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| Biography |
 | Greg Ashley | President US Market, Canadian Solar Gregory Ashley, President US Market with Canadian Solar, is a nationally known authority on alternative power generation, power quality, and energy efficiency. He previously held the position of Vice President of Project Sales at Canadian Solar. Before joining Canadian Solar, he was Senior Manager of Strategic Business Development at Sun Edison, where he helped build the company to its current position as North America’s leader in solar energy services. Mr. Ashley developed the company’s strategic plans, business practices and founding solar projects. He began working in the solar energy field in the early 1980s, and later held positions in sales and business development for several of the nation’s largest energy equipment and services providers. In addition to solar power systems his areas of specialty included utility smart grid solutions, utility integrated distributed generation, power purchase agreements, and demand side management. Mr. Ashley holds a BA in Economics from the University of California at Davis. |
 | Steven A. Ballmer | CEO, Microsoft Corporation Steve A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company. Ballmer and the company's business and technical leaders are focused on continuing Microsoft's innovation and leadership across the company's core businesses. Microsoft's goal is to provide an integrated platform to enable a seamless experience across a wide range of computing and non-PC devices and services. Variously described as ebullient, focused, funny, passionate, sincere, hard-charging and dynamic, Ballmer has infused Microsoft with his own brand of energetic leadership, vision and spirit over the years. Ballmer was born in March 1956, and grew up near Detroit, where his father worked as a manager at Ford Motor Co. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics. While in college, Ballmer managed the football team, worked on the Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the university literary magazine, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. After college, he worked for two years at Procter & Gamble Co. as an assistant product manager and, before joining Microsoft, attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business. |
 | Carmen Chang | Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Carmen 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. Carmen rejoins the firm from Shearman & Sterling, where she was a partner in its Menlo Park office. Prior to joining Shearman & Sterling, Carmen had been a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, focused on building the firm's Asia practice. 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. |
 | David Chen | President, VanceInfo Technologies Inc. Mr. David Lifeng Chen is the president of VanceInfo steering the Company to constant innovation in the outsourcing Industry. David has led key customer wins for VanceInfo including the exclusive VanceInfo-managed PeopleSoft ODC and the VanceInfo-managed Citibank Global Testing Center in China. Since most of VanceInfo’s customers are headquartered in the US, David is heavily involved in outsourcing-related activities in both China and the US. David played a leadership role in securing venture capital funding for VanceInfo first from Doll Capital Management (DCM) in 2005, and then from Sequoia Capital in 2006. The following year (2007), David led VanceInfo to become the first and only software outsourcer to go public in the US (NYSE:VIT). Prior to leading VanceInfo, David held management positions at IT Services companies IBM and Oracle, and at KPMG where he led an ERP consulting group. Similarly, he served as a development manager at Asera, a leading B2B software company based in California in the United States, from 1999 to 2001 and co-founded Heteng Software in 2001. 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. Today, David stays involved with academic institutions in their research about VanceInfo’s global success story. He regularly hosts visiting MBA classes, providing input for the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ case study about VanceInfo (to be used in courses starting Spring Semester ’09), and the INSEAD Business School’s VanceInfo case study. |
 | Eva Chen | CEO & Co-founder, Trend Micro USA It’s what fuels Trend Micro’s spirit. It’s the very essence by which Trend Micro’s vision becomes reality. And for CEO and co-founder Eva Chen, it is at the heart of everything she has done – and will do – for the transnational company. Ever since its inception in 1988, Eva has helped spearhead Trend Micro’s emergence as one of the world’s most innovative antivirus security companies. Before becoming CEO, Eva served as executive vice president from 1988-1996 and CTO from 1996-2004. During that time, she made an indelible mark on the company and the security landscape as a whole. Under her direction, Trend Micro produced a chronology of industry firsts, from unique products to outbreak management approaches. As a result of her innovation and leadership, she was appointed CEO in late 2004. Eva holds a master's degree in business administration as well as a master's degree in information science from the University of Texas, Dallas. She earned a degree in philosophy from Chen Chi University in Taipei, Taiwan. |
 | Jean Cholka | Chief Executive Office, Freeborders, Inc. Jean Cholka joined Freeborders as CEO in April 2007 bringing over thirty years of executive leadership experience. Prior to joining Freeborders, Jean worked in 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 centers 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. In her current role, Jean leads Freeborders to engage the marketplace to optimize existing technology investments through strategic consulting coupled with leveraging IT services from China. To achieve this, Jean uses her extensive experience in the technology sector combined with her ability to attract top talent; create a high performance culture; sell innovative solutions, and deliver on an ambitious strategy. Jean's greatest strengths are her leadership skills, enthusiasm, commitment, and track record of building high performing teams. Equally important, Jean enjoys a challenge, particularly achieving growth within a company while helping people to achieve their potential. These strengths are reflected in Jean's most recent corporate initiatives within Freeborders. Under her leadership, Freeborders has instilled the values of world class quality, customer focus, continuous improvement and teamwork resulting in tremendous expansion and client satisfaction. Jean obtained her Bachelor of Science degree from Cardinal Stitch College and has been honored by the Chicago Business Ledger with the Influential Women in Business award. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and despite her demanding career as CEO, she makes time to be involved with several community organizations. When not working Jean likes to sail, golf and read. |
