中華資訊網路協會 Chinese Information & Networking Association

4675 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 101, Santa Clara, CA 95051

http://www.cina.org

Honorable Moderator: Dr. Richard Dasher
 

Dr. Richard Dasher

Consulting Associate Professor in the Stanford University

Dr. Dasher has been with the US-Asia Technology Management Center (http://asia.stanford.edu) at Stanford University since 1993, becoming USATMC Acting Director in 1994 and Director in 1996. Since 1996, he has concurrently held the post of Consulting Associate Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering, and he has additionally served as Executive Director of Stanford's Center for Integrated Systems (http://cis.stanford.edu) since 1998.

Dr. Dasher serves as Advisor to the International Business Incubator (since 1997) and the US-Japan Business Incubation Center (since 2000), both in San Jose, California. He is faculty advisor to several Stanford student-run organizations with focus on international entrepreneurship, and he regularly serves as a judge in the Stanford "E-Challenge" business plan competition. Dr. Dasher maintains an active private consulting practice on international business strategy and planning, technology trend and opportunity analysis, and Japan market entry and performance improvement. He has been a member of the International Advisory Committee to the Japanese government in regard to the creation of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. From April 2004, he joined the Board of Trustees of Tohoku University.

Holder of the Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University, Dr. Dasher is co-author of the book "Regularity in Semantic Change" (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is fluent in Japanese and directed the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute training centers in Japan and Korea from 1986-90. From 1990-93, Dr. Dasher was a salaried board director of two Japanese companies in Tokyo, at which he expanded the companies' business lines to include international IP licensing. He taught clarinet and chamber music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1978-85 and maintains an active interest in performing and enjoying music.