Summary
Sean Chen is an Associate Director in AI & Data Science with nearly a decade of experience building cross-border ecosystems and commercial strategies for enterprise SaaS, blockchain, and Web3 adoption. He combines technical foundations from Stanford in structural engineering with entrepreneurial grit—co-founding two AI/IoT startups that raised SOSV-HAX and Entrepreneur First backing and one acquired exit—plus hands-on delivery of national-scale blockchain platforms and government shared-infrastructure projects. Sean has repeatedly bridged East-West partnerships, negotiated sovereign Cloud+Blockchain deployments, and scaled channel ecosystems across APAC and the Middle East. Equally comfortable with Smart City, digital twin/BIM and PropTech initiatives, he brings a systems-level view of how IoT, AI and distributed ledgers intersect with construction, FSI, supply chain and ESG use cases. A curious operator by trade, he advises China AI/data providers on overseas expansion while actively shaping cross-border data policy and industry collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
HK01, HK01 at Entrepreneur First
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Industrial Engineering & Management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Industrial Engineering & Management at Peking University
B.S. Civil Engineering, B.S. Civil Engineering at University of California, Davis
HAX - SOSV
M.S. Structural Engineering and Geomechanics, M.S. Structural Engineering and Geomechanics at Stanford University
Chinese, English, Chinese