 | Lilly Chung | Principal, Deloitte Lilly Chung has over 20 years of experience in the high-technology industry. She is currently the lead client service partner at many major high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley. Through October, 2003, Lilly was the CEO and co-founder of Pictron, a software company providing video searching technology to broadcasting, education, and defense industries. Customers of Pictron include CIA, Lawrence Livermore Lab, Federal Reserve Bank, ABC Networks, Los Angeles County, North Carolina School District, and other major institutions. Lilly started her career as a semiconductor design engineer for Fairchild Semiconductor. She was part of the original team designing the first 32-bit microprocessor. At Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Lilly was responsible for designing the chipset for the Daisy workstation. She was also responsible for identifying technologies to transfer for commercialization from the prestigious Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. She was also part of Xerox’ Strategic Business Office at Xerox, responsible for strategic product planning. After business school, Lilly joined CSC Index, the founding company of business process reengineering (BPR). Lilly then joined KPMG to lead their west coast BPR group. Lilly was recruited to Ernst & Young to lead major account activities and global alliance with Cisco. Her experience expanded from business process reengineering to ERP implementation and organizational effectiveness. Lilly has helped major companies such as Acer Computer, Apple, Applied Materials, Cisco, Siemens, Solectron, and Xerox to improve their operational efficiencies. Her work was written up in Fortune Magazine. Lilly holds a MBA degree from Harvard Business School, a M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Stanford University and a B.S. and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California. |
 | Fang Fang | CEO, J.P. Morgan China Fang joined J.P. Morgan in August 2001 as a Director of Investment Banking in HongKong. He was promoted to Managing Director in 2003 and was appointed co-head ofChina Investment Banking in 2005 and CEO of J.P. Morgan China in early 2007.Leveraging J.P. Morgan’s extensive services platform, Fang and his colleagues have established J.P. Morgan as one of the most respected and influential investment banks inChina with leadership in product capabilities, client franchise and team strength. J.P.Morgan won the Asset Triple A “Best Foreign Investment Bank in China” and “Best Deal in China” awards in 2008. Over the past years, Fang and team has provided some of the most complete and innovative financial solutions to the Chinese government agencies and key industry leaders such as Ministry of Finance, China Development Bank, COSCO, Chalco, China Railway, China Overseas Land, Sinosteel, China Southern Airlines, and Shougang Group,amongst others. Prior to J. P. Morgan, Fang was a Vice President at Beijing Enterprises Holdings, a HK-listed China state-owned investment holding conglomerate, responsible for finance, legal and corporate communications. He was also seconded for one year as CEO to an affiliated start-up company within Beijing Enterprises. Fang started his career in 1993 with Merrill Lynch as an investment banking associate in New York and subsequently was transferred to its Hong Kong office. In March 2008, Fang was appointed by the Chinese Central Government, for a term offive years, to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and currently also serves on its Subcommittee for Social and Legal Affairs. Fang has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and an MBA from Vanderbilt University, USA. |
 | Walter Fang | President, Neusoft America Walter Fang is responsible for Neusoft’s international outsourcing business development and marketing, strategic alliance and partnership management. Mr. Fang has over 32 years of IT experiences working for large multinational IT companies in Asia and North America, including 27 years with IBM Canada, IBM U.S., and IBM Asia Pacific. He has helped many North America large organizations in government sector, financial, and telecommunication industries, developing IT architectures and network computing solutions. Prior to joining Neusoft, Mr. Fang was CEO of Computer And Technologies Software Ltd. (C&T Software) from 2000 to 2002. He has managed this start-up company in China and grew its software business substantially during his tenure. Mr. Fang is also Chairman of International Association of Outsourcing Professional (IAOP) Beijing Chapter. He is the author and creator of the Visual Modeling Technique (VMT) development methodology. He graduated from Cheng Kung University in Taiwan with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He received a Master of Science degree in computer science from National Taiwan University. |
 | Kevin Fong | Special Advisor, GSR Ventures As one of the most respected ethnic Chinese venture capitalists in the Silicon Valley, Kevin has been a technology manager, entrepreneur, and co-leader of a top tier Silicon Valley venture fund, Mayfield Fund for over 20 years. He also pioneered and helped the founding of GSR Ventures in last 4 years, an early-stage China focused technology VC fund. Mayfield has over $2.3 billion under management and GSR has over $600 million under management. He has been involved in over 54 company investments between 1988 and 2008. Of those investments, 9 have gone public and 15 have been acquired generating over $1 billion in returns to limited partners. He has gained tremendous amount of respect for limited partners. Kevin has a track record of working with Chinese entrepreneurs, and has a broad and deep investment focus in the high tech industries, including communications, wireless, semiconductor, software, and consumer media sectors. He also has strong experience in corporate governance (including SOX compliance) by serving as board of director for public companies. He also brought tremendous amount of expertise in guiding company through Initial Public Offering, as well as Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior to joining Mayfield, Kevin was an operating executive at David Systems, a networking company, Hewlett Packard and Nortel/Bell Northern Research. 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. 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. |
