Alan is the CEO of AdChina, which he founded in 2007 in Silicon Valley. An Integrated Digital Platform, AdChina is leading China's digital advertising technology evolution with its breakthrough largest online ad network, its cutting-edge online advertising operating systems AdManager and Dynamic Audience Segments platform, its innovative social media network, and its new-generation eCommerce network.
Prior to AdChina, Alan worked with eBay, Philips, and Lucent in various managerial positions in China, Singapore, and US. The most interesting memory with these giants are the new businesses and new products that Alan founded in such very different big corporation environment, which eventually contributes to the birth and growth of AdChina.
Brian is one of the leaders of Deloitte’s Clean Tech practice which was formed in 2005 to focus on this rapidly growing market. Brian has worked extensively with clean technology companies and has deep industry insight into the issues that these companies face. His experience spans solar, wind, transportation, battery storage, fuel cells and energy efficiency companies. Teaming with partners from the firm’s Technology, Energy/Utilities and Life Sciences practices, Brian has been instrumental to making Deloitte a leader in Clean Tech. M.B.A., B.S., University of Chicago.
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 formerly served as a member of the firm's Policy Committee. 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.
Mr. Charlie Y. Shi is the co-founder and managing partner of Omaha Capital China Master Fund II, L.P. (www.omahacap.com) (the “Fund II”) and formerly known CMT ChinaValue Capital Partners, L.P. (the “Fund I”), both of which are China-focused early growth capital and venture capital funds specializing in the TMT, healthcare and new energy sectors. Mr. Shi and his management team manage both the Fund I and Fund II simultaneously.
Throughout his professional career, Mr. Shi has been directly responsible quite a number of successful investments, which include:
AutoNavi Holdings Limited (www.autonavi.com) (Nasdaq: AMAP), which is China’s leading provider of GPS-guided digital mapping contents and services. Mr. Shi used to serve as a director;
Baidu.com, Inc. (www.baidu.com) (Nasdaq: BIDU), which is China’s leading Internet search engine company;
China Cord Blood Corporation (www.chinacord.org ) (NYSE: CO), which is China’s leading provider of stem cell storage services. Mr. Shi used to serve as a director;
China Digital TV Holdings Limited (www.chinadtv.cn) (NYSE: STV), which is China’s leading provider of conditional access system (CAS);
Geoby International Limited (aka: Goodbaby Child Products Limited) (www.goodbaby.com) (trade sale in 6/2002), which is China’s leading provider of children’s products. Mr. Shi used to serve as a director;
KongZhong Corporation (www.kongzhong.com) (Nasdaq: KONG), which is China’s leading provider of 2G and 2.5G wireless value-added services. Mr. Shi used to serve as a director, MicroPort Scientific Corporation (www.microportmedical.com) (trade sale in 9/2009), which is China’s leading medical device company. Mr. Shi used to serve as an alternate board member and a member of the supervisory board;
Mr. Shi is also currently responsible for co-managing the investments in DLG Power Battery Co., Ltd. (www.dlgbattery.cn), which is one of China’s leading providers of lithium-ion batteries; and, GeneHarbor Holdings Limited (www.geneharbortech.com), which develops proprietary enzyme optimization technologies mainly for the ethanol productions using biomass. Mr. Shi serves on the boards of both companies. Mr. Shi is also an independent director of China Life Asset Management Limited (www.clamc.com), which is China’s 2nd largest investment management company with over US$250 billion assets under management; Mr. Shi also currently serves as the chairperson of its Alternative Investment Evaluation and Advisory Committee.
In addition to that, Mr. Shi is also an independent director of Pico Far East Limited (www.pico.com), a Hong Kong-listed company which is one of the world’s leading providers of exhibition organization, construction, event planning and hall management.
Christine Lu is the founder of The China Business Network and Cilantro Media, as well as the organizer of the Geeks on a Plane. By meeting face-to-face without the direct goal of market entry provides a neutral environment on even ground and helps people understand each other’s cultures better. Christine received her BA in International Relations with a concentration on East Asian Studies at Boston University. After college, Christine moved to Shanghai in 1999, and was a clothing designer and marketing manager for her family’s clothing retail business.
