Todd Embley

Program Director at Chinaccelerator

Todd Embley, Director at Parisoma, is a serial entrepreneur who previously worked at Chinaccelerator and had been living in China for more than 7 years. Todd’s main areas of expertise lie in Lean Startup methodology, Entrephilosophy, Marketing and Customer Development. He has been a speaker at BREAK in Bali; START Summit in St. Gallen, Switzerland; LIFT conference in Geneva; DreamPlus in Seoul, Korea; Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing; TEDx talk for TEDxSuzhou; GSMA Innovation Labs in Shanghai; and many others, as well as vetted more than 1000 companies for the Chinaccelerator program.

Todd has mentored at many startup events across China including:

SeedStars Global Competition, Lausanne Switzerland
GMIC G-Startup
Lean Startup Machine
3-Day Startup
Startup Weekend
Steve Blank’s NEXT program
Beijing TechHive
Fail Faster

Todd has also been a judge at various startup competitions including:

SeedStars
GMIC G-Startup
Mobile Monday
GSMA
Venture Day
3 Day Startup
Lean Startup Machine
Tech Trailblazers

Todd has been a panelist at startup conferences including:

Plug and Play/SIAS Incubator conference in Zhengzhou, China

GMIC
GSMA
Venture Day
IBM Smartcamp

Todd has given lectures/seminars at:

TEDx Suzhou
GSMA
3 Day Startup
Hult Shanghai
ZheJiang University, Hangzhou
Liaoning Normal University
AIESEC – International Association of Students in Economic and Commercial Sciences
Lean Startup Machine.