 | Scott Gildner | President, TPI North America Mr. Gildner is Partner and President of TPI North America with key responsibilities for all service delivery to TPI clients. Scott’s knowledge derives from practical experience assisting global organizations in the selection and implementation of sourcing solutions. Prior to assuming his current role, Scott managed the company’s HR, Finance & Accounting, and Procurement practices, along with two specialized competencies related to Change Management and Governance. Scott joined TPI in 2005 via the acquisition of his own consultancy firm, Gildner & Associates, where he served as the owner and president. He has leveraged his extensive outsourcing and benefits consulting experience to grow the combined TPI HR organization into the largest sourcing advisory firm specializing in human resources. Considered among the most influential consultants within the Human Resources sourcing industry, Scott has been personally involved in hundreds of engagements for Fortune 200 clients assisting them with their sourcing strategy development. He has negotiated contracts in excess of US$3 billion of contracted services. Scott holds a Bachelor of Arts in Risk and Insurance from the Honors College at Michigan State University. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. He is the author of Outsourcing Human Resources which was published in 2006 by the Society of Human Resources Management. In 2008, Scott was named “Thought Leader of the Year” by the Human Resources Outsourcing Association in recognition of his success in defining industry standard, establishing benchmarks and realigning relationships between clients and providers. |
 | Wen Hsieh | Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Wen Hsieh joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in February 2006. His focus areas of investment include Greentech, applications and products enabled by novel materials, and semiconductor technologies. Prior to KPCB, Wen was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co San Francisco and a leader of McKinsey’s Asia Semiconductor Practice. During his 5 years at McKinsey, Wen’s primary focus was on serving leading companies across the global semiconductor value chain. His clients included EDA companies, design houses, wafer fab equipment vendors, automated test equipment vendors, test solution providers, wafer foundries, logic & memory IDMs, PC/server OEMs and component distributors. At McKinsey, Wen’s secondary focus was on serving small companies in the North America biopharma sector. His clients included companies in the anti-viral, generics and specialty pharma segments. Wen’s consulting experiences have been in the functional areas of alliance & JV strategies, new business building, growth strategy, low-cost region outsourcing, manufacturing strategy & operations, M&A due-diligence, pre- & post-merger management, pricing & sales programs and R&D strategies. Before McKinsey, Wen founded OnChip Technologies, a startup developing MEMS microfluidic-based protein chips. The target market was high-sensitivity and high-throughput protein separation and identification applications. Wen earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. Minor in Biology from the California Institute of Technology. He also received a B.S. with Honors and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. |
 | Jonathan K. Hsu | Chief Executive Officer, 24/7 Real Media Jonathan K. Hsu is responsible for day-to-day operations, enhancing 24/7’s award-winning services for advertisers and publishers, and overseeing the company’s international expansion. Prior to this role, Mr. Hsu was the company’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, responsible for its global operations, including Technology Development, Corporate Development, Finance, Marketing, Product Management, Human Resources and various administrative functions. Mr. Hsu joined the company in March 2000, and as COO was instrumental in the company’s acquisition by WPP and numerous strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as Yahoo! and Dentsu. Previously, while Mr. Hsu served as CFO, he oversaw a 500 percent jump in revenue growth over four years. As Senior Vice President - Corporate Development and Strategic Planning, he was responsible for driving the company’s geographic and product line expansion, overseeing the acquisitions of Insight First in January 2002, Real Media Korea in December 2003, and Decide Interactive in August 2004. Mr. Hsu joined 24/7 Real Media from JP Morgan Chase Securities, where he specialized in M&A activities for new economy companies, telecommunication firms, and financial sponsors. Previously, he served as a venture capitalist at American Lead Ventures and founded a magazine distributed internationally by Time Warner. Mr. Hsu holds an M.B.A. in Finance and Strategic Management from the Wharton School of Business and a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University. |
 | Clarence Kwan | National Managing Partner, Deloitte Chinese Services Group Mr. Kwan has 30 years of advisory and management experience in the U.S., China and Eastern Europe. From 1995 to 2002, Mr. Kwan was based in Beijing as the Deputy CEO of our China practice. Prior to Beijing, he spent three years in Prague, Czech Republic, advising extensively on the restructuring of state-owned enterprises. He has also worked in Houston, New York and Taipei since joining the firm in 1978. With his multi-functional and multi-cultural background, he is a trusted business advisor to our clients, especially in the areas of expanding and competing on a cross-border basis. Mr. Kwan, a frequent speaker on China-related topics and a Certified Public Accountant in the U.S., advises multinational companies, large national enterprises and financial investors inthe following areas: ·Cross-border investment and international alliances ·Mergers & acquisitions ·Corporate governance ·State-owned enterprises restructuring and privatization Education University of Texas at Austin, Master of Professional Accounting 1978 University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology 1975 |
 | Randy Lee | Senior VP of Strategy and Business Development, The Symbio Group Randy Lee is the Senior VP of Strategy and Business Development of The Symbio Group (www.symbio-group.com), an outsourced product development leader for a converged world, delivering innovation and value across technologies and geographies with headquarters in USA, Finland, and Greater China. Mr. Lee joined Symbio in May of 2009 and has been focused on growing the business and leading United States sales activity. Previously, Randy worked at Sparktech Corporation, a leading consumer electronics and mobile video sideloading and streaming company, serving as the General Manager where he led all aspects of the business. Prior to that, Randy was with Silicon Valley Bank where he assisted in the bank’s strategic planning efforts and underwrote some of SVB’s largest transactions in communication/electronics and life sciences. He was also the Director of Strategic Alliances at iAsiaWorks, a publicly traded web hosting company that built large scale, next generation data centers throughout Asia, and ChinaVest, a Greater China focused venture capital firm where he focused on the telecommunications and information technology sectors. Randy received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University and his MBA from the University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management. |
