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Mark Chandler
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San Francisco
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Arun Bhikshesvaran
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VP Strategy & CTO North America,
Ericsson Inc.
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Steve Chen
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Founder & CEO, KWMK Technology Inc. China
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Ruowei Chen
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VP, Potevio Group, China
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Michael V. Kuptz
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VP & GM, Lenovo Group Limited, USA
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Jason Ma
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CEO,
Vanteus
Academy
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Raymond Chin
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Chairman, mTone
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Jyri Huopaniemi
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Head of Interaction
Core Technology
Center,
Nokia
Research Center
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Bill Li
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Venture Partner,
Mayfield China
(GSR Venture)
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Tom MacTavish
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VP, Human Interaction Research, Motorola
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Isabel Mahe
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Senior Director, Wireless Software Engineering,
Palm
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Joel Dreyfuss
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Editor-in-Chief, Red Herring Inc.
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LiLy Toy
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Senior associate, Corporate Group of Fenwick
& West LLP
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John Elms
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CEO, Azalea Networks
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Paul Lambert
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CTO, PicoMobile Networks
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Fuyun Ling
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VP of Technology, QualComm’s Corporate R&D
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Karl J. Weaver
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Greater China/India Wireless/Mobile Device Market
Manager, Newport
Technologies
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Timothy Chang
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Principle, Norwest Venture Partners
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John K. Hane
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Counsel, Communications Practice Group, Pillsbury
Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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James (Jian) Ding
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General Partner, GSR
Venture, China
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Stella Xi Jin
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Venture Partner, IDGVC Partners,
IDF-Accel China
Growth Fund
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Sanjiv Parikh
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Director, Emerging Business Team, Microsoft
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Jake Seid
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General Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Arun Bhikshesvaran: Vice
President Strategy & CTO North America, Ericsson Inc.
Mr. Arun
Bhikshesvaran has over 14 years of experience in the wireless communications
industry. He has been with Ericsson since 1995 and is currently Vice
President and General Manager of Strategy and Market Development within the
North American Market Unit. Mr. Bhikshesvaran is Ericsson’s technical and business strategy in North America including
identifying Ericsson's long-term vision and defining the overall company
strategy to create business value for Ericsson customers.
He has
served in a variety of roles within the industry including Systems Solutions
and Integration, Field Engineering, R&D and Global Product Marketing.
Mr.
Bhikshesvaran has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering and has
completed a Post Graduate Executive Program at Columbia
Business School.
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Mark Chandler: Director,
San Francisco Mayor's Office of International Trade and Commerce
Mark
Chandler is the Director of the San Francisco Mayor's Office of International
Trade and Commerce. Mark has been a member of the Mayor's Office for
twenty years and has worked for five mayors.
For the last
seventeen years, Mark has been responsible for the international business
programs of the City of San Francisco, including
Sister
City ties, trade and investment
projects, trade missions, import and export promotion and international
business attraction. Mark has coordinated over thirty overseas missions
to locations diverse as Mexico, China,
Vietnam, Ireland,
Australia, The Philippines, Korea,
Hong Kong, Taiwan,
Canada and Japan.
Mark focuses
on projects that require close business-community-government cooperation in
order to assure that San Francisco
expands its role as an international gateway and commercial center. His
efforts for the SF Sister City
program include having the program named the Best
Sister City
program in the United States and
both the Manila and Shanghai
Committees have given Mark commendations for his long time support of their
activities. Mark was instrumental in the founding of the SF-Ho
Chi Minh Sister City
program, the first US-Vietnam relationship and the recent
San
Francisco-Zurich, Switzerland
relationship.
Mark is a
member of the Board of Directors for the San Francisco Global Trade Council
and the Bay Area
World Trade
Center.
He was previously a member of the Advisory Board for the Southeast
Asia Business Center at City College of San Francisco, the Asian
Business Association Advisory Board and the Britain Meets the Bay Board of
Directors.
