Tan Yinglan is a founding managing partner at Insignia Venture Partners.Tan Yinglan had previously been the first Director for China, 3i Venturelab, INSEAD, a joint-venture between private equity firm 3i (LSE:III) and INSEAD where he worked closely with Chinese enterprises to develop their growth strategies. He had also been the Senior Assistant Director at the Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore), where he was the deskhead for Economic Development Board Investments. During graduate school, he had co-founded, raised angel funding and sold an online dating startup (which is still featured as a case study in Stanford).A Kauffman Fellow, Yinglan was educated at Harvard (JFK Fellow), Stanford (M.Sc in Mgmt Sci) and Carnegie Mellon (Dual B.Sc in ECE and Econs). A Certified Risk Analyst, Yinglan is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University and also teaches modules on Entrepreneurial Finance and Entrepreneurial Management at Singapore Management University and at the Advanced Management Programme. He also guest lectures at Fudan University, Shanghai. Yinglan is the author of The Way Of the VC: Having Top Venture Capitalists On Your Board.(Wiley, 2009) and and Chinnovation - How Chinese Innovation is going to Change the World (Wiley 2010). He has been featured on China Central TV (China’s largest TV network), Dragon TV, The Deal, China Daily, Korean Times, Business FM 89.9 (Malaysian), The Edge (Singapore), Innovation Management and Business Lines (India). Yinglan has been a keynote speaker at conferences such as AVCJ Melbourne International Venture Conference and Dow Jones Conference on Corporate Ventures. Yinglan has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and selected as one of 100 Leaders Of Tomorrow by the St Gallen Symposium in 2010. Yinglan is married with two children and a member of Rotary Club.
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Board Member | Oct 1, 2018 | — | Detail |
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