Rebecca Fannin
Rebecca A. Fannin 范碧嘉 is author of Silicon Dragon (McGraw-Hill, 2008) and Startup Asia (Wiley, 2011), a contributor to Forbes, and a consultant and public speaker. Her news and events group, Silicon Asia, publishes e-newsletters for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, and develops conferences in the world’s tech hotspots. Videos, photos, articles and blogs related to her books and programs can be found at www.siliconasiainvest.com.
Ms. Fannin’s 20-year journalism career includes posts as international editor at Red Herring, the Pulitzer-owned International Business, AdAge, and Incisive Media’s AVCJ. She has contributed to Inc., Worth, Fast Company, Chief Executive, The Deal, Media Post, and Harvard Business Review.
Her consulting work includes a KPMG white paper on China outsourcing, Sony research projects, and Econsultancy editorial content. She has partnered with NASDAQ OMX, Morrison & Foerster, KPMG, SVB Financial Group, O’Melveny & Myers, Sidley Austin, Deloitte, K&L Gates, DLA Piper, InvestHK, SecondMarket, and Wells Fargo on China and India business events. Rebecca has testified as an expert witness on China’s Internet before a U.S.-China Commission in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Fannin has appeared as a featured commentator on Fox Business News in the U.S., Sky TV in Australia, and CCTV in China. She has lectured at several universities, including Yale, Columbia, Harvard, NUS, Tsinghua, Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, Ohio University, Hong Kong University and the University of San Francisco, among others. Rebecca has spoken at the Asia Society in San Francisco and Hong Kong, World Affairs Council in San Francisco, Overseas Press Club in New York, the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong and Tokyo, World Affairs Forum in Greenwich, China Northwest Council in Portland, Vancouver Trade Club in northwest Canada, Washington State China Relations Council in Seattle, and Harvard Club in New York.
Originally from Lancaster, Ohio, Rebecca was raised in an academic household as the daughter of a university professor and a kindergarten teacher. Today, she makes her home in a Manhattan apartment and a colonial house in North Stamford, Conn. Her research, writing and advisory work takes her regularly to the San Francisco area, where she has a base in Burlingame. Rebecca enjoys frequent reporting trips to China, India, and other emerging markets.
Topics
Innovation Hotspots for Entrepreneurs
China and India as the New Frontier for Startups
Silicon Dragon: How China is Winning the Tech Race
China’s emergence as a technology giant in the 21st century
Digital Media Trends
Evolution of Digital Magazines and Mobile Media
Testimonials
Bill Tai, Charles River Ventures: Amazing panel! Great job, Rebecca!
Kai-Fu Lee, Innovation Works: Congratulations on a successful panel
Dick Kramlich, NEA: The chemistry really worked
Andrew Qian, New Access Capital: A success – I could not find a seat
Charlie Paglee, Brannan Auto: Terrific moderator, very equitable
Charles Comey, Morrison & Foerster: Great event, congratulations!
Peter Mok, KLM Capital: Impressed by the turn-out, you are doing great
Testimonial on Silicon Dragon
Silicon Dragon presents a unique and well-reported look into the rapid ascent of Chinese entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who are defining the frontiers of global technology. A ‘high-five’ to Ms. Fannin, who took the time in Beijing, Shanghai, and the Valley to tell their story to the world.”
~ Dan Schwartz, chairman and publisher, Asian Venture Capital Journal, Hong Kong
Testimonials on Startup Asia
Rebecca Fannin has established herself as the preeminent expert on Asia’s emerging innovation economies. There is no better guide to understanding the countries and companies that are commercializing the disruptive technologies and ideas of the future.
~ Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, Technology Review
Rebecca Fannin, who caught the early waves of the Chinese Internet boom with her book Silicon Dragon, shows why we now need to be paying attention to VIC (Vietnam, India and China) in her forward-looking book Startup Asia. With diligent on-the-ground reporting and hard-won access, Fannin follows the money — the smart money of VCs who made money on both the U.S. and China Internet booms — to see where we should be placing our next bets in the world of technology.
~ Gady Epstein, Correspondent, The Economist
Startup Asia starts out with a bang and picks up steam from there. Rebecca Fannin has done her homework. The force of Asian innovation and market presence will be with us forever. You’ll be well served by reading this excellent work.
~Dick Kramlich, Chairman & Co-Founder, NEA
Startup Asia should be on the Kindle shelf for every B school course on Asia or entrepreneurship.
~ Ron Schramm, Professor, Columbia Business School
Startup Asia is a must read! The shift of entrepreneurial activity to Asia is dramatically changing investment opportunities. No one has done more field research or has more thoughtful analysis and insights on this dramatic change than Rebecca Fannin!
~ Patrick J. McGovern, Founder and Chairman, International Data Group
From tech parks in India to half-constructed offices in Ho Chi Minh City, Startup Asia is a splendidly woven narrative of leading entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who are shaping the future that is being invented in Asia and envied around the globe.
~ Tony Nash, Global Director, Custom Research, Economist Intelligence Unit
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