China - Beyond the Olympics

Deepak Advani
Chief Marketing Officer, Lenovo

Deepak Advani is senior vice president, E-Commerce, and chief marketing officer of Lenovo. Previously, he was the vice president of marketing for IBM’s Personal Computing Division. His experience includes a strong blend of technology and business. With IBM for 12 years, Mr. Advani was part of the team that built a $1 billion supercomputer business in four years; and, as the vice president of Strategy and Market Development, he crafted IBM’s early strategies around Linux. He was the general manager for the high-end Intel server business, where, under his leadership, IBM went from third in market share to first in two years. Mr. Advani has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Wright State University, as well as an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is on the advisory board at Michigan State University. He has lectured at several universities on the topics of business strategy, brand management, and personal leadership.

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James Boettcher
Founding Managing Director, Focus Ventures

Jim is a founding partner of Focus Ventures and has led successful investments in Cosine Communications, Starent Networks, Telera (Alcatel) and Netscaler (Citrix). His current investments include Infoblox, Miradia, MuDynamics, PA Semi, PCH International, Pure Digital and Teknovus. Jim has an MBA and MA degree from Stanford University.

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David Cao
Co-Founder, KnowledgeSurf

Cao's extensive technology background in and vision for the outsourcing industry complement the efforts that the company has been making to define its leadership in outsourcing and consulting. He is an experienced entrepreneur, seasoned executive, and a technical leader who has also been serving as the visionary mentor to as it formulates corporate strategy. He is also an active advocator for China’s outsourcing industry as he serves in several outsourcing organizations, including GlobalSourcing Alliance, Xi’an Outsourcing Association, and Chongqing-Silicon Valley Outsourcing Association.

Before ExtendLogic, Cao served as CEO and President of Silicon Valley Globalsourcing Institute, a training organization targeting at helping engineers work more effective in an outsourcing environment. He also served as Vice President of Engineering in PlayPhone, a leading mobile entertainment startup where he managed the global engineering operation. Prior to that, he served as the vice president of e-commerce and software development for The Critical Thinking Company, a home education book and game publisher where he managed the IT/development operations.

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Milton Chang
Managing Director, Incubic Venture Fund

Milton has an exceptional investment track record as an entrepreneur, angel investor, and venture capitalist. Milton has personally built two businesses from zero to successful IPO as CEO. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the California Institute of Technology, and BS from the University of Illinois.

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Sandy Chau
Founder of Achievo & AAMA

Sandy is Founder of Trident USA: a diversified holding company that invests in real estate and provides venture capital in Greater China/US. As a Hua Yuan "Angel," Sandy has invested in companies started by Hua Yuan members including: Achievo, Viador, Servgate,etc. As the founding president of AAMA, he is active in promoting entrepreneurship with social responsibility. Sandy is a graduate of UC Berkeley and has an MBA.

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Steve Toronto
Managing Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP

Mr. Toronto is the managing partner of the firm’s Beijing office. He specializes in venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, and PRC‑related public securities offerings and other China-related investment activities. His practice is focused primarily on the structuring and foreign financing of technology-based companies in China. Mr. Toronto has extensive experience in advising foreign investors and PRC companies on investment strategies and structures in China. He has also participated in a wide range of public and private China-related securities offerings, including U.S./Hong Kong dual listings, H Share, B Share, Rule 144A and ADR transactions.

Mr. Toronto received his B.A. degree from Brigham Young University in 1980. He received his J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1991, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Managing Editor of the Journal of Chinese Law. Mr. Toronto joined Morrison & Foerster as a partner in the firmwide Corporate Group and is currently resident in the Beijing office. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner in a U.S.-based international law firm’s China Corporate and Securities practice, resident in that firm’s Beijing office. Before moving to Asia, Mr. Toronto was an attorney for a major Silicon Valley law firm in their corporate and securities practice. He speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese.

