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Sheridan Tatsuno -- tatsuno
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Have:venture academy;online gaming startup; screenplays Want:online gaming partners & investors; investors interested in Sweden
Title:Principal Home: San Jose, CA USA
Company: Dreamscape Global From: San Jose, CA USA
Industry Category:Information Technology & ServicesUniversities: Yale Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Industries: digital media, online gaming, Interests: digital entertainment, filmmaking/screenwriting, surfing, running, travel, reading, Japan, Hawaii, Kansai, France, Italy,
Experience:
Market researchDataquest Market Research Industry
Technopolis plannerBechtel Architecture & Planning Industry
Environmental plannerWoodward-Clyde Semiconductors Industry

Greetings! I'm a Silicon Valley business strategist and screenwriter who is currently working in Sweden as Associate Dean of Business Creation for Jönköping International Business School (JIBS). My job is to help JIBS generate new revenues, teach classes on entrepreneurship, advise students in building startups, invite investors to speak and locate in Sweden, and connect Sweden with Silicon Valley.
http://www.jibs.se
http://www.hj.se/eng
http://sheridantatsuno.vox.com/ (my blog)

JIBS is part of the Intentac venture academy network in Europe and the Mideast, which will expand to India and other regions as it finds research university partners. http://www.intentac.org

I'm advising the Global Trust Center, a new organization aimed at global e-commerce trust and authentication. http://www.globaltrustcenter.org

On the side, I'm co-launching an online gaming venture and co-producing indie movies in Normandy, Sweden and possibly Italy.

MY BACKGROUND

In the 1970s, I was trained in urban planning (housing & community development, with an environmental planning minor) and worked on energy impact reports (EIS), solar rights policies, housing plans, and international project financing, so I'm familiar with energy/environmental issues from the 1970s energy crisis.

Over the past 25 years, I've helped develop breakthrough strategies for over 700 companies in semiconductors, consumer devices, Internet, and digital media.

I've worked on TV documentaries and am expanding into feature films. My projects are very global in scope (US, Japan, Europe, Mideast, and Asia).

DREAMSCAPE GLOBAL - "Enabling Business Breakthroughs"
http://www.dreamscapeglobal.com

Since 1989, Dreamscape Global has helped top tech companies develop breakthrough strategies, such as "Intel Inside", AMD Japan's revenue-doubling strategy, Nokia global strategy, and Canon's networking strategy. I focus on helping tech companies uncover new markets and customers. Since 1982, I've advised over 700 high-tech companies, ranging from IBM and Intel to raw startups, so I've seen and worked on solving many business strategy errors.

During the 1980s, I was an analyst at Dataquest where I co-founded the Japan/Asia semiconductor services and co-authored a report on chip startups.

I'm an adviser to the IP First Society (www.ipfirst.org), a non-profit community based in Shanghai, China, which focuses on IP practices in China. A related effort is China IP Smart (www.chinaipsmart.com), which translates Chinese IP articles into English and publishes the Creative China magazine.

SCREENWRITING & FILMMAKING

My passion is screenwriting. I'm writing my 13th through 15th screenplays, which I'm planning to produce.

In Silicon Valley, I'm a juror at the Film Angels pitch sessions and a member of the International Institute for Film Financing: http://www.filmfinancing.org/

In Santa Cruz, I'm a member of Cinemar
http://www.cinemarfilm.org

In San Francisco, I'm a member of the National Japanese American National Historical Society, http://www.njahs.org/. Our March 22, 2008 gala will feature Asia Pacific trends and opportunities.

I have worked on TV documentaries and nonprofit projects:

SURVIVORS by Steven Okazaki (http://www.farfilm.com/) who won the 1980 Best PBS Documentary of the Year Award. This project began as a 5-minute class video at San Francisco State University. Although I wasn't involved in Steve's two next documentaries, he received two Oscar nominations and won the Oscar for YEARS OF WAITING (1991).

JAPAN DREAMING (1991, Central Independent TV plc, London)
based on my book THE TECHNOPOLIS STRATEGY (1986), which aired on Nova in 1994. To order: http://www.frif.com/cat97/f-j/japan_dr.html

THE CREATIVE SPIRIT, sponsored by IBM and aired by PBS (1992), was a 4-hour series based on my book CREATED IN JAPAN (1990). http://www.ambrosevideo.com/displayitem.cfm?vid=458

JAPAN SOCIETY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (2004-2005). For the Society's 100th anniversary in Oct. 2005, I prepared a photobook and DVD covering the past and future vision for Japan-Bay Area relations in business, education and culture. http://www.usajapan.org/

TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (April 2007) Videotaped its first Silicon Valley conference with a handycam.
http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/english/index.html

OUTDOOR SPORTS

My outdoor passions are running and surfing between Santa Cruz and San Francisco. Check out for cool views of the coast: http:www.californiacoastline.org/

Sign my guestbook and share your passions and projects. I always enjoy meeting writers, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, runners, surfers and their friends.

Come visit me in Jonkoping, Sweden!
http://www.topix.com/se/jonkoping
http://www.thelocal.se/



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