Our Team

Building a thriving company is a challenge. Especially those set out to redefine the status quo. At the early stages, the first directions you take can have lasting implications for the future. We partner early because this is when meaningful support is needed the most.

Our team of experts have dynamic, complimentary skillsets armed with deep industry experience and wealth of know-how to help our founders navigate, strategize and grow.

We make it our mission to be the most useful support to our partners. Meet the team who are building the fittest companies that thrive.

ADVISORS

PROFESSIONALS

Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang

Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang joined Baidu in September 2014 as President, in charge of new business.

Prior to joining Baidu, Zhang was Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President and Chairman of Asia R&D Group, leading Microsoft’s overall research and development efforts in Asia-Pacific, Microsoft’s largest R&D establishment outside of US with over 3,000 scientists and engineers. Over his 15 year tenure at Microsoft, he has taken various key positions, including the Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia (2000-2004), Chairman of Microsoft China (2007-2012), Corporate Vice President of Mobile and Embedded Products (2004-2006), and Asia R&D Chairman until September 2014.

Zhang is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has published more than 500 papers in leading international conferences and journals. He has been granted more than 60 US patents in digital video, Internet, multimedia, wireless and satellite communications. He was a key contributor to the ISO/MPEG and ITU standardization efforts in digital video and multimedia. Many of the technologies he and his team developed have become the basis for start-up ventures, commercial products, and international standards. In 1997, he became the youngest ever Fellow of IEEE and has served as editor-in-chief for several influential IEEE journals. Currently, Zhang serves on the Board of Directors of five high-tech IT companies. He is an honorary or guest professor at more than 20 prestigious universities, and is an advisor to several government agencies. Zhang is also the vice Chairman of Committee 100, a group of leading Chinese-Americans to promote the political, scientific, social, and economic exchanges between the US and China.

Zhang received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1983 and 1985. He received his Doctor of Science in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University, Washington D.C. in 1989.

Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang

Dr. Dongxiao Zhang

Professor Zhang is a Fellow of Geological Society of America. He had held positions as Chair Professor at the University of Southern California, Miller Chair Professor at the Department of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, and Senior Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has authored 2 books and published over 110 peer-reviewed papers. He earned both his Master’s degree and Ph.D. in hydrology and water resources in 1992 and 1993, respectively, from the University of Arizona.

Professor Zhang is an internationally well-known expert in groundwater hydrology, unconventional oil and gas production, and geological carbon sequestration, whose research achievements in stochastic modeling, numerical simulation, and inverse modeling are widely adopted by his peers. Professor Zhang has been an associate editor for the following leading international journals: Water Resource Research, Advances in Water Resources, SIAM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Journal of Computational Geosciences, Vadose Zone Journal, and SPE Journal. He has served as a panelist on the RCUK Review of Energy, UK Research Councils and a member of US National Research Council’s Committee on New Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences; he is currently a council member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on New Energy Architecture.

Dr. Dongxiao Zhang

Jianming Yu

Mr. Yu is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of New Horizon Capital. Having led many of New Horizon Capital’s investments in healthcare, consumer products and services, and TMT since 2005, Mr. Yu has extensive investment management and fundraising experience. Prior to 2005, Mr. Yu held various stints at financial institutions as well as the Los Angeles office of McKinsey & Company.

Mr. Yu has, since 2008, been awarded one of “China’s Best Venture Capitalists” by Forbes, one of the “Best VC/PE Investors” by ChinaVenture, and one of “China’s Top 10 PE Investors” by Zero2IPO. He is also vice chair of the China Private Equity & Venture Capital Association and vice chairman of the Beijing Private Equity Association.

Mr. Yu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Tsinghua University, a Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University, and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Jianming Yu

Yannis Yortsos

Professor Yortsos has served as Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering since June 2005. He is the Chester F. Dolley Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, and holds the Zohrab A. Kaprielian Dean’s Chair in Engineering. Yortsos is well known for his work on fluid flow, transport and reaction processes in porous and fractured media with applications to the recovery of subsurface fluids and soil remediation. He has been actively involved in the peer review of the Yucca Mountain Project for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste.

Yortsos coined the term Engineering+, a concept promoting interdisciplinary research, programs and faculty appointments that enable engineering’s powerful role for innovation in the sciences and the professions. He led the establishment of new programs across curricula to enhance engineering education, including the recent HST@USC collaboration between the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Keck School of Medicine at USC. He has promoted global outreach through the iPodia platform, linking instruction of top engineering schools worldwide and establishing engineering innovation and entrepreneurship in the Viterbi School.

The recipient of many honors for research, teaching and service, Dean Yortsos is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and serves as the liaison of Section 11 to the National Research Council. Yortsos received his B.Sc. from the National Technical University, Athens, Greece, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, all in chemical engineering. An invited scholar at several institutions in the United States and abroad, he joined the faculty of USC in 1978. Yortsos is an Associate member of the Academy of Athens, and is the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Engineering Deans Council as well as the Executive Committee of the Global Engineering Deans Council.