Claire Chang is the president of ABL-SF, and has served on the Board since 2003. Claire co-founded executive training program, You are the CEO of you!. She is currently Founder/Managing Director of a consulting firm ClaireSays Inc. that provides marketing, business/community development, product marketing and launch, social media strategy and PR/AR services. Claire also consults as Executive-in-Residence at an early stage investment firm Booga Ventures in Palo Alto. Claire most recently served as a Chief Community Officer at an early stage internet start-up in SF.
Cliff L. Ma is the CEO and Chairman of VoiceOn Technology; VoiceOn’s main operation is in Beijing, China. Before cofounded VoiceOn, Cliff spent most of his professional career in Silicon Valley. He cofounded Anchor Semiconductor (pioneering DFM technologies and markets) and ran its sales and marketing operation. He held senior director of business development and sales director positions at KLA-Tencor. He also held business and technical director positions in several other public hi-tech companies in semiconductor industry. He was the country manager (China) for Analogy, Inc. in late 90s; Analogy was later acquired by Synopsys. He was a guest scientist at Siemens Corporate Research in Munich and gave technical talks in many IEEE conferences and universities in US, Europe and Asia. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Washington; BSEE from Tsinghua University in Beijing; he was the president of Student Union in 1987 and played on college volleyball team.
Courtney McColgan is the cofounder of Wokai, a person-to-person microlending platform for China. To date, Wokai has assisted 400+ borrowers, attracted 6,500+ contributors, and distributed $350,000+ in loan capital. Courtney was previously an analyst at Draper Fisher Jurvetson where she focused on clean technology and China-related investments. Prior to joining DFJ, Courtney worked as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley in Beijing and China. Courtney holds a BA in Chinese and Economics from UC Berkeley and is currently completing her MBA & MS in Energy Resources at Stanford University.
Daisy Gao is the Deputy Director of Suzhou International Science Park (SISPark) and Deputy Director of Suzhou Industrial Park Science & Technology Development Center. She is responsible for introduction and cultivation of hi-tech companies, she and her team focus on industries such as software and IT services, IC, opto-electronics and telecom, consolidate key resources to build the eco-system for hi-tech innovation and entrepreneurship, help the hi-tech companies in their strategy, financing, M&A, business development and localization, etc. She is also the Deputy Secretary Chief of Suzhou IC industry Association, Vice President of Suzhou Industrial Park Opto-electronics Communication Industry Association (SIPOCIA), Director of Jiangsu Province Converged Communication Innovation Alliance and Suzhou Overseas Exchange Association.
Prior to the current position, she worked for China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Co., Ltd and was responsible for the investment promotion of foreign-invested manufacturing and tertiary industries.
She and her team has amassed rich hand-on experience in facilitating MNCs (such as 3M, Bosch, Delphi, Oracle, Cisco) and hi-tech startup companies to set up their local operations & R&D centers in Suzhou, China.
She was graduated from Business School of Nanjing University.
David is the VP of BeyondSoft, a leading global IT service company with delivery centers cross USA, China, India; where he manages the Mobile Division. He came to BeyondSoft through its acquisition of ExtendLogic, a Silicon Valley based smartphone end to end solution consulting company, where he was founder and CEO. David is very active in smartphone industry. He serves as organizer of Silicon Valley Android Developers Group and Silicon Valley iPhone iPad Business Meetup, and also as Chair for SVC Wireless Mobile App SIG.
Prior to ExtendLogic he was VP of Engineering for PlayPhone. He also serviced as Engineering lead for LightSurf (acquired by VeriSign), VP of Software Development for The Critical Thinking Company. He also staffed or consulted at Oracle ETravel, IBM Global Services, Sun Micro Systems, Reuters, and may others.
David held a master degree of Computer Network from Xidian University.
David Frazee, a partner in the Palo Alto, California office of K&L Gates LLP, represents innovative technology companies, entrepreneurs, and funds, helping them to succeed through the creation and execution of comprehensive international corporate, business, finance, and intellectual property strategies. Using his real world experience as a former Silicon Valley startup entrepreneur, David advises clients how to create value through the use of IP creation, licensing, litigation, competitive mapping, audits, mining, tax optimization, blocking patents, spin-offs, open innovation, and distressed asset deals. David also advises companies in their business and corporate needs at all stages, from formation, venture financings, sophisticated cross-border deals, and commercial transactions through IPOs and M&A transactions. David has represented clients in connection with debt and equity financings exceeding US$750 million. David has discussed innovation and business strategy, including in Fortune, The Financial Times, The Red Herring, and The Wall Street Transcript. He is a frequent speaker, including at the Fortune Global Forum in Beijing and the Financial Times Innovation Summit in London.
