions at Electronic Arts, Microsoft and Xatrix Entertainment, and is now Software Architect at Areae, Inc. a start-up creating new virtual worlds. He has contributed to titles such as Earth & Beyond and Freelancer as well as the Ultima Online game series which was the first big hit for Massively Multiplayer Online Games. He is currently a Development Director working on the Medal of Honor franchise at Electronic Arts. He has contributed to the books AI Game Programming Wisdom and Game Programming Gems 3 as well as Massively Multiplayer Game Development.
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