Management

Dr. Jay Jootar

Chairman and Founder

Dr. Jay has extensive experience in building technology businesses.

 

Dr Jay got a Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunications) from Chulalongkorn University. He got his MBA and PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During the time, he conducted research for the Center for Innovation in Product Development at MIT, which is the global research leader in the field of Product Development with sponsors such as IBM, Nokia, Motorola, etc.

    

During his years in the United States, he worked as a management consultant for several leading hi-tech companies such as Intel CorporationITT CorporationVerizon CommunicationsIBM, etc. He led the team at ITT Corporation to plan a spin-off of a product group into an independent company. The company was named Meshnetwork and was later acquired and become a business unit under Motorola.

Prior to founding The Venture Catalyst Group in 2009, Dr. Jay was an executive at True Corporation for 7 years. He managed several innovative products such as Wi-Fi serviceVoice over IP service, etc. His last post at True was the General Manager of VoIP Business which grew from its inception to more than $10 Mil. under 3 years. At True, he was leading several business development efforts throughout Thailand and overseas (USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Japan, Korea, India, Israel, Russia, UK, France, etc.)

  

He is a board member in several influential research laboratories, feeding inputs from commercial world into technical research labs such as the Next-Generation Internet Lab of Prince Songkla University and the IP Lab of King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi.

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Dr Jay is also a faculty member in the field of Entrepreneurship at College of Management, Mahidol University.

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