DAVID C. Lee is a partner at Gunderson Dettmer, and a member of the Corporate and Securities practice group which advises emerging companies and venture capital firms. David practices in the areas of corporate formation, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, public company securities, and technology licensing transactions.
David has an active practice representing China-focused emerging companies, both in the United States and in China. He has deep experience representing China’s leading private and public Internet companies. In addition, David’s practice involves a broad network of entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists that are active in developing China-focused companies.
David earned his J.D. from Stanford University and his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining Gunderson Dettmer, David was a partner at Orrick and a founding attorney and Director of Venture Law Group.
Mr. Edward Yang is the President of iSoftStone Inc. and the Chairman of iSoftStone North America & Europe Business Group. Edward Yang has extensive management capabilities, strong understanding of the client outsourcing value proposition, and experience in cross-border management of China-based business.
Before joining iSoftStone, Edward Yang was formerly the Chairman of the Cross Shore Acquisition Corporation, a public company listed under London AIM. He was the Co-founder of the company that raised US $112 Million in April 2006, to support the acquisition of a leading US-based provider of clinical outsourcing services, and led its strategic expansion into Asia. In August 2007, Mr. Yang and his partner spearheaded and completed the (SPAC) acquisition and merger of a Philadelphia-based company with annual revenue over $100 Million.
From 1992 to 2000, Mr. Yang was Corporate Senior Vice President for Electronic Data Systems (“EDS”), responsible for its operations spanning the entire Asia-Pacific region. During his 8+ years with EDS, Mr. Yang brought outsourcing to the Asia-Pacific region and led the Company’s regional expansion from $100 million to more than $1.2 billion, with more than $4 billion in contracted revenue backlog.
Prior to joining EDS, Mr. Yang was Corporate Senior VP for Wang Laboratories, responsible for the Asia Pacific and Americas region, during which time he brought offshore R&D and manufacturing to Asia and established the Company’s first Mainland China Joint Venture partnership in Shanghai in 1980.
Born in China, brought up in Myanmar and educated in Taiwan and US, Mr. Yang earned his B.Sc. degree from National Taiwan University (1969), M.S. degree from University of Massachusetts (Lowell 1976) and his Presidential Executive MBA degree from Pepperdine University (1988). In 1997, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Pepperdine University.
Edith is a host of CBS 5 Startup Profile, a sought-after speaker, and the Founder of BizTechDay. She delivered many content rich, high-energy and memorable talks in US, Asia and Europe and leads San Francisco Entrepreneur Meetup Group with over 3000 members. Edith Yeung has been featured on CBS, CNN, and other Management Magazines. A member of the San Francisco Small Business Week and UC Berkeley Entrepreneurship Certificate Program Advisory Board, Edith Yeung graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Information Technology & Marketing.
Edward is the Founder and President of Mission Motors, manufacturer of the world's fastest production electric motorcycles. Mission Motors began as Edward’s Capstone project during his final semester at Presidio. In addition to his work with Mission Motors, Edward consults with start-up founders and speaks on the process of creating businesses. His background consists of engineering, and designing complex robotic systems and consumer products. Mr. West holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University, and an MBA from the Presidio School of Management.
Francis Tsang is Senior Director Globalization at Adobe Systems Inc. and supports the Foundation especially in the field of globalization and technology know-how. Francis Tsang is responsible for the strategy and delivery of all localized product releases and the development of tools and libraries in the internationalization area. Mr. Tang spent the last twenty years building software for various international markets. He holds degrees in computing and business management.
Gene has 15 years of extensive IT industry experience. Prior to his current role, Gene served for 2 years as US Managing Director for hiSoft. Prior to that, Gene served as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Envisage Solutions a leading Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence consultancy from 2000 until its merger with hiSoft in 2006. Gene's other work experiences include Managing Director of an European IT Services company and Senior Manager in the Strategy group for a billion dollar US IT services firm. Gene started his career in the Products and Financial Services groups of Accenture.
Gene graduated from the University of California at Irvine with degrees in Economics and Business Management.
