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James is a Venture Partner at Delight Capital and is part of the Technology team. He is currently the founder and CEO of Origami that builds ventures with frontier technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Web3, Metaverse and Enterprise Software.
James is an entrepreneur and community builder who has incubated, invested and mentored various technology start-ups and he is actively involved in the tech ecosystem in Asia and US.
He founded Artificial Intelligence International Institute (AIII), a think tank advocating Sustainable AI for Humanity and is co-author of “AI for Humanity: Building A Sustainable AI for the Future” (ISBN: 9781394180301), to be published by Wiley.
He also co-founded Tech4SDG Alliance for Asia and serves as Singapore secretary general and also serves as International Strategic Advisor to World AI Conference (WAIC), Founding Chairman of the Asia AI Expo, IEEE CAI (Conference on AI) 2023 Industry Chair and board member of Berkeley China Summit.
James is also adjunct professor, industry advisor (strategy and ecosystem) AI Mega Centre and mentor-in-residence at SUTD and serves as mentor for NUS, NTU, A*STAR and Lean Launchpad program.
James has over 35 years of experience in the enterprise technology, digital transformation and venture building in Asia, US and Europe across multiple industry verticals.
James started his career as an AI scientist at the leading US MCC research lab on advanced AI Fifth Generation Computer research and was one of the pioneer senior executive at Trilogy, an AI pioneer and enterprise software startup.
He received his PhD in Management Information System specializing in AI for Organizational Governance and Policy and Business Process Automation and MA & BA in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.