Colin Wiel, President (San Francisco Chapter), Keiretsu Forum
Colin Wiel is the President of the San Francisco Chapter of the Keiretsu Forum. Colin is an active Angel investor, having made Angel investments in more than ten companies in the past five years. Colin often remains actively involved in the companies in which he invests, and he currently serves on the advisory boards of four companies.
Colin is also an entrepreneur, having started a 35-person software engineering firm which he ran from its inception in 1998 through to its acquisition in 2001. Over his career, Colin has made a wide variety of technical contributions such as co-architecting a genomics database to host the fruit fly genome; designing and developing a fuzzy logic based antiskid system for commercial aircraft for Boeing (two US patents issued); co-architecting the Java infrastructure for Charles Schwab’s online trading website (the largest dollar volume e-commerce website in the world); and developing and teaching the Java Servlet and JSP curriculum for UC Berkeley Extension. Colin holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley.
Colin has founded several community organizations including special interest groups of the Software Development Forum and the IEEE.
