Tahn-Joo CHIN (Ms) is the managing partner of Cross Border Venture Partners (CBVP). Previously she was a partner of Venture TDF, Singapore, and WIIG-TDF Partners based in United States.

CBVP is a mixed stage IT venture capital fund investing in US and Asia. The fund will help US portfolio companies to tap into the fast growing Asia market, and invest in selected promising companies in Asia, in particularly in China.

Since 1996, Tahn-Joo has managed three funds with a total of $150 million. She has invested globally in US, Europe, Israel and Singapore. She was also the founding director of the Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D fund (SIIRD).

Tahn-Joo has spent more than 15 years in technology development and management. She was the CEO of Information Technology Institute (ITI), which is a leading government funded IT research institute, under the National Computer Board (NCB) of Singapore. She had been a chief information officer (CIO) for NCB, as well as the national program director for the Singapore ISO 9000 IT certification program.

Tahn-Joo obtained her MSC in Computer Science from Stanford University, MSc Industrial Engineering and B.Eng (First Class Hons) (Elect) from University of Singapore, and Diploma in Management Science from University of Chicago. She was a Loke Scholar. She is currently an advisor for the Singapore Defense Science and Technology Agency’s newly set up innovation fund (www.capvista.com); and is an Adjunct Professor with the Enterprise Center of the National University of Singapore at Silicon Valley.

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