Free talk: Bootstrapping your tech startup

Speaker:

Michael Hansson
Global Design Engineering Manager
Integrated Microelectronics Inc.

Michael Hansson is the Global Design Engineering manager for IMI, an Electronics Manufacturing Solutions provider with 21,000 people and 12 facilities in 4 countries.

Michael is an Embedded Systems Engineer with an M.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Linkoping in Sweden, where he also taught robotics and programming. He has over 20 years’ experience in developing a variety of hardware and software solutions, and among other things spent 5 years with Timex Philippines where he headed the electronics R&D group.

He started his first consulting practice at the age of 16 and subsequently moved on to found and manage a variety of technopreneurial ventures, including ICON Information Consultants, CODA Software, Synapse Inc., DSPI, NewNew Technologies, Streamware Development Corporation and
M. Hansson Consulting, Inc. His latest venture, a design company providing customized test equipment to the local electronics industry, was bootstrapped and subsequently acquired by IMI in August 2006.

Where and when:

UP Ayala Technology Business Incubator
CP Garcia cor Katipunan Avenue
Diliman, Quezon City
Wednesday, 12 September
10am
FREE entrance