Dr. Oliver Yu is an Executive-in-Residence responsible for an East Asia Outreach Program. 

His principal job duty is to "help develop relationships with universities in East Asia, especially in China and Taiwan, and with the recruitment of students for College of Business programs, especially the MBA-1". Oliver has a Ph.D. from Stanford and was Director, Energy and Technology Strategies at SRI International for 11 years and Manager for Institute-wide Planning and Analysis at Electric Power Research Institute for 15 years; has extensive contacts in the local Chinese community and in China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea; and is also a Lecturer/Full Professor in the College, teaching in the Lucas Graduate School. Oliver will be working closely with faculty in our College that have existing relationships with East Asian countries; and with International & Extended Studies in relationship development and student recruitment in East Asia.

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Terry Austen Executive-in-Residence in Healthcare Management

Terry will be responsible for developing a relationship with healthcare providers, with the objective of developing a graduate certificate program or other academic offerings in healthcare management. He will be working closely with all segments of SJSU, especially the College of Applied Sciences and Arts (with their programs in Nursing, Health Science and Public Health) and the College of Science (with their programs in the Biological Sciences, including the joint MS program with the COB in Biotechnology). We will be assigning a COB faculty member(s) to work with Terry who have expertise in these areas.

Terry is a native San Josean. His academic credentials include a BS-Biology degree from Santa Clara University, and an MBA from San Jose State University. Terry began his healthcare management career as Laundry Manager for the now-defunct San Jose Medical Center. While at SJMC, he moved into finance and information technology management positions, leaving in 1992 to run a physician-owned medical billing/practice management company. In 1998, he prepared the company for sale to a national emergency services provider, and joined Kaiser Permanente (KP) as CFO for the three hospitals comprising the South Bay Service Area: Redwood City, San Jose and Santa Clara. He was promoted to Senior VP/Area Health Plan Manager in 2004, responsible for healthcare delivery to 200,000 KP members in San Jose, Morgan Hill and Gilroy. He has Board experience with the Santa Clara City Library Foundation, San Jose/Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce (Chair-2006), San Jose Library Foundation, The Tech Museum of Innovation; and currently with the American Cancer Society (Board President 2004-2006), SJSU Research Foundation and the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy.

 

Dan Doles Executive-in-Residence for Venture Development Process

Dan will be responsible for developing a Venture Development Process. He will be working closely with all segments of SJSU, building on the programs that Anu Basu and Steve Bennet have built with the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurship Lab, respectively, and that Joe Giglierano has initiated with the Technology Commercialization Initiative. Some ideas currently being evaluated include a Spartan Angel Network to invest in ventures launched by students, faculty and/or alumni (working closely with Nancy Bussani, CEO of the Tower Foundation); a boot-camp for entrepreneurs to help launch an idea; and an alumni mentoring network to help the entrepreneurs succeed. This Venture Development Process will be developed with input from all colleges, with a coordinating committee of cross-discipline faculty members.

Dan graduated from the College of Business in 1985 with a concentration in accounting and has been a successful serial entrepreneur. Dan worked his way through school and his wife Carolyn is also a College of Business alumna. After graduation, he worked for Ernst & Young for 6 years on accounts in the computer software industry; founded the Red Pepper Software company, which was acquired by PeopleSoft; became Vice President of Sales Operations for PeopleSoft; was CEO of WhereNet, a computer software company for about 10 years; and recently founded another software company.