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David Lee
Partner of Orrick's Emerging Companies Group

David Lee, a partner in the Silicon Valley office, is a member of Orrick's Emerging Companies Group, which advises emerging companies and venture capital firms. Mr. Lee practices in the areas of corporate formation, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, public company securities, and technology licensing transactions. Mr. Lee has an active practice representing China-focused emerging companies, both in the United States and in China, and heads Orrick's China Emerging Companies Group. Mr. Lee has represented one of China's leading Internet companies, Sina Corporation, since its initial public offering. In addition, Mr. Lee's practice involves a broad network of entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists that are active in developing China-focused companies. Mr. Lee's company clients have been backed by, among others, AsiaVest, Accel, China Venture Mgmt., Doll Capital, Gobi Partners, Granite Global, GSR Ventures, Hummer Winblad, Lightspeed, Mayfield, NEA, Northern Light, Oak Investment, Redpoint, Sequoia, Sequoia China, Sierra, Softbank, Steamboat, Walden, and Venrock. Before joining Orrick, Mr. Lee was a founding member of Venture Law Group.

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Carmen Chang
Partner of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Carmen Chang is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she specializes in corporate and securities law and is the leader of the firm's China practice. She is currently a member of the firm's Policy Committee. Carmen's practice focuses on the representation of public and private technology companies and financial institutions in public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, and other types of transactions in the United States and abroad, particularly in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and other Asian countries. Among many other transactions, Carmen represented SMIC in its acquisition of Motorola's manufacturing operation in Tientsin—the first M&A transaction in China after the PRC put its M&A rules in place. A well-regarded expert in corporate and securities law and cross-border transactions, Carmen is a frequent writer and speaker on the topic of conducting business in Asia, as well as on the legal and business regulations faced by foreign companies when they conduct business in the United States. A native of Zhejiang, China, she is fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese.

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David Chen
President, VanceInfo

Mr. David Lifeng Chen is our President and has been working with us since 2001. He co-founded Heteng Software in 2001. Mr. Chen served as a development manager at Asera, a leading B2B software company based in California in the United States, from 1999 to 2001. He worked for IBM Crossworlds as a product manager, a management consultant at KPMG Consulting, from 1997 to 1999. He served as a software engineer of the ERP development group at Oracle, a leading provider of enterprise resources planning software based in the United States, from 1995 to 1997. Mr. Chen received his master’s of science degree in computer engineering from the University of California, Irvine and his bachelor’s of science degree in electrical engineering from Tongji University.

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David Chao
Co-Founder and General Partner of DCM

David Katsujin Chao is a co-founder and general partner of DCM, a leading international early-stage venture capital firm managing US$1.6 billion. Prior to joining DCM, he was a co-founder and Board member of JCI, a public company and Japan’s largest MVNO. Mr. Chao’s past experiences include roles at Recruit, Apple and McKinsey. He serves on the Boards of numerous DCM portfolio companies in the U.S. and Asia. He is on the Board of 51job (Nasdaq: JOBS) and Spansion (Nasdaq: SPSN) and responsible for the investments in All About Japan, Inc. (JASDAQ: 2454), Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR), Kabu.com (TSE: 8703), Recourse Technologies (acquired by Symantec), Sling Media, SMIC (NYSE: SMI) and eDreams (acquired by TA). David currently sits on the Board of BitTorrent, Oak Pacific InterActive (Mop.com, Xiaonei.com), 99Bill, Outspark and RockYou. He also serves on the Board of Legend Capital in China and the management board of the Stanford Graduate Business School. He has been listed as a Top 20 venture capitalist by Forbes Magazine since 2004. David holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. with high honors in Economics and East Asian Studies (Anthropology) from Brown University.

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Ck Cheng
General Partner, Harbinger Ventures

CK is the founding partner of Harbinger Ventures and has led successful investments in S3, VA Linux (NASDAQ: LNUX), Altigen (NASDAQ: ATGN),and Synnex Corp. (NYSE: SNX). He was SVP of Product Marketing/Manufacturing at SYNNEX prior to Harbinger. CK is a graduate of both Chiao-Tung and Tsinghua University in Taiwan.

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Jean Cholka
CEO of Freeborders

Jean Cholka joined Freeborders as CEO in April 2007 bringing over thirty years of executive leadership experience. Prior to joining Freeborders, Jean worked i\ n executive level positions for Kanbay International, AT&T and Sears, Roebuck and Co. Especially notable is her seven years as an Executive with Kanbay, International, one of the top IT services consultancy companies in the USA with delivery cen\ ters in India, where she held positions including: President - North America; Chief People Officer; and Vice President-Global Client Relations. Under Jean's\ leadership, Kanbay achieved the distinction of one of the top IPO's for 2004 as well as one of the top 100 IT companies to work for.

