About the Author

Stefan Nguyen is Founder and CEO of Next Ignite, an innovation accelerator focused solely on digital companies. He is also serving as Chief Strategy Officer of Chroniclr(TM), a path-breaking social media platform. Prior to Next Ignite, Stefan was Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Xignite, the leading cloud services provider of on-demand financial market data and award-winning on-demand data distribution solutions. Stefan was also one of the original developers of the popular Oracle(R) E-Business suite of products used by most Fortune 1000 companies and thousands of other enterprises. Stefan has an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he studied under Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. Stefan received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University.