Calvin joined the Foundation from the Municipality of Anchorage, where he was Director of the 49th State Angel Fund, the Municipality’s venture capital fund investing in Alaskan startups and supporting entrepreneurial ecosystem programs, and Anchorage C-PACER, a clean energy financing program for commercial properties. He holds a master’s degree from Yale University, a bachelor’s degree cum laude from Bucknell University, and a Certificate from Moscow International University. He serves as secretary of the Alaska Investor Network Board, an ex officio member of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, and chair of the Chamber’s Young Professionals Group Executive Board. 

Prior to moving to Alaska, he worked in D.C. at the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), a National Endowment for Democracy core institute and US Chamber of Commerce affiliate, where he helped launch the Center for Accountable Investment to empower civil society and private sector stakeholders to promote transparent investment environments in emerging democracies (in Africa, the Arctic, Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia). Before that, he worked on CIPE’s EU and Western Balkans portfolio, Freedom House’s Ukraine and Belarus human rights projects, and interned with a US Congressman. 

Originally from Taiwan, he mainly grew up in Hong Kong, and now lives in Anchorage with his partner Maddy. He speaks Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese. Outside of work, he enjoys cooking, trying new cuisines, and exploring the outdoors.