Gordon Sun, Chief Scientist, Tencent Technology, China, has been working on algorithmic search technology since 1998 when he joined Inktomi (the leading US search engine company during 1990s) as the senior scientist and architect. He also worked for two search engine companies, WiseNut and LookSmart as the director of R&D during 2001 to 2003 before he joined Yahoo early 2004 where he was leading the Global Search Relevance team as the director of research until 2009. Gordon graduated from University of Science and Technology of China and went to the US through the CUSPEA program (sponsored by Nobel Price Winner Prof. T.D. Lee) in 1981 and received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from University of Iowa, 1984. He worked as the Research faculty in University of Maryland for 9 years before he moved to Silicon Valley, 1993, and worked in Communication Intelligence Inc, a leading hand-writing recognition provider, as the Chief Scientist. He has broad work experiences, knowledge and publications in neural networks, pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, speech recognition, hand-writing recognition and non-linear dynamics.
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.
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.
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.
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. Prior to starting AccelOps, Imin founded Protego Networks, a leading provider of Security Information Management appliances. Within 2 years, the company went through rapid growth and development with a revenue runway of $12M prior to its acquisition by Cisco Systems. 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.
Dr. Ira Kalish is Director of Global Economics at Deloitte Research. He is an expert on global economic issues as well as the effects of economic, demographic, and social trends on the global business environment. He has written reports on the economies of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Mexico, and South America. He has also written extensively on global consumer markets. In addition, he has authored over 150 articles and reports on economic and consumer trends around the world.
Among Dr. Kalish’s recent publications were Global Economic Outlook 2010; Global Powers of Retailing 2009; China and India: Comparing the World’s Hottest Consumer Markets; China and India: The Reality Beyond the Hype, and China’s Consumer Market: Opportunities and Risks.
Dr. Kalish has given numerous presentations on topics related to the global economy. Among his audiences have been AIG, Auchan, Avon, Best Buy, Boots, Gap, GE Capital, ICSC, Kraft, Levi Strauss, Mattel, NCR, Nike, the National Retail Federation, Oracle, Petsmart, the Retail Week Conference, SAP, Sears, Unilever, Westfield, and the World Retail Congress to name a few. He has given presentations to business leaders on six continents. In addition, he has been widely quoted in the news media. His remarks have been published by The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Economist, The Financial Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, US News and World Report, The Far Eastern Economic Review, Women’s Wear Daily, and Advertising Age. He has appeared on CNN, CBS News, CNBC, PBS, and BBC World Service.
Prior to his work at Deloitte, Dr. Kalish was Chief Economist at Retail Forward, a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Vice President at Bankers Trust Corporation, Corporate Economist at the Eastman Kodak Company, and Researcher at the Institute for International Economics. Dr. Kalish holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Vassar College and a PhD in international economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Jim is a founding partner of Focus Ventures and has led successful investments in Cosine Communications, Netscaler (Citrix), PA Semi (Apple), Pure Digital (Cisco), Starent Networks, Telera (Alcatel) and Teknovus (Broadcom). Jim spearheads Focus’ efforts in Asia, to which he brings to bear his 30 years experience in the region. Jim was a cofounder in 1986 and a Managing Director of Amsterdam Pacific Corportation, which was purchased by a large European bank in 1994. Prior to that, he was Vice President in the Telecommunications Section of the Bank of America's Investment Banking Group. Jim has an MBA and MA degree from Stanford University.
Mr James Liang, started his career in 1991 as a systems engineer at Oracle Corporation (World Headquarters) in Silicon Valley, U.S.A. He worked his way to become Oracle China’s Chief consultant for both national and international companies in scope of management software and Internet business at the age of 27, and was later promoted to be Oracle China’s consultancy & management Director for both technical and managerial development. He was appointed the head of the ERP consulting division of Oracle China from 1997 to 1999. During his 8-year term in Oracle, he has successfully combined his technical and managerial talent and led his team to make great effort on those important projects.
In 1999, together with 3 business partners, James Liang founded Ctrip.com. having Oracle’s experience and strategic insight, James bring a number of effective and creative managerial methods to Ctrip’s management team. Under his leadership, Ctrip.com has rapidly grown into one of the most successful Internet companies in China in less 4 years. Since the successful IPO on NASDAQ on Dec.2003, Ctrip aims to build the most successful travel service company in the world.
