Each year, ELF hosts various workshops to nurture early start-up companies and to educate and motivate people with innovation to start their own businesses. In addition, ELF hosts event such as “Mentoring to Success” annually to help Silicon Valley professionals to establish mentor relationships with business leaders. By limiting the size of events and leveraging HYSTA's extensive network, ELF provides an intimate platform for members to network with like-minded individuals and helps Chinese professionals broaden their knowledge base and advance their careers.
Events at ELF are open to the public and give prior consideration to its members. For more information, please contact director.elf@hysta.us.
David is passionate about entrepreneurship, technology/innovation, and community building, which have been the focus of his non-profit effort in HYSTA. He brings with him both entrepreneurial and coporate experience. With deep understanding of the needs from entrepreneurs and career-minded professionals, David strives to build ELF into a vibrant community, and a part of the investor/startup/service-provider ecosystem. David is an architect of online advertising platform at Yahoo!. He hold MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
Michelle Ma, Co-director
Michelle is an entrepreneur, most recently the Co-founder and CEO of Yeejoy Inc, and currently exploring other startup opportunities. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, she spent 11 years at Cisco Systems in business development, technology strategy and engineering development roles, with a theme in transforming advanced technology ideas into products. She has deep understanding of the networking industry, and owns 5 patents in the U.S. Michelle has BSEE from Tsinghua, MSEE from NCSU, and MBA from the Haas School at UC Berkeley. Michelle is passionate about creating new products and business ventures. As a member and volunteer, she appreciated opportunities that HYSTA provided to entrepreneurs like herself, and talented people she formed connections with through HYSTA. Michelle was one of the key persons managed 2009 Entrepreneur Bootcamp. As the Co-director of ELF, she is committed to building a distinguished platform that brings true value to the entrepreneur community.
