MARK LAM
Chairman, Executive Committee & CEO, Live365
Mark Lam serves as Chairman, Executive Committee and CEO of Live365. As the former lead advisor to Live365, Lam has been instrumental in securing funding, developing a new business model, and advising profitable growth for the company. With over 10,000 broadcasters and millions of listeners worldwide, Live365 offers greater breadth and depth of music than any other music site on the internet and is the world's largest internet radio network.
Prior to joining Live365, Lam specialized in forming global alliances and solving business and legal problems for international high-tech companies for over a dozen years. His clients included Philips Electronics and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (a top BusinessWeek Infotech 100 Company with $11 Billion in annual revenue), in which he successfully prosecuted and defended patent infringement lawsuits as well as advising, negotiating, and consummating deals. He began his career at GM/Hughes, where he did strategic planning and business analysis. Subsequently, Lam was a senior consultant at Geneva Company, a leading business valuation and M&A firm. He also was a senior investment manager at Dynafund, an international high-tech venture capital firm.
Lam has published articles in prominent journals and newspapers including the Harvard Business Review, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Economic Daily, and Wealth Magazine (Taiwan's leading daily and financial monthly, respectively). He has been invited as a guest speaker at UCLA, USC, UC Irvine and the California State Bar Education Institute. Lam also serves as a lecturer for MBA classes in global management and alliances at the Graduate School of Management at UC Irvine.
Lam is a member of the Board of Advisors at the UC Irvine Center for Citizen Peace Building and California Bar Association. In 2000, he served as a Presidential Elector and appeared on CNN, Good Morning Asia and the BBC. In 2001, he joined a delegation of U.S. professors invited by leading Chinese universities and major T.V. stations in five cities including Beijing and Shanghai to lecture on China's joining the WTO and its impact on China's media industry.
Recently, Lam has just completed a book with Professor John L. Graham, an authority in international marketing and negotiation, on Chinese business negotiation. He also has begun work on a second book with Professor Liu Chuntian, a leading Chinese intellectual property law scholar, on Chinese intellectual property law and practice.
Lam received a B.A. in Economics from Hamilton College, a J.D. from University of California Hastings College of the Law, and an M.B.A. from UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management.