Stephen Forte

Stephen Forte

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As Founder and CEO of The BuildClub, Stephen Forte spearheads a tech revolution in the…

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    The BuildClub

    Silicon Valley / Los Angeles

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    Global

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    Greater Los Angeles Area

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    United States

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    Silicon Valley / Los Angeles

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    Greater Los Angeles Area, Hong Kong

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    Hong Kong

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    Hong Kong, China

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    Shanghai, China

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    Los Angeles / Hong Kong / Shenzhen

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    Silicon Valley, California, United States

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    Greater Los Angeles Area

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Education

  • Harvard Business School Graphic

    Harvard Business School

    YPO Harvard Business School, Executive Education Program

  • Ongoing executive education

  • While earning his MBA, Mr. Forte has also worked in the investment banking field, developing several software programs for calculating capital budgeting and sovereign risk analysis for capital budgeting and financing programs in emerging markets at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. His work ultimately led to the funding of more than $500 million worth of foreign investment projects and foreign loan guaranties.

  • Activities and Societies: U.S. Marine Corps NROTC, Varsity Crew

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Donor

    Various charities Globally

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    Board Member, Hong Kong, Marshall Partners

    USC Marshall School of Business

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    Speaker and Mentor

    The LEAP Foundation, Inc.

    Education

    Proud to be part of this amazing organization dedicated to helping young people worldwide achieve great success through a unique curriculum. LEAP makes a commitment to instill each student or young adult with real-life keys to success such as goal-setting, mentorship, self-motivation, professionalism and advanced communication.

Publications

  • 8 Headwinds Facing The Global Economy For 2016 And Beyond

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    Many of these headwinds are structural and form some longer-term trends than previously observed in the economic cycle. They will gain more attention as deflationary pressures continue globally.

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  • Bill Gates says that a breakthrough in machine learning will be worth 10 Microsofts

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    The Terminator is likely the best-known example of artificial intelligence, but the reality can be even scarier than an automated warrior.
    Peter Domingo’s book, The Master Algorithm: How The Quest For The Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, may shed some light on this new disruptive innovation that will significantly impact our lives in the coming years. This most profound and impactful innovation, is likely the least talked about in everyday life.
    What is machine…

    The Terminator is likely the best-known example of artificial intelligence, but the reality can be even scarier than an automated warrior.
    Peter Domingo’s book, The Master Algorithm: How The Quest For The Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, may shed some light on this new disruptive innovation that will significantly impact our lives in the coming years. This most profound and impactful innovation, is likely the least talked about in everyday life.
    What is machine learning? As Domingos describes it “I can distill a lifetime of learning into a book, and you can read it in a few hours. But learning algorithms should be able to learn in minutes or seconds. He who learns fastest wins… Machine learning is the latest chapter in the arms race of life on Earth, and swifter hardware is only half the equation. The other half is smarter software… Machine learning is sometimes confused with artificial intelligence (AI). Technically, machine learning is a subfield of AI, but it’s grown so large and successful that it now eclipses it’s proud parent. The goal of AI is to teach computers to do what humans currently do better, and learning is arguably the most important of those things: without it, no computer can keep up with a human for long: with it, the rest follows.”

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  • Digital Disruption is Continuing to Accelerate .. As the Hunters Become the Hunted

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    Walmart is increasingly vulnerable as Amazon continues to accelerate … But, is Amazon becoming vulnerable as jet.com disrupts the market further?

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  • The next few weeks may be a good time to re-engage your Chinese partners and restart stalled projects, or re-enter the China equity markets.

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    No doubt, China has been a scary place to invest, partner and operate a business recently. But all indications are that the Chinese market may be in for a longer sustained growth period ongoing … but you will need courage to survive the air pockets as the economy transitions from the industrial to the retail sector.

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  • The “equal-weight” S&P 500 has dropped to near 3-year lows versus the cap-weighted version… Sign of a pending stock market correction?

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    The recent stock market rally in the US has been led by a relatively small number of stocks that have the highest markets caps. Thus, the regular cap weighted S&P 500 index is back near (within 3%) of its all time high, but the non-cap weighted index (all companies in the index treated equally regardless of size) is at a 2 year low.

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  • Could the Walmart profit warning signal the early signs of impending recession?

