Overview

Gender

female

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Early stage Venture

Lake is a seasoned investor in AI and Blockchain technologies. She is a top-rated Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, teaching Applied AI at master of engineering programs. She has served on private and non-profit boards as Chairwomen and Board Director.

Lake has 20 years of product, engineering, and business leadership positions at tech startups and big tech brands such as Alibaba, Apple, and Yahoo!, helping them to scale from early-stage. She was employee #84 at Alibaba leading the product team, and an early team member of Yahoo! International and Apple Asia. Lake is a founder of private and non-profit organizations that empower diversity in leadership, entrepreneurship, and tech angels.

Lake is a well-respected expert in AI and Education and has spoken at the UN and House of Lords (Parliament of the UK), representing women in AI. She is also the inventor of five US patents in search algorithm, recommendation algorithm, and text tokenization.