Yannis Yortsos

Yuanqing Yang

Mr. Yang is chairman and chief executive officer of Lenovo. He returned to the chairman post in 2011 and has been leading Lenovo’s global business as CEO since 2009. Mr. Yang has served as chairman of the board of Lenovo Group Limited previously from 2005-2009, after having held the CEO position prior to 2005. Mr. Yang joined Lenovo in 1989. Under his leadership, Lenovo has been China’s best- selling PC brand since 1997. In 1999, Lenovo ranked as first in PC sales in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) and has maintained this position ever since.

Mr. Yang has been named “Asian Businessman of the Year,” Forbes Asia. He also was named as one of the “Stars of Asia” by BusinessWeek magazine and has been selected by the Chinese media as one of China’s “Ten Star Entrepreneurs” and “Ten Most Valuable Managers.” He was also named by CCTV as a “Man of the Year” in 2004. He holds a master’s degree from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Science and Technology of China. Mr. Yang is also a member of the National Youth Association Committee, director of China’s Entrepreneurs’ Association, a guest professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, and a member of the New York Stock Exchange’s International Advisory Committee.

Yuanqing Yang

Peidong Yang

Peidong Yang is a Chemistry professor, S. K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Chair Professor in Energy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a senior faculty scientist at Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is known particularly for his work on semiconductor nanowires and their photonic and energy applications including artificial photosynthesis. He is the director for California Research Alliance by BASF and one of the co-directors for the Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute at Berkeley. He is the founding dean for School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University. He cofounded three companies: Nanosys Inc, Alphabet Energy Inc; Infinity Innovation Inc.

Dr. Yang received his B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology in China in 1993. He then received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1997, and did his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Soon after, he joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the recipient of MacArthur Fellowship, E. O. Lawrence Award, ACS Nanoscience Award, MRS Medal, Baekeland Medal, Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, MRS Young Investigator Award, Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, ACS Pure Chemistry Award, and Alan T. Waterman Award. He is the 2014 Thomas Reuters Citation Laureate for Physics.

Peidong Yang

William Wang

Mr. Wang is the CEO and Founder of VIZIO, Inc. was born in Taiwan and relocated to the U.S. with his family at the age of 12. He graduated from USC with an Engineering degree and has started and sold several of his businesses and is a great example of a “visionary serial entrepreneur.” In 2002 his family and a close group of friends and former investors founded VIZIO. Mr. Wang’s success has gained the brand numerous awards including Good Housekeeping’s Best Big-Screens, CNET’s Top 10 Holiday Gifts to mention a few and has guided VIZIO into the #1 brand of HDTVs in the U.S. Recently, VIZIO has won the #1 Ranking in the Inc. 500 for Top Companies in Computers and Electronics for the 2nd consecutive year, Ad Age’s Hottest Brands of 2009, Fast Company’s Top 10 Most Innovative CE Companies along with Walmart’s Supplier of the Year awards. Personal awards include Ernst & Young’s and The Orange County Business Journal’s Entrepreneur of the Year honors.

William Wang

Dr. Norman Tien

Professor Tien is Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, an expert in the area of micro and nanotechnology, including micro-electromechanical (MEMS) systems, and an expert in the field of Robotics.

Prior to joining The University of Hong Kong, Professor Tien was Dean and Nord Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Before that, he was Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis and held a joint appointment as Professor at University of California, Berkeley. He has also received the distinction of honorary Professor of Tianjin University and has been a guest professor at Peking University.

Professor Tien has published over 115 scientific articles. He helped establish the International Networked Sensor Systems Conference, and served as Editor for the leading MEMS publication, the IEEE/ASME Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems.

Dr. Norman Tien

Dr. Heizo Takenaka

Professor Takenaka is a professor of Faculty of Policy Management and director of the Global Security Research Institute at Keio University in Japan .And was formerly Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (2005-2006). In his capacity as an economist and as part of his social activities, he also serves on several advisory boards and committees including: Senior Research Fellow, Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER); Director, Academyhills and Chairman, Pasona Group Inc. He was named to the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum in 2007. Professor Takenaka’s research interest is in economic policy.

In 2001, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi named Professor Takenaka the Minister for Economic/Fiscal Policy, in which position he chaired the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy and steered macroeconomic policy. Over the next 5 and a half years, he spearheaded Japan’s economic structural reform. In 2002, Professor Takenaka was named the Minister for both Financial Services and Economic/Fiscal Policy. In this capacity, he accomplished the disposal of non-performing loans of Japanese banks, which had hindered the Japanese economy for more than 10 years. In 2004, he was elected to the House of Councilors, and was named the Minister for both Economic/Fiscal Policy and Privatization of the Postal Services. In this capacity, he realized the privatization of Japan Post, the biggest public enterprise in Japan. In 2005, he was named the Minister for both Internal Affairs and Communication, and Privatization of the Postal Services. The following year, Professor Takenaka returned to academia, leaving both the Cabinet and the House of Councilors when Prime Minister Koizumi resigned.