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    There’s an increasing risk of a recession driven by a decrease in corporate profits. Walmart is typically a good bellwether as it sells everything and accounts for 10% of US retail outside of gasoline and restaurants.

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  • How does the new 2-speed Chinese economy affect your business and investing?

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    For the first time, the services sector has contributed 50% of GDP. Consumer consumption has reached 58.4% of total GDP growth for the first 3 quarters driven by retail sales that grew 10.9% year-over-year in September. Yet, the old industrial side of China has decreased 10.9% during the same period, lead by the deceleration of the real estate development sector consuming less steel and other building materials. Fixed asset investment also reached its slowest growth rate in 15 years.

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  • Digital Disruption .. Sometimes you can’t see the tsunami when you are in the middle of the waves.

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    Digital Disruption .. Sometimes you can’t see the tsunami when you are in the middle of the waves.

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  • 17-55% of your online marketing budget is getting stolen, and you don’t even know it.

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    In 2016 it is expected that online advertising will for the first time exceed television. Online advertising is expected to grow 18% this year to $170b accounting for 30% of the global advertising budget. But billions are being syphoned by bot-nets and kickbacks/rebates.

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  • Paying Your Dues

    Entrepreneur Magazine

    On the road to building his telecom technology company, Ascendent Telecommunications, founder and president Stephen Forte thought that finding funding was going to be the easy part.

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Patents

Courses

  • Advanced Business Studies

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  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • Cognitive Robotics

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  • Computer Language Engineering

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  • Development of Inventions and Creative Ideas

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  • Inventions and Patents

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  • Machine Learning

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Projects

  • Hosted global video on How Blockchain Is Reshaping Industry and the Global Economy

    Hosted a global video presentation to 500 CEOs on how How Blockchain Is Reshaping Industry and the Global Economy.

  • Tech Speaker at YPO Personal Investment Talks in 3 cities

    Presented a detailed overview to CEOs on the technologies shaping the world today, including Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Edge computing, Mobile and autonomous driving. Highlighted the public companies with some of the most interesting technologies and innovations in the space.

  • Silk Road Wholesale Trade Center Kazakhstan

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Honors & Awards

  • Keynote Speaker

    World Retail Congress

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    Prime Source Foum

  • Vendor Leadership Award

    Adidas

    Leadership in collaboration with adidas and tier 1 contractors to drive excellence in stitching performance

  • Young Global Leader

    World Economic Forum

  • Commencement Keynote Speaker

    The George Washington University School of Business

  • CEO of Fastest Growing Company

    Los Angeles Business Journal

    CEO of one of Los Angeles Business Journal's top 5 fastest growing businesses ranked in 2000.

  • Speaker - Singularity University Geneva

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Test Scores

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Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Chinese

    Elementary proficiency

  • Russian

    Elementary proficiency

Organizations

  • Chief Executives Organization

    Member

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    Chief Executives Organization (CEO) is the exclusive organization for distinguished leaders of YPO. Membership is by invitation-only and limited to 2,000 worldwide. CEO’s vision is to create life enriching experiences that provoke new wisdom, inspire cross generational friendships and nurture a passion for life.

  • USC Marshall Partners Hong Kong

    Chairman

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  • WiderPool Venture Capital

    Advisory Board Member

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    WPVC provides the bridge between early-state technology companies looking to scale and global corporations looking for disruptive innovation solutions. The WPVC process leverages a curating process that selects and mentors a network of early-stage companies to secure creation of actionable, innovative products & services for corporates. Early-stage technology firms working with WPVC win access to a venture capital program that helps develop technology businesses to meet the needs of global…

    WPVC provides the bridge between early-state technology companies looking to scale and global corporations looking for disruptive innovation solutions. The WPVC process leverages a curating process that selects and mentors a network of early-stage companies to secure creation of actionable, innovative products & services for corporates. Early-stage technology firms working with WPVC win access to a venture capital program that helps develop technology businesses to meet the needs of global corporations. WPVC offers scaling, networking, experts, consulting services and venture capital funding to technology business worldwide.

  • Young Presidents Organization

    Regional Chairman - Technology Network, Founder - Apparel Network, Chapter Chair, Learning Officer

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    Santa Monica Bay Chapter Pan Asia Chapter

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