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Jim Cook
Technologist,
Entrepreneur, Sinophile
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After
getting a BS of Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Jim went to MIT as
a Research Engineer in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. Thirty-five years
later he was back at MIT doing Management of Technology consulting for the Sloan School's
Associate Dean, Ed Roberts. Between those career bookends, Jim was intensely involved
in high technology as an entrepreneur and executive. The roughly chronological highlights
of Jim's career are:
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At UM/Ann Arbor: Seminar on Contemporary and
Rural China and China Business Challenge Awards (as keynote). |
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At Wayne State Confucius Institute
spoke on Appreciating
Mao's Genius and A
New China Market in the Making? |
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Representing China, spoke on Entrepreneurship in China at the Kauffman Foundation's
2008 Global Symposium. |
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Chaired the Beijing conference on
"Bridging the Cultural Gap - Key to Success". |
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Delivered a series of lectures at the Financial Policy Center of People's
University. |
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Started an internet portal
company in Beijing focused on Japanese Stock markets. |
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Consulted to Motorola's chairman on
re-organizing their corporate venture capital. |
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Consulted to AT&T Bell Labs' SVP on
managing their Intellectual Property talent. |
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Consulted to
Fiat and Rolls-Royce
Aero on restructuring for rapid development. |
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Consulted to DuPont on a
Step Change reduction in nylon production interruptions. |
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Taught MBAs
Finance, Project Mgmt.,
Economics of Manufacturing (@UCSD), Adv. Mfg., & Entrepreneurship. |
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Attributed in Odyssey by Apple's Sculley as "inspiring" Sculley's
distinctions between management styles. |
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As VP of Engineering at Denning
Mobile Robotics (NASDAQ:GARD) improved the robot's reliability 100-fold. |
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Introduced
CAD/CAM
software
to China (1985); on CCTV News being greeted by Jiang ZeMin at Great Hall. |
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Was Corporate VP of Technology at
Computervision, a Fortune 500 and world's largest CAD/CAM company. |
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Presided over a venture, Unidata
Systems, that went from his kitchen table to NASDAQ National
Listing
in 4 years. |
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Was president/founder of Exxon Enterprises'
venture, Verbex, that led the world in speech recognition technology. |
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As a Staff Mathematician at Sanders
Associates, led the programming of a massively parallel top secret computer. |
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Began as a Research Engineer at MIT's
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Apollo era. |
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Currently, Jim is writing a
series of articles about The Internet’s Offspring: The Connection Economy),
where he describes the causes and outcomes of changing from an economic system where value is
created by the sale of goods and services to an economic system where value is created by the
market signaling what it wants, when it wants, and how it wants it. He develops the wealth
creation of network effects and the corresponding drops in costs and the diminishing need for
labor. As an expression of his interest in both Chinese and Entrepreneurship, Jim has put up
an article, in English and Chinese, showing how Mao ZeDong beat Chiang Kai Shek not just by
luck and cunning, but by ways typical of exceptional entrepreneurs, like Henry Ford. That
article is at: https://cha4mot.com/entrepreneur
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Contact:
Email: jim.cook@globatech.com
Cell: +1 646 763 7501 Home/office: 313 271 2900
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