Tom Yeh - Professional Bio
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Tom Yeh is a successful serial entrepreneur with a unique ability to identify projects with extraordinary potential. His expertise lies in developing ideas and bringing them to market, focusing on maximizing revenue and ensuring the success of ventures.
Since December 2017, Mr. Yeh has been a board member and the chair of the finance committee at RAMS Services Inc., one of San Francisco's largest community-based mental health agencies. Additionally, he has served on the board, executive committee, and finance committee of SFSAFE, a groundbreaking San Francisco agency dedicated to reducing crime through community-based initiatives, since August 2016.
Mr. Yeh has also been a board member of the Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice since August 2011, working towards the organization's mission of finding alternatives to incarceration. From 2010 to 2017, Mr. Yeh acted as the Chairman of the International Mensa Investment Club, overseeing investments and funding for the club. Since May 2004, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees at Palo Alto University, serving on various committees and chairing the finance committee until December 2013.
Tom has received numerous community awards, including the prestigious John W. Gardner Award in 2015, and was nominated to the Small Business Administration (SBA) SBDC National Advisory Board in the same year.
He also advises the Coalition of Hope in Palm Beach, Florida, as a technology innovation board advisor. In addition to mentoring young entrepreneurs and advising businesses, he actively engages with tribal nations in the US and Africa through social ventures for economic development, fostering job creation and sustainable enterprises.
Mr. Yeh's academic background includes studying Biochemistry at the University of California Berkeley from 1991 to 1992, where he was involved in the International Chemistry Olympiad in 1991 and was a Howard Hughes Scholar in 1992.