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Qi Lu
Co-President of HYSTA US
Former Executive Vice President of Engineering,  Search and Advertising Technology Group, Yahoo! Inc.

Dr. Qi Lu was an executive vice president of engineering for the Search and Advertising Technology Group at Yahoo! where he leads development efforts for Yahoo!'s search and advertising products and platforms. Prior to joining Yahoo! in 1998, Dr. Lu was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center . Before that, Dr. Lu worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a Research Associate, and at Fudan University in China as a faculty member. Dr. Qi holds more than 20 U.S. patents, and received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Fudan University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Lilly Chung
Principal,Deloitte LLP

Consulting Principal/Partner of Deloitte Consulting LLP as well as the lead partner for many of the most strategic clients of Deloitte in the US. She is also an executive member of the Chinese Services Group, a leader for Deloitte’s semiconductor affinity group, and a leader of the Women's Initiative and a member of the Northern Pacific Leadership team

Lilly has more than 20 years of experience working with large multinational high-technology companies. Her work experience included business strategy formulation, business process reengineering, information technology implementation, organizational change management, and strategic alliances. Her work has been written up by Fortune Magazine and San Francisco Chronicle. Lilly’s most recent focus has been working with large Chinese companies to enter into US, as well as helping US companies to establish operations in China.

Prior to Deloitte, Lilly was the CEO and co-founder of Pictron, a software company providing video searching technology to broadcasting, education, and defense industries. Lilly is fluent in Mandarin..

Education

MBA in General Management, Harvard University M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management, Stanford University B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California

Professional Affiliations

Member of Stanford Professional Women Association Advisory Board, San Jose State University Engineering School Board Member, Monte Jade Science and Technology Association Prior Vice President of Harvard Business School Northern California Association

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Wayne Dai
CEO of Verisilicon

Wayne Dai is the founder, Chairman, President and CEO of VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. He was the Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Celestry Technologies, Inc., which was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2002. Prior to that, he was the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Ultima Interconnect Technology, Inc., one of the predecessor companies to Celestry. Dr. Dai was the founding Chairman of the IEEE Multi-Chip Module Conference and the founding Chairman of IEEE Symposium on IC/Package Design Integration. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. He has published over 100 papers in technical journals and conferences and received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the President of United States in 1990. In 2005, Dr. Dai was elected as one the top ten venture-backed entrepreneurs in China, and elected as one of the 2005 top ten talents of science and technology in China. Wayne Dai received his B.A. degree in Computer Science and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a Professor in the department of Computer Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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Feng Deng
Founding Managing Director, Northern Light Venture Capital

Feng has more than fifteen years of technical and managerial experience in the computer, communication and data networking industries. In 1997, Feng co-founded NetScreen Technologies, which has become one of the world's leading network security equipment vendors. In NetScreen, Feng served as VP of Engineering, Chief Strategy Officer and a board director. NetScreen went public on NASDAQ in 2001. In April of 2004, NetScreen was acquired by Juniper Networks for $4 billion. Due to his contribution to the success of NetScreen, Feng was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year award by E&Y in 2002 and the Innovator of the Year award by CRN in 2003. Prior to founding NetScreen, Feng worked at Intel Corp., where he held various technical and managerial positions. Feng holds a MS degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California, a MS degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, and a MBA from Wharton Business School. Feng also holds five U.S. patents in computer system architecture and IC design.

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Walter Fang
VP, Global Business Development and Marketing, Neusoft Corporation, and General Manager, Neusoft America

Fer-Hoc Walter Fang, is Vice President of global business development and marketing, Neusoft Corporation; responsible for Neusoft’s international outsourcing business development and marketing, strategic alliance and partnership management. He is also Chairman of International Association of Outsourcing Professional (IAOP) Beijing Chapter; and Senior Consultant for Chinese Software and Information Services Industry Alliance.

