Jeffrey Char
Adjunct Professor at National University of Management
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Biography
Jeffrey Char is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He is Founder & CEO of SOGO Energy Pte. Ltd. and Co-Founder & Chairman of TRENDE Inc., an online renewable energy retailer accelerating the widespread adoption of solar power in Japan. Prior to this he was Director of Corporate Venture Capital and a member of the Innovation Task Force at Tokyo Electric Power Company. Jeff founded, built and sold several successful ventures including Sozon, an online marketing company sold to ValueCommerce, Solis, a domain registrar sold to GMO Internet, SSK Technology, an electronics component company sold to Suzuki Manufacturing, and Pario Software, a network security company sold to Lucent Technologies. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur he was a corporate attorney in Silicon Valley and securities research analyst in Tokyo.
He is also a professor teaching about entrepreneurship at IE Business School in Spain and Doshisha Business School in Japan.
Education
- Harvard Law School (1991 — 1992)
- JD University of California, Berkeley - School of Law (1989 — 1992)
- BS Sophia University
Companies
- Member of the Board's Nomination, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee Nesma (2022)
- Chairman of the Advisory Board Nesma Renewables (2022)
- Advisor Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd (2020)
- Adjunct Professor National University of Management (2020)
- Fellow Unreasonable (2020)
- Founder & CEO SOGO Energy Pte. Ltd. (2018)
- Adjunct Professor Doshisha University (2018)
- Founder & Chairman TRENDE Inc. (2017)
- Adjunct Professor IE Business School (2014)
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BAN DLS Snippet | Powering Renewable Energy Entrepreneurship with Jeffrey Char
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