Stephanie Shyu
Director, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship at New York University
Stephanie Shyu
Director, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship at New York University
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Associate Director, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship
2022 - Current
Programming and startup advising for early stage entrepreneurs.
Organizational Development & DEI Consultant
2022
Transformational leadership and organizational consulting (including DEIA trainings and interpersonal communication workshops) for startup founders and tech teams. https://sjscollective.com/
Venture Partner
2018
Evaluate and advise early-stage companies in the Consumer, E-commerce, Education, Job and Career Services, and Marketplace spaces with an interest in disrupting barriers to access.
Founder & CEO
2014
A peer-to-peer marketplace of crowdsourced college application files and student advice. The first and largest database of quantitative and qualitative admissions insights for students, parents, and counselors.
Summer Associate
2013 - 2013
Primary focus: Emerging Companies startup practice. Secondary: Corporate, Banking & Debt Capital Markets, Energy & Infrastructure, and Public Finance. Pro bono: The Innocence Project, refugee asylum, and the Syrian Truth & Reconciliation Committee. Previous summer experience in Capital Markets at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett in Hong Kong and at the Beijing Arbitration Commission.
Financial Reporter & Producer
2010 - 2011
Financial news reporting, aggregation, and production on live stream and online platforms. Prior broadcast news and production experience at NBC News (LA) and CNN (NY) and in Communications at the U.S. Department of Commerce (DC).
Founder & Director
2004 - 2007
A non-profit promoting post-secondary education access for female students in rural China. Created a talent retention fund to incentivize university-educated graduates to return to teach. Partnered with Bank of China and regional agricultural universities to fund a micro-finance program for young female entrepreneurs.
Education
Executive Certificate
2021 - 2022
EdTech cohort (ImagineK12)
2014 - 2015
Master of Laws - LLM
2013 - 2014