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Jay Stone Shih
Producer & Host of Dialogue360

Jay Stone Shih is the creator, producer and host of Dialogue360. A Mandarin-based, TV talk show, Dia- logue360 showcases internationally renowned guests who are invited to discuss news or issues of particular relevance and interest to the Chinese community. The show, which airs Monday-Friday 10:30 - 11:00 p.m. in the San Francisco Bay area (KCNS - Channel 21), is accessible nightly to most of Northern California’s Chinese Americans as well as globally through its website www.dialogue360.net and soon through blip.tv. Dialogue360 (formerly China Crosstalk) had its roots in radio and was conceptualized and brought to the public by its host and producer, Jay Stone Shih in 1997. Experiencing popularity early-on, the program migrated to TV marking the first time the Bay Area Chinese community had the ability to direct their questions on air to prominent newsmakers in a television format. .For more than 10 years, Shih has been engaging newsmakers, authors, politicians, entertainers, business leaders, Nobel Prize winners, scientists, professors, Presidential candidates and commentators in smart interviews in Mandarin.

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John Liu
Counsel in Fenwick & West LLP.

Mr. Liu's practice focuses on general corporate matters, intellectual property transactions and equity and debt financings. Mr. Liu serves as U.S. corporate counsel to numerous U.S. and off-shore start-up and emerging growth companies. His intellectual property practice includes intellectual property protection and licensing, reseller and distribution agreements, joint development agreements, trademark filings and the transfer of trademarks, patents, copyrights and other intellectual property rights. He has represented clients on transactions involving foreign jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. Mr. Liu has significant software engineering experience working for several Bay Area companies serving the technology and financial technology sectors.

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Kevin Fong
Managing Director, GSR Ventures

As one of the most respected ethnic Chinese venture capitalists in the Silicon Valley, Kevin has a track record of working with Chinese entrepreneurs. He was with Mayfield Fund from 1988 to 2008, and has a broad and deep investment focus in the communications, wireless, semiconductor, software, and consumer media sectors.

Prior to joining Mayfield, Kevin was an operating executive at David Systems, a networking company, Hewlett Packard and Nortel/Bell Northern Research. Kevin earned an M.B.A. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in electrical engineering from U.C. Berkeley. He is an advisor to the Asian Venture Capital Journal, and a board member to Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association. He is a frequent speaker on Asian market trends including recent appearances at the AVCJ annual conference, Dow Jones Asia Ventures and the HYSTA annual dinner.

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Jack Q. Gao
Vice President of News Corporation & CEO of STAR China

In November 2006, Dr. Jack Q. Gao was named: Vice President of News Corporation (NYSE:NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) and Chief Representative of News Corporation's Beijing Office, charged with the responsibility and direction of News Corporation's strategy and business developments in China. In addition, Dr. Gao is currently Chief Executive Officer of STAR China with the authority over STAR TV's business operations in China.

From 2003 to 2006, Dr. Gao returned to Autodesk Inc [NASDAQ: ADSK] as Vice President, Asia-Pacific [APAC] Emerging Geography where he directed all operations in Greater China and India. In addition, Dr. Gao chaired Autodesk's Corporate Emerging Market Taskforce (China, India, Brazil and Russia). During Dr. Gao's period of leadership of APAC Emerging Geography, Autodesk China was identified in the Asian business media as one of the most successful multi-national companies in mainland China. From 2002 to June,2003, Dr. Gao was General Partner of Walden International, a leading venture capital firm headquarted in California, USA. Dr. Gao directed Walden International investments in emerging innovative information technology enterprises in China.

From 1999 and 2002, Dr. Gao was President and General Manager of Microsoft (China) Co. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Ltd., where he directed Microsoft's business development strategy, sales & marketing, government relations, overall business and financial administration and human resources operations in mainland China. During his tenure, the Microsoft sales revenue in China was increased by 300 percent. From 1995 through 1999, as Autodesk, Inc's Regional Director Greater China and General Manager for mainland China, Dr. Gao successfully established Autodesk operations in mainland China as well as in the Greater China Region.