James Liang was appointed CEO since 2000 and a member of company’s board of directors since Ctrip’s inception, He has also been Chairman of the board since August 2003, During this period, Ctrip.com has Significant growth, culminating in a historical record profit in every business field. Since 2006, served as the current Chairman of the board, James Liang continued his studying on Econometrics in Stanford University in California, at the meantime, James still contributes actively to business development strategy and ctrip culture.
James Liang became the member of the young genius class of FuDan University at the age of 15, after getting the Computer Master’s Degree of Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989, James became Registered member of both National Association of Accountants and National Association of manufacture at the same year. James is also the Author of The soaring Internet Society, which has thoroughly demonstrate the comparative environment of Internet development between China and USA, especially in Internet Business.
Mr. Jari Salomaa has over a decade long Research & Development experience from Nokia where he has participated and led many breakthrough products and technology developments. Most known projects are the Nokia Communicator products and Nokia Eseries family of business handsets where Mr. Salomaa has led technology planning and development in his own area contributing to various new features, concepts and business partnerships. Most recently he's connecting companies, technologies and entrepreneurs with Nokia in Silicon Valley as part of Nokia Innovation Sourcing organization. Mr. Salomaa is specifically interested in mobile security and identity and web development.
Mr. Salomaa was born in Helsinki, Finland, but currently from San Francisco, California.
Mr. Zhou joined Legend Holdings in 2003 as assistant to Chairman Liu Chuanzhi. He assists Chairman Liu involved in Lenovo Group’s acquiring IBM Personal Computing Division and board work after the acquisition. He is also the investment manager at Legend Holdings in charge of post-investment-management of Lenovo.
Mr. Zhou joined the Legend Star Program of Entrepreneurship and Education in 2008 as one of the initiators. Legend Star is a one year program to find and incubator best high-tech companies and entrepreneurs in China. It has reached over thousands of high-tech startup companies in the past two years.
Prior to joining Legend, Mr. Zhou worked at International Cooperation Bureau, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Alibaba.com (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., Japan's Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. Mr. Ziqiang Zhou received Bachelor of Laws from Beijing University of International Relations in 1997.
Jean Zhang has served as Shanda's Vice President since June 2009. Prior to joining Shanda, she held roles as vice president in Lenovo Group, in charge of Human Resources in Great China, India, Russia and other global emerging markets. She has years of experience in human resources management and was in charge of organization development, C&B management, strategic planning in human resources from 2002-2009. From 1999-2002, Ms Zhang held various positions in Lenovo, including strategy department manager and quality management department manager. She holds a master's degree in Management from Renmin University of China.
At VanceInfo, Jeff Wu has been corporate Executive Vice President in charge of Software Services Group responsible for providing services for software development and support for VanceInfo’s major customers, i.e. Microsoft, IBM, Yahoo, and many others. As Chief Globalization Officer, Jeff also pioneered VanceInfo’s global reach in US, Japan and Europe. Before joining VanceInfo, Jeff Wu worked for Novell/Cambridge Technology Partners, HP/ EDS, Chordiant and Ariba in various leading roles of product development, professional services and business line management. Jeff received his Master's degree in Computer Science from University of Southern California and his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Tongji University.
Ms. Jennifer Li joined Baidu on March 31, 2008 as the Chief Financial Officer.
Li joined Baidu from GMAC, where she served as Controller of GMAC's North American Operations. In that role, she led a staff of 200 in the U.S. and Canada and was primarily responsible for financial accounting and reporting, business planning and forecasting, performance analysis and strategic development. Prior to that, Li was chief financial officer of General Motors China where she was responsible for overseeing finance functions of GM's wholly owned and joint venture businesses. Over the 13 years Li has held several other finance positions at General Motors in China, Singapore, the United States and Canada.
Li holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., Canada and a Bachelor of Arts from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Jing Zhu joins Shanda in 2009. He has served as the Chief Technology Officer of Shanda Online since December 2009. Prior to joining Shanda, Dr. Zhu served as a Senior Director at Yahoo! Inc. from 2001 to 2009. In his most recent post in Yahoo!, he was in charge of Yahoo!'s next generation contextual ad-matching technology platform from 2007 to 2009. He was in charge of the engineering team for Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Address Book and Yahoo! Calendar from 2001 to 2006. He helped significantly improve everything from anti-spam technology to back-end architecture, system reliability and performance, and the end-user experience. Prior to Yahoo!, Dr. Zhu served in various senior technical management positions in mobile and optical networking companies in Silicon Valley from 1998 to 2001.From 1993-1998, Dr. Zhu worked as a scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Zhu graduated from Fudan University in Shanghai at the age of 17 and later obtained a Masters in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Computational Solid State Physics from the same university. He is the author and co-author of six US patents.