Prior to
working for the Mayor's Office, Mark spent seven years in the private sector
as a Corporate Marketing Manager for U.S. Sprint and Pacific Intermountain
Express.
He has a BA
in Economics from U.C. Davis and an MBA in International Marketing from UC
Berkeley. Mark also studied Japanese Language at the Tokyo Academy of
Japanese for 1 ?years while living in Tokyo.
Originally from San Luis Obispo, California,
Mark has lived in the Bay Area for over twenty-five years and is married to
Carolyn with a young daughter, Lea. He, his wife and daughter enjoy
travel, gardening and are avid San Francisco Giants fans.
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Timothy Chang: Principle,
Norwest Venture Partners
Mr. Chang
brings a combination of operational, technical and international business
experience to Norwest Venture Partners. Tim focuses on investments in
wireless and digital media as well as business development initiatives in
Asia-Pacific.
Prior to
joining NVP in 2006, Tim was a principal at Gabriel Venture Partners where he
was actively involved in over a dozen wireless-related deals and led
Gabriel's investments in Iridigm Display Corporation (acquired by Qualcomm),
Eyespot, Sequoia Communications, Sandbridge, and Kajeet. He also contributed
to the boards of Placeware (acquired by Microsoft) and Arula Systems
(acquired by Raritan), TestQuest, NextG Networks, and
IPWireless. Tim built Gabriel's wireless sector practice and helped establish
business development capabilities through strong, strategic relationships
across the wireless value chain, particularly in Asia-Pacific.
Prior to
joining Gabriel, Tim spent more than five years working in Japan
as a product manager at Gateway Inc. Prior to Gateway, Tim was a development
engineer for General Motors. Tim began his career in venture capital in 1999
during his time at Stanford Business
School as part of the founding team of CTR
Ventures K.K., a venture accelerator in Tokyo
focused on seed and early-stage mobile consumer applications for the Japanese
market.
Tim
currently serves on the advisory boards of the Wireless Communications
Alliance (WCA), IBD Under the Radar, Digital Hollywood, VC Task Force
Wireless SIG, Silicon Valley Chinese Wireless Association, as well as the IBF
Wireless Investor Summit.
Tim holds an
MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller
Scholar, and an MS in electrical engineering/system engineering as well as a
BS in electrical engineering from the University
of Michigan.
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Andy Chen: Senior Vice
President, MINO Wireless
As Senior
Vice President at MINO Wireless, Andy is responsible for Business Development
and Strategic Partnership. Prior to joining MiNO, Andy
led the industry wide WiFi and mobile device ecosystem partnership at Skype
and helped catapult Skype beyond the PC platform onto the mobile device
market, and attributed to the eBay acquisition of Skype in 2005.
Andy’s career also includes senior executive positions at Motorola,
Cisco,
HP, Novell and Banyan. As Senior Director of Business Development at
Motorola, he led strategic partnerships on several key initiatives, including
seamless mobility, mobile payment and intelligent network management. Andy
was also one of the early VoIP pioneers while at Cisco, from 1997 to 2001,
where he launched and led Cisco's VoIP ecosystem partnership and created the
industry-first softswitch platform based on a joint collaboration with HP,
which attributed to Cisco’s #1 position in VoIP today.
Before
Cisco, Andy worked at Banyan Network, the leading NOS (networking OS) company
whose famed StreetTalk NOS revolutionized Local Area Networks (LAN) at the
Fortune 1000 enterprises. Andy spearheaded Banyan’s
entry in
Asia where he led Banyan's Marketing and Sales in the
region. Before Banyan, Andy worked at Novell as a channel Sales,
Marketing manager and contributed to Novell’s 65%
NOS market share position when Novell’s Netware revolutionized the
entire PC networking market. Andy started his career at HP where his
last role was head of program management managing HP’s
legendary company-wide transition from CISC (Complex Instruction Set
Computing) to RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) architecture which
later became HP-UX.
Andy is a
graduate of Jiao-Tong University,
and earned an MS from Stanford
University.
