Wendy Lung

Corporate Innovation and Corporate Venture

Advisor
2021 - Current
Draper Venture Network is an alliance of 17 venture funds spanning the global tech hubs in India, China, South America, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Advisor
2020
The Hive works actively with founders to co-create, fund and launch startups focused on AI in the Enterprise

Vice President
2022 - 2023
Mach49 helps Global 1000 companies develop a pipeline and portfolio of successful new ventures by Disrupting InsideOut™ — creating, building and launching new ventures generated from within their organizations — and Disrupting OutsideIn™ — designing and managing world-class corporate venture groups.

Managing Director, IBM Ventures
2008 - 2020
Proactively drive early insights into IBM’s strategy development, identify partnerships and acquisitions for growth, and advise Fortune 500 clients on their innovation initiatives - Expand the partner ecosystem and acquisition pipeline for IBM’s strategic initiatives in Cloud, Mobile, Commerce, Cognitive Computing, Big Data and Analytics and 17 vertical industries - Created IBM Global Entrepreneur, IBM's first partner program for early stage startups. Launched worldwide across 17 countries and with 100+ channel partners - Investment in IBM's first healthcare incubator
Director, Marketing
2001 - 2008
Led global market development for the top communications service providers in the world, focused on the high growth segments of Wireless, Digital Media and Convergence
Business Development Executive
1996 - 2001
Built IBM’s first business focused on internet-based companies in Asia. The business unit was established as a ‘startup’ within the company to address the emerging dot-com growth opportunity for the corporation
Marketing Strategist
1993 - 1996
Launched IBM's first Integrated Marketing Communications business unit. Responsible for building the marketing strategies for the Wholesale Distribution and Retail vertical markets in North America
Sales Representative
1989 - 1993
Responsible for increasing market share by displacing competitively installed accounts in the Wholesale, Retail and Transportation vertical markets