Joyce Shen

Joyce Shen is a venture capital/private equity investor and business builder. She has extensive strategy, financial, and operational experience and deep knowledge in incubating, investing in, growing, and managing new businesses in both global public companies and early-to-growth technology startups. With significant cross-functional experience that span venture capital/private equity investing, technology M&A, corporate finance/CFO, corporate strategy, technology and product innovation, operations, and go-to-market, Joyce has partnered with companies of all sizes to build strong teams, unlock growth levers, implement innovative technology and data science business cases, and establish strong financial, operational, and governance oversight for success.

Joyce’s technical expertise centers around emerging technologies, big data analytics, machine learning and AI, and cybersecurity. She has published books on technology and innovation and is a patent holder on detecting and locating unsecured sensors in critical infrastructures. Joyce currently serves as the Investment and Operating Partner at Tenfore Holdings, responsible for sourcing, investing in, and managing early-to-growth stage technology investments. Since 2016, Joyce has been an adjunct data science faculty at the School of Information of UC Berkeley.

Previously, Joyce was the Global Managing Director in the Office of the CTO responsible for emerging technology strategy, startup partnerships, and venture investments at Thomson Reuters.

Prior to Thomson Reuters, Joyce was the founding Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer of IBM Cloud Platform responsible for a multi-billion P&L. She started her career in IBM Corporate Development closing acquisitions over US $6 billion in cloud, data management, and security.

Joyce serves on the boards of various technology companies. She also serves on the innovation advisory council for the World Food Programme and was a member of the advisory board for Enterprise Estonia, Per Scholas, and Sponsors for Education Opportunity (SEO) Junior Leadership Board.