About the Program

Honorary Advisory Board

The Honorary Advisory Board of EMS consists of a diverse group of organization ambassadors. Honorary advisors members consists of proven entrepreneurs, educators, executives, and professionals who support the entrepreneurial development cause. Honorary advisors members bring value to EMS by guest speaking, mentoring, introducing the program to students, referring sponsors, making financial contributions and referring speakers. EMS could not exist without the generosity and goodwill of these incredible people

David Choi, Ph.D.

Before joining the faculty at LMU, Dr. Choi has worked nearly 10 years as a management consultant to global corporations as well as startups. For several years, Dr. Choi was a Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in Los Angeles and Seoul. Dr. Choi also served as a Fellow of Global Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School. Recently, he was responsible for technology commercialization and venture formation for Titan Corporation in San Diego. Dr. Choi has been an active advisor to entrepreneurial companies in various industries including software, biotechnology, import/export, sports, food products, among others.

Jeff Cohn

Jeff is the Investment Screening Director for the Tech Coast Angels, who provide seed and early-stage capital in the range of $250K-$5MM. Since 1999 Jeff has managed the growth of the Tech Coast Angels membership from 70 to 300 investors and 32 venture capital affiliates and has helped sourced the private financing of more than 100 Southern California based technology companies. Jeff is also the founder of two nationally recognized web sites DeadCellZones.com and PhotoEnforced.com. Jeff's technology carrier includes consulting for ebusiness development firm iXL (Former Nasdaq: IIXL), and the enterprise software company Computer Associates International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA). Jeff has a B.S. in Business Administration, Finance from the University of Colorado.