Martin Tang is currently chairman of global executive-search firm, Spencer Stuart, in Asia.
Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Tang ran another international executive search firm in Hong Kong. He was an executive director of Techno-Ventures (Hong Kong) Ltd., a leading venture capital firm from 1986 to 1988. Early in his career, he was with the Bank of America in San Francisco and Taiwan. He then worked as an executive director of the publicly listed South Sea Textile Manufacturing Co., Ltd., in Hong Kong and Indonesia.
Martin is a trustee of Cornell University, a member of the MIT Corporation and the 112th president of the MIT Alumni Association. Martin has been appointed by the Hong Kong government to a number of positions, and is currently a member of the University Grants Committee and the Professional Services Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.
Martin Tang holds a B.Sc in electrical engineering from Cornell University and an M.Sc from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
So how did I get involved with Cornell and with MIT? I was born in Boston. My father went to MIT as did my grandfather, actually three generations there. And I grew up in Hong Kong and finished high school there and then came to Cornell and went through the college of engineering as an electrical...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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