Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo
Speaker - Jeff Char, J-Seed Ventures

Mr. Jeff Char - Founder and of J-Seed Ventures Inc.
December 06 2005 - Speaker
June 09 2004 - Speaker

Profile
C. Jeffrey Char is a serial entrepreneur and the president of J-Seed Ventures Inc., a Tokyo-based venture incubator. In addition to J-Seed Ventures, Jeff is also responsible for the Japan operations of PhillipCapital, a multinational financial services group. He serves on the boards of numerous companies including Mobikyo (www.mobikyo.jp), a mobile portal and information venture, and Bell Circuits (www.bellcircuits.com), an electronics components company, and is a statutory auditor at Seer Insight Security Corporation (www.seerinsight.co.jp), a network security venture. Jeff's past successes include 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. Jeff's experience with start-up companies also includes earlier careers as a corporate attorney and an investment banker. Jeff has a B.S. in Economics from Sophia University in Tokyo and a JD from Boalt Hall School of Law (University of California, Berkeley).

Services
J-Seed Ventures, Inc. is a Tokyo-based venture incubator. The company's main business lines consist of incubation, management and IT consulting, outsourced staffing and systems integration.