Rowland Chen

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Rowland Chen

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Consultant, Advisor, Scientist

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What I Do

Consultant

Consultant

Consultant

  • Solve the toughest business problems using innovative tools and components as would any decent engineer
  • Collect information, analyze data, define the real problem, develop a solution, and execute
  • Have solved problems ranging from cruise missiles crashing to orchestrating business turnarounds
  • Partner with and mentor CEOs to increase the valuations of their firms

Advisor

Consultant

Consultant

  • Provide advice drawn from 40 years’ experience tackling the hardest strategic, operational, and financial problems
  • Guide you and your leadership team on how to navigate strategic issues that block competitive advantage, organizational issues that slow performance improvement, and financial issues that constrain growth
  • Wide range of industries including technology, healthcare, and financial services.

Scientist

Consultant

Scientist

  • Visiting Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science 
  • Drive new paradigms for cognition and artificial intelligence
  • Provide thought leadership in generative artificial intelligence
  • Published pieces in the Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe
  • Management science approach for scaling, transformation, and financial performance improvement

Specializations

Early-Stage Success

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Mentor Chief Executive Officers and co-founders
  • Take firms from concept to sustainable businesses
  • Focus on gestation
  • Multiple industries served including technology, financial services, and healthcare

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Full-cycle of mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, shared services, and other combinations
  • Lightweight acquisition integration method to quickly stabilize combined operations

Transformation

Mergers & Acquisitions

Transformation

  • Generative AI transformation
  • Digital transformation
  • Business transformation
  • Industry transformation
  • Integrated and holistic approach
  • Deliver increased valuations (over $4 billion of increases to date)

Revenue Growth

Revenue Growth

Transformation

  • Industry disruption to gain marketshare
  • Ecosystem domination program design and execution
  • Go-to-market formulation and implementation
  • Support growth from first customer to scale

Education

Revenue Growth

Technology

  • Business administration, mathematics, new ventures, entrepreneurship
  • Corporate, graduate school, undergraduate, secondary education
  • Talks, lunch-and-learns, workshops, seminars, mini-courses, semester-long courses, 1-on-1 coaching

Technology

Revenue Growth

Technology

  • Design and execute Generative AI Transformation programs
  • Thought leadership in artificial creative intelligence and artificial consciousness
  • Ethical innovation in artificial intelligence
  • Design-for-ethics strategy and implementation
  • Political science of artificial intelligence

Roles

Partner at Consulting Firms

C-Change, Electronic Data Systems, Gemini Consulting, Hitachi, Viant

Operator in Industry

Cisco, Yahoo!, General Electric, General Dynamics, Diasonics MRI, DBA Systems

Founder/Co-Founder

The Silicon Valley Laboratory (CEO), Ask Alisha (CEO), Diasonics Credit Corp., Dunn Digital, The Busy Planet, Audio Intelligenzia (CEO), C-Change, TSAssociates (CEO), Gemini 3.0 (CEO)

Scientist

Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, General Dynamics Convair, Johns Hopkins University, Albany Medical College

Academic Credentials

Carnegie Mellon University

Adjunct Faculty - School of Computer Science

Martin Trust Center for M.I.T. Entrepreneurship

Mentor

De Anza College

Professor, Business and Innovation

M.I.T. Sloan School of Management

MBA. Strategy, Finance, Management Science

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

MS. Biomedical Engineering, Physiology

Johns Hopkins University

BES. Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering

Phillips Exeter Academy

Secondary Education


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