 | Imin Lee | CEO, AccelOps Imin Lee is a successful entrepreneur that has achieved excellent results for customers, employees and investors. She has over 20 years of executive management and technical experience in networking, security, telecommunications, and enterprise software. Imin also served as the president of HYSTA, a nonprofit Silicon Valley / China professional networking organization, and serves on its board. Prior to starting AccelOps, Imin founded Protego Networks, a leading provider of Security Information Management appliances acquired by Cisco. Previously, she led the Cisco’s next generation Policy Configuration Management system team, overseeing development, product specification and launch. Before Cisco, Imin held numerous technical and management positions in Bell Labs, AT&T Labs, Amerex Systems, and IBM. Imin was a professor in Guangzhou Community University, China. She holds an MS degree in Computer Science from State University of New York and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from South China University of Technology, China. |
 | David Lee | Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP David is a partner in Orrick’s Emerging Companies Group, which advises emerging companies and venture capital firms. David practices in the areas of corporate information, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and public offerings. David has an active practice representing China-focused emerging companies. He heads Orrick’s China Emerging Companies Group, which has lawyers in Silicon Valley, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. David has represented one of China’s leading Internet companies, Sina Corporation, since its IPO. In addition, David's practice involves a board network of entrepreneurs, angel investors, and venture capitalists who are active in developing China-focused companies. Before joining Orrick, David was a founding member of Venture Law Group. David received his J.D. at Stanford Law School and graduated University of California, Berkeley with B.A. summa cum laude. |
 | Aileen Lee | Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Aileen Lee is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a leading Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. She joined KPCB in 1999 and focuses on backing innovative digital and green technology companies. She has worked closely with the teams at Bloom Energy, Blue Nile , Friendster, Genomic Health, Good Technology, Miasole, Tellme, Zazzle, and Reach Media Group, where she was founding CEO and now serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to joining KPCB, Aileen worked at Gap Inc. in various operating roles including business development, product management and marketing, and in the office of the CEO. She has also worked for Odwalla and for The North Face in brand and product marketing. Aileen has a Bachelor of Science from MIT and an MBA from the Harvard Business School , is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and serves on the board of the Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association. |
 | Robert P. Lee, Ph.D. | Executive Chairman, Achievo Corporation Dr. Robert P. Lee, a 30-year veteran of the computer industry, is Executive Chairman of Achievo Corporation. Dr. Lee co-founded the company in 2002 and served as its CEO from 2002 through 2008. Dr. Lee was president and CEO of Inxight Software, Inc. before joining Achievo. Prior to Inxight Software, he was chairman, president and CEO of Insignia Solutions plc, a software company he took public in 1995. Dr. Lee also served as executive vice president at Symantec Corporation where he led the acquisition and integration of many companies, including Norton Computing. He was senior vice president at Shared Medical Systems Corporation (now merged with Siemens), and earlier in his career held various technical and business management positions at IBM and Computer Sciences Corporation. Dr. Lee is a member of the board of directors and advisor to several companies. In addition to being a director for Achievo and Accela, he is a director for Osel, Inc., a bio-pharmaceutical company. Dr. Lee was formerly chairman and president of Silicon Valley's Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA) for multiple terms. Dr. Lee received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and masters and doctorate degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, all in computer science. |
 | Hanson Li | Executive Director, Hina Group Hanson Li is currently Executive Director at The Hina Group, one of the largest merchant banks focusing on China with 50+ professionals on the ground in China. With offices in China, US, and Singapore, Hina has been variously recognized as the Best Boutique M&A Bank, Best Private Equity Firm, and Best Cross-border Investment Bank. Hanson works in both the investment banking division as well as the private equity fund. For IBD, he assists global corporations with their merger and acquisition in China. He also works with leading Chinese companies in raising capital and in exploring M&A opportunities outside of China. For the Hina Private Equity Fund, Hanson evaluates Chinese domestic investment opportunities, with a thesis in leveraging the Hina IBD platform and extensive China network. Outside of The Hina Group, Hanson is involved with many organizations focused on Asia including Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA: the largest Chinese executive organization), and serves on the board of Asia American MultiTech Association (AAMA: one of the oldest and largest Asian American professional organizations), and Association of Asian American Investment Managers (AAAIM: the preeminent Asia and Asian American investment manager focused organization). Prior to graduating from Stanford Graduate School of Business and joining The Hina Group, Hanson worked at Capital One Financial and EqualFooting. At Capital One, a Fortune 500 financial services company, he held management roles at AmericaOne, the company's telecom subsidiary. At EqualFooting, a B2B/software start-up funded by NEA, FBR, Yahoo!, Nextel, and Textron, he held dual Vice President roles managing operations and strategy. Hanson also served as Vice President of Business Development for GlobalLogic, a leading IT outsourcing company. Complementing this operational background, Hanson worked at Mercer Management Consulting and served as an associate at Cagan McAfee Capital Partners, a private equity firm focusing on technology and clean tech growth companies. Hanson earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was named Siebel Scholar in recognition as one of the top 5 graduates in his class and he also graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar. He earned a BA and MA from Stanford University. Originally from Hong Kong, Hanson grew up in Hong Kong, Taiwan, New York, and Malaysia. He is fluent in both Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. |
