Todd Embley
Program Director @ Parisoma
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.