Professor Takenaka received his B.A. in economics from Hitotsubashi University and his Ph.D in economics from Osaka University. He is the author of numerous books, including “Contemporary Japanese Economy and Economic Policy” (1991), “Prospects of the Japanese Economy for the 21st Century” (1993), “The Internationalization of the Japanese Economy and Corporate Investment” (1993), “Wealth of People” (1994), “The Economy in which Fast Movers Win” (1998), “Policy Crisis and the Japanese Economy – A Search for the Causes of the Economic Slowdown in the 1990s” (2001) and “The Structural Reforms of the Koizumi Cabinet” (2008).

Dr. Heizo Takenaka

Jay Penske

Mr. Penske is the founder, Chairman and CEO of PMC. Under his leadership, PMC’s digital media network of brands has expanded to include leading entertainment sites and award shows known for their original content and premium user experiences. PMC was recently named a Top100 Private Company by Red Herring, and his company’s brands have been featured in top media including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Red Herring, Forbes, CNBC, Reuters and CNN. Prior to establishing PMC, Mr. Penske was a co-founder and chairman of Firefly Mobile Inc. Firefly Inc. developed the Firefly mobile phone and other youth-targeted mobile products. Beyond his media and publishing ventures, Mr. Penske is the owner of the IndyCar racing team Dragon Racing since 2005, and since its inception, the team has donated more than $1,250,000 to charity. Additionally, Mr. Penske owns and operates a rare bookstore that sells rare and first edition novels in Los Angeles.

Mr. Penske graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, with concentrations in Finance and Management Information Systems. Jay currently sits on the Board of Directors or Advisory Board of the following companies: PMC, India.com Media Corp, Penske Corporation, and Dragon Racing, LLC. And was a former Board member of the University of Pennsylvania Library, and the Wharton Entrepreneurial Program.

Jay Penske

Jeffrey Li

Mr. Li is the founder and CEO of GL Capital Group. He was the Country President of Novartis China during 2004 ‐ 2009. Prior to that, he worked for the Pritzker family in a number of positions of advisory and general management for 11 years. Mr. Li is a member of International Board of Overseas of Illinois Institute of Technology. He is an honorary Vice Chairman of China Charity Federation, Vice Chairman of Great China, Committee of 100 and a member of China Advisory Board of The Nature Conservancy.

Mr. Li has BS from Beijing University of Aeronautics and MS from Illinois Institute of Technology.

Jeffrey Li

Dr. Ge Li

Dr. Li is one of the founders, Chairman, and CEO of WuXi AppTec Co., Ltd. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Beijing University in 1989, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia University, New York in 1993. Ge was one of the founding scientists of Pharmacopeia, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCOP) in Princeton, New Jersey, one of the world’s leading combinatorial chemistry companies then, where he had held a series of scientific and management leadership positions. At Pharmacopeia, Inc., Ge had successfully co-developed three compounds under clinical evaluation. In 2000, Ge moved back to Shanghai to found WuXi PharmaTech and was the CEO since. He managed to grow the company from a small start-up to a NYSE-listed global company.

Dr. Li’s achievements have won him numerous prestigious awards and honors, with recent ones including The 60 Most Influential People during 60 Years Pharmaceutical Development in China, the Most Innovative Leader of Chinese Enterprises in 2008 together with WuXi AppTec the Most Innovative Company in China, the 2007 China Top 10 Influential Entrepreneurs, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year China 2007 Award, 2006 China Top Ten Talents (Science & Technology) Award, etc. In 2005 Dr. Ge Li was featured on the cover page of Red Herring magazine August 1st issue, and honored with Distinguished Entrepreneur Award from Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of The State Council of People’s Republic of China when he received the prestigious award at Great Hall of The People in Beijing on September 29, 2005.

Dr. Ge Li

Dr. Lou-Chang Lee

Professor Lee is an Academician, Distinguished Research Fellow, and Director of Institute of Earth Sciences at Academia Sinica. He is also the Li Kwoh Ting Chair Professor at the National Central University, Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and Elected Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).

Professor Lee specializes in space science and plasma physics. He has received many honors, including the

Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, and the Presidential Science Prize (the highest honor in science in Taiwan).

As of March 2016, Professor Lee has published more than 230 journal papers (over 7300 citations), as well as three academic monographs. During his career, he has developed several new theories to explain observed space phenomena. His major research achievements include the cyclotron master theory, the formation mechanism of solar prominences, a new mechanism for solar coronal heating, and the discovery of “gigantic jets” in the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

Dr. Lou-Chang Lee

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee

Dr. Lee is the Founder of Innovation Works. He served as Vice President, Engineering of Google Inc., and President of its Chinese Operations since July 2005. He is widely known for his pioneering work in the areas of speech recognition and artificial intelligence. Dr. Lee joined Google from Microsoft, where he most recently held the position of Corporate Vice President, after founding Microsoft Research China in 1998. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Lee was a Vice President and General Manager at Silicon Graphics Inc., responsible for internet and multimedia software. Dr. Lee also spent six years at Apple, serving as Vice President of Apple’s interactive media group, and before that was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

He is the Chairman of the Advisory Board at WI Harper since October 1, 2009. In addition, from 1988 to 1990 he was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he developed the world’s first speaker-independent continuous speech-recognition system. Dr. Lee holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Computer Science with highest honors from Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee

Dr. Lawrence J. Lau

Professor Lau is the Ralph and Claire Landau Professor of Economics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He was the Chairman of CIC International (Hong Kong), Limited from 2010 to 2014, and the Vice-Chancellor and President of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2004 to 2010.

