Tom is an active angel investor since 1998. He has invested in more than 25 startups and Silicon Valley incubators (500Startups and Tandem Capital). Tom also serves on several advisory boards. Tom is currently the Board Director of Sand Hill Angels (Venturebeat named the top 5 angel groups in U.S.) and founder of IPforAsia. He has been frequently invited as a speaker or a panelist at various conferences and MBA classes (Stanford, CMU, Santa Clara University).

Tom is also a mentor at Spark Labs and Santa Clara University MBA Entrepreneurship Program.

Tom has over 15 years of global business development experience in the mobile software, consumer electronics, technology license and wireless space. Tom has previously held various director positions at Sina, NXP, Philips and NEC.