Tan Yinglan
| Tan Yinglan | |||||||||||
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| Born |
8 June 1981 Singapore | ||||||||||
| Residence | Singapore | ||||||||||
| Nationality | Singaporean | ||||||||||
| Alma mater |
Carnegie Mellon Stanford Harvard (on leave) | ||||||||||
| Known for | venture capital, | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 陳映嵐 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 陈映岚 | ||||||||||
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Tan Yinglan (born 8 June 1981) is a Singaporean businessman and writer. He is Venture Partner at Sequoia Capital and CEO of Sequoia Capital (India) Singapore Pte Ltd. He is currently the Board of Commissioner for PT Tokopedia and Board Director for Appier. He is the author of The Way Of The VC – Top Venture Capitalists On Your Board.[1] and "Chinnovation - How Chinese Innovators are Changing the World",[2] both published by John Wiley & Sons and New Venture Creation - Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century - An Asian Perspective, published by Mcgraw-Hill. Tan has been featured in CNBC, CCTV, Techcrunch, China Daily, Dragon TV, Nature, The Nation, The Deal, Business Lines (India). Korean Times, Business FM 89.9 (Malaysian), Business Times (Singapore), The Edge (Singapore), SINA, China Economic Review, Shanghai Media Group and Innovation Management.
Tan has been named as a World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leader (2012–2017) and served as a Selection Committee Member on the WEF Technology Pioneers (2015 – 2017), WEF Global Agenda Council member on Fostering Entrepreneurship (2011 - 2014) and He was also named a Leader of Tomorrow by the St Gallen Symposium (2010), 100 Global Thinkers by think-tank Lo Spazio della Politica (2011), a World Cities Summit Young Leader (2014), TiE Charter Member (2013), Paul Harris Fellow (2012), Outstanding Youth of China Synergy Program (2007) and Dragon100 Young Chinese Leader (2006) and a Leader of the Next Generation at the Symposium for Leaders of the Next Generation (STARS) in 2011. Prestige Magazine recently named him as one of the “Top 40 under 40” leaders in 2015. In 2010, Tan was also named as a Kauffman Fellow, a fellowship which identifies the next generation of global leaders in the venture capital industry.
Tan is a Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor at National University of Singapore and serves on the Strategic Research Innovation Fund Investment Committee at Nanyang Technology University. Tan had also been a faculty at INSEAD where he developed and taught an entrepreneurship module for INSEAD MBAs and was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University and taught the Masters program in Technopreneurship & Innovation (Chinese). He has also taught at Stanford University, the UC Berkeley-Nanyang Advanced Management Programme, the NTU-Tsinghua Executive Programme and at the Advanced Management Programme at Singapore Management University and guest lectures at Fudan and Tsinghua University. He has conducted customized executive programs for executives in Apple, Cisco, Haier, Tencent, Nokia Siemens, DBS, Singtel, SKF, 3i, UBS, Metersbonwe, the World Bank and for senior government officials in China, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Armenia, Brunei, Lebanon, Singapore, Laos, Philippines, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Nepal on topics on innovation and venture capital. He also serves on the Focus Group Committee on "Re-thinking Innovation & Productivity" for the Singapore Business Federation's Business Position Paper for the Singapore Government.
At Carnegie Mellon University, Tan finished two bachelor's degrees, a BS(ECE) and a BS(Econ), in 3 yrs and graduated top in his class, as the William L. Everitt scholar. He also received a Masters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. A Certified Risk Analyst, Tan also completed post-graduate work at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School (under the WEF Young Global Leaders Executive Education program) and coursework for a Ph.D at Harvard University as a JFK Fellow. He has a wife and three children.