His specialized fields are economic development, economic growth, and the economies of East Asia, including China. Professor Lau developed one of the first econometric models of China in 1966.

Professor Lau is a Member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee and a Vice-Chairman of its Economics Sub-Committee.

Dr. Lawrence J. Lau

Zhaoguang Hu

Mr. Hu graduated from Tsinghua University in 1964 and studied management coursework in Sweden. In the late 1980s, Mr. Hu served as the office dean of the Beijing New Technology Development Zone. He also was executive officer of Haidian District in Beijing. In 1993, he became vice-mayor of the city. In this capacity, Mr. Hu oversaw science and technology development as well as education affairs. He also served concurrently as a professor at Tsinghua University. In 1997, he joined Beijing Enterprises Holdings Limited. He was later made chairman of Beijing Enterprises Holdings Limited.

Zhaoguang Hu

Richard Hilleman

Mr. Hilleman is an American computer game and video game producer best known for his work creating the original Madden Football game for video game consoles for Electronic Arts. Apart from Madden, Hilleman was a key figure in building the massive EA Sports brand and has spent over 20 years working in product development at EA. He has directly or indirectly influenced a wide range of games and game designers.

Hilleman joined Electronic Arts in 1982, and was employee number 39. After several years working with producers and teams in a variety of roles (including Ray Tobey and Stewart Bonn on the early combat flight simulator Skyfox), he began producing his own titles in the late 1980s. His first credited title as producer was Indianapolis 500: The Simulation on PC in 1989. In 1990, he was the producer of John Madden Football for the fast-growing Sega Genesis, a game developed by Troy Lyndon and Michael Knox of Park Place Productions, and co-designed by Scott Orr, the game that we still recognize today as Madden Football, the best-selling title in the history of games in North America.

Mr. Hilleman worked for Electronic Arts as Chief Creative Officer until May, 2016. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.

Richard Hilleman

Enrico Cucchiani

Mr. Cucchiani is CEO and Founding Partner of Think Global Investments (TGI); a Private Equity and Advisory

Firm focused on excellent European mid-corporates with the objective to support their global expansion and technological upgrade.

Previously, he was Group CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo Banking Group, the largest bank in Italy and one of top 4 players in Europe by market cap. Prior to that he was a member of the “Vorstand” (Executive Board) of Allianz SE, in Munich, where he was responsible for the business in major European Markets, Latin America and Africa; in addition, he had global responsibility for Property and Casualty and for “Direct” distribution. Before joining Allianz, Enrico Cucchiani had been CEO of a global luxury goods group and had worked with McKinsey in Italy, London and New York.

In the past he has also been a Non-Executive Director of Unicredit Banking Group and Pirelli; Chairman of MIB School of Management; Member of the Board of Filarmonica della Scala; Member of the Advisory Council of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is Cavaliere del Lavoro, the highest honorary title awarded by the President of Italy and the recipient of the 2006 Businessman of the Year Award from Bocconi University.

Enrico Cucchiani holds a degree with highest honors in Economics from Bocconi University and an MBA from Stanford where he was a Fulbright Fellow; he has also carried out research work at Harvard Business School.

Enrico Cucchiani

Sanford R. Climan

Mr. Climan is President of Entertainment Media Ventures, Inc., a company active in media investment and strategic advisory work, as well as motion picture and television production. Mr. Climan is also Chief Executive Officer of 3ality Digital, LLC, a leading company involved in the creation of technology for and the production of digital 3D entertainment, with which Entertainment Media Ventures has a strategic relationship. Prior to forming Entertainment Media Ventures, from 1986 to 1999, Mr. Climan was a member of the senior management team at Creative Artists Agency (“CAA”), a leading talent and literary representation firm, working with both talent and corporate clients. Mr. Climan built CAA’s corporate representation practice from its inception in 1987, representing and advising a wide range of companies, including Sony, Matsushita, Coca-Cola, Seagram, and several Regional Bell Operating Companies. As a talent agent, Mr. Climan represented many major actors, directors, writers and producers, including Danny DeVito, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Kevin Costner and Michael Mann. He also represented a significant group of film production companies, including Jersey Films, Wildwood, Tribeca and Tig Productions.

Mr. Climan serves on the boards of The American Cinematheque; The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management; The Fulfillment Fund (an educational mentoring program in Los Angeles); Whistling Woods International Institute for Film, Television & Media Arts in Mumbai, India; and The James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness. In addition, Mr. Climan is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Dean’s Advisory Board at the UCLA School of Public Health. Mr. Climan also serves as an advisor on entertainment and media to the World Economic Forum and its Annual Gathering in Davos, Switzerland.