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Ruowei Chen Vice President of China
Putian Group
Mr. Ruowei
Chen Ruo Wei is currently Vice President of China Putian Group (Potelvio),
which is one of the largest manufacturer of telecom system in China.
He is now heading the functions of the product solution and system marekting
of System Business Division.
Before join
Putian group, Mr. Chen was the CEO and board director of Huchison-Optel
Telecom company Ltd. He founded Optel Telecom in 1996 and the coampny is
acquired by Huchison in 2004.
Mr. Chen has
been in this industry for more than 20 years with rich experience in product
delelopment, operation and business development. Some of remarkable
achievements include deliver the first commcial SDH system and first MSTP
system in China.
Mr.Chen
gratuated from Tsinghua university in 1983 and further obtaned two Master
degrees, Master of EE(BUPT) and MBA.
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Dr. Steve Chen: Founder and
CEO, Galactic Computing
Chief Scientist of KWMK Technology Inc, Hcom Technology Inc, INIT Technology
Inc
Chief Architect and Sr. Vice President
of Product Development, Cray Research
Fellow, US National Academy of Engineering
Fellow, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
During
1999-2005, Dr. Chen was the Founder, CEO and Chief Architect of Galactic
Computing, designed and manufactured the world’s
first 128-blade High Productivity Grid Supercomputers. During 1996-1998, Dr. Chen
was the EVP/CTO of Product Development and Board Director of Sequent Computer
Systems, Inc., a leading provider of large enterprise servers for commercial
applications, later acquired by IBM Corp. During 1988-1995, Dr. Chen was the
CEO/President of Chen Technology Inc. focusing on advising top management of
large international and small startup companies in assessing their core
competencies, market competitiveness, industry trends, customer requirements,
product directions, technology roadmaps, and alliance strategies. During
1979-1987 at Cray Research, Inc., Dr. Chen led his team in developing the
most commercially successful parallel vector supercomputers, the Cray X-MP
and Y-MP, which accounted for more than 90 percent of Cray Research’s worldwide supercomputer installations with more than $1 billion in
revenue.
Dr. Chen
graduated from National Taiwan
University with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering
and the University of
Illinois,
Urbana/Champaign with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Dr. Chen has many U.S.
patents and published papers in high performance system architecture,
hardware design, software development and application optimization.
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Raymond Chin: Chairman, mTone
Before
jointly establishing Mtone, Dr. Chin was the Chairman of the Board and also a
Director for Proxim Inc. Dr Chin led Proxim to develop the first wireless LAN
and to pioneer this industry. Proxim became the first wireless LAN company
listed on the NASDAQ. Dr. Chin also served as a general partner for multiple Silicon
Valley venture firms and also at Ameritech Development
Corporation, the new business development subsidiary of Ameritech.. He has
also worked in the field of optical semiconductor devices.
Mr. Chin
obtained his doctor's degree from the University
of Illinois in Urbana.
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James (Jian) Ding: Managing Director,
Mayfield China
(GSR Ventures)
James
focuses on investments in Internet, wireless and new media. James sits on the
board of Co-Op Land,
PingCo, and UiTV. Prior to GSR, James was the co-founder of AsiaInfo (NASDAQ:
ASIA), one of the earliest and most successful technology companies in China.
During his tenure as CEO, he guided the company to the first IPO on NASDAQ by
a Chinese technology company. He remains as the Chairman of AsiaInfo, and is
also an independent board member of Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU).
James
graduated from the executive program at Haas
Business
School, University
of California, Berkeley.
He holds a M.S. in Information Science from University
of California, Los Angeles
and a B.S. in Chemistry from Peking
University.
James is a
founder of e-China Alliances.
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Joel
Dreyfuss: Editor-in-Chief, Red Herring, Inc.
Joel
Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring Inc., oversees all print and Internet
content. He is a journalist and editorial executive with more than 30 years
experience in print, broadcast, and Internet publications. He is a former
senior writer at Bloomberg Markets and was editor-in-chief of Urban Box
Office, an Internet startup.
Mr. Dreyfuss
was editor-in-chief of Information Week, the editor of PC Magazine and served
two stints at Fortune magazine, first as an associate editor and Tokyo bureau
chief and then as a senior editor and personal technology
columnist.
Mr. Dreyfuss
has been a reporter and culture critic for the Washington Post, New
York bureau chief for USA Today and executive
editor of Black Enterprise magazine. His freelance articles have appeared in
the New York Times Magazine and Book Review, Tikkun, Playbook, Redbook,
Family Circle, Salon.com and other national publications. He is co-author of “The Bakke Case: The Politics of Inequality?(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989). Many of his articles and essays have
been included in anthologies.
He worked as
a news producer and writer for KPIX and was an on-air reporter for KQED’s Newsroom. He has also written and produced video pieces for WNET’s 51st State and for other public television programs.
He is a
founder of the National Association of Black Journalists and a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations. He earned a B.S. degree at the
City
College of the City University of New York and
is a former Urban Journalism Fellow at the University
of Chicago. He has served as a
Pulitzer Prize juror, a judge at the National Magazine Awards and a board
member of the American Society of Magazine Editors.
Born in Haiti,
Mr. Dreyfuss has lived in New York, Washington,
DC, Chicago and San Francisco and
internationally in Monrovia (Liberia),
Paris, and Tokyo.
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John
Elms: CEO, Azalea Networks
John Elms is the Chief
Executive Officer of Azalea Networks. Elms comes to Azalea Networks from
SpectraLink Corporation, which is now a part of Polycom, where he was the
president and CEO of the NASDAQ-listed company until its sale in March of
2007.
At
SpectraLink, after assuming the CEO position in the fall of 2003, Elms
successfully transitioned the company from a North American-focused direct
selling entity to that of a global OEM provider of wireless telephone systems
for the enterprise. Under his leadership SpectraLink began selling to
industry leader such as Alcatel, Avaya, NEC, Nortel and Siemens, with sales
growing from $71 million in 2003 to $145 million ending 2006 with
approximately a third of revenues from outside of North America.
Prior to
assuming the president and CEO roles at SpectraLink Corporation, Elms was the
Vice President of Operations from 1999 responsible for manufacturing, distribution,
purchasing and the customer services business unit. Prior to SpectraLink,
Elms served in several sales and service leadership positions at PictureTel
Corporation in both the U.S. and Hong
Kong. Elms holds a bachelor of liberal arts from
Harvard
University and is conversant in
Mandarin Chinese. He is headquartered in the Milpitas
office location.
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Stella Xi Jin:
IDG-Accel Venture of China
Stella is
responsible for IDGVC's Silicon Valley investment
operations since 1999. Stella has 18 years of experience in operations,
consulting, and technology investments. She has advised and assisted startups
with their business expansion and growth strategies targeting Greater China.
In particular, she works with portfolios in their corporate structuring, team
building, business development, marketing, sales, and distribution. Prior to
joining IDGVC, Stella served as partner at Vantone Investment Group. Prior to
that, Stella was co-founder and vice president at Lorrex Health Products.
Earlier in her career, she was a consultant at Electric Power Research
Institute and a project manager at Unison International. Stella received her
M.A. in Economics from the University of
California
at Davis and B.A. in Economics from
San
Francisco State
University.
She attended Beijing Foreign
Languages University
before moving to the U.S.
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Dr Jyri Huopaniemi: Head of Interaction
Core Technology
Center, Nokia
Research Center
Jyri
Huopaniemi is Head of Interaction Core Technology Center in
Nokia
Research Center.
The Interaction Core
Technology Center
is responsible for strategic and long-term research in usability and user
interfaces, multimedia and personal content technologies, immersive
communication and collaboration technologies.
Jyri studied
acoustics and audio signal processing, multimedia and information technology at
Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), and received his M.Sc., Lic. Tech.,
and Doctor of Science in Technology degrees in electrical and communications
engineering in 1995, 1997, and 1999, respectively. His doctoral thesis was on
the topic of of virtual acoustics and 3-D audio. Dr. Huopaniemi worked as a
research scientist and group manager at the Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio
Signal Processing of the HUT from 1993 until 1997. During 1998 he was a
visiting scholar at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
(CCRMA) at Stanford University.
