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Overview
Yesha Sivan (Hebrew: ישע סיון; born April, 1966) is an Israeli born entrepreneur and professor. He is the founder and CEO of i8 ventures - a business platform focusing on innovating innovating. Currently, he is a visiting professor of innovation and venture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School.

Sivan's professional experience includes developing and deploying innovative solutions for corporate, hi-tech, government, and defense environments. He focuses on digital strategy, innovation and venture (employment black holes ), mindful leadership (orange bike workshop ), virtual worlds (3D3C platforms), and knowledge age standards. After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he has taught executives, EMBA, MBA, engineering and design courses in his areas of expertise. His personal blog is http://www.dryesha.com.

Chinese Name
Sivan has taken a Chinese name (习移山) that resembles the sound of his Hebrew name: 习 Xi 移山 Yi Shan. The last name 习(xi) means "to learn" which is something Sivan always engages in- Learning and Teaching. The first name 移山(Yishan) means "to move a mountain". This is similar in sound to "Yesha"

The first name also relates to a famous Chinese story about YuGong YiShan - The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains It can be summarized as such:

In ancient times, there was an old man in front of whose house were two high mountains, making it very inconvenient for him to come and go. He gathered his family and started to level the mountains. His neighbor scoffed, "You are foolish. You are too old and weak to level a small hill, let alone two big mountains." But the old man said, &quot;I have sons, and my sons have sons. I will have endless progeny, but the mountains won't grow any higher." The spirit of the "Foolish Old Man" moved Heaven, and it sent two immortals to move the mountains away. This idiom describes an indomitable will.

Education
Sivan completed his Bachelor of Education and Cognitive Sciences (magna cum laude) in 1988, at the Tel Aviv University. He moved to United States in 1989 to complete his Masters of Interactive Technology at Harvard University. He furthered his studies and was awarded a Doctorate from Harvard University. His thesis about "Knowledge Age Standards" qualified with distinction.

From 1990-2000, Sivan was involved in post-doctoral research at the Program on Information Resources Policy at Harvard University.

Academic Career
Sivan has had a multitude of academic positions since his teaching assistant role in 1988. Most recently and notably are his positions as :
 * 2011- : Editor in Chief of "The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR)"
 * 2009-2013: Adjunct Senior Lecturer of the MBA program of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Courses include: "The Strategic Value of Information Technology"
 * 2009-2015: Professor & Program Head at Academic College of Tel Aviv. Courses include: "Advance Applications in Virtual Worlds", "The Strategic Value of Information Technology"
 * 2013-2018: Adjunct Professor at Tel Aviv University. Courses include: "The Strategic Value of Information Technology"
 * 2014-2016: Visiting Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University for ExecMA level courses: "Risk and Value", "Capstone project"
 * 2017- : Visiting Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong at the "Dept of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics"

Business Career
Sivan is the founder and CEO of i8 ventures - a business platform focusing on innovating innovating. His experience includes developing and deploying innovative solutions for corporate, hi-tech, government, and defense environments. He focuses on digital strategy, innovation and venture (employment black holes ), mindful leadership (orange bike workshop ), virtual worlds (3D3C platforms), and knowledge age standards.

Publications
The following is a selection. A full list can be found in his bio page.



















Patents

 * Sivan, Y. (1999). Method for creating a knowledge map. Patent No. US 09/274,952.
 * Sivan, Y. (1999). Substrate for dynamic map. [Design application]. Patent No. US 29/102,419.
 * Sheaffer, G., Ur, S., Hirshberg, D., Sivan, Y., & Kaplan M., (2014). Remotely controlled crowd-sourced media capture. Patent No. US 20140218549 A1, WO 2014120244 A1 (Application via Intellectual Ventures).