Johnnie founded K2 in 2006, having had over 20 years experience in materials, R&D, product development, process development, sales & marketing, engineering design and executive management. He gained expertise through various technical and management positions at JR Simplot Company, Vista Chemical Company, Engelhard Corporation and Valence Technology. Most recently, as VP of operations for Valence Technology, Johnnie set up and managed the company’s operations in China. Johnnie earned a B.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University.
Mr. Julio Leung is the Senior Executive VP and Board Member of Achievo. He oversees all corporate functions including corporate development, capital planning, banking, marketing and HR management. Before Achievo, he was the VP-Finance for 6 years at Solectron Corporatio, a banker with Citigroup for over 20 years in New York, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and a CPA with Price Waterhouse & Co. in New York. Mr. Leung received his Bachelor degree in accounting from Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina, and an MBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ken Xie founded his first network security company, SIS, in 1993, designing software firewalls while studying at Stanford University. In 1996, he started NetScreen as president and CEO, leading the company to develop the industry’s first ASIC-based firewall. NetScreen (NASDAQ: NSCN) was later acquired by Juniper (NASDAQ: JNPR) for $4 billion. In 2000, Xie founded Fortinet and pioneered unified threat management (UTM). Fortinet completed its IPO (NASDAQ: FTNT) in 2009, which was lauded by Renaissance Capital as the “2009 IPO of the Year.”
Xie earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, as well as an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Kevin Fong is a special advisor to GSR Ventures, which he helped start in 2004 to focus on investments in China. He has a 23-year track record of supporting entrepreneurs in early-stage companies to build industry leaders. Prior to GSR, Kevin was at Mayfield Fund for 20 years as a Managing Director, where he contributed to the creation of companies with an enterprise value of US$13.4 billion—achieving more than $1 billion in returns to limited partners in the past 23 years from investments such as Alantec, Citrix, Crescendo (now Cisco Catalyst), Legato Systems, Redback Networks, and Velocity 11. His recent exits include 3Par, which was acquired by HP for $2.35 billion. While at Mayfield Fund, Kevin’s focus was on investments in the communications, wireless, semiconductor, software, and consumer media sectors. He has also served as an operating executive at David Systems, HP, and Nortel/Bell Northern Research. Kevin earned an MBA and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Kevin earned an M.B.A. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Enginnering form U.C. Berkeley.
Kevin has served in senior executive role leading corporate development and M&As including as VP of Corporate M&A for Grainger, VP of Corporate Business Development for Arrow Electronics, and Director of Corporate Development for Solectron. He has closed nearly 30 transactions around the world totaling $4.5B in revenue. His prior experience includes senior management roles at high-tech companies such as Logitech and Adaptec. Kevin started his career in 1985 with GE pioneering joint ventures in China. Kevin holds a MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a Master of Economics from University of International Business and Economics, China
Mr. Li has over 16 years of various industry experiences in the US and China. Started as a financial analyst in the health care industry in US, Mr. Li expanded his responsibility gradually from finance, analytics to operations, regulation and then to overall business profitability.
In BYD, an $8 Billion green energy and auto manufacturer, Mr. Li is responsible for the new energy business in northern California region including all North West states. He also supports BYD overall strategic expansion in the US market. The products that BYD offers in the US include PV solar panels, complete energy storage solution (utility and commercial grades), LED lighting system (indoor and outdoor street lighting), and full electric cars, dual mode cars and full electric buses (beta testing versions by the end of 2010 and consumer version by the end of 2011).
Mr. Li obtained his MBA from the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business and is an active CPA in the US.
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.
Maria is a Partner in KPMG’s Venture Capital Practice working with venture funds and their portfolio companies. She has more than 20 years of experience in finance and accounting including 10 years working with the venture capital industry. Before re-joining KPMG in 2008, Maria was chief financial officer at Lightspeed Venture Partners in Menlo Park and prior to that, Administrative Partner and COO of Forward Ventures in San Diego. In those roles, she was a senior member of two firms raising and managing in excess of $1.7 billion. Her responsibilities included financial reporting and investor relations for those firms and she participated in structuring and negotiating financings of venture-backed companies and the management of investor exits from those investments. Prior to her work in venture capital, Maria was a member of the KPMG’s Healthcare and Life Sciences practice in San Diego where she worked with both public and private venture-backed companies.
