#41 Albert Tseng - Entrepreneur / Life changing event / Impact Investing / LOVE for Toronto

I'm your host Gary Nowak and I've got an extremely inspiration conversation for you today with my guest Albert Tseng who has built a very entrepreneurial career with impact investing, sustainable foods and social enterprise.

Career Background:

Co-Founder of Dao Foods 

• Focusing on China's rising demand for meat and other protein food products with animal free alternatives

Founder of Moonspire Social Ventures

• Utlizing the power of business to address important global issues

COO and Strategic advisor at BlueDot Inc.

• Receiving epidemic intelligence of potential emerging infectious diseases

Program manager for the Clinton Foundation in South Africa

Attended 

• University of Waterloo with a bachelor in engineering 
• University of Toronto / Biomedical engineering masters
• Mid Career MPA at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government

Highlights

• A lot of Toronto Love
• Great first job, very entrepreneurial and insight into his career
• Heading over to mechanical engineering
• Albert Loves a process and Becoming an entrepreneur
• 3rd year university impactful life moment with a simple cut to his knee

• • Contracting necrotizing fasciitis flesh-eating bacteria
  • The impact of this on his career based 
  • 3 surgeries within a 6 day period
  • Coming out of it unscathed
  • 1995 was an extremely difficult year with family and friend loss
• Gathering all this to find purpose with his career
• Focusing on the health care industry and recognizing a big gap in information
• Applying his engineering to the healthcare system
• Having GREAT bosses along the way
• Harvard Kennedy School was perfect opportunity at the right time
• Impact Investing
• Listen to and verify your own instincts, you can always return to your old job
• The power of Informational interviews (hear this time and time again)
• What is your public narrative, your view of the world
• Cherry Picking from his mentors, very observational
• You don't always know what you're absorbing when you're going through your career
• Hitting singles and double not home runs with his career
• Getting visibility to your blind spots
• Focusing on the food chain to impact our environment
• The china focus to move forward on sustainable food options
• Mobilizing capital to entrepreneurs in china  
• Helping others achieve their goals
• Aligning people with what they love to do
• Being the boss he has always admired
• Having your kids take advantage of you

Want to be a guest? Email me at gpnowak@gmail.com!