Winston Choe is a venture-builder, corporate-innovator, investor, mentor with diverse achievements in AI, HealthTech, CleanTech, Mobility
He has over 20 years experience in working with startups in Silicon Valley, to grow from seed to exit, through commercialization, investment, acquisition, and doing venture-development for corporations and accelerators.
He currently works as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) and Innovation Business Development Director at LG NOVA, the venture-studio and fund for LG Electronics in Silicon Valley. Their charter is to build new ventures by partnering with companies who provide foundational-technologies to their solutions. Winston has launched new ventures for LG Electronics in Digital Health and CleanTech in partnership with 5 companies, and also worked with strategic-partners and investors to expand LG Nova initiatives into new markets.
He was a Founding Mentor at PlugandPlayTechCenter, a venture accelerator with 30000+ startups, 300+ VCs, 500+ corporate-partners, accelerator-programs in 20 industries, investment-portfolio including 18 unicorns, and global-operations across 60+ sites. Winston co-founded TechGrowthVentures, an accelerator for US-Asia businesses, where he built a portfolio of 20 companies, based on cross-border synergies for supply-chain, joint-development, market-entry, investment. He also worked with governments in South-Asia to establish accelerator-programs leveraging their local ecosystems with a bridge to Silicon Valley.
Winston has established global sales and business-development teams at Intel, HP, Nokia, Sun, DEC, HERE with a track-record in achieving and exceeding business-targets.