Mr. Climan did his undergraduate work at Harvard College, and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Sanford R. Climan

Wu-Fu Chen

Mr. Chen is an established entrepreneur. He has started more than a dozen companies, including Cascade Communications (IPO in Nasdaq) ,Cameo Communications (IPO in Taiwan), GaoHong (IPO in China), Xinwei Telecom (IPO in China, near $30B), Arris Networks (acquired by Cascade), Ardent Communications, Navini Networks (acquired by Cisco) and Shasta Networks (acquired by Nortel). The industry has recognized Mr. Chen’s operational and entrepreneurial excellence with numerous awards; such as quoted as “The Germinator” on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, the top ten entrepreneurs of 2000 by Red Herring magazine, Life Time achievement award by Optix, and Heavy Weights in Optical Networks by Light Reading.

Mr. Chen is also an established investor as co-founder of Acorn Campus, Genesis Campus, & iD SoftCapital. Forbes Magazine ranked him as one of the top 100 venture investors in the U.S in 2002.

Mr. Chen enrolled in CS PhD program at UC Berkeley, received MSEE from the University of Florida at Gainesville, and BSEE degree from National Taiwan University.

Wu-Fu Chen

Steve Chen

Mr. Chen is an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Mr. Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15. After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mr. Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online. Mr. Chen currently serves as Chief Technology Officer and was named one of the “The 50 people who matter now” by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.

Steve Chen

John Chen

Mr. Chen was appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chair of BlackBerry’s Board of Directors on November 4, 2013.

Mr. Chen is a distinguished and proven leader in the technology industry. Prior to joining BlackBerry, he served as Chairman and CEO of Sybase Inc., where he developed and led the company’s re-invention from a mature, slower-growth technology company into a $1.5 billion-plus high-growth innovator. Under his direction, Sybase became the leading provider of enterprise mobility and mobile commerce solutions, achieving 55 consecutive quarters of profitability. Mr. Chen previously held a series of executive positions at Siemens AG, Pyramid Technology Corp., and Burroughs Corp. He started his career as a design engineer with Unisys Corp.

In recognition of his leadership in building U.S.-Asia relations, Mr. Chen has received awards from the US-Asia Institute, the U.S.-China Policy Foundation, and the California-Asia Business Council. For his corporate board work, he has been honored by the U.S.-Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation.

Mr. Chen graduated from Brown University magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and holds a master’s in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology. John has an honorary professorship from Shanghai University, and honorary doctorates from San Jose State University, City University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Mr. Chen serves on the board of directors for The Walt Disney Company and Wells Fargo & Co. He is also active in the not-for-profit community, and is also a trustee of Caltech, board member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, member of CFR, national trustee of The First Tee and Governor of the San Francisco Symphony.

John Chen

Willie Brown

Mr. Brown served over 30 years in the California State Assembly, spending 15 years as its speaker, and later served as the 41st mayor of San Francisco, the first African American to do so. Brown served as San Francisco mayor from January 8, 1996 until January 8, 2004. His tenure as mayor is marked by a significant increase in real estate development, public works, city beautification, and other large-scale city projects. He presided over the “dot-com” era at a time when San Francisco’s economy was rapidly expanding.

After leaving the mayor’s office, Brown established The Willie L. Brown, Jr. Institute on Politics & Public Service, an unaffiliated nonprofit organization at San Francisco State University. The center trains students for careers in municipal, county and regional governments. The center will be one of the first to focus on local government in the country.

In September 2013, the western span of the Bay Bridge was officially named for Willie Brown, and in 2015, Mr. Brown was named to the board of directors of the San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical company Global Blood Therapeutics.

Mr. Brown earned a bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State and a law degree from the University of California Hastings.

Willie Brown

Eric Benhamou

Mr. Benhamou is the CEO and Founder of Benhamou Global Ventures, LLC. Benhamou Global Ventures, started in 2003, invests and plays an active role in innovative high tech firms throughout the world. He was an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD from 2004 to 2010. He is now a Visiting Professor at IDC Herzliya’s Arison School of Business.

He served as Chairman of the board of Palm, Inc. from 1999 until 2007 and as Chief Executive Officer of Palm from 2001 until 2003. Mr. Benhamou served as Chief Executive Officer of 3Com Corporation from 1990 until 2000 and as Chairman of the board until its sale to Hewlett Packard in April 2010. In 1981, Mr. Benhamou co-founded Bridge Communications, an early networking pioneer, and was Vice President of Engineering until its merger with 3Com in 1987.

Mr. Benhamou currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Cypress Semiconductor and as a Director of Silicon Valley Bancshares. He also serves on the boards of several privately held companies of the BGV portfolio. He currently advises Israel Cleantech Ventures, the leading clean tech venture fund in Israel, and the Institute for the Future, a think tank based in Silicon Valley. He is Vice Chairman of Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, and serves on the board of Stanford University’s School of Engineering. He is a Founder and the Chairman of the Israel Venture Network, a venture philanthropy organization for a stronger Israeli society. In 2003, Mr. Benhamou was appointed to the U.S.- Israel Science and Technology Commission by U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans.

Mr. Benhamou received a Masters degree from Stanford University’s School of Engineering. He also holds a Diplome d’Ingénieur and a Doctorate from Arts et Metiers ParisTech.

