Advisor Board



T. Chester Wang, PhD
Physics 69, Hsinchu		 Dr. Tacheng Chester Wang is the general partner and co-founder of Acorn Campus Ventures, a $115 million Incubator/venture fund and an active member of Life Science Angels.  Dr. Wang graduated from Tsinghua University in Taiwan and later got his Ph.D. in physics from University of Oregon.  He had co-chaired the New Realty Task Force with then Mayor Susan Hammer of San Jose, a city with over $1 billion annual budget and 6,000 employees, to re-engineering City’s budgeting and operation.  He currently serves on the board of Altigen Communication, Harvest Bioscience Company, Chinese Bible Society and on the Deans Advisory Board of UC Santa Cruz Engineering School and San Jose State University Business School.
 

 



Samuel T. Wang, PhD
Physics 70, Hsinchu		 Dr. Sam Wang has been in the semiconductor industry for 30 years and is familiar with the supply/demand dynamics of wafers and advanced semiconductor process technology from photolithography, fab equipment, capex, EDA, mask making, wafer foundries, testing and assembly to market trends, fab utilization, cost and pricing of wafers/technologies.  Currently Sam is actively involved in marketing research and consultation projects for various investment  institutes.  Prior to June 2010, Sam was the President of SMIC Americas, SMIC is the most advanced pure play wafer foundry company of China  with production facilities in Shanghai, Beijing and Tienjing where SMIC provides wafer fabrication services using  0.18um, 0.15um, 0.13um, 0.11um, 90nm, 65nm and 45nm process technology nodes. Sam has built the marketing/sales team from scratch and in eight years has grown the revenue from zero to 60% contribution of the company billion dollar revenue. 
Prior to joining SMIC, from 1995 to 2000, Sam  was  the vice president of  operation of 8x8 Inc, a fables design company specializing in videoconference SOC chips. From 1984 to 1995,  Sam was the cofounder and executive vice president of  ICT Inc., a semiconductor technology company specializing in developing and marketing nonvolatile memories and programmable logic devices.  Before 1984 , Sam was employed by Hughes Aircraft,  Intel and National Semiconductor on managing various EPROM and DRAM projects.
With a B.S Physics degree from Tsing Hua University, Taiwan and Ph.D. in Electronic Material Department from Princeton University of New Jersey,  Sam has been invited numerous times to serve as a speaker or as a panelist to various conferences held by high tech investment firms or semiconductor organizations. Sam has served as the Vice President and Board member of AAMA, the Asia America MultiTechnology Association, a high-tech business network promoting the success of the Asia America enterprises. He has also served as on the Board of Directors of AISI, 8x8 Inc., ICT Inc., Prologue Task Corp, Sunsil Inc. AAMA, 2netFX Inc., Azalea Micro Electronics, CASPA and River of Life Christian Church.
 

 



Jen-Chang Chou, PhD
NE 65, Hsinchu
Dr. Jen-Chang Chou is the former director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, as well as a distinguished nuclear physicist and government leader. Dr. Chou served from 1987-92 as director of Taiwan's Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, and for more than nine years as the Secretary General of Silicon Valley's Monte Jade Science and Technology Association. He is the author of twenty-five journal articles on nuclear science, accelerator applications and nuclear applications, and a frequent contributor to Sino-Canadian American Science News Brief. His current research project affiliated with the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovations and Entrepreneurship is focusing on the Greater China.

 



Frank Kung, PhD
Chemistry 70, Hsinchu		 Dr. Kung is a founding member of Vivo Ventures, LLC (formerly BioAsia Investments), a healthcare/biotechnology venture capital management firm in Palo Alto, California.
Dr. Kung started his career in the biotechnology industry in 1979 when he joined Cetus Corporation. He later co-founded Cetus Immune Corporation in 1981, which was acquired by its parent company in 1983. In 1984 he co-founded Genelabs Technologies, Inc. (NADSAQ: GNLB) where he served as Chairman and CEO until 1995. During his tenure in Genelabs, he brought the company public in 1991, and built it to a 175 employee international biotech company with operations in the United States, Belgium, Singapore, Switzerland and Taiwan.
Dr. Kung received his B.S. in chemistry from the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, his Ph.D. in molecular biology and M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Best Use of Technology Award from the Governor of California, the Entrepreneur of the Year Awards from Ernst and Young, and the Asian Business League. He also served on the board of directors of the Emerging Company Governing Body of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO); Mt. Jade Science and Technology Association, West Coast; and the Asian American Manufacturing Association. He was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services as a voting member of the National Biotechnology Policy Board. Dr. Kung currently serves on the board of directors of a number of emerging healthcare and biotechnology companies.
 