Since 1998 he has been with Nokia
Research
Center in Helsinki,
Finland. Prior to his
current role at Nokia, he was Head of Strategic Research at
Nokia
Research Center,
responsible for strategic research in multimedia, applications, services and
software platforms. He was appointed Docent (Adjunct Professor) of Audio
Technology and Software at Helsinki University of Technology as of July 1,
2003, and continues to lecture on courses related to audio and multimedia
signal processing and software.
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John K. Hane: Counsel, Communications Practice
Group, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
John is Counsel in Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw
Pittman’s communications practice group concentrating on communications
industry transactions, spectrum acquisition and special projects in wireless
and satellite communications and electronic media.?John spent more than a decade as an
in-house lawyer, lobbyist, development executive and entrepreneur before
returning to private practice in 2006.
A broadcaster from the age of 15, John has developed a
unique portfolio of experience in the business, law and technology of wireless
communications and electronic media. As NBC’s Washington Counsel and as
Vice President of Government Affairs at New World Communications Group in the
1990s he was instrumental in the elimination of outdated FCC regulations and building
the policy foundation for digital broadcasting.?John later led domestic and international
regulatory affairs for Lockheed Martin’s commercial communications
division, representing Lockheed Martin before the FCC, the ITU, and other
regulatory agencies worldwide.
As an executive officer of Pegasus Communications from
1999-2004 John was intimately involved in the growth of satellite
television.?He negotiated more than a
dozen transactions and strategic joint ventures, led the team that launched
the first duplex satellite broadband service to be bundled with a DBS service,
and was the first to obtain cross-border rights to broadcast into the US from
Canadian licensed satellites.
?/span>?/span>John is an avid technologist with a special
affinity for spectrum.?He is the
inventor or co-inventor on several patent applications covering integration
of satellite and terrestrial wireless networks, electronic sale and
fulfillment of digital advertising, terrestrial re-use of satellite spectrum,
secure wireless communications, and asynchronous wideband media distribution.
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Michael V. Kuptz: Vice President &
General Manager, Lenovo Group Limited
Michael
Kuptz is Vice President & General Manager with Lenovo Group Limited. He
has responsibility for Americas Consumer Business Group, (CBG). The General
Manager of CBG is responsible for the launch of Lenovo’s
Consumer Products in the Americas.
All functional lines of business; finance, marketing, sales, service &
support operations, product management and human resources are aligned within
CBG. The consumer launch in the Americas
is scheduled in the Third Quarter, 2007. Previously, he served as the
Vice President & General Manager of the US Channel, Mid-Market and
Transactional Business. These businesses generated over $2.6B annual sales
and were the highest revenue and profit growth segments in Lenovo. Michael
came to Lenovo from IBM's Personal Computer Division (PCD) and was part of
the Lenovo Acquisition of the IBM Personal Computer Division in May
2005.
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Bill Li: Venture Partner,
Mayfield China
(GSR Ventures)
Bill Li is a
Venture Partner at Mayfield China
(GSR Ventures). His area of interest includes Mobile/Wireless,
Consumer/Internet, Advertising/New Media, Enterprise Software/Open
Source/System, and Vertical Application/Security.
Bill
Li is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded multiple Internet/mobile companies
in Silicon Valley and China.
He has 18 years of extensive R&D and management experience in work-class
companies as well as startups. He was most recently the head of mobile
engineering in Google, where he built the mobile team from scratch and led
the team to launch ground-breaking products/services with the biggest
carriers in the world, including China Mobile. Prior to Google, he was
co-founder and VP of engineers for three internet/mobile startups in Silicon
Valley and China.
Before that, Bill was a senior architect in leading software companies
including Oracle, Sybase and Versant Object Technology.
