Masterclass - Failure: A Necessary Ingredient For Success - Tokyo

*This event is only for those living in Japan. No visa support provided.  

Our education system emphasizes teaching and testing us about facts that are already known. Perfection is rewarded, while making mistakes is penalized. The skills we’re taught work well for familiar situations. These days, however, careers, valued skills and industries are transforming at an unheard-of rate and the future is unknown. As such, we need to develop our ability to discover, create and reinvent.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER 

Jeffrey Char is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He is Founder & Chairman at TRENDE, an online renewable energy retailer accelerating the widespread adoption of solar power in Japan and Founder & CEO at SOGO Energy, a global network of innovative energy access companies in emerging markets.  Prior to this he was Director of Corporate Venture Capital and a member of the Innovation Task Force at Tokyo Electric Power Company, the largest electric utility in Japan. Jeff is also Founder & CEO at J-Seed Ventures and a professor teaching about entrepreneurship at IE Business School in Spain and Doshisha Business School in Japan. He founded, built and sold several successful ventures including Sozon, an online marketing company sold to ValueCommerce (TSE Mothers: 2491), Solis, a domain registrar sold to GMO Internet (TSE: 9449), SSK Technology, an electronics component company sold to Suzuki Manufacturing, and Pario Software, a network security company sold to Lucent Technologies (NYSE: ALU). Prior to becoming an entrepreneur Jeff was a corporate attorney in Silicon Valley and securities research analyst in Tokyo.  Most of all, he enjoys teaching and mentoring young entrepreneurs. 

Jeff studied economics and business at Sophia University in Tokyo and law at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Law School.