Eric Benhamou

Dr. Claude Amos

Dr. Claude Amos spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs in New York, London and Zurich, advising the top range of Ultra High Net Worth Individuals and families. Before joining Wall Street, Dr. Amos graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the Swiss University of St Gallen.

Dr. Amos rapidly became a top G.S. contributor in Wealth Management building strong relationship with key large financial groups and families worldwide. He was a very active trader on the G.S. floor using a broad range of multi financial asset classes and solutions strategy.

Dr. Amos developed a management style integrating advanced form of behavioral finances mitigating the risk by adjusting tactical protective asset allocation in dynamic Portfolio rebalancing, impacting value by decreasing the pricing volatility and correlation risk among assets underlying.

He spends now time with selected clients and partners advising and sharing financial expertise on strategic positioning and facilitating agreement or arbitration between some large financial players.

Dr. Amos is also serving in the board of early stage companies promoting advanced cutting edge technology, revolutionary application and innovation in building teams of world class experts, facilitating research translation, licensing and commercialization transfer to the largest strategic players worldwide for the benefit of a large patients population.

He is nevertheless dedicating time and sharing a passion for arts and music, from classical oil paintings to comparative technical interpretations of J.S. Bach’ s preludes.

Dr. Claude Amos

Dr. Lishan Aklog

Dr. Aklog has been PAVmed’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since the company’s inception. Dr. Aklog also serves as Co-Managing Partner of HCFP, a financial advisory and investment firm, since May 2014, and as a

co-founding Partner of both Pavilion Holdings Group (“PHG”), a medical device holding company, since its inception in 2007 and Pavilion Medical Innovations (“PMI”), a venture-backed medical device incubator, since its inception in

Dr. Aklog has been a Senior Advisor and/or Director of PMI portfolio companies Saphena Medical Inc. since

February 2013, Kaleidoscope Medical LLC since February 2013 and Cruzar Medsystems Inc. since July 2013.

Dr. Aklog previously served as Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Vortex Medical Inc., a PHG portfolio company, from its inception in 2008 until its acquisition in October 2012 by AngioDynamics Inc. (Nasdaq: ANGO) for $55 million. Dr. Aklog has been a consultant to AngioDynamics since 2012, Biomet Inc. since 2009 and Atricure Inc.

(Nasdaq: ATRC) since 2007. He previously served as a consultant to Edward Lifesciences Corp. (NYSE: EW), from 2007 to 2012 and On-X Life Technologies Inc. from 2009 to 2012.

Dr. Aklog also previously served on the Scientific Advisory Boards of numerous leading medical device companies, including Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, Guidant Cardiac Surgery (now, Maquet Cardiovascular) and Cardiovations (then, a division of Johnson & Johnson).

Dr. Aklog is an inventor on 11 issued patents and over 30 patent applications, including the core patents of Vortex Medical’s AngioVac system. Prior to entering the medical device industry full-time in 2012, Dr. Aklog was, from 2006 to 2012, Associate Professor of Surgery, Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery and Chair of The Cardiovascular Center at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center’s Heart and Lung Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. From 2002 to 2006, Dr. Aklog was Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Associate Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. From 1999 to 2002, Dr. Aklog was Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory and an attending cardiac surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Lishan Aklog

Dr. Hao-Lin Chen

Dr. Hao-Lin Chen is a Ph.D. in Chemistry graduated from Indiana University. He was the Deputy Program Leader, Laser Science and Technology of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Executive Director of the Center for Optoelectronic Nanostructured Semiconductor Technologies at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Chen is the Winner of three R&D 100 Awards (1995- development of Sealed Tube Electron Beam Gun for Material Processing; 2001- development of Lasershot Marking System; 2003- development of Lasershot Precision Forming System). He is also the Winner of the US Federal Laboratory Consortium Award (1997) for Excellence in Technology Transfer and two International Merit Awards (2002 &2004) for excellence in Technical Publications. Dr. Chen published 66 original papers in scientific journals and patents in areas of molecular energy transfer, lasers, laser kinetics, electron beam, and laser processing of materials. He is a co-author of the book “Laser Spectroscopy and Its Applications”. His most recent patent in the laser peening area is on “Laser Peening for Reducing Hydrogen Embrittlement”. (US patent 11/400,618 filed on April 6, 2006). He is currently a Member of the Technical Committee at Concentrated Solar Power Technology Equipment Cooperative Innovation Center at Gansu, China.

Dr. Hao-Lin Chen

CT Yip

Mr. CT Yip, CEO of Lai Sun Group, was appointed CEO of Lai Sun Garment (International) Limited in August 2013. He is also an Executive Director of eSun Holdings Limited and Media Asia Group Holdings Limited.

CT has extensive experience in corporate advisory, business development and investment banking. Prior to joining the Lai Sun Group, he was Managing Director of Goldman Sachs and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for China. He also worked for Hong Kong’s PCCW Limited as Vice President of Ventures and M&A, responsible for strategic investments and M&A transactions.

CT graduated from Macquarie University, Australia with a Bachelor of Economics and obtained his Master degree in Applied Finance and Investments from the Financial Services Institute of Australia, where he is also a Fellow member.