From 1991 through 1994, Dr. Gao was the International Distributor Manager for Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Mainland China and HK) in MSC/PDA, based in Los Angeles, with responsibility for successfully driving sales channel development and regional sales revenue. Awarded MSC/PDA's “Manager of the Year” in 1994. From 1989 through 1990, Dr. Gao was Senior Project Manager for CSAR Corp. in Los Angeles where he led a research effort to develop “Acoustics Feature” for CSA/NASTRAN [NASA Structural Analysis Code]. From 1984 through 1985, Dr. Gao was Assistant Professor of Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. Dr. Gao graduated from HIT and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and received his B.S., M.S. and doctorate degrees in engineering.

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Bill Huang
General Manager, China Mobile Reserach Institute

Bill Huang is the General Manager of China Mobile Research Institute. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and CTO of UT Starcom, Inc.

Bill Huang has been a new technology advocator for Telecom industry with over 21 years of work experience in the development of key communication technologies. He has in-depth experience and striking thoughts in the areas of next generation mobile switching system, IP media streamin g, GEPON system, Multi-service Softswitch, and Operation Support System, as well as Value Added Services.

Mr. Huang holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois.

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Robert Huang
President and Co-Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Huang founded SYNNEX in 1980 and serves as President and Co-Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Prior to this, Mr. Huang was the International Sales Manager at Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Huang holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kyushyu University, Japan, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.S. in Management Science from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

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Hsing Kung
Partner, Acorn Campus Ventures, & Civic Leader

Hsing is a well-respected community leader and has devoted considerate efforts in promoting Asian-American participation in main stream community. He co-founded several successful optoelectronics companies including SDL Inc., Pine Photonics and Luxnet Corp. Currently, he is a Partner of Acorn Campus Ventures. Hsing received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and has an MBA from Santa Clara University.

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Jim Li
Dir. of Engineering, Cisco-Webex

Jim Li is Director of Engineering at Cisco and responsible for webex product development and release. Before Cisco acquired WebEx in 2007, Jim was Senior Director of Engineering & China Operations of WebEx, and in charge of WebEx China R&D. He worked with a team to build the WebEx China to the top-tier Software Development team with 900+ engineers today. Prior to WebEx, Jim ever worked at Oracle Server Technology Division, and led the development work for Oracle Internet Calendar Server and OiD.

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Ping Li
Partner, Accel Partners

Ping focuses on Information Technology infrastructure (computing, networking, security and storage) and digital media platforms. His areas of interest also include datacenter virtualization, cloud computing, distributed data management and internet datacenter scalability. Ping has an MBA from Stanford University.

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Ping Wu
President and CEO, Spreadtrum Communication Inc.

Ping Wu, co-founder of Spreadtrum Communications Inc, has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of board of directors since its inception in April 2001. Dr. Wu has over 20 years of experience in system-on-chip designs and holds three integrated circuit design patents. Prior to co-founding the company, Dr. Wu served as Senior Director of VLSI designs at Mobilink Telecom Inc. from 1997 until 2001. Prior to 1997, Dr. Wu served as Design Manager of Trident Microsystems, Inc. Dr. Wu holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University and a master degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics.

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Richard Lim
Managing Director, GSR Ventures

Richard focuses on investments in the Internet and green technology. Prior to GSR, Richard founded three venture-backed Internet and software companies in the United States. He was also an executive at Lotus Development Corporation. Richard holds a MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor degree from National University of Singapore.

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Jimmy Lu
General Partner , iD Ventures America

Jimmy is a founding partner of ID Ventures America and focuses on enterprise software, network security and infrastructure, artificial intelligence and human interface technologies. Prior to ID Ventures, Jimmy was the General Counsel of Acer Group where he led Acer's int'l M&A, joint venture and other strategic alliance transactions. Jimmy is a graduate of Yale (B.A.), Harvard (MBA), and Berkeley (J.D.).

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Ben Wang
CEO Beyondsoft

Mr. Ben Wang is Founder, President and CEO of Beyondsoft. As a pioneer of software outsourcing in China, Mr. Wang has over the past decade built Beyondsoft into a leading outsourcing service provider that constantly strives to deliver a higher level of customer satisfaction. Having invested heavily in human capital and service quality, Mr. Wang has overseen the company's rapid growth from a small-sized localization outfit to a global provider of quality ITO and BPO services. Mr. Wang graduated from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Now Beihang University) with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. He also holds an EMBA degree from the prestigious China Europe International Business School.

