About Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association

Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association (SVCWireless), founded in 2000, is the leading non-profit, non-bias independent professional association bridging the technology industries between China and the United States. With 30+ alliance and 5000+ members, SVCWireless is an open association that promotes innovation, entrepreneurship, venture investment, and networking to benefit its members.

关于硅谷中国无线科技协会

硅谷中国无线科技协会（ SVCWireless ）成立于 2000 年， 是沟通中美无线、移动产业的最大的非营利、无倾向性独立的专业组织。在 30 多个合作伙伴和 5000 多名会员的支持下，硅谷中国无线科技协会长期以来倡导创新、业、创投， 并为会员和业界专业人员提供良好的交流平台。

Board of Directors

• Qiming Huang
  Co-Chairman
• David Xu
  Co-Chairman
• William Wittmeyer
  Co-Chairman
• Shawn Shen
  Director
• Geng Lin
  Director
• Yuan Tian
  Director
• Wen-Pai Lu
  Director
• Ann Xin
  Director
• Ying Huang
  Director
• Ken Liew
  Director
• Jenny Wan-Mernyk
  Director

Emeritus Board

• Mark Cummings
  Emeritus Director
• Herb Chi
  Emeritus Director

Qiming Huang, President, Silicon Valley China Wireless Technology Association

Qiming is the president and board director of Silicon Valley China Wireless Technology Association. She has been focusing on facilitating start-ups’ growth as well as bringing the mobile and wireless industries together between China and the United States.Meanwhile, Qiming is an active entrepreneur and technologist, leading product component design and management in a couple of pre-IPO companies in Silicon Valley. She is currently senior manager of product management at StrongMail, a social and email marketing company. Besides many years of experience in software and Internet service development, she is the primary inventor for three US patents and one China patent in the areas of mobile, RFID and Internet.

Previous to her current venture, 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, new Tianya Q&A and Group Discussion, recommendation engine and cloud computer framework. She was recommended to the national Thousand Talent Program competition. 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, responsible for product management, partnership building and market development for the Oracle product lines of Wireless Server, RFID/Sensor Edge Server, and Application Integration Architecture.

Qiming received her Master in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin, US, and her Bachelor in Computer Software from Nankai University, China.

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David Xu, Vice Chairman – China Strategy and Development, Executive Advisor

David has been active in telecom/datacom industry since early 1990s, mostly in software architecture design and development and consulting for various flagship networking and telecommunications products, for both Fortune 100 companies in US and Canada, such as Cisco, Alcatel (Newbridge), Fujitsu Canada (DMR Consulting Group) and Nortel, as well as startups in Silicon Valley. Before that period, David actively participated in the planning, and design of China’s early Hospital Information Systems.

David is an active evangelist and technologist in innovation. His strong interests and expertise include internet/networking, 3G/4G cellular technology, mobile healthcare, internet of things, IT applications in healthcare, and broadband communications.

David started his executive role in SVCWireless as Vice President of Operations in 2006, and later served on various VP/EVP roles. David served as the SVCWireless president during 2010 – 2011, responsible for its strategy, planning, and execution. Under his leadership, the collaboration and partnerships between US and China in wireless and mobile industries was further strengthened, and the association successfully held its first ever 2-day annual conference in 2010. In addition, the SIGs were introduced for the first time into the organization’s executive structure in order to provide events with better quality, quantities and varieties.

David is currently serving as Vice Chairman, China Strategy and Development of SVCWireless, responsible for the strategy in the collaboration and cultural gap bridging between US and China wireless/mobile industries and companies.

David holds a Master degree of Computing Science from University of Alberta, Canada.

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William Wittmeyer, CEO of eXS Inc., Chairman of SVCWireless

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.

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Shawn Shen, President, Silicon Valley China Wireless Technology Association. Developer Advocate, Google

Shawn is a Developer Advocate at Google. His current focus is to cultivate killer apps and help developers build viable business on Google TV, which is an Android-based Smart TV platform. Previously he worked Geo and OpenSocial APIs at Google. Prior to Google, he worked at Yahoo, Ariba, eBay, plus a few start-ups in Silicon Valley. While he is not coding or helping developers, he enjoys music, physics, and random philosophical musing.

Twitter @sshen

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Dr. Geng Lin, CTO, Networking Business, Dell Inc.

In this role, Dr. Geng Lin has the overall responsibility for technology strategy, system architecture, product innovation, and partnership and acquisition of key technologies, for Dell's networking business worldwide. Before joining Dell, Dr. was the Chief Technology Officer of IBM Alliance at Cisco Systems where he was responsible for the technology strategy, innovation, and solution development of the joint Cisco-IBM solution portfolio worldwide. The Cisco-IBM Alliance delivers multi-billion dollar business revenues from a broad solution portfolio that covers data center virtualization and cloud computing, and video and rich media applications. Prior to Cisco, Dr. Lin served as Vice President of Software Applications at Netopia Inc., a Motorola company. Dr. Lin is a leading expert in communications networking and cloud computing, and is a frequent speaker at various conferences and industry tradeshows.

He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Peking University and Ph.D. degree from University of British Columbia, all in Computer Science.

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Yuan Tian, PhD, Chairman, SVCWireless China Co-Founder and CTO of InnoTek Group (ITG)

Dr. Yuan Tian is the Co-Founder and CTO of InnoTek Group (ITG), a leading provider of Smart Parking Management system in China. An essential component of the future smart cities, ITG's solution provides unique value to municipal governments and drivers. A combination of wireless sensor network and mobile payment solutions, it not only helps to manage on-street parking resources effectively and efficiently, but also to eliminate traffic jam and reduce people's carbon footage with it LBS-based parking guidance service.

Prior to his venture at ITG, Dr. Tian took a senior research position at the Research and Technology Center North America of Robert Bosch Group (Bosch RTC). He played an important role at the Internet-of-Things domain in Bosch RTC, ranging from building security to tele-medicine. He also represented Bosch in IPSO Alliance to found the Smart Building Work Group and served as the Founding Chair.

Dr. Tian is the Chairman of SVCWireless China. Earlier before he returned to China, he served as the Chairman and President of SVCWireless to foster the communication and collaboration of the mobile/wireless industry across the Pacific. During his tenure with SVCWireless since 2006, he has been the driving force of the organization for strategy planning, team building, and strategic partnership.

Dr. Tian got his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ohio State University.

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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.

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Ann Xin

Ann is the global analytics development lead at CEO office of Oracle US. She is certified oracle business intelligence enterprise server architect. Her team provides programs to improve operational efficiency, consistency, and compliance in support of the organization's financial and tactical business objectives, provides business practices and processes, develops, communicates, and trains the organization on business practices and processes.

Ann has been with SVCWireless since 2006. Ann served as VP of Marketing, VP of Networking, VP of Financing and EVP. Ann was also co-chaired 2010 annual conference. Ann has been contributed on building teams, coordinating teams internally and promoted value proposition and brand awareness of SVCWireless, enhanced influence of SVCWireless.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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Herb Chi is a Managing Member of Chinarock Capital, a multi-strategy investment firm focusing on China with offices in San Francisco, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Chinarock invests in both public and private companies. Some of the private companies that were invested by the Chinarock team before they became public or acquired by public companies include Youku, Yingli, E-House, Allyes, etc. Prior to Chinarock, Herb was a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley and a marketing executive at several communications equipment companies. Earlier in his career, Herb worked in management consulting. He has a BS in Engineering from Northwestern University with an MBA from Harvard Business School

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