 | Li Liang| Executive Vice President, Beyondsoft Li Liang is Executive Vice President of Beyondsoft. He is responsible for the company's Microsoft business in Beijing, Shanghai and the United States, as well as new exploration and business development. A natural leader, Mr. Liang has amassed over the past decade the expertise to fulfill a personal goal – "To help build a world-class IT services company in China". Mr. Liang cut his teeth as a software developer with the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). Within two years he had taken charge of his team at ICBC. His career path has also taken him to Singapore (Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi) and the United States (Broadreach Consulting, Firstrain Inc. and Microsoft Corporation). Prior to joining Beyondsoft, Mr. Liang was the Lead Program Manager of China Outsourcing Initiative (COI), Microsoft. His contributions to the software giant were outstanding. He built the COI China Team from scratch, cultivating it into a highly respected, high performance team. Mr. Liang orchestrated and implemented MS China’s outsourcing strategy, and constructed the company’s national outsourcing operation platform. His efforts were rewarded in 2006, when the President of Microsoft China R&D Group handed Mr. Liang the "Gold Star" award. Through this work, Mr. Liang was deeply engaged with Microsoft, Chinese outsourcing players and the Chinese government. |
 | Richard Lim | Managing Director, GSR Ventures Richard Lim, Managing Director, GSR Ventures Richard is one of the founding Managing Directors of GSR Ventures. He manages the GSR Silicon Valley office, and 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 grew up in Singapore and has a MBA from Stanford University (Arjay Miller Scholar) and a Bachelor degree from National University of Singapore. |
 | Sarena Lin | Managing Partner of the McKinsey Asia Center: Greater China Sarena is a Principal in McKinsey & Company’s New York office and Managing Partner of the McKinsey Asia Center: Greater China. Previously, she was Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company’s Taipei office and was co-leader of McKinsey’s China Sourcing Center. Sarena Lin Sarena has extensive experience of serving global high technology and consumer electronic companies. She has led projects in Asian marketing and strategy development for leading US and European technology players, and developed sourcing and manufacturing strategies for global consumer electronics manufacturers. She was a co-leader of McKinsey’s China Sourcing Center, which provides end-to-end sourcing solutions to clients in China, including supplier identification, supplier negotiation, supplier management, and sourcing organization development. Sarena currently leads the McKinsey Asia Center in New York, where she helps Asian clients with their globalization strategy and execution, and assists Western clients capture opportunities in Asia. Sarena especially focuses on cross-border M&A issues, including cultural integration, organization development, and talent and leadership management. Sarena also leads the Cross-Border Merger Management Bootcamp program, which provides real-time training and capability building for clients facing cross-border M&A issues. Prior to joining McKinsey, Sarena worked for Procter & Gamble in sales and shelf technology management, where she managed various consumer product categories and evaluated marketing effectiveness by analyzing the effect of product placements. She has also worked as a summer associate for Xerox Corporation in Hong Kong, evaluating sales channel strategies in both Hong Kong and China, and as a summer associate in McKinsey’s Taipei office. |
 | Yabo Lin | Partner and Chair of Asia Practice, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP Yabo regularly counsels clients on general corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and capital market transactions. His recent experience as lead counsel includes a $120 million public secondary offering on NASDAQ closed in a challenging environment in August 2009, $75 million acquisitions of U.S. companies by two Chinese companies in 2009, a $250 million investment by a U.S. company in Chinese metal manufacturing in 2008, and private placements, exchange offers and tender offers totaling $1.4 billion in 2007 and 2006. He was also a lead counsel in a $700 million acquisition (and later divestiture) of equity interest in a leading provider of telecom infrastructure services in the U.S. Mr. Lin was one of the key lawyers representing a former Fortune 100 company on its major acquisitions and divestitures in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand. In addition, he was the lead corporate counsel representing an energy client in negotiating with Enron to resolve, to the client’s satisfaction, disputes over complex energy derivative trading contracts involving hundreds of millions of dollars in 2002. In 2005, the President of American Bar Association appointed Mr. Lin to its six-member board of the Asia Law Initiative Council. In 2009, he was appointed Co-Chairman of the ABA Asia Advisory Board, serving with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also a board member of the Edgar Snow Memorial Fund and the California Asia Business Council, an Advisory Board member of the Asia Law Alliance (a pro bono legal aid group in Silicon Valley), and an adjunct professor at Sun Yat-Sen University. In 2006, Mr. Lin received the Trailblazer Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association for “making substantial and lasting contributions to the Asian Pacific American Community.” Mr. Lin is admitted to practice law in California, New York and Missouri. A licensed lawyer in China before starting his corporate practice in the U.S., he chairs Sonnenschein’s Asia Pacific Practice Group. |