Paul Liu is the Chief Information Officer of Freeborders with overall responsibility for Information Technology and Security. Additionally, is the Head of the Freeborders Infrastructure Outsourcing Service Line (one of the four major service lines that include Business Consulting, Application Development, and Packaged Apps).
Mr. Liu has over 17 years of experience in Information Technology spanning North America and Asia, covering a wide range of high tech start-ups as well as the Fortune 1000. Over the past 8 years, he has spent the majority of his time in the Shanghai and Guangdong regions of China building and operating major divisions for US companies. Prior to joining Freeborders, Paul was Director of IT Operations for UTStarcom where he was based in Hangzhou, China driving datacenter operations and ERP implementations.
Before that, Paul served in various technical and management roles for two successful IPO companies in Silicon Valley. The latter was ONI Systems which was one of the most successful optical networking IPOs in 2000. Currently, he is very much involved in entrepreneurship activities that bridge the US and China as well as advising early stage high tech start-up companies.
Paul spent his formative years in Guangzhou and Hong Kong and later received his education from UCLA and holds multiple certifications in Systems and Infrastructure. When not travelling, Paul enjoys spending time with family and friends and working on home remodelling projects. Paul is also an avid tennis player and golfer.
Dr. Ping Wu, Managing Director of Si-China Capital, former Chairman and Founder of Spreadtrum Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:SPRD) , had served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of board of directors since Spreadtrum's inception in April 2001. Dr. Wu took the company to a successful IPO in 2007. Among Spreadtrum accomplishments, it has successfully developed the world's first single chip TD-SCDMA/GSM dual mode solution and the first advanced GSM/GPRS baseband chip that integrated multimedia and power management unit. Dr. Wu has over 20 years of experience in system-on-chip designs and holds three integrated circuit design patents. Prior to founding Spreadtrum, Dr. Wu served as Senior R&D Director at Mobilink Telecom Inc. & Trident Microsystems, Inc. Dr. Wu holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics. Dr. Wu was honored many top awards of technology innovation in China, and served many public functions in both China and US.
Richard manages the GSR Venuters 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.
Robert has over 30 years experience in sales, marketing and new business development. He has worked as a corporate executive and as a consultant in the Aerospace, Aircraft, Nuclear Power, Oil production, Medical Device, Computer Hardware and International Trade industries. As the Business Development Director for The North American Office of Shenzhen, China Robert promoted trade and investment between China and businesses in North America. His assignments over the past four years included direct contact with corporations for the purpose of promoting information technology and business processing outsourcing (ITO / BPO). He located and provided due diligence for China companies seeking investment in US businesses and he performed public speaking assignments for Shenzhen at seminars and other events. Robert currently is on the Advisory Board for the City of Shenzhen.
As founder of Fraser International Marketing Group, Robert developed new markets and sales for foreign manufacturers in China, Mexico, Canada and England. He located and developed new markets for US companies in commercial water treatment, medical devices, computer peripheral components, and small appliance and consumer products. Robert has also facilitated strategic alliances and joint ventures for companies seeking growth through acquisitions or teaming.
Robert is skilled in creative selling and communications and his broad background in a number of industries and technologies assists him when representing clients at corporate management at other levels. Robert‘s current projects include facilitating sales of US commercial products in China.
Salvatore Giammarresi is Localization Director at Yahoo! responsible for global corporate localization strategy, localization vendor management, localization processes and localization tools. Previously he was Vice President of Products at HomeGain.com; an independent localization consultant; Director of International Product Management at Homestore.com; Senior Localization Manager at Kana Software; and Engineering Program Manager at Electronics for Imaging. Salvatore holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Palermo (Italy) where he has been a Visiting Professor teaching localization, computer assisted translation tools and global product marketing and management. He is the author of a University- level textbook on CAT tools and has published several papers on localization and applied linguistics.