CT Yip

Paul Lin

Paul Lin is a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and a member of the firm’s corporate practice. Mr. Lin is the partner-in-charge of the firm’s Irvine office and serves as a member of the firm’s audit committee.

Mr. Lin focuses on cross-border corporate transactions, M&A/takeovers, real estate transactions, regulatory and trade work, and corporate finance deals. In addition, he serves in the role of outside general counsel for many clients, coordinating litigation related to general commercial disputes, antitrust, intellectual property, class actions and other areas.

Mr. Lin’s clients range from multinational public corporations and Chinese, state-owned enterprises to privately held businesses and family offices. They span a broad range of industries, including technology, consumer products, infrastructure and city development, automotive, green energy and biotech.

Mr. Lin also represents a number of the world’s largest consumer electronics and technology companies, as well as digital television monitor manufacturers, in both corporate transactions and intellectual property litigation matters in the United States. He also advises various Asia-based clients.

Mr. Lin is a frequent speaker on cross-border M&A and has participated in forums such as the Caijing Conference in Beijing and the UCLA U.S.-China Business Law Conference in Los Angeles. Mr. Lin is a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine School of Law and serves as a board member on the Dean’s Board of Visitors and Business Advisory Council. Mr. Lin is also active in the Asian-American community and cross-border associations and is a member of, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Committee of 100, an international, nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization that brings a Chinese-American perspective to issues concerning Asian-Americans and U.S.-China relations.

Paul Lin

Dr. Chris Xu

Chris Xu, Ph.D., is the current president and chairman of Boyalife Group, which he founded in 2009. Prior to founding Boyalife, Dr. Xu served as a project leader at Pfizer, as a director of research at two publicly-traded biopharmaceutical companies and as a vice president at Founder Group, a Chinese technology conglomerate focused on information technology, pharmaceuticals, real estate, finance, and commodities trading. Dr. Xu’s expertise spans several diverse therapeutic areas, including arthritis & inflammation, cardiovascular disease, autoimmunity, oncology and diabetes. He has authored over forty publications and has been recognized by numerous professional societies for his contributions to biomedical research.

Dr. Xu received his Ph.D. in immunology from Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, USA) and an executive MBA from Emory University (Atlanta, USA).

Dr. Chris Xu

George Yeh

George Yeh joined TLC (Taiwan Liposome Company) in 2002 as President. He leads TLC’s operations, responsible for strategic planning, business development, product licensing, and management of corporate funding. In a relatively short period of time, he grew TLC into one of the fastest‐growing drug delivery companies in Asia. In 2006, TLC was named top 100 private companies by Red Herring Asia, and shortlisted for Red Herring Global in 2007.George also received the “Outstanding Young Innovator Award” in 2008 for his contribution to the biotechnology industry in Taiwan.

George was most recently CFO of Hermes Biosciences, assisting to structure and negotiate technology transfer and license contracts with pharmaceutical companies. Prior to joining Hermes, George was Vice President of AsiaWired Group where he was responsible for procuring corporate funding, strategic planning, and integration of high‐level management and financial resources for start‐ups. At AsiaWired Group, George successfully assisted Presenter, Calimetrics and other high tech companies with fundraising of over $40M and planned Asian expansion for several US‐based companies. Before coming to AsiaWired Group, George was an associate at General Bank, evaluating start‐ups and venture capital partnership for debt financing.

George holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and a M.A. and a M.B.A. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

George Yeh

Jaclyn Tsai

Jaclyn has a great deal of experience in both the private sector and the public sector.

She had previously served as a District Court judge from 1982 to 1991, after which she worked as IBM’s General Counsel in Taiwan from 1991 to 1995, and later the Greater China region from 1995 to 1998.

She founded Lee, Tsai & Partners with Dr. Lee in 1998 and specializes in technology law, M&A and investment matters.

In 2013, Jaclyn was appointed as the Minister without Portfolio in the Executive Yuan (Cabinet) and became one of the few female ministers in the government. During her term as Minister without Portfolio, she was responsible for a number of inter-ministry affairs, such as the reformation of laws relating to virtual world development, e-commerce, the shared economy, digital convergence, the startup environment, open data, and the maker movement.

Jaclyn returned to the firm in 2016, and she is currently the Chairwoman of both the Taiwan Fintech Association and the Taiwan Women on Boards Association.

Jaclyn Tsai

Dr. Johnsee Lee

Dr. Johnsee Lee is the Chairman of Taiwan Biotech Industry Organization (Taiwan BIO), Founder & CEO of Personal Genomics and Chairman of Quark Biosciences, Inc. Prior to his current position, he served as the President of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), the Chairman of the Development Center for Biotechnology (DCB), and also as the Board Director of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC). Dr. Lee has played a key leadership role in the development of Taiwan’s world-class high-tech industries. He is also the Chairman of Taiwan Precision Medicine & Molecule Diagnostic Industry Association.

Dr. Lee received his PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is also a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. Dr. Lee is the founder and the first director of the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at ITRI. Over the last 15 years, he has successfully facilitated the founding of more than 15 biotech and IT start-up companies.

