Steven Chang

Steven Chang, M.S., CEO, Board Member, is a successful technology entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience in identifying emerging market needs and combining state-of-the-art technologies and resources to meet those needs. This includes raising over $30 million in corporate capital and starting/leading multiple early-stage companies. His career includes diverse markets such as power generation, transportation logistics, critical care medicine, pharmaceutical drug development, quantitative systems pharmacology, and mobile applications. He played a role in the early years of the monetization of the Internet by providing key research and development for multiple companies, including Yahoo!, to target users based on their specific behavior and interests. In the late 1990s, he helped commercialize proprietary technologies that enabled real-time ad hoc query processing on terabyte-sized databases with no loss in data resolution.

Many of the technologies and products offered under his direction have been key to keeping billion dollar businesses competitive in their respective markets. Early in his career, Steve headed up the Intelligent Software Systems group at Westinghouse/CBS Corporation’s Science and Technology Center and developed decision optimization and computer modeling systems that were successfully deployed in many Fortune 500 companies, including Kraft Foods, Colgate-Palmolive, Nestle, and Airborne Express. He was also instrumental in establishing the first Westinghouse presence on the Internet and was the recipient of two George Westinghouse Signature Awards for Excellence. Steve attained both BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute