Presenting Companies:

Group 1 - Internet/Software:

·         Loqu8, Timothy Uy (Augmented Learning Software)

·         ScanScape Corp., Liang Cheng (Online Virtual Room)

·         XLobo.com, Bibo Zeng (C2C eCommerce Platform)

·         Moochit!, Karishma Baijal (Consumer Internet – Rental Sales)

·         Bigsai Technology, Wayne Zhao (Internet and Career Service)

Group 2 - Mobile Phone/Green Group:

·         Hook Mobile, Terry Hsiao (Rich Media Mobile Messaging)

·         Minivol Inc., Hai Jiang (Mobile Camera Phone)

·         Mobi189, Qi Wang (Retail Mobile Phone in China)

·         Global Green Energy, Russell Liu (Renewable Energy and Lighting)

·         Nano Brane Inc., Ray Huang (Clean Water Treatment)

Group 3 - Consumer Products/Services/Semiconductor:

·         Credit Oasis, Jefferson Chen (Financial Service in China)

·         Sunnytek, Wai Lo (Programmable Resistance Technology)

·         EYEmage, Adam de la Zerda (Medical Imaging Device)

·         Giddy, Sally Schoenfeld (Consumer Product for Kids)

·         Coroba, Dexin Li (Consumer Robotics)

Competition Results

                                                ·         Dr. Junbo Liu, Executive Vice President, VanceInfo

Speaker Bios:

Saeed Amidi, President and CEO, Plug and Play Technology Center

Saeed is the Founder, President and CEO of Plug and Play Tech Center.  Plug and Play is the premier technology startup accelerator in the world with over 200 companies which collectively have raised an excess of $750 million.

As an investor, Saeed is also the Founding General Partner of Amidzad.  Amidzad has been investing in technology companies for over 15 years and it holds successful investments in over 70 technology companies like PayPal, Powerset, Danger, Bix, etc.  Saeed is a serial entrepreneur and a seasoned executive with over 28 years of experience in founding, operating, and growing successful companies.  He has successfully started and grown business both nationally as well as internationally in countries like Span, Italy, France, Austria etc.

Saeed is an active member of the technology community and a frequent contributor to numerous charitable foundations.  He is also an active member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), a world-class network of Fortune 500 CEOs, accomplished serial entrepreneurs, and veteran financial executives.

Carmen Chang, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Carmen specializes in corporate and securities law and is the leader of firm’s China practice at WSGR.  She is currently a member of the firm’s Policy Committee.  Carmen’s practice focuses on the representation of public and private technology companies and financial institutions in public offerings, M&A, joint ventures, financings, and other types of transactions in the U.S. and abroad, particularly in China, Taiwan, and other Asian countries.

Carmen rejoins the firm from Shearman & Sterling, where she was a partner in its Menlo Park office.  Prior to joining Shearman & Sterling, Carmen had been a partner at WSTR focuses on building the firm’s Asia practice.

Carmen received her J.D. at Stanford Law School with Distinction and graduated from Stanford University with M.A. Chinese History and Sarah Lawrence College with B.A. History.

Milton Chang, Partner, Incubic Venture Fund

Milton Chang is Managing Director of Incubic LLC (www.incubic.com). He is semi-retired, spending time working with portfolio companies an mentoring entrepreneurs. He was CEO and President of Newport Corporation and New Focus, Inc., Before forming Incubic, a venture fund, he funded about a dozen start-up companies as an angel investors, all were successful. He currently sits on the boards of Precision Photonics and Opvista.

Milton Graduated from the University of Illinois with the highest honor and earned his PhD in EE from Caltech. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, LIA, and OSA, and was past president of LIA and LEOS of the IEEE.  He is Distinguished Alumni of Caltech and of the University of Illinois, a Caltech Trustee, a member of the Committee of 100, and an Overseer of The Huntington. He shares his experience freely and writes monthly business/management column for Laser Focus World and sometimes for Photonics Spectra.

Wen Hsieh, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Wen’s focus areas of investment include Greentech, applications and products enabled by novel materials, and semiconductor technologies.

Prior to KPCB, Wen was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co San Francisco and a leader of McKinsey’s Asia Semiconductor Practice.  During his 5 years at McKinsey, Wen’s primary focus was on serving leading companies across the global semiconductor value chain.  Wen’s secondary focus was on serving small companies in the North America biopharma sector.  Prior to that, Wen founded OnChip Technologies, a startup developing MEMS microfluidic-based protein chips.

Wen earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. Minor in Biology from the California Institute of Technology.  He also received a B.S. with Honors and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Jack Jia, Founder & CEO, Baynote

Jack is a founder and CEO of Baynote, Inc, a software innovator that develops recommendation and social search engine for business websites. Jack started Baynote in 2005 realizing that the future of the web needs to combine social and cognitive science with traditional computer science. In the last 4 years, Baynote has grown at 300% annually powering over 200 major ecommerce, media and business websites around the world. Baynote has won numerous awards including AO 100, KM World 100 and Red Herring Global 100. Jack was named “Who is Who of 2008 – 2009” by San Jose Business Journal and San Jose Mercury News.

For eight years, he was SVP & founding CTO of Interwoven Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV) with executive responsibilities in engineering, products, marketing, strategy and vision.  Prior to Interwoven, he was a founder and CEO of V-max America. Jack led operating systems and applications development at SGI, Sun Microsystems, Stratus and NASA for over a decade.  He is a contributing author in "XML Handbook, the 4th Edition", "Online! The Book", "Content Management Bible", and writes regularly about key technology issues and trends.

Jack received an MBA from Santa Clara University, MSEE from Polytechnic University of New York, and MSEE from Beijing Jiao-Tong University in Beijing.

HP Jin, Co-Founder & CEO, TeleNav

HP co-founded TeleNav in 1999, leveraging his expertise in location and wireless Internet technologies and his years of experience in business management and strategy development.  Today, TeleNav is one of the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley, with its services covering North America, Europe, Brazil and China.

Prior to TeleNav, he served as senior strategy consultant for the McKenna Group where he developed business strategies for companies in telecom and IT.  Before that, HP worked at McKinsey & Company as a business strategy and management consultant, advising wireless and landline operators on data and wireless strategies.

HP holds a Ph.D. in Guidance, Navigation, and Control (Aeronautics and Astronautics department), a Ph.D. minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China.

David Lee, Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Derrick Lee, Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners

Derrick focuses primarily on cleantech and semiconductor investments in the Menlo Park office.  He spent a year with BVP China in Shanghai developing that practice during 2006-2007.  Derrick serves on the board of Summit Microelectronics and previously served on the board of BA systems.  He is a board observer with Berkeley Design Automation, Exclara, Miasole, PowerGenix, and Therative.

Prior to BVP, Derrick was part of the sales team at Barcelona Design, an early-stage design automation software company.  He has held senior technical and product management positions at Maxim Integrated Products.  He started his career as an analog circuit designer at Silicon Systems and holds two US patents.

Derrick graduated with an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.  He earned an MSEE degree from Stanford University, where he was awarded a School of Engineering Fellowship.  He also holds a BSEE degree from the University of Virginia.

Ping Li, Partner, Accel Partner

Pring joined Accel in 2004 and focuses primarily on information technology infrastructure (compute, networking, security and storage), as well as digital media solutions.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors at BitTorrent, Mendocino Software, Mochi Media, MuSecurity, and YuMe.  Ping was also responsible for Accel’s investment in Reactivity (acquired by Cisco).

Prior to Accel, Ping was a senior product Line Manager and Director of Corporate Development at Juniper Networks.  He managed Juniper’s M-series router product portfolio.  In addition, Ping worked on Juniper’s acquisition of Netscreen Technologies and led all subsequent security and routing product and R&D integration activities.  He also worked as a strategy consultant for Mckinsey & Company, advising technology clients in their growth strategies.  Ping also served at Singapore Telecom’s management team and worked at Goldman Sachs Asia.

Ping holds an MBA from Stanford University and an A.B. from Harvard University with honor.

Richard Lim, Managing Director, GSR Ventures

Richard manages the GSR Silicon Valley office, and focuses on investments in the Internet and green technology.

Prior to GSR, Richard founded three venture-backed Internet and software companies in the United States.  He was also an executive at Lotus Development Corporation.

Richard grew up in Singapore and has an MBA from Stanford University (Arjay Miller Scholar) and a Bachelor degree from National University of Singapore.

James Mi, Managing Director, Lightspeed Venture Partner

James focuses on Lightspeed’s investment efforts in China across multiple sectors, including Internet, media, cleantech and consumer services.  James brings sixteen years of operating experience to his role at Lightspeed.

Prior to Lightspeed, James was Director of Corporate Development in Greater China for Google, responsible for the company’s strategic investment and M&A efforts in Greater China and pan-Asian region.  He also served as Head of Asia Products at Google, and spearheaded Google’s early China efforts while serving as Chief Representative of the Google China Representative Office.  Prior to Google, James co-founded a venture-backed startup called iTelco Communications, which provides VOIP-based global communication products and services.  James also holds 12 US patents in flash memory, communications, Internet security and commerce.

James received an MSEE from Princeton University, BS in Physics from Fudan University and Received Executive Management Training at Stanford University.

Fermi Wang, Co-Founder & CEO, Ambarella

Fermi co-founded Ambarella Inc. in 2004 to drive innovation in video compression for hybrid digital cameras and define a new class of consumer products.

Prior to founding Ambarella, Fermi was CEO and co-founder of Afara Websystems, a startup that pioneered throughput computing for servers.  Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems in July 2002.  Prior to that, Fermi held several senior management positions at C-Cube Microsystems.  Fermi owns several digital video-related patents: one of them is accepted by MPEGLA as one of the key MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/AVC patents.

Fermi received his BSEE from National Taiwan University and earned his master degree and Ph.D. in EE from Columbia University.

Ben Yu, Managing Director, Sierra Ventures

Ben leads the hardware practice and China practice at Sierra Ventures. He led Sierra’s investments in Paracer (acquired by Stratos Lightwave), SemEquip (acquired by Ceradyne), Valere Power (merged with Eltek Power), Micropower (acquired by Weston Presidio), SyChip (acquired by Murata) and AuthenTec (NASDAQ: AUTH).  His active portfolio includes InvenSense, Novariant, VeriSilicon, 800APP, Verari, Multigig, mSilica and Applied Microstructures.

Ben started his career as a researcher and system architect, contributing pioneering work on 10 Gb Ethernet at 3Com and a 100 Gbps optical switching system at Princeton University. Combined with almost a decade of venture experience, Ben relates well to entrepreneurs and inventors who are addressing the hardest problems.

Ben received his Ph.D. in EE at Princeton University and BSEE at University of Western Australia.