Curtis Chan

Summary

Curtis Chan is President and CEO/Founder and Managing Partner of two high technology Brand Marketing and Public Relations companies, CHAN & ASSOCIATES and COGNITIVE IMPACT, whose clients range from the Global Fortune 500 to venture capital funded startups. His agencies’ services, for over a quarter century, have helped garner early stage and growth companies significant brand exposure, resulting in either acquisition or IPO, with a total valuation of over $2.5 Billion. Mr. Chan is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, author, startup mentor and angel investor. He played key executive roles early on in helping to pioneer and usher in both professional digital audio and digital video technologies for the recording, broadcast, cinematic and post production industries. He also played key executive roles in helping to develop and market data storage technologies. His expansive background spans four decades in ever increasing executive roles in operations, business development, engineering and sales/marketing in the information technology, media & entertainment, storage and networking, and other related high technology industries. He is an active mentor and senior advisor to many established and VC backed start-up companies and incubators, a market/technology analyst, and has over four decades of experience in brand development, management consulting, company turnarounds, creative advertising and public relations. A graduate of California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo; Mr. Chan served as VP for the Fullerton College Foundation, where they awarded over 5,500 scholarships during his 14-year tenure; is a 25th year Entrepreneur-in-Residence and mentor for the Center for Entrepreneurship at CSUF and incubators. Additionally, he is a board member/CFO to the TAYO Legacy Foundation; an advisor/mentor to the CIE and Global Waste Research Institute, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and a member of the President’s Green and Gold Society; an advisory council member to Pepperdine University's Most Fundable Companies Program. He was the Board President for the Healing Hearts Association; and is a regularly featured speaker at many MBA and Doctorate level lectures around the country. He's presented and published over 30 papers worldwide, is a book co-author, an Editorial Board Member for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, past Senior Editor for Broadcast Beat and AV Beat Magazines, Computer Technology Review, and is a regularly featured Contributing Editor to many US and international trade publications for over 35 years.