 | Qi Lu | President, Online Services Division, Microsoft As president of Microsoft's Online Services Division (OSD), Dr. Qi Lu leads the company's search and online advertising efforts. Dr. Lu oversees the OSD Research & Development team which has responsibility for the evolution of Microsoft's search, portal and advertising services; the Online Audience Business Group; and the Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Business Group. Dr. Lu reports to Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Lu spent 10 years as a Yahoo! senior executive. His roles included serving as the executive vice president of engineering for the company's Search and Advertising Technology Group where he oversaw the development of Yahoo!'s Web search and monetization platforms and vice president of engineering responsible for the technology development of Yahoo!'s search, e-commerce and local listings of businesses and products. Before joining Yahoo!, Dr. Lu worked as a research staff member at IBM's Almaden Research Center and Carnegie Mellon University and was a faculty member at Fudan University in China. He received his bachelor of science and master of science in computer science from Fudan University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Lu holds 20 U.S. patents. |
 | Dirk Michels | Partner, K&L Gate Dirk Michels is resident in K&L Gates' Palo Alto and San Francisco offices, where he advises publicly traded and privately held U.S. and international cleantech and IT companies in corporate and financing matters. His work on behalf of cleantech companies, particularly those focused on solar power, includes the full range of corporate and strategic advice, as well as assistance with all aspects of project financing, debt and equity financing, and securing of public grants. In particular, he has developed corporate agreements for companies engaged in distributed solar power projects - from power purchase agreements, to construction contracts, to agreements related to renewable energy credits. In his more than 15 years of practicing law in Germany and California, Mr. Michels has handled transactions with a total value exceeding $2 billion. He has developed and financed over 40 solar and wind projects in California and elsewhere, financed and closed over $100 million in solar funds, and negotiated over $5 billion in supply agreements. For those clients interested in taking advantage of German expertise with cleantech, he assisted in the development and financing of projects in Germany, formation of a German subsidiary, and obtained subsidies from the German government. |
 | J. Christopher Moran | Corporate Vice President, Applied Materials, and General Manager, Applied Ventures J. Christopher Moran is General Manager of Applied Ventures since October 2005, responsible for the development and management of Applied Ventures' investments in early stage, privately held companies with great focus in energy conversation and storage, solid state lighting, display, advance materials, and process advancements. Most recently, Mr. Moran served as vice president and division general manager of the Applied Materials Mask Products Division. Prior to that, Mr. Moran was vice president of Corporate Marketing from 1999-2005. Since joining Applied Materials in 1984, Mr. Moran has held a number of positions in division management, product management and marketing. He also served as general manager of the Metal Etch Division, Etch Product Business Group, and held a variety of engineering and product management positions. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Moran served as a member of the technical staff at Hughes Aircraft Co., and Atari Computer Corporation. Mr. Moran received his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
 | Haidong Pan | Founder and CEO, Hudong.com Haidong Pan is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Hudong.com Inc. Under his leadership, www.hudong.com has grown to be the largest and most influential wiki-enabled “Knowledge Media” where over one million contributors have collectively edited three million articles. The company’s product, HDWiki, the first open source Chinese wiki software, dominates with 90% market share in China. Before that, Dr. Pan served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) with AsiaEC.com (now Office Depot China), the largest online e-procurement office supplies company in China. While studying in Boston University, Dr. Pan acted as co-president of Harvard China Review and organized its annual conference that attracted mainstream media in both US and China. Besides that, the MIT talent forum he organized as conference chair stirred the returning enthusiasm among overseas Chinese students and scholars. Mr. Pan obtained Ph.D. in systems engineering from Boston Univ., M.S. from Tsinghua Univ., and B.S. from Beijing Science & Technology Univ. He also joined the "Advanced History Studies Program" in Dept. of History, Peking Univ. Dr. Pan is a frequent speaker at ad:tech, CHINICT, iResearch, AAMA and other events. Dr. Pan is the “Cradle Plan” entrepreneur with Asia America Multi-technology Association (AAMA). Dr. Pan is a council member of All-China Youth Federation and committee member of Overseas Returnee Association ACYF. Dr. Pan currently serves as vice chairman with Boston University Alumni Association China. |
 | Steve Westly | Managing Partner, Westly Group Mr. Westly is a Managing Partner of The Westly Group, a venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. The Westly Group invests primarily in clean technology companies, as well as in governmental-related industries such as health care and security. Prior to founding The Westly Group, Steve Westly served as the Controller and Chief Fiscal Officer of the state of California - the world's sixth largest economy. As Controller, he chaired the State Lands Commission and served on 63 other boards and commissions, including CalPERS and CalSTRS, the nation's two largest public pension funds, which together invest more than $350 billion. During his four-year term, Mr. Westly spearheaded innovative tax programs that helped close the State's budget deficit and also led an effort to commit more than $1 billion to clean technology investments. Before running for office, Mr. Westly helped guide the online auction company eBay through its period of most rapid growth, serving as the Senior Vice President of Marketing, Business Development, M&A and International. Mr. Westly helped bring eBay to Europe and Asia and developed the marketing and acquisition strategies that paved the path for the firm's exponential growth. Mr. Westly began his career in Washington, D.C., where he worked first on Capitol Hill and later in the Office of Conservation and Solar at the U.S. Department of Energy. Mr. Westly returned to California to become special assistant to the President of the California Public Utilities Commission. While there, he published two books on alternative energy and the utilities. Mr. Westly also held senior positions at Sprint Communications, Netcom, and WhoWhere?. Mr. Westly holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business, where he served on the faculty for five years. Mr. Westly and his wife, Anita, run the Westly Foundation, which provides education and health care services for children and underserved communities throughout California. |