 



Feng Deng
Electronics 86, Beijing
Mr. Feng Deng co-founded NLVC in 2005. He has nearly 20 years of technical and managerial experience in the computer, communication and data networking industries. In 1997, Feng co-founded NetScreen Technologies, and served as the Vice President of Engineering, Chief Strategy Offcer and Board Member. NetScreen went to public on NASDAQ in 2001 and was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004 for US$ 4.2 billion. From 2004 to 2005, Feng served as the Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Juniper Networks. Feng was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2002 and the Innovator of the Year award in 2003 because of his business achievements.
Feng holds the BS and MS degrees, majored in EE, from Tsinghua University, a MS degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California, and a MBA degree from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He also holds numerous U.S. patents in computer system architecture and IC design.
Feng serves on the Board of Directors of Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA), and is a Board Member of the Tsinghua University Foundation.
 

 



Raymond Yang
Electrical 83, Beijing
Mr. Raymond Yang is the founding partner and Managing Director of WestSummit Capital Management, which focuses on the global technology PE investment with China Angle.
Prior to WestSummit Capital, he was the Managing Partner of Navi Capital Partner, a fund dedicated to growth stage companies in China in TMT, health care, clean tech, etc. areas. Mr. Yang is also the founding partner of Taishan Angel Invest fund, one of most succssful institutional angel funds in China.  .
Before that Mr. Yang was a venture partner at Northern Light Venture Capital, and was managing a US$120 million venture fund. He has made investment of a number of deals in Internet, wireless value-added service, IT media and consumer products sectors.
Mr. Yang has built reputable leadership and in-depth industry knowledge over the past sixteen years in the Internet, wireless, IT, new media and telecommunication sectors in China. He joined Linktone (NASDAQ:LTON) in March 2003 as CEO to handle a turn-around situation, eleven months later he turned the company into a high profitable and high growth business and took the company to the IPO on NASDAQ, and created the first “Chinese wireless entertainment company on NASDAQ”. Linktone has given its investors over twenty folds return. Linktone has also, under the leadership of Mr. Yang, worked with China Hunan Satellite TV Station to create famous Chinese Super Girl Show. 
Before joining Linktone, he had followed a career as a senior executive and entrepreneur at several high-technology companies in Silicon Valley U.S. and China. He was the founder and CEO of RivalWatch, Inc., a California-based startup providing competitive intelligence for retailers and manufacturers; Founder and CEO of Saratoga Technology International, a China-based voicemail and short messaging services (SMS) company, a strategic partner of Boston Technology Corporation; general manager of INFA Telecom, a subsidiary of Hong Kong New World Telephone; a senior technical member of a special development team for next-generation telecommunications products at Centigram Communication; and Asea Brown Boveri (ABB). Mr. Yang holds a BS from Tsinghua University and a MS from the Graduate School of China Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI).



Roawen Chen, PhD
  Physics 88, Hsinchu
Dr. Chen joined Marvell Semiconductor in 2000, managing the foundry operations, and contributing to the company’s growth and business infrastructure. He was promoted to vice president of manufacturing operations in 2005 and since then has held other titles and responsibilities within the company. Between 2007 and 2009, Dr. Chen expanded his role to include general manager for Marvell’s connectivity business unit – spearheading the communications and computing business unit and managing consumer-driven, popular product lines, such as Marvell’s smartphone platforms, ARM-based application processors, and power management ICs. Dr. Chen also co-manage design and software R/D for Marvell China division from 2008-2009. Dr. Chen’s efforts, commitment and accomplishments contribute to both Marvell and the semiconductor industry.
Dr. Chen currently serves a three-year term on the board of directors of Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), one of the world’s most renowned association in semiconductor industry, and also Monte Jade Science and Technology Association. Dr. Chen has been awarded 6 US patents.
Prior to Marvell, Dr. Chen held technical positions at TSMC and Intel Corp. Dr. Chen holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from National Tsing-Hua University and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC-Berkeley.



Sining Mao, PhD
  Physics, Peking Univ.
Dr. Sining Mao is currently Vice President, Device Technology Development, Magnetic Heads Operation, Western Digital, residing in Fremont, Calif. Prior to WD, he was Senior Director of Advanced Transducer Development at Seagate Recording Head Operation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And he also served as R&D director at Seagate Ireland (Londonderry, NI) from 2004-2005. His research topics cover the advanced nanotechnologies including GMR, TMR and BMR, as well as writers for longitudinal and perpendicular recording. He graduated with bachelor’s degree from the Department of Physics at Peking University and M. Sc. From Peking University/Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and before he obtained the doctorate degree from University of Maryland at College Park, USA, he spent three years at Tsinghua University, Beijing as a researcher and lecturer in Department of Modern Applied Physics.  Dr. Mao has more than 170 scientific papers and fifty conference presentations. He is Senior Member of IEEE and referee for Applied Physics Letter, J. Applied Physics, and IEEE Transaction on Magnetics. He is also member of the IEEE technical committee and also served on the organizing committee for MMM, Intermag, and TMRC. He has been Guest Professor of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academia and Distinguished Researcher of DSI at Singapore. He has given invited talks at MRS, TMRC, PMRC, MMM, Intermag, Diskcon, and many universities around the world on magnetic thin film materials and devices. He also owns 50 US and international issued patents on magnetic thin films and devices.