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About Ho John Lee’s Weblog:
This is my personal weblog where I write about technology, globalization, travel, running, and other topics I’m interested in. I live in Palo Alto, California where the weather is great, houses are expensive, there’s an 8 month waiting list to buy a Prius, but there’s no shortage of interesting people.
I am an advisory director at Peak Capital, which has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Palo Alto. I help people start, build, and grow new businesses. This often involves matching new market opportunities with emerging technology and a good dose of hard work. If you’re not sure what kind of help you need, what question you haven’t asked, or how to get it done, I’m probably the person to talk to.
In a previous life I worked at Hewlett-Packard, as CTO for the Digital Media Solutions Organization (now part of the Imaging and Printing Group), where we built new internet-related businesses, and partnered with and invested in new and established companies in search of growth opportunities for HP. I started out leading a research group at HP Laboratories working on image processing, internet protocols, and distributed computing. Later I moved to commercial projects when digital photography, the internet, and wireless technologies began reaching the mainstream market, and was responsible for developing new business projects and alliances at HP.
I also led a consulting and systems integration business at Tetra Systems for a few years, where we provided program management services, developed software for communications and signal processing, wrote reports full of math, and built custom signal processing hardware.
Along the way, I’ve attended Phillips Exeter, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard Business School, logged several hundred thousand air miles, run three marathons, and somehow managed to end up with a wonderful wife and daughter.
At this point it seems I’ve made a career of working on projects that are hard to explain in short sentences. All I really wanted to do is to make technology relevant and even fun for normal, everyday people, to make something my mom could enjoy.
Disclaimer:
Views expressed on this weblog are my own, and do not represent the opinion of any current or former employer, partner, or business associate.