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Berlin Tsou
General Manager, Hotung Capital Mgmt Inc.

Berlin joined Hotung Group as its GM in 2007. Previously, he was VP of Chinatrust Bank (USA)specialized in technology banking services. Berlin also worked for CDIB Ventures and brings more than 16 yrs of VC/private equity/technology banking experiences. Berlin is a graduate of Nat'l Cheng-Chi University (MBA) and Nat'l Taiwan University (BS).

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Huarry Shum
Corporate Vice President, Search Product Development of Microsoft Corp.

Harry Shum is the corporate vice president responsible for search product develop- ment at Microsoft Corp. Previously he oversaw the research activities at Microsoft Research Asia and the lab’s collaborations with universities in the Asia Pacific region, and was responsible for the Internet Services Research Center, an applied research organization dedicated to long-term and short-term technology investments in search and advertising at Microsoft.

Shum joined Microsoft Research in 1996, as a researcher based in Redmond, Wash. He moved to Beijing as one of the founding members of Microsoft Research China (later renamed Microsoft Research Asia). There he began a nine-year tenure as a research manager, subsequently moving on to become assistant managing director, managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, Distinguished Engineer and corporate vice president. Shum is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and an Associa- tion for Computing Machinery Fellow for his contributions on computer vision and computer graphics. He has published more than 100 papers about computer vision, computer graphics, pattern recognition, statistical learning and robotics. He holds more than 50 U.S. patents. Shum received a doctorate in robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carn- egie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. In his spare time he enjoys playing basketball, rooting for the Pittsburgh Steelers and spending time with his family.

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Henry H. Wong
Venture Partner, Garage Technology Partners

Henry has been a prolific and successful entrepreneur, executive, and venture investor in Silicon Valley for over 25 years. As an entrepreneur, Henry was the founder/CEO of SS8 Networks Inc. and co-founder of XaQti Semiconductor, CNet Technology Inc., and Combinet (ISDN Systems). Henry is a graduate of University of Utah (BS) and Golden Gate University (MBA).

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Hing Wang
Managing Director, Walden International

Hing Wong is managing director at Walden International. His investment focus is in semiconductor, components, and clean tech. Prior to the venture world, he spent fifteen years in semiconductor industry in technical, management and business roles. He worked in IBM, Chromatic Research, and co-founded Silicon Access Networks, a network IC company where he served as VP VLSI Design and later in VP Business Development. He received PhD degree in EECS from UC Berkeley, and studied in Sichuan University and Chinese University of Hong Kong for undergraduate.

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HP Jin
HYSTA Vice President and 2008 Annual Conference Chairman, CEO of TeleNav

H.P. Jin co-founded TeleNav in 1999, leveraging his expertise in location and wireless Internet technologies and his years of experience in business management and strategy development. Prior to starting TeleNav, he served as senior strategy consultant for the McKenna Group where he developed business strategies for companies in telecom and IT. Before that, H.P. worked at McKinsey & Company as a business strategy and management consultant, advising wireless and landline operators on data and wireless strategies. H.P. was also a technical director at LINCSS/Loral, where he was involved in R&D management, strategic alliance initiatives and business model development. Today, TeleNav is one of the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley, with its services covering North America, Europe, China and Brazil. H.P. holds a Ph.D. in Guidance, Navigation and Control (Aeronautics and Astronautics department), a Ph.D. minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China.

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Hong Chen
Co-President of HYSTA, China, and Honorary President of HYSTA Chairman & CEO of The Hina Group

Before starting The Hina Group, Dr. Chen founded and served as the Chairman and CEO of GRIC Communications from 1994 to early 2003, and led its successful IPO on NASDAQ in 1999. Dr. Chen continues to serve as the Chairman of GRIC, a global leader in deploying the world's largest virtual dial-up and broadband WiFi network in 150 countries. Prior to GRIC, Dr. Chen founded and was President and CEO of Aminet. Dr. Chen also served as the President and Chairman of the Asian-American Manufactures Association (AAMA) in 2000, and 2001 respectively. Dr. Chen received a BS in Computer Science from Xian Jiaotong University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from State University of New York at Stonybrook in 1991. Dr. Chen had served as President of HYSTA between 1999 and 2003.