Growing up
in China, Bill
Li graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology with Bachelor
degree of Computer System. He also has Master Degree of Science from USF and
Executive MBA.
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Dr.
Fuyun Ling: Vice President of Technology, QUALCOMM’s Corporate R&D Group
Dr.
Fuyun Ling currently serves as vice president of technology for QUALCOMM’s
Corporate R&D group. Throughout his career, Dr. Ling has been working on
digital communications and digital signal processing and their application to
wireless and wireline communications. From 1984 to 1998, he was with
Motorola Inc. working on research and development of various wireline and
wireless communication technologies and products.
In 1998, he
joined Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego,
California,
as a vice president of technology and worked on research and development of
new wireless communication technologies. Since 2003, he has been
working on QUALCOMM’s MediaFLO?mobile
broadcast platform and is currently responsible for the FLO?Physical Layer specification and development.
Dr. Ling
received his B. S. degree from Tsinghua
University,
Beijing, China,
in 1968, and his MS and Ph. D. degrees from Northeastern
University, Boston,
Mass., USA,
in 1981 and 1984 respectively. He holds over 60 US Patents with a
number of other patent applications pending, and has published over 80 papers
and two books. Dr. Ling is an Adjunct Professor of
Tsinghua
University and a Fellow of IEEE.
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Paul Lambert: CTO, PicoMobile Networks
Paul Lambert is an accomplished innovator with more than
twenty years experience creating unique products. He has served in a variety
of leadership roles for Motorola, Oracle, Certicom, Cosine Communications and
Airgo Networks.?With a knack for identifying business focused requirements,
he led the creation of the first commercial network encryption device,
numerous network authentication systems, wireless security architectures and
edge router operating systems and applications. He has had a significant
impact on industry standards and founded and led the IPsec working group in
the IETF.
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Isabel Mahe Senior Director, Wireless
Software Engineering, Palm
Isabel Mahe
is currently the Sr. Director of Wireless Software Engineering for
Palm, responsible for CDMA, UMTS, WIFI, BT and Data Networking software
for all Palm's smartphone products. She brought wireless technology in house
and built the wireless software team from ground up for Palm.
Prior to joining Palm in 2002, she was the system architect for AirPrime, a
wireless embedded module company that was later acquired by Sierra
Wireless. She also held important management and technical positions at
many other wireless companies: Philips Semiconductor/VLSI (CDMA baseband
chipsets), Glenayre (paging infrastrucure) and VTech (coredless phone).
She holds a BSEE and a MSEE majoring in wireless communications, and
is currently completing the part-time MBA program at UC Berkeley.
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Tom MacTavish: Vice President, Human
Interaction Research, Motorola
Tom
MacTavish is Vice President, Motorola Labs' Center for Human Interaction
Research which is comprised of laboratories in Phoenix (AZ), Schaumburg (IL),
and Shanghai (China).
This center of excellence focuses on creating next generation user experience
solutions for Motorola products and services by applying user centered design
principles and appropriate interaction technologies including voice dialogue,
tactile, vision, and intelligent systems. Tom is an experienced research and
engineering manager and has led global teams that have created high volume,
high impact products including smart-phone applications, wireless data
(802.11) products, telecommunications applications, multimedia kiosks, and
bar code scanning systems.
Tom is
active member of the human/computer interaction research community and has
spoken at many industry conferences and forums including design conferences,
automotive conferences, human/computer interaction forums, and seminars
including the automotive industry’s biennial
Convergence
conference, SigCHI, HITS (Humans, Interaction, Technology, and Strategy)
Conference, IBM’s Make IT Easy, and Design for the New China
Markets (Beijing) conference. In
addition, he has served on the advisory board for the Illinois Institute of
Technology’s Institute of Design Tangible Knowledge Consortium
and the advisory board for Georgia Tech’s
Graphics,
Visualization, and Usability Center WWW Survey Council. Currently, Tom serves
as the Motorola liaison to The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The
Georgia Institute of Technology. Tom is a member of Motorola’s Science Advisory Board Associates and Motorola’s Responsible Driving
Council.
