Since 2000, Dr. Jang has been a General Partner of The Vertical Group, a US based venture capital firm that manages over $400 million with a focus on medical device and biotechnology investments. While serving as a board member for many of the firm’s portfolio companies, such as Inphenix, ForteBio, SilkRoad Medical and Yellow Brick Medical, Dr. Jang was the co-founder and/or CEO of many startup companies, including Ensure Medical, Integrated Vascular Systems, Venomatrix, Kyphon and EMBOL-X. Dr. Jang’s prior experience also includes Vice President of Corporate R&D for Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC) and Vice President of R&D for Cardiovascular Imaging Systems. He also worked as a project manager at Mallinckrodt and a scientist at Deseret Medical early in his career. In addition to his professional engagements, Dr. Jang was the former board member and President of Silicon Valley Taiwanese American Industrial Technology Association (TAITA). He is also actively involved in Taiwan’s ITRI projects, by serving as a board member for ITRI International, a consultant to ITRI Biomed program and a member of the Advanced R&D Advisory Committee. Dr. Jang also serves as a committee member/advisor for many government level biotech projects in Taiwan. Dr. Jang received his Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering from The University of Utah and B.S. from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. He is the author of numerous publications on materials and inventor of over 40 US and international patents.

Speaker
鄭志凱
CK Cheng
新竹清華76級物理
Former Chairman of Monte Jade; General Partner of Harbinger Ventures

Mr. Cheng is the co-founder and General Partner of Harbinger Venture, a pan-Pacific venture capital firm actively investing in US, Taiwan, and China. Prior to founding Harbinger Venture in 2000 with the anchor investment from MiTAC/Synnex Group, Mr. Cheng was Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at Synnex (NYSE:SNX), which was an affiliated company with MiTAC Group out of Taiwan. In his tenure with MiTAC and Synnex, he had held various management positions with P/L responsibilities.Mr.Cheng was the Chairman of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association in Bay Area, in 2007. He also writes regularly on business thoughts, trends, and philosophy.  Mr. Cheng received his MBA from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, and B.S.in Physics from National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan.

Speaker
陳大同
Datong Chen
北京清華77級无线电
TEEC Chairman
Founder of Spreadtrum, Founding Partner of WestSummit Capital

Dr. Datong Chen received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and then served as post-doctoral researcher in University of Illinois and Stanford University in USA. He also worked in National Semiconductor as a senior staff engineer. In 1995, Dr. Datong Chen co-founded Omnivision Technology in Silicon Valley. As VP of Technology, he led the development of the world's first single chip color CMOS image sensor, which started a revolution in solid state imaging industry. OmniVision was successfully listed in Nasdaq in 2000. In 2001, Dr. Datong Chen co-founded Spreadtrum Communications in China and Silicon Valley as CTO. He led the development of Asia's first GSM/GPRS (2G/2.5G) core processor IC in 2003, and the global first TD-SCDMA (3G) DSP chip in 2004 for mobile handset, which won the first prize of 2006 China national science and technology achievement awards. Spreadtrum was successfully listed in NASDAQ in June, 2007.  Since 2005, Dr. Chen has been Venture Partner in Northern Light Venture Capital, and lead the investments of several high-tech start ups in China. In Jan., 2010, He co-founded the WestSummit Capital, which invest global high-tech start ups. Up to the date, Dr. Chen holds 34 global patents. Dr. Datong Chen has won the China Special Award for Inventor and Entrepreneur and entitled as Chinese Inventor in 2006. He also served as UNESCO specialist, counsel member of China Semiconductor Association and the chairman of Tsinghua Entrepreneur and Executive Club (TEEC)

Speaker
黃維旭
Wayne Huang
北京清華79級无线电
清 華企業家協會
Managing director and CTO 
of ChinaEquity Investment 

Since 2003, Dr. Wayne Huang has been the managing director and CTO of the TMT sector for ChinaEquity, a VC and investment banking firm founded by former Morgan Stanley investment banker and Swiss bankers.  Leveraging his Motorola executive and startup experience, he contributed to portfolio companies in post investment services.  He has also served as an advisor to CTO offices in numerous US companies.  While doing this, he built up a strong reputation as a sought after management consultant in technology acquisitions advisory and post M&A integration services.

