Yann Kwok
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| Country: | Mauritius |
| Email: | yann.kwok[at]gmail.com |
| LinkedIn: |  [yankwok Yann Kwok]
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Yan Kwok is a partner at at Concentra and a Sloan Fellow from MIT. Originally from Mauritius, he worked as a strategy consultant for the United Nations and the Worldbank on African-related projects. His interests are in entrepreneurship and venture capital. [1]
Yann Kwok is a member of the Board of Trustees of AfriNIC, the emerging regional Internet Registry. He was elected to the ICANN's ccTLD Administrative committee of the DNSO, and chair of AFTLD, the African association of Top Level Domains. He is a member of the AFNOG management committee, and the ccTLD manager for .mu. [2]
Yann Kwok attended Royal College Port Louis (1981 — 1987). He has an BCom (1989 — 1991) in Accounting & Information Systems and and BCom(Hons)(1992 — 1993) in Information Systems from the University of Cape Town. [3]. He has an MBA - Sloan Fellows Program (2003 — 2004) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and a DVP - Reuters Digital Vision Fellow (2004 — 2005) from Stanford University.
Career History
- In 1995, In 1995, Yann Kwok founded Internet Direct through which he served as the strategy Consultant of United Nations, New York and prepared strategic recommendation for the President of Madagascar, leading to the privatization of Telecom Malagasy.
- He worked as the Independent Regional Expert of World Bank Group evaluated bids which resulted in 6 capacity development projects totaling $3M.
- Yann Kwok worked the Technical Director of Mauritius Commercial Bank where he provided DNS expertise leading to the introduction of the country’s first Internet banking platform
- He acted as an Independent Technical Expert of United Nations evaluated bids for the $15M "Internet Initiative for Africa" project, quadrupling Namibia's Internet connectivity.
- He was the Regional Instructor of INTIF, France and built and trained a team, which brought up Madagascar’s first Internet connection.
- He served as a Network Specialist in Kerzner International, Mauritius and planned and implemented a wide area network for one of the Top 5 Leading Resorts of the World.
- In 1993 he co-founded Rogers Telecom / Terrasky a telecommunications company.
- He worked in MIT Tiger Team, the MIT MBA team recruited by EMC in 2004.
- In 2005, he worked as a Summer Associate in DFJ (Draper Fisher Juvetson for Southern Cross fund).