Ted Li is an distinguished technology and business executive with deep expertise in technology, pharmaceutical, and financial services industries.
He spent 15 years in Pharmaceuticals with leadership roles across multiple functions. As a portfolio director he worked on dozens of global M&A projects, as an executive technology director he led functions for compliance, legal, Hr, finance, infrastructure, security, digital, as the Chief of Staff to the CIO he ran technology operations, budgets, and global programs. In his most recent role he served as the global finance technology leader for a Fortune 500 company and responsible for ensuring the money was there and working for the company.
Companies: BMS, Pfizer, Viatris
Ted has over 10 years of financial services experience having spent time as an Investment Banker, private equity analyst, and management consultant driving strategy and operations programs building PMO and Portfolio Operations organizations and practices from scratch.
Companies: Utendahl Capital, Bank Of America, Wachovia, Weeden, E&Y
Above all he enjoys learning. As a startup advisor he learns from the brilliant eyes of entrepreneurs accepted into the SOSV (orbit) portfolio. From the students where he spent 3 years as a visiting professor of Business Strategy at Rowan University. Mostly he enjoys learning from his kids because they see the world so keenly.
He hails from the streets of New York City with a Bachelor of Science from Columbia University, an MBA from NYU STERN and Certificate of Digital Economics from NYU.