In early 2000, he ran his start up eAnywhere for four years, first competing with Siemens’s module product in China and then achieving No.1 market share through partnership with Yulong (HKEX: 2369) as China Unicom qualified vendor, then partnering with Telular (NASDAQ:WRLS ) and together entering US commercial public safety market  as qualified Lucent vendor before successful acquisition in 2003.

Speaker
薛 軍
Xue Chun
北京清華83級经管
启迪创业 董事总经理
Managing Director of TusPark Ventures

Jun (Jeromy) XUE, is Managing Director of TusPark Ventures, and the Assistant President of Tsinghua University Science Park. Prior to joining TusPark, Jun Xue was a professional and serial entrepreneur in IT Industry. In 1990, he worked at China State Information Center. From 1991 to 1993, he worked in IBM (China) as Marketing Representative.  In 1994, Mr. Xue starts his entrepreneur career by co-founding An-Tai Corporation in Silicon Valley as President. In 2002, he becomes Venture Capitalist by joining TusPark Ventures. He involved many hi-tech start-ups investment, such as Spreadtrum Communication (Nasdaq: SPRD), Century Real Technology, Hillstone and TV Mining, etc.. Now Mr. Xue holds several board member positions of TusPark Ventures’ portfolio hi-tech companies, such as Viatime Media, Agate Logic (Semiconductor and IC design), GigaDevice Semiconductors, Inc., etc. Mr. Xue holds a M.S. of Industrial and Systems Engineering from San Jose State University, a M. Eng. and a B.Eng. from School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University.

Speaker
 金学成
Xue Cheng Jin
北京清華85級电机
清 華企業家協會
VP, iWatt Inc

Dr. Xuecheng Jin is the Vice President of IC Engineering at iWatt Inc, a fables semiconductor startup company in Silicon Valley of California, and is responsible for the company’s analog and mixed signal IC and power conversion technology, with its products volume shipped into leading cellular phone manufacturers (iPhone, Palm, Nokia, Samsung, Alcatel, etc). Before that, he is the co-founder and chief technology officer at Simple Silicon Inc (acquired by iWatt Inc in 2006), where his leadership and technical contribution is instrumental to establish the company’s world-class portfolio of advanced high definition video analog front-end technology which has been widely adopted by the HDTV industry (Sharp, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Samsung, LGE, etc).  His previous experiences include a project manager at BitBlitz Communications Inc (acquired by Intersil in 2004), a venture funded startup company in the Silicon Valley that designs and manufactures high-speed physical layer devices using conventional CMOS technology; a senior analog design engineer at Integrated Telecom Express Inc (NASDAQ IPO in 2000), an ADSL broadband solution startup in the Silicon Valley; and an associate research fellow at Texas Instruments, the leadership analog and mixed signal semiconductor company.

Speaker
秦強生
John Chi
新 竹清華76級物理
Senior Director
MoSys

Mr. Chin joined MoSys as the Sr. Director of Strategic Business Partnership in 2008. He is currently responsible for Asia sales, foundry partnership and corporate business strategy development. Prior to MoSys Inc. Mr. Chin was Vice President of Industry Alliances in Cadence Design Systems, an EDA company, from 2005 to 2007. He was Vice President of Asia Photronics, a photomask company, and concurrently served as President of Photronics Semiconductor Mask Corp. in Taiwan from 2003 to 2005. Between 1998 to 2003, Mr. Chin held various business and management positions in TSMC North America and TSMC Taiwan. Mr. Chin held engineering, engineering management and marketing positions in LSI Logic and Fujitsu Microelectronics. He started his career with a startup company, Gillytron, Inc., which designed and manufactured Automatic Test Equipment.

Speaker
陳若文
Roawen Chen
新竹清華 88級物理
VP, Marvell Semiconductor

Dr. Roawen Chen joined Marvell Semiconductor, Inc, in 2000. Prior to returning to this position, Dr. Chen also served as Vice President and General Manger of the Communications and Computing Business Unit (CCBU). He joined Marvell as the Manager of Manufacturing Technology in May 2000, and was promoted to Director and Sr. Director of Foundry Operations, in 2001 and 2003, respectively. In those roles he was responsible for foundry business operations and engineering operations. Prior to Marvell, Dr. Chen held technical positions in TSMC-USA and Intel Corp. Dr. Chen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from National Tsing-Hua University and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley.