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K. Bobby Chao
Co-Founder
Bobby began his career as one of the five original founders of
Cadence Design Systems. A year after Cadence’s successful IPO, Bobby
founded Ocron, a leader in Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
technology and document management software. Bobby was chairman and
CEO of Ocron until Umax Technologies, Inc. acquired it. He then
became part of the Umax team serving as Senior Vice President of
Marketing in charge of corporate marketing and investment. Bobby was
previously General Partner for Technology Associates Management
Company and has served as Chairman and CEO of VA Linux Systems. He
is currently the board directors of Zengen, Inc. a bioscience
company in southern California, and Penguin Computing, a clustering
Linux server manufacturer in San Francisco. He is also on the board
of several other companies and professional organizations. Bobby
holds an MS in Physics from Georgia State University and an MS in
Aeronautics Engineering from Stanford University.
Related News: Signing Ceremony
with the Largest Chinese VC ; Speech
at Chengdu, China ; Article
in MonteJade (Chinese) ; TV
Interviewed by China CrossTalk ; Article
in Silicon Valley Journal (Chinese)
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Tony C.
Luh
Co-Founder
Tony has over 15 years of international capital market experience as
well as an extensive business background, particularly in the areas
of media sales, strategic alliances and new business development.
Having worked in various executive-level positions for several
Chinese-American companies, Tony possesses exceptional negotiation,
people, and management skills. Over the last few years, Tony has
been active in the Internet space managing partnerships and striking
deals with such companies as E-Loan, Yahoo!, Excite@Home, CNET,
eBay, DoubleClick, Priceline.com, Fidelity Investments. Tony
attended the University of Texas at Austin with a major in computer
science and holds a bachelor’s degree in Television Broadcasting and
Advertising from Washington State University.
Related News: Interview by
Economic Daily ; Interview by
Singtao Daily ; Hall Kinion Strategic Alliance
; Engagement with China-based Companies
; Interview by San Jose Business Journal
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Henry
L. Ines
Venture Partner
Born in China, Mr. Ines has over ten years of financial advisory
services experience ranging from management consulting, cross-border
M&A advisory, merchant banking, to making direct investments. He
began his career at Price Waterhouse LLP, providing management
consulting, dispute analysis, corporate recovery, & investigations
advisory, and later at PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities LLC, where
he performed corporate finance and middle-market investment banking
advisory services. Mr. Ines later joined M&T Bank and worked within
its Investment Banking & Capital Markets Group, Corporate Finance
practice to execute middle-market, corporate finance/M&A advisory
engagements. In addition to working as an advisor and consultant,
Mr. Ines also worked as an executive for New York-based Saddle River
Associates, Inc. in its Hong Kong office, helping to expand the
firm’s merchant banking business in Asia and Latin America, to
conduct deal due diligence, and to manage the firm’s investments and
joint ventures in Mainland China. Mr. Ines holds a BS in Finance
from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from Duke University
Fuqua School of Business.
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Dr. Jie Tian
General Parnter, China
Dr. Jie Tian, a long time member at the prestigious Chinese Academy
of Sciences, is an early embracer of the Internet age. He is the
founder of and has been the chairman of DigiArk Information
Corporation since 1999. DigiArk is a renowned Internet software
company in Beijing. In 2000, Dr. Tian was invited to present
“Considering the development of Internet in China” at the Harvard
China Review. Dr. Tian received his Ph.D degree (with honors) in
artificial intelligence from the Institute of Automation, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, in 1992. Between 1994 and 1996, he was a
postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1996, Dr.
Tian became a pioneer in the Internet space in China by founding
ReadChina.com and acted as its CEO until 1999. Among other titles he
holds, Dr. Tian is currently a reviewer for the American
Mathematical Society; Director of Special Social Committee of
Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence of the Chinese Society
of Automation; Deputy Director of the China Automation Recognition
Society; and a senior member of the International Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Gang (Mark) Mai
Venture Partner
Mark is of the first generation of China venture capital
investment business. He accumulated abundant deal experience and
business network in private investment and public capital market
during his career in Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and
Silicon Valley as both an entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
He started his career in venture capital in 1996 as the preparatory
team member of Shenzhen Venture Capital Co. In addition, Mark was
also the founding member of Beijing Genius Capital (Direct
Investment Division), and Co-founder of Shanghai Pudong Venture
Capital. After that, He has served as the general manager of
investment and business development for Shenzhen International
Holdings (Hong Kong) Company, an investment holding group listed in
Hong Kong and parent company of other 3 public companies listed in
Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, including the Shenzhen Hi-tech
Investment Holdings (Hong Kong) Company. Mark has participated in
founding two startups and conducted many direct investment
transactions in China and US. Currently, Mark is a venture partner
of DragonVenture, founder and CEO of eFriendsNet Entertainment
Corp., a company providing social networking service through cell
phone and Internet in China.
Mark holds a BA degree in Economics from Renmin University of China
and an MBA of UCLA Anderson Business School with focus on
entrepreneurship and strategy. He was the first prize winner of
“UCLA Knapp Venture Competition”, and the fifth prize winner in
“Carrot Challenge”, the largest business plan competition in US,
sponsored by Forbes.
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