C. Jeffrey Char is a serial entrepreneur and president of J-Seed Ventures, Inc., a Tokyo-based venture incubator. Mr. Char also serves on the boards of directors of Sozon Inc., an online marketing venture, Robert Leonard Consulting Ltd., an executive recruiting firm, Bell Circuits, an electronic components company, and Seer Insight Security Corporation), a network security venture. Mr. Char co-founded SSK Technology, Inc., a printed circuit board company he sold to Suzuki Manufacturing, and Pario Software, a network security software company he sold to Lucent Technologies Inc. Mr. Char's experience with start-up companies also includes earlier careers as a corporate attorney and an investment banker. Mr. Char has a B.S. in Economics from Sophia University in Tokyo and a JD from Boalt Hall School of Law (University of California, Berkeley).