Scott manages the Internet and New Media Investment Banking business globally. Previously, he managed the Mobile Data sector. Earlier in his career, Scott was an analyst in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Group from 1995 to 1996, and prior to that in Municipal Derivatives from 1993 to1995. He initially joined the firm as an analyst in 1993. He was named managing director in 2008. Prior to rejoining the firm in 2004, Scott worked at Liberty Associated Partners, a communications and technology-focused venture capital fund. Before that, Scott joined LookSmart in 1999 where he held various executive positions, including senior vice president of Strategy and Corporate Development as well as senior vice president of Business Development. Scott has acted as an advisor, operator and investor during his 14 years in the Internet sector.
Scott earned a BA from Harvard University in 1993 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1998. His business school summer internship was with General Atlantic Partners.
Sherman Ting is a Board Director of Sand Hill Angels. He also serves as Chair of the Membership Committee and Co-Chair of the Entrepreneurial Community Engagement. Sherman has over 25 years of experience in the high technology industry, in engineering, executive management and as an entrepreneur. He is an active angel investor in start-up ventures.
Most recently, Sherman was Founder and CEO of Century A Technologies, a company which built a marketing/sales/support infrastructure in China, for new breeds of Internet-based enterprise software products designed in the US.
Previously, Sherman was Vice President at Oracle Corporation, where he founded the HP Products Division and grew the business into the number one product line, with over $300M in product license revenue. While at Oracle, he also established the Asia Products Division to spearhead the cultivation of business in the Asia Pacific region, which later became the fastest growing market for Oracle. As a result, Oracle's Japanese subsidiary experienced one of the most successful high tech IPOs in Japanese history. In addition, Sherman was on the Oracle CEO's hand-picked team to start up a Network Computer business, to revolutionize how people and businesses use the Internet.
Prior to Oracle, Sherman held engineering positions at Hewlett Packard, developing relational database systems for HP's cutting edge RISC computer servers, and at Intel, developing computer language processors for Intel's advanced chip architecture.
Sherman received an MSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to founding The Westly Group, Steve Westly served as the Controller and Chief Fiscal Officer of the state of California - the world's eighth largest economy. During his four-year term, Mr. Westly spearheaded 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. In the 2008 election cycle Mr. Westly served as a state co-chair and a National Finance Committee member of the Obama for America campaign. 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.
Vish Mishra is a venture capitalist with Clearstone Venture Partners, and has over 30 years of leadership and management experience in the technology industry. He has served as a founder of Telera and co‐founder of Excelan, generating over $1B in revenues. Vish holds a BSEE from the Institute of Technology at Benares Hindu University, India and MSEE from North Dakota University. Vish is the president of TiE Silicon Valley. Vish serves as an advisor to Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship at College of Business, San Jose State University.
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.
He 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 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award from the President of United States in 1990.
He was elected as one the top ten venture-backed entrepreneurs in China in 2005, and elected as one of the 2005 top ten talents of science and technology in China. In 2007, he was recognized as The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in China. He is currently the president of Berkeley Shanghai Club.
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.
Michael Soon Lee, MBA, is a professional speaker who helps businesses increase sales to multicultural customers. He is the author of eight books including "Cross-Cultural Selling for Dummies" and "Black Belt Negotiating" and was the first Asian Americans to earn the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association. Previously, Michael has been a university professor, dean of a business school, motion picture producer/actor, real estate broker and national radio talk show host. He is president of EthnoConnect whose clients include: Coca-Cola, Chevron, Virginia Tech University, the National Association of Realtors and over a thousand others. Michael's website is: www.EthnoConnect.com and phone is: (800) 417-7325.
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.
Professor Qian was born in Beijing and graduated from Tsinghua University in Mathematics in 1981. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1990, after earning an M.Phil. in Management Science/Operations Research from Yale University and an M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University. Afterwards he was on the faculty at Stanford University, the University of Maryland, and the University of California, Berkeley.
His main research areas include comparative economics, institutional economics, economics of transition, and the Chinese economy. He has published in top international economics journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies. He is co-editor of the Economics of Transition and on the boards of editors of China Economic Review and China Journal of Economics.
He is Executive Vice Chairman of China Center of International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE), an independent director of the Board of Directors of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vtion Wireless Technology AG. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association (IEA), a member of the Board of Directors of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Foundation of Management Education (GFME), a member of the Council of the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS), and a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors of Harvard Business School (HBS).
Contact: qianyy@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn
