Transform your business for what's next.
I help founders and CEOs turn digital transformation into business results - connecting strategy, customer experience, product, technology, and AI with execution.
Ming Chan
Founder · CEO · Digital Transformation Advisor
Approach
From clarity to action.
Digital transformation isn’t about adopting more technology. It’s about knowing what to change, why it matters, and how to make it happen.
I work with founders, CEOs, and leadership teams to identify where digital can create the greatest business impact - and turn those opportunities into action.
Drawing on 20+ years across global enterprises, growing businesses, and startups, I connect business strategy, customer experience, product, technology, and AI to see the whole transformation - not just one part of it.
My approach is collaborative, practical, and built for momentum. Depending on the challenge, I use principles from agile, design thinking, co-creation, rapid prototyping, and real-world testing to quickly move from assumptions to evidence and from discussion to decisions.
The goal isn't to follow a methodology. It's to create clarity, reduce risk, and get the right things moving.
What I do
As a Silicon Valley–trained software engineer and 3-time Inc. 500 fastest-growing private company founder, I’ve worked across businesses ranging from $1M to $50M in annual revenue.
I bring the most value at the intersection of strategy and execution - helping founders and leadership teams see the bigger picture, make better decisions, and turn those decisions into action.
Depending on the challenge, I play three roles:
The Counsel
I advise founders, owners, and CEOs on business, growth, product, technology, and organizational strategy - bringing an outside perspective from someone who has built and operated businesses himself.
The Architect
I work with founders and executive teams to clarify priorities, make difficult choices, define strategic initiatives, and create a roadmap the organization can actually execute.
The Facilitator
I bring leadership and production teams together to solve critical problems, remove ambiguity, accelerate decisions, and move high-impact initiatives from conversation to execution.
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Named as one of the top startups in the world by LinkedIn, Correlation One needed help improving its suite of learning products and driving new user acquisitions and engagement. Leveraging a series of design sprints, we efficiently streamlined ideation, design, and development, resulting in launching their products in 30% less time and resources than before.
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Rayse, a real estate technology startup, brought me in to help with their strategic planning with their executive team. In addition, I advise and counsel on product/marketing strategy, and facilitate product design and development with their production team during their initial fundraising and MVP product launch.
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Once an industry leader in the 1980’s, WOW needed a refresh. Working with the owners, I led their branding and marketing strategy and worked with the production team to a digital ecosystem in tune with their enthusiastic fan base. Leading to WOW securing multi-year, multi-million distribution deals with AXS TV and CBS.
“With the unique ability to decipher technical, creative, marketing, and business problems, Ming is able to see business challenges from multiple directions and dig deep to find core issues for our product.”
Brian Wee, Seminhandmade
“Ming is a master facilitator in design thinking. He was quickly able to tap the creative intelligence of a highly cross-functional team to produce a compelling product vision, foundational direction, and product principles that continue to guide the team’s work.”
Matt Hoffberg, Correlation One
“Ming is an industry leader with a unique combination of expertise and innovative thinking. He dives deep on our business goals and presents well-thought-out proposals that help get us where we need to go and in record speed.”
Alex Rosen, Cisco
About Ming
I got yelled at by Steve Jobs. It changed the trajectory of my career.
I was a technical lead working on a project for Apple when I found myself on the receiving end of Steve's famously direct communication style.
What stayed with me wasn't the yelling. It was his ability to see something others couldn't yet see -and his insistence on getting from an idea to the thing that actually mattered.
I've spent much of my career learning how to do that without the yelling.
Over the past 20+ years, I've been a software engineer, web developer, technical lead, product manager, digital strategist, CTO, CSO, CEO, founder, and business advisor.
That unusual path taught me to look at a business problem from multiple directions.
Business. Customer. Product. Technology. People. Execution.
I've worked with some of the world's largest enterprises and fastest-growing startups. I've been recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of its “Top 10 Asian Entrepreneurs in America,” contributed technical leadership to Emmy Award-winning interactive television work, and built The1stMovement into a 3-time Inc. 500 fastest-growing private company and one of LA Magazine's Best Places to Work in Los Angeles.
Today, I continue to lead The1stMovement, where we design, build, and accelerate digital solutions for global enterprises.
Through Mingism & Co., I work personally with founders, owners, and CEOs of smaller, growing businesses.
The scale is different. The fundamental challenge isn't:
See what matters.
Decide what to do.
Get people aligned.
Make it happen.
That’s the work I love.