Professor Joseph KOC has been serving as an Exco Member of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Specialist Group, Hong Kong Computer Society, through which he has developed mentorship and coaching initiatives for various incubation and acceleration programs in HK.

Joseph is an active member in the start-up and social enterprise ecosystems in HK since early 2010. He is currently a domain expert | entrepreneur-in-residence of LEAP and an advisor to the Strategic Partnership Programme of HKSTP, contributing his experience in sales and marketing strategy, business, and regional development.

Prior to his involvement with the start-up ecosystems, Joseph was a Senior Executive of Jardine OneSolution (“JOS”), a division of Jardine Matheson and one of the largest regional IT distributors and system integrators in Asia after attaining his Master of Business Administration from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1988.

During his tenure with JOS, Joseph has championed various operations at the business unit level as well as strategic initiatives at the Group level. Such includes developing one of the largest IT distribution businesses in the Asian Pacific region, multi-brand IT retail chain store, a system integration function, and the strategic marketing and planning unit at the JOS Group Head Office. His last position with JOS as Board Member and Group Director, Strategic Marketing held the responsibilities of sales and marketing strategy development, development of new technology partnerships, services and solutions, best practices and process management, and corporate branding & communication strategy covering the various Asian regional offices of JOS. Joseph was also a certified Executive Coach of the Jardine Matheson Group and has been involved in the conducting of various senior executive development programs designed for the development of senior management within the Jardine Matheson group of companies.