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George Wu
CMO, HiSoft

George Wu is currently responsible for all global corporate marketing activities at hiSoft. Prior to hiSoft, George Wu was a member of the Board of Directors and Chief Marketing Officer of Envisage Solutions, a leading provider of IT services and had responsibility for strategic positioning of the company as well as marketing and corporate development. He co-founded Next Level Management, a professional angel investment group where he sat on the Boards of innovative technology companies and led over 20 transactions. George also founded a mobile CRM company focused on interactive customer service that successfully launched into the Japan market. George has held management roles at Clorox and Hewlett-Packard. George graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles and has an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

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Steven Xi
Managing Director, Riverwood Capital

Steven is a Managing Director of Riverwood Capital, a technology focused private equity firm based in Menlo Park. He is responsible for Riverwood's non-semiconductor investment opportunities in China. Prior to joining Riverwood, Steven was a Managing Director at The Hina Group Fund. He has an MBA from University of Chicago.

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Don Ye
Managing Partner, Tsing Capital

Mr. Don Ye is the Managing Partner of Tsing Capital, the first cleantech capital management firm in China with a serial of China Environment Funds (www.cefund.com) under management. Don Ye founded the firm in 2001, as well as China Environment Fund 2002 and China Environment Fund 2004, which have become the first and most prominent cleantech funds in China.

In China, Mr. Ye was selected as 2002 “the Most Active Venture Capitalist”, 2003 “Top Ten Best Venture Capitalists” in China, 2003 “China New Economy People 100”, 2004 “China Environment People” nominee, as well as 2005 “Pioneer Award” by Cleantech Venture Forum.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, China.

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Jimmy Zhang
Senior Vice President, Synergenics

Dr. Zhang is responsible for the business development of Synergenics, LLC and its portfolio companies. Before joining Synergenics, Dr. Zhang was a consultant at McKinsey & Company traveling and working in China, US and Germany. He was a registered patent agent in the Palo Alto office of Morrison & Foerster, and a project manager of Prostate Cancer Genomics program at Chiron Corporation. Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where he worked closely with two Nobel Laureates; and MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was elected as the treasurer of MIT Graduate Student Council. Dr. Zhang published in Cell, Nature, Neuron, and Journal of Biological Chemistry, and holds multiple patents.

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Lili Zheng
Partner, Deloitte LLP

Lili Zheng is an International Tax Partner of Deloitte Tax LLP as well as the Deputy Managing Partner of the Chinese Services Group of Deloitte & Touche LLP in the U.S. Lili has more than 18 years of experience in international tax and business consulting services for inbound and outbound investments. Her work experience includes development of strategies to manage worldwide effective tax rates; cross-border international mergers and acquisitions; corporate restructuring etc. Lili also has extensive knowledge in IPO positioning, establishing offshore IP holding companies, implementing cost-sharing arrangements, and advising on entry and exit strategies for cross-border investments.

As a leader in the Chinese Services Group, Lili travels frequently to Asia and is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese. She is also a frequent speaker in Atlas, the Council for International Tax Education (CITE), Financial Executives International (FEI), Tax Executives Institute (TEI) and the Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA). She was voted by International Tax Review as one of the top US tax advisors in 2002-2003. In 2004 Lili was awarded AWIB Leadership award by Asian Women In business. Lili is also the D&T liaison for business transactions with Greater China and had previously worked in our Tokyo and Beijing offices. She is a Certified Public Accountant.

Education

M.S. in Taxation, Golden Gate University B.S., Accounting and Finance, UC Berkeley

Professional Affiliations

Member of California Society of CPA& America Institute of CPA Corporate Representative of Monte Jade Science and Technology CFO, Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association Regional VP for Northern California, International Fiscal Association

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Wei Zhou
Partner, WSGR & Former General Manager of Affymetrix China

Wei is a leader of Wilson Sonsini's China life science and clean technology practice. He was previously SVP of intellectual property at Affymetrix, Inc., and GM of Affymetrix China operations. Wei has worked with many successful start-up teams on corporate formation, financing, business, and IP strategy, both as an attorney and as an advisory board member. Wei received his J.D. from Stanford University and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech.

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