 | Kent Wisner | Principal, KPMG, Silicon Valley Office Kent F. Wisner joined the International Corporate Services group of KPMG LLP in June 2005. Based in the Silicon Valley Office in Mountain View, California, he focuses on international tax planning for multinational enterprises with multi-jurisdictional operations, as well as cross-border mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations. He has extensive experience in advising companies in the computer hardware, software, semiconductor, e-business, green-tech, consumer business and transportation industries. Formerly an International Partner in the tax practice group of Baker & McKenzie and member of their North American Tax Practice Group Management Committee, and then a Principal in Deloitte Tax LLP, he has spent more than two decades focusing on international tax issues in the areas of planning and consulting for the structuring of multinational operations, international acquisitions and restructurings, intercompany pricing analyses, venture capital fund formation and portfolio company optimization, and advocacy in federal tax controversies at the audit and appellate levels. Mr. Wisner holds a Juris Doctor degree from University of Virginia where he was a member of the Virginia Law Review, a Masters Degree in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a Bachelor’s Degree, with distinction, in International Relations and Russian from Stanford University. Mr. Wisner is a frequent author of articles and speaker for seminars on various aspects of international taxation. He is also a member of the State Bars of California, Illinois, the District of Colombia and Virginia. He is an adjunct member of the faculty at the Law School at Boalt Hall, the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught the school’s course in International Taxation Law since 2001. |
 | Hing Wong | Managing Director, Walden International Hing Wong is managing director at Walden International. His investment focus is in semiconductor, components, and clean tech, especially in Asia. 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. |
 | Yibing Wu | Managing Director, Legend Holdings Ltd. Dr. Yibing Wu is the Managing Director of Legend Holdings Limited, overseeing overall business operations and investment activities. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University and a B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China. From 1996 to August, 2008, Mr. Wu worked for Mckinsey&Company, a world-renowned management consulting firm. During his tenure at the firm, Dr. Wu served as a senior partner, general manager of their Beijing office, and head of their Asia-Pacific Post-Merger Management Practice. And from 2005 to April, 2008, Dr. Wu worked full-time at Lenovo, first as the Chief Integration Officer, later as the Chief Strategy Officer, and Chief Transformation Officer and CIO. |
 | Jeff Xiong | Co-Chief Technology Officer, Tencent Jeff joined the Tencent in 2005 as Co-Chief Technology Officer. Jeff is responsible for improving our R&D capability in product strategy planning and process management, managing our platform systems groups, including the instant messaging platform group and other groups for massive-scale online application systems. Prior to his current employment, Jeff worked at Microsoft for nine years, as senior project manager for Internet Explorer, Windows and MSN groups; and as founding director of MSN China Development Center, focusing on defining and executing MSN product development strategy and roadmap in China. Prior to that, Jeff worked at IBM Internet Division as Staff Programmer. Jeff has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information System Engineering from National University of Defense Technology in 1987 and a Master's degree in Information Retrieval from Chinese Defense Science and Technology Information Center (CDSTIC) in Beijing in 1990. Jeff has more than fifteen-year experience in the software development and project management. |
 | Zheng Xu | CEO & Founder, Sierra Power Dr. Zheng Xu founded Sierra Solar Power at the beginning of 2007. The company has made rapid progress in proving high-volume, automated production of thin-film crystalline-silicon solar cells with high conversion efficiency. Prior to Sierra Solar Power, Dr. Xu advanced rapidly through a 15-year career at Applied Materials. Most recently, he was corporate vice president and general manager of the CPI products business group, which offered metal thin-film process equipment. By 2006, the CPI business group had achieved strong product differentiation, market momentum, and business performance with 73% market share in the metal thin-film market, over $1.2 billion of revenue, and gross margin in excess of 55%. Dr. Xu also initiated and led new product development in Xi’an, China, built the team and infrastructure, and developed the first 300mm semiconductor equipment with cutting-edge technology in China. Dr. Xu began his career at Toshiba Corporation as a thin film engineer after he received his Ph.D. in materials science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He also earned a doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Osaka University in Japan. He received his bachelor degree from Zhejiang University in China.Dr. Xu has authored numerous technical papers, and he holds 69 US patents and 13 US patents pending. |
 | Alan Yan | Founder and CEO, AdChina Alan is Founder and CEO of AdChina, the leading vertical ad networks platform based in Shanghai, China. Alan was fascinated by the online advertising and the ad network businesses when he was in Boston pursuing his MBA at the Sloan School of MIT. While still in school, he began to craft AdChina’s business plan and got ready for AdChina’s launch in 2007. Prior to MIT, Alan was the Head of Community Development at eBay China, where he managed the largest C2C e-commerce community in China at that time. Alan was also instrumental in leading a cross functional team of Product Managers and Marketing Managers to innovate a new online text content based advertising product for eBay China. Before joining eBay China, Alan served as the Senior Business Unit Manager for Philips China and held several senior marketing and sales management positions at Acer and Lucent Technologies. Alan holds an MBA from the Sloan School at MIT and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Ocean University in Qingdao, China. |