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Jason Ma: CEO, Vanteus
Jason Ma
serves as CEO at Vanteus, a premier provider of systematic SAT and college
prep (in-center and online) services for high school students. Over 20%
of Vanteus-prepared students have achieved 2300 to perfect 2400 SAT
I scores, ranking in the top 1% nationally. Numerous
Vanteus-prepared students are accepted by Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UPenn,
Stanford, MIT, CalTech, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Williams, Amherst, and
other prestigious colleges. Jason brings 23 years of experience in the
education, Internet, wireless, new media, and software service sectors.
Globally well connected, Jason is seasoned in strategy, sales/marketing,
and general management across the U.S.
and Asia Pacific.
Previously,
Jason served as acting CXO, Board Director, Advisor, Co-Founder, and/or Angel
Investor at several private Chinese and U.S.
companies. Earlier, as Managing Director of iPass Asia Pacific and Japan,
Jason led international sales and was central in taking iPass from early
stage to world market leadership and beyond the first S-1 for IPO.
Previously, he was Head of International or Asia Pacific for several US
technology companies, which IPO’ed or were acquired. A thought
leader and dynamic speaker, Jason is often tapped to be a guest speaker or to
provide commentary or advice for top-tier international CEO conferences,
media properties, Wall Street analysts, and universities. These include
Forbes, CNBC Asia Pacific, CNET, Sing Tao, China Europe Business Meeting,
Stanford, UC Berkeley, INSEAD, NUS. Jason holds a B.S. degree in
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley.
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Sanjiv Parikh: Director
Emerging Business Team, Microsoft
Mr. Sanjiv
Parikh is a Director for the Emerging Business Team at Microsoft, based in Silicon
Valley. The Emerging Business Team manages Microsoft’s
interaction with venture capitalists and start-ups world wide to accelerate
innovation and foster the software ecosystem. Within the Emerging Business
Team, Sanjiv is in charge of engagements with mobility oriented start-ups,
venture capitalists and enterprises. Prior to joining Microsoft, Sanjiv was
Managing Director of FairWinds Ventures, a private equity advisory and
investment firm. Previously, Sanjiv was a Managing Director of Atrium
Capital, a 16 year-old Sand Hill Road
venture capital firm. Atrium’s investments include
AdForce, B2BWorks, DigitalPersona, FieldCentrix, InfoUSA.com, MapQuest, MetaTV,
Multex and RedEnvelope. Prior to joining Atrium Capital, Sanjiv helped launch
RightWorks Corporation; an enterprise software company in supply chain
management and procurement that was sold to Internet Capital Group for $1.25
billion and is currently part of i2 Technologies. Previously, Sanjiv was a
Principal with Mehta & Company, Inc.. Sanjiv invested in and helped
turnaround several portfolio companies in various operating capacities,
including: a $50 million nationwide healthcare services firm and a $100
million European seat belt manufacturer, among others.
Outside of
work, Sanjiv has been actively involved with The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE)
since 1994. He is currently a Charter Member and on the board and faculty of
the TiE-Institute which aims to further education for entrepreneurs. Sanjiv
also serves on the Board of Directors of the Wharton Club of San Francisco, a
community and professional development organization of The Wharton
School.
Sanjiv holds
an engineering degree from the University of
California
at Berkeley and an MBA from The Wharton School at the
University
of Pennsylvania.
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Jake Seid:
General
Partner, Lightspeed
Jake has
seven years of venture capital experience and three years of operating
experience and has worked with a variety of Lightspeed’s portfolio companies across mobile (Rhythm New Media, Icebreaker),
internet (Kosmix, TheFind, StyleHive), systems (Identity Engines, Aerohive),
software (Personeta, Skybox) and components (Unity, SiPort). Jake also
focuses on Lightspeed's investment activities in India.
Prior to Lightspeed, Jake was a product line manager for Cisco Systems. He
was responsible for launching and managing the industry's first DOCSIS-based
cable modems and routers and led his product to win "Best of Show"
and "Best Networking Hardware" at Comdex '99. Previously, he worked
in business development for Boston Technology (Comverse) in Tokyo.