Before joining ITRI, Dr. Lee held various technical and managerial positions at Argonne National Laboratory and at Johnson Matthey Inc. in the U.S.A. He was elected as the President of the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies, and has also served as the President of Taiwan Telehealthcare Industry Association, and the President of Monte Jade Science & Technology Association in Taiwan.

Dr. Lee has published numerous journal papers and patents. He received many honors and awards including the National Engineering Medal, CIE Distinguished Achievement Award, the Innovation Leadership Award by Global Views, and the Excellence in Research & Innovation Award by Frost & Sullivan.

Dr. Johnsee Lee

Dr. Weichen Tien

Dr. Weichen Tien founded Development Center for Biotechnology (1984) and Taipei Biotech Association (2004). Dr. Tien was also a professor at National Yang-Ming University from 1982 to 2016.

Experience:

1968~1970 Senior Microbiologist, Research Division, S. B. Penick & Company
1970~1974 Senior Research Scientist and Supervisor of the Strain Bank, Dept. of Process Development, Wyeth Laboratories, Inc.,
1974~1981 Microbial Geneticist and Team Leader in Fermentation R&D Department, Pfizer Inc.,
1981~1982 Visiting Scientist, Division of Life Sciences, National Science Council, R.O.C.
1982~1986 Director, Division of Life Science, National Science Council, R.O.C.
1986~1988 Director, Division of International Programs, National Science Council, R.O.C.
1994~1996 Chairman, The Scientific Committee for Biotechnology, International Council of Scientific Unions (COBIOTECH-ICSU), Academia Sinica, Taipei, R.O.C.
1984~1999 President, Development Center for Biotechnology
1987~2001 Executive Secretary, R.O.C. Committee for Scientific and Scholarly Cooperation with U.S.A., Academia Sinica
1988~2005 Chairman, Mithra Bioindustry Co., Ltd.
1993~1997 President, Taiwan Bioindustry Development Association, R.O.C.
2004~2008 Chairman, Taipei Bio Industry Organization
2005~2014 Advisor, Medical & Pharmaceutical Industry Technology& Development Center
2009-2014 Honorary Chairman, Taipei Bio Industry Organization

Dr. Tien received his B.S. in Plant Pathology and Entomology from National Taiwan University, M. S. in Microbiology and Ph.D. in Microbial Genetics and Biochemistry from University of Kentucky.

Dr. Weichen Tien

Dr. Allen Chang

Dr. Allan Chang is a Professor of the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences at the National Yang-Ming University in Taipei. Previously he served as the Dean of the School of Biomedical Science and Engineering. Dr. Chang was also a Member of BioTaiwan Committee of the Executive Yuan of Taiwan. Dr. Chang is the inventor of 3 MRI contrast agents (ProHance®, Squibb; Omniscan® and Teslascan®, Nycomed Imaging) marketed worldwide, with > $1 billion cumulated sales of ProHance® in 2020. Dr. Chang contributed over 410 SCI/conference papers/reports and currently holds 24 Patent certificates. His scientific expertise and current research include theranostics, lanthanide chemistry, biopharmaceuticals, biosensors, and nanomaterials. Dr. Chang received his Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, and his B.S. in Chemistry from the National Taiwan University.

Dr. Allen Chang

Leland Lai

Mr. Lai has built several fast-growth businesses in both Asia Pacific and Silicon Valley in the TMT space. Leland has also advised SBIE2’s (formerly a SoftBank company) private placement business and guided a client through the T-Mobile/Sprint merger. Prior to this, he headed Facebook’s Telecom infra Project and led GSMA (trade association for 800+ mobile carriers) through a major strategic pivot that grew Mobile World Congress Shanghai by 3658% over 7 years. Leland was part of the 2007 Terayon executive team (Nasdaq: TERN) when Motorola acquired it for USD 140M and part of the 2001 eOn Communications’ IPO team (Nasdaq: EONC). He began his career in 1990 at Hutchison Telecom (SEHK: 2332 / NYSE ADR: HTX). He holds both an MBA and a BS in mechanical engineering from UCLA, and was selected as a Coro Fellow in public policy by The Coro Foundation. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and is a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) licensed pilot and an American Sailing Association (ASA) certified bareboat captain.

Leland Lai

Brock Reeve

Brock Reeve is Executive Director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. In partnership with the Faculty
Directors, he has overall responsibility for the operations and strategy of the Institute which is
comprised of the schools of Harvard University and its affiliated hospitals and research institutions.
Under the leadership of its Executive Committee, HSCI invests in scientific research and its faculty
has grown to include over 350 Principal and Affiliated members. The Institute is engaged with
several leading pharmaceutical companies and foundations in joint research projects and its faculty
have founded over 35 stem cell-related startup companies and serve on leading Scientific Advisory
Boards.

Brock came to HSCI from the commercial sector with extensive experience in both management
consulting and operations for technology-based companies, with a focus on life sciences. Brock is
the CEO of IVIVA Medical, a co-founder of Elevian, an advisor to several startup companies, and
is on the External Advisory Board for the Petit Institute for Bioengineering at Georgia Tech
University and on the Board of Trustees for the Pioneer Charter School of Science in Everett, MA.

Brock received a BA and MPhil from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.