 | Yuan Tian | Chairman |
 | Mark Cummings | Director, Special Member |
 | Ramesh Dimba | Director |
| Isabel Ge Mahe | Director | |
 | Qiming Huang | Director |
| Ying Huang | Director | |
| Ken Liew | Director | |
 | Wen-Pai Lu | Director |
| Jenny Wan-Mernyk | Director | |
| William Wittmeyer | Director | |
| Elizabeth Chien-Hale | Legal Counselor |
Elizabeth Chien-Hale
Ms. Chien-Hale is a U.S. attorney specializing in patent and other forms of intellectual property protection in the United States and abroad. She is the founder and director of an information-based non-profit organization Institute for Intellectual Property in Asia. She also serves as of counsel/US representative at Beijing Sanyou Intellectual Property.
Prior to consulting, she headed the patent practice at Baker & McKenzie’s Hong Kong office. She also worked for other law firms in Silicon Valley including Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and Fish & Richardson.
Ms. Chien-Hale has substantial technical knowledge in a variety of electrical and electro-mechanical arts, having drafted and prosecuted patent applications in telecommunication, software, wireless and Internet-enabled devices, language-based data processing, semiconductor processing and computer-related mechanical devices. She was also involved in a number of intellectual property litigation cases, including cases in the International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court, relating to patent infringements and trade secrets violation.
Ms. Chien-Hale has lectured and written, in both English and Chinese, on the topics of international intellectual property protection and the Chinese constitutional structure. She was a research scholar at the College of Law of the Peking University in 1995, and a visiting scholar at Intellectual Property Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2007. She is a registered patent attorney before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, licensed to practice in the states of California, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia. She is also admitted to the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, and a British Solicitor. Her name has been included in the Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in the World.
Ms. Chien-Hale is also an active participant in the professional organizations. For the American Bar Association, she is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Furthermore, she currently co-chairs the Committee on International Patent Treaties and Laws for the Intellectual Property Law Section, and co-chairs the Joint Task Force between the Intellectual Property Law Section and the International Law Section on PRC Intellectual Property Laws Amendments. She is a co-chair of the Intellectual Property Law Interest Group and the vice-chair of the Pacific Rim Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. She is also the legal counselor of the Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association.
MARK CUMMINGS, Managing Partner, enVia Technology Partners, Inc.
Member Special Committee, Technical Committee of Software Radio, IEICE
Member, Meta Language for Mobility (MLM) Working Group, Software Defined Radio Forum
Member, IEEE P1900.5
Mark Cummings is the founder of enVia, a venture catalyst spun out of Stanford Research Institute. enVia launched three Venture backed start-up companies; Morphics aquired by Infineon, SkyCross currently a prefered supplier to Samsung and RFco. Mark is the principal inventor on the earliest patent granted on the use of reconfigurable logic for SDR. He chaired the Organizing Committee of the SDR Forum (an international industry association) and was its first Technical Committee Chair, and first Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Earlier in his career, Mark held technical, marketing, finance and management leadership positions in communications common carriers, large end users, and equipment manufacturers. He has played key roles in a number of large scale S/W projects, semiconductor, equipment, communication and services projects. He founded the Pocket Intelligence Program at SRI International (Stanford Research Institute). He helped found and sat on the Board of Directors of PCMCIA, and the Smart Card Industry Association. He was an early member of IEEE 802, a contributor to the X.25 standard and designed the first international X.25 network. He helped with the early organization of the San Francisco Apple Core, served on its Board of Directors and led the Assembly Language Programming Group.
Mark helped organize the first satellite pay cable network, HBO (Home Box Office) and the first digital broadcasting system (DBS / Lotus Signal), set the architecture for the next generation EFTS system for the US Federal Reserve System, and the architecture for the international banking system for Mitsui Bank. As an Assistant Professor of Computer Mediated Communications Systems at SFSU, his research focused on the role of communications and computing in national development where he developed the technique currently used to encode Chinese characters.
Mark holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Information Science at Tohoku University (Japan), and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business in Conjunction with the Moore School of Engineering and the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. He has done post-graduate work at NYU, New School For Social Research, and Stanford University. He has published over 150 papers and articles on communications and computing and two book chapters on SDR technology currently used as college texts.
Ramesh S. Dimba
25-year industry expert in Messaging, Enterprise server software, in embedded wireless operating systems, application software for wireless products, and Storage. Have extensive experience in both QA/Test Management and SW Development Management. Has been involved in Process improvement (Development/QA) at companies like Lotus (cc:Mail division), EC Company, Verifone, Network Appliance, etc. Currently working at NetApp (alias Network Appliance) in the Development & Release Technologies and in charge of all Development Test Infrastructures around the globe.
Qiming Huang, Manager, Product Realization, Visto Corp.
Qiming is the Manager of Product Realization at Visto Corporation, responsible for product management of push-email mobile application on iOS, Android, WP7 and other smart phones. She also leads corporate and business development of Tianya Americas. Meanwhile, Qiming is an active entrepreneur and technologist in mobile and Internet areas. She serves as the board director of Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association, focusing on bringing the wireless industries together between the Greater China and the United States, for both technical and business communication and cooperation.
Qiming has many years of software product and Internet service development and management experience. She is the primary applicant for three US pending patents and one China patent in the areas of mobile, RFID and Internet. She presented many times at international technical and business conferences, and works in several standard working groups, defining international standards.
Prior to her current position, she was the VP of Product Development at Tianya, a leading China Internet Company. Under her leadership, Tianya launched mobile applications for iOS, Android and Symbian platforms, enterprise marketing SaaS services, and micro-blogging products. In her early career, Qiming worked at Oracle US headquarters, as the Senior Principal Product Manager, Senior Development Manager, Business Development Manager, and Software Architect at the varied points of time. During her Oracle years, she led the development and marketing of Oracle wireless value-added service platform, RFID Sensor Edge Server, Application Integration Architecture, and other products, where she also focused on strategic development on key partners and high-profiled customers, with her broad industry knowledge and resources.
Qiming once worked at Schlumberger, Austin Product Center. She received her Master in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin, US, and her Bachelor in Computer Software from Nankai University, China.
Ying Huang, PhD, Managing Partner, Mayton Cuperion LLC
As the world's leading expert in the area of database, dynamic workflow systems and enterprise application integration, Dr. Huang is the Managing Partner of Mayton Cuperion LLC.
Dr. Huang has over 15 years experience in database, workflow and enterprise application integration. He has held advanced development and management positions at Oracle, HP Labs, Vitria, and Akonite. In addition to his many years in the software industry, Dr. Huang spent 5 years in the telecommunications industry as a technical leader. As early as 1985, Dr. Huang was a member of team that received the prestige China National Science and Technology Advancement Second Class Honor Award. He has published more than 10 papers in the areas of database, workflow and enterprise application integration. From 1997 to 1998, Dr. Huang was chosen to represent HP in WfMC (workflow management coalition) standard activities.
Dr. Huang received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Florida and his BSEE degree from Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications.
Isabel Ge Mahe, Vice President of iPhone Wireless Technology, Apple, Inc.
Isabel Ge Mahe is currently Vice President of iPhone Wireless Technology at Apple, Inc. Prior to that she was Vice President of Wireless Technology at Palm, Inc, where she built the wireless technology group at Palm from ground up and was instrumental in the design and successful launch of many generations of Palm smart phones.
She was born in P.R. China, moved to Canada as a teenager and came to US in 2000. She holds a BSEE and MSEE from Simon Fraser University as well as MBA from UC Berkeley.
Ken Liew, Co-Founder and Managing Partner,
Ken is a seasoned telecoms professional with over 2 decades of experiences in wired PSTN, mobile, wireless infrastructures including core, radio access, and data networking systems.
Ken started his professional careers as a software design engineer in a small start up and a mid size company, developing applications for PSTN switches, in the areas of traffic metering and maintenance. Later he departed from software design and joined Ericsson PSTN Technical assistance Center as a TAC engineer. From there he participated in many different projects ranging from the introduction of STP/SS7 systems, ISDN, and IN intelligent network.
Later he departed from software design and joined Ericsson, spent time in both PSTN Systems and Radio Systems. From there he participated in many different projects ranging from the introduction of STP/SS7 systems, ISDN, IN intelligent network, IS-54, to IS 136 TDMA systems.
From 1998 to 2001, Ken accepted an international assignment to work in Ericsson Japan as a Field Support Manager, leading a team of radio specialist and mobile switching engineers to provide technical field services to PDC operators in Japan. Through his leadership and proactiveness, Japanese PDC networks attained the best in-service performance world wide of Ericsson installed base. At the peak of packet data introduction into the PDC networks, Ken was tasked to manage the technical support delivery during the deployment of Packet MSC nodes (PMSC), and built from the ground up a very successful support team staffed by local talents, resulting in reducing the dependency of expatriate engineers, achieving a significant service cost saving of hundred of thousand dollars each year!
Upon returning to the US from Japan with a stellar record, Ken moved into project management role, successfully executed and completed the TDMA expansions in LA with the installation and commissioning of a few thousand radios in both existing and new sites. Later Ken was hand picked by senior management to lead a national project team that upgraded the GSM to 2.5G EDGE network. At the same time, Ken assumed the additional role as a technical service delivery manager to AT&T Wireless MMS system.
During the introduction of Cingular Wireless WCDMA network, Ken was a key contributor in the national project team to manage the software releases, configuration and deployment program that enabled Cingular Wireless to be the first operator to launch 3.5G HSDPA in N. America. The successful on time HSDPA launch by Cingular Wireless expanded Ericsson's market share to 60% from initial 40%.
An active member and a strong supporter of SVCWireless, Ken volunteered to serve 2 terms as VP Networking, was subsequently nominated and elected to serve as President in 2008. As a SVCWireless executive team member, Ken has the opportunity to meet Chinese delegations and leaders of companies on both sides of the pacific, establishing a strong business network of contacts in both China/APAC, and Silicon Valley.
A native of Singapore of Chinese cultural heritage, he speaks fluent English, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, and some Japanese. He receives his BSEE in computer engineering and computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was also the first Ericsson employee to enroll and received an MBA Telecommunications Management degree from the University of Dallas in Texas.
Wen-Pai Lu, Ph.D., NNCNA, CISSP, GSEC, GIPS, GSNA, Cisco
Dr. Lu has over sixteen years experience in the Internetworking, wireless communications as well as network security. He had been a principle consultant, project leader, technical leader, customer solutions manager, researcher and developer. His expertise spans across both enterprises and service providers. Currently, Dr. Lu is a Solution Consultants in Cisco focusing on building solutions that leveraging network as the platform to integrate network services with business application to allow enterprises to run their business more efficiency. He was responsible for developing service and solution creations that translate products and technologies into solution delivery for mobile service providers. Dr. Lu was also responsible for developing Mobile Wireless Internet architecture and strategy for large enterprises where he led a team of engineers and architects
Dr. Wen-Pai Lu is very active in many standard communities. He had been very active in Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) developing mobile web services architecture and services. In Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF), he oversaw the security activities in the Mobile Internet and leading the security task forces. He also served as a co-chairman for the Proof of Concept (POC) and architecture working groups in MWIF and developing security solution for IP Radio Access Network (RAN) in all-IP mobile wireless network (4G and beyond). He was the founder of the LAN Security Working Group (IEEE 802.10 SILS) developing security standard for IEEE 802 LANs and MANs and was serving as the editor for 802.10a. He was also active in ATM Forum, Frame Relay Forum as well as FDDI (ANSI X3T5) standard group where he served as an ATM Forum Ambassador for LANE and MPOA.
He has published over 16 technical papers in the technical journals as well as in the technical conferences with three distinct papers particularly published in the IEEE technical journals such as Transaction on Communications, and Transaction on Software Engineering.
Yuan Tian, PhD, Chairman, SVCWireless
Yuan has been with SVCWireless from 2006. Yuan has been the driving force of the organization for overall strategy planning, team building, and stragetic partnership establishment. Yuan co-chaired (2007) and chaired (2008) the last two SVCWireless annual conferences, which were widely recognized in the professional community. Yuan also helped to establish and maintain the alliance relationship between SVCWireless and its stragetic partners in China, which include all mobile carriers, as well as Radio Association of China, and China Mobile Communication Association (CMCA), the prime organizations in China's mobile wireless industry.
Yuan is the Founding Chair of Smart Building WG of IPSO Alliance. IPSO Alliance is committed to promote communication over IP for smart objects, a key aspect to guarantee the success of Internet-of-Things. IPSO Alliance membership includes Bosch, Cisco, Google, Intel, NI, UC Berkeley etc.
Yuan also takes senior research position in the Research and Technology Center of Robert Bosch Group, where he is responsible for new business and technology development in low power, high reliability wireless communication systems. He was one of the main contributors of the first Bosch wireless security system, and is now responsible for several new business and system development activities.
Yuan earned his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ohio State University, and M.S. and B.Sc. from Zhejiang University, China.
Jenny Wan-Mernyk
After spending over 20 years in software development, marketing and sales, Jenny left her full-time position in 2003 as the founder of C8, a B2B e-payment company, to focus on raising her two young children and devoting time to community service. As the president of the East Palo Alto Rotary club, Jenny is committed to promoting literacy for underserved children and eliminating hunger for seniors. Jenny also has been working to help young companies grow into profitable businesses. Her latest project is establishing trade schools for auto mechanics in China. She is an advisor to HuanXin, whose Golden Wallet is China’s first mobile payment solution. Jenny is the Chairman for HwaShinChineseSchool, a non-profit Chinese school operating in Palo Alto, California. She is also a board director for Silicon Valley - China Wireless Technology Association.
Jenny worked as the vice president of Product Management for CyberCash until 2000 responsible for product integrations, as well as defining product requirements for the mobile wallet product. In 1998 Jenny joined the founder of Tellan Software (an e-payment start-up) to run marketing and sales with P & L responsibilities. She delivered in 18 months over 140% increase in revenues while expanded net margin from 21% to 30%. Improved business metrics led to the M & A deal with CyberCash resulting over 7x of return to investors.
Prior to Tellan, Jenny held various senior level marketing and business development positions at VeriFone. She was responsible for driving the company’s wireless product strategy, which included defining the product strategy for the industry’s first SMS/payment transaction gateway launched in 1997 as a pilot project in South Africa .
Jenny started her career in software development. She spent a number of years working as a member of the development team in the electronic funds transfer product group at Telemoney, later acquired by First Data Corporation. She later worked as a freelance software developer for Sytek . Jenny also worked at Ungermann Bass as a senior product manager for the TCP/IP product line. She was Director of Product Marketing at Motorola Computer Group Business Systems Division, where she pioneered the marketing of RISC-based multi-user computers as network servers supporting PCs and Macs. She defined SNMP requirements for Altair, Motorola's wireless LAN product line. She also spent a couple of years working as Director of Marketing and Sales for OAZ Communications, a manufacturer of network fax client and server solutions.
Jenny holds an MBA degree in Business Management.
William Wittmeyer, CEO of eXS Inc
Mr. Wittmeyer has been active in telecommunication industry and technology investing since 1980. Initially he was with Exxon Enterprises and subsequently with W.R. Grace. Companies he invested in include: Intecom, Periphonics, N.E.T. Zoran, Microlinear, IXYS and UTStarcom.
Mr. Wittmeyer is the CEO of eXS Inc, a wireless access company that is focused on providing low cost broadband services in emerging markets, and the chief operating officer of Electronic Sensor Technologies Inc, a manufacturer of high speed gas chromatographs.
Mr Wittmeyer has a BS from the US Coast Guard Academy and an MBA from Columbia University.