Jake serves on the Board of the MIT-Stanford Venture Lab. He is also a member
of the Advisory Board of Nexus India Capital, an India-focused venture
capital firm of which Lightspeed is a limited partner. He holds a BS in
Electrical Engineering and a MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science from MIT. While at MIT, he co-founded and acted as co-director of the
MIT-China Educational Technology Initiative (MIT-CETI). Before making his
final departure from MIT, he was the recipient of the Irwin Sizer Award and
the Karl Taylor Compton Prize.
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Lily Toy: Senior associate, Corporate Group
of Fenwick & West LLP
Lily Toy is
Vice Chair of the China Practice Group, and is a senior associate in the
Corporate Group of Fenwick & West LLP, a law firm specializing in
technology and life sciences matters. Fenwick & West is headquartered in
Mountain
View, California, with an office in
San
Francisco. She is fluent in Chinese (Mandarin and
Cantonese).
Ms. Toy
received her J.D. from Cornell
Law
School in 2004. During law
school, Ms. Toy was a judicial extern for the Honorable Alan Jaroslovsky of
the United States Bankruptcy Court. She received her B.A. with honors in
Economics and Legal Studies from the University
of California, Berkeley in 2001.
Prior to
joining Fenwick & West, Ms. Toy was a corporate associate with the
Menlo
Park office of Shearman & Sterling LLP.
Ms. Toy is a
member of the State Bar of California.
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Karl J. Weaver: Greater
China/India Wireless/Mobile Device Market Manager, Newport
Technologies
Karl J.
Weaver is a Washington State-based and globally trained, International
wireless industry executive with bilingual Mandarin Chinese language and
Asian cross-cultural business expertise. As a specialist on Asia-Pacific,
Greater Chinese and Indian wireless & mobile device markets, he has spent
the past 20+ years focused on selling and marketing convergent
PC-Telecom-Wireless communications products into Asia-Pacific, Greater
Chinese and Indian Sub-continent markets in the emerging "Pacific
Century". From the edge of the Pacific Rim in Washington
State's Puget Sound
region, Karl has built up an Asia-Pacific focused high-tech career path.
Utilizing Seattle to jump-shoot into Asia
for sales and marketing of wireless communications products, he has worked
for locally-based, well-known (Zetron, Metawave, Leviton Voice & Data and
Intrinsyc Software International) and out-of-state (Protura Wireless and
Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor) wireless and telecom firms to successfully
open up Asian markets.
Karl started
his global career by first receiving a scholarship to study Mandarin Chinese
through the Taiwan Governmental Ministry of Education @ National Taiwan
Normal University's Mandarin Training Center in Taipei, Taiwan from
1982~1985. After finishing his Chinese Language Certificate studies, he
worked as an Export Sales Manager for Digicom, Inc. in Taipei from 1985~1992,
selling microcomputer technologies in Europe and Asia. Karl has a B.S. Degree
in Business Management from Salve
Regina
University (1982) and also a Certificate of
Wireless Communications from the University
of Washington's Evening
Technology Certificate Program (2004). He is a member of the Washington State
China Relations Council and the Washington State Software Alliance. In
addition to being a public speaker around the world on Smart Phones in
China/India, Karl is a sales and marketing professional, equally trained in
cross-functional areas of business development, product marketing, account
management, channel management, and direct global sales roles. He has been
involved in setting up sales offices in Europe and Greater China as well as
managing a stocking bonded warehouse facility in Pune,
India. Currently, Karl
is on a global tour promoting the Global Smart Phone Revolution - China:
Mobile Digital Dragon & India: IT Super Tiger and also The Global Mobile
WiMax Revolution: Greater China Digital Dragon. Karl’s
workplace has always been Asia, and when he’s
not in
Asia, he resides with his wife and daughter in Woodinville, Washington
State in the pristine Pacific-Northwest, USA.
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