 | Jerry Yang | Founder and CEO, TechBridge Jerry Yang is the founder, President, and CEO of TechBridge, Inc. Jerry has more than 15 years of engineering, product marketing, and management experience in technology sector. Most recently, he was vice president of product at InfowareLab Inc, where he was responsible for overall product strategy, product planning, roadmap management, pricing, go-to-market strategy, engineering resource prioritization for all product lines. Previously, Jerry was a senior product manager at WebEx communications where he managed multiple product lines including voice conferencing services ($20+ million in revenue). Before WebEx, Jerry held technical positions at BroadVision, Informix, and China Construction Bank. Jerry earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Zhejiang University. |
 | Charles Yu | Director of Business Development, hiSoft Corporation Charles Yu is the Director of Business Development for hiSoft Corporation based in San Jose California. He is responsible for outsourcing business development and marketing at hiSoft US. Mr. Yu has over 15 years of wireless and Internet industry experiences. Prior to joining hiSoft, He was the Director of Ecosystem for SiRF Technology, a global leader in GPS chip and location based solutions. He managed SiRF's location based software and application platform, and helped established SiRF's infrastructure division. From 2002 to 2008, Mr. Yu lived and worked in Beijing, China as an expat for Qualcomm. As Director of Sales and Director of Product Management, He worked closely with carriers, major OEMs/ODMs and application developers. Mr. Yu was instrumental in bringing BREW platform to China, building a high caliber team and quickly growing the business to a multimillion dollar market. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Yu served as Deputy General Manager for China Unicom and Qualcomm's Joint Venture Unicom-BREW (now part of China Telecom, renamed TianYi-BREW). He was responsible for strategies and operations of Unicom's U-Magic Application Store and achieved over 90% penetration rate for the application platform. Prior to Qualcomm, Mr. Yu led Sun Microsystems' wireless business development activities for Greater China and was responsible for launching China Mobile's first Java application download service. He was also a technology evangelist in Sun's Market Development group focusing on the ecommerce sector. Mr. Yu started his career as a software engineer at Motorola for iDEN and Iridium. Charles holds a master degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a bachelor degree from Albright College. |
 | Zili Zhang | Senior Vice President, American Century Investments Dr. Zhang is a fund manager, and a Director of Research at American Century Investments, a US based money manager with assets under management of about $82Billion. With more than 14 years of direct money managing experience, his portfolio team manages several flagship American Century funds totaling $7 Billion. Dr. Zhang hold a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Texas at Austin with Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine. Dr. Zhang has publications in financial economics and co-authored a book on finance and investing. He serves as the co-Chair of the Chinese Finance Association (TCFA CA), and a Board Director of Noosphere Communications Inc. |
 | Lili Zheng | Partner, Deloitte Lili is a partner in Deloitte Tax LLP's International Tax practice and has been with the organization since 1989. Her work experience includes development of strategies to manage worldwide effective tax rates, cross-border international mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and venture fund structuring. She also has extensive knowledge in IPO positioning, establishing offshore IP holding companies, implementing cost-sharing agreements and advising on entry and exit strategies for cross-border investments. Lili is also the Deputy Managing Partner of Deloitte & Touche LLP's Chinese Services group in the U.S. Lili has extensive experience working with Chinese clients and travels often to the Asia Pacific region. She is also a liaison for business transactions with Greater China and previously worked in Deloitte's Tokyo and Beijing offices. She is highly conversant in Chinese tax and business issues. Lili was recognized as one of the top five tax advisers in the West Region of the U.S. and among the top 15 in the U.S. in a leading international survey on tax advisers conducted by the International Tax Review in 2002 and 2003. In 2004, Lili was awarded the AWIB Leadership award by Asian Women in Business. Lili holds an M.S. in Taxation from Golden Gate University and a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from the University of California, Berkeley. |
 | Robert Shuhua Zhou | Managing Director, Northern Light Venture Capital Robert joined Northern Light Venture Capital (NLVC) in 2006 as a Managing Director with over 14 years of industry experience in China at prominent TMT and multinational enterprises. Prior to NLVC, Robert served as the Vice President of China’s leading online portal, Sina (NASDAQ: SINA). Over the last 6 years in Sina, he has successfully managed the Search and Sina.net teams. Robert had orchestrated key co-operations with Google and EachNet (an eBay subsidiary). Prior to Sina, Robert was a Manager at Apple Computer in China and was responsible for new product launches, and market development. Robert also managed sales and marketing at the American Standard Group, Philips, and Orient Electrical Group. Robert holds a BS degree in Business Management from Xi’an University of Technology, a MS degree in Computer Applications from the University of Science and Technology of China, and a master in Management degree from Stanford Business School. |
 | Tami Zhu | Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, Dictionary.com Tami Zhu is the vice president of strategy and business development for Dictionary.com, an IAC/InterActiveCorp Company. Zhu brings over 13 years of consumer internet experience to her current position. Before joining the Dictionary.com team, Zhu was with AOL where she held executive positions in Corporate M&A, AOL Venture Investments, and Truveo Video Search Business Development. Prior to AOL, Zhu was a part of the founding team at Excite@Home International where she led the launch of the broadband international joint ventures in the Netherlands, Australia, and Japan. Early on in her career, Zhu was a software developer on the C++ compiler team at Borland International. Zhu holds BS degrees in both Information Science and Psychology from Beijing University in China, as well as a MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego, and an MBA from MIT Sloan. |
