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Greg Ye    Julius Chen
Darren Huang    Calvin Wang
Mingming Huang    Dr. Wenge Yang

  Greg Ye, Group Leader
  Group Director of Strategic Marketing, Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Mr. Ye brings 10 years of management and consulting experience in a broad range of business and technology disciplines. He is currently in charge of developing and implementing marketing strategies for Cadence, the world's largest electronic design automation products and services company. He also plays an important role in Cadence's new market development efforts, including the China growth strategy. Prior to Cadence, he worked for Cisco Systems as a market development manager and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he spent six years advising high-tech. companies based in the U.S. and Asia on a wide array of business and financial strategy issues, ranging from venture financing, IPO, mergers and acquisition, business reorganization to global expansion. He co-founded a Silicon Valley based incubator for high-tech. companies in China in 1999 and serves as an advisor for several other high-tech. start-up companies in the U.S. In his 10 years of business career, he has developed extensive contacts in the venture capital and other business communities in both the U.S. and China.

Mr. Ye received his MBA from Harvard Business School and BSEE from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant.

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  Julius Chen
  OEM Program Manager, Global Supply Chain, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Mr. Chen brings 7 years of networking, management consulting, marketing and government work experience. He is currently managing OEM outsourcing projects for Cisco Systems. He does new product introduction projects, research supply chain initiatives, conduct technology and supplier base evaluation, negotiate and contract outsourcing deals. Prior to Cisco, he was co-founder and CEO of the b2b commodity chemical exchange Chemease based in Shanghai, China. Before business school, Mr. Chen also worked for Booz.Allen & Hamilton, Norvartis and China National Students' Association.

Mr. Chen received his MBA from Harvard Business School and BS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He is a Cisco Certified Network Associate.

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  Darren Huang
  Principal, Crimson Ventures

Before joining Crimson, Darren was the VP of Business Development at iCareAsia, a healthcare solutions provider, where he was involved in initiating and negotiating cooperation structure, in charge of strategic investment and merger/acquisition activities, and setting up operation in Beijing, China. Prior to iCareAsia, Darren was a senior investment officer at InveStar Capital, a venture capital firm with more than $300 million under management. Darren was previously a Manager at W.I. Carr Securities and Manager at Grand Cathay Securities.

Darren received an M.B.A and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

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  Calvin Wang
  Senior Product Manager, Siebel Systems, Inc.

Mr. Calvin Wang has over five years experience in high tech marketing, business development and consulting. He is currently working at Siebel Systems as Senior Product Manager, his work emcompasses product positioning/communications and competitive strategy for Siebel's industry-leading Sales Force Automation solution, in addition to supporting deals having large revenue impact. He started with Siebel as a Product Manager of eCustomer, a product in Siebel's Interactive Selling Suite product family, where he developed Market Requirement Documents and oversaw the development process. After that he helped jump-start the Strategic Selling Group, a group within Siebel which focuses on developing sales tools and providing sales support for Siebel's field sales force. Prior to Siebel, Calvin worked as a business development manager at Cambridge-based Intonetworks.com (www.intonetworks.com) where he led the effort to strike the first international alliance (in Singapore.) Calvin also worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a management consultant in Washington DC and Unisys Corporation in China. Calvin holds a MBA degree from Harvard Business School and BSEE from Shanghai Jiaotong University.

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  Mingming Huang
  Director of Product Marketing, PeopleSoft Asia/Pacific

Mr. Huang has over six years experience in high tech sales/marketing and management consulting before he joined PeopleSoft. He is currently a director of product marketing in PeopleSoft and responsible for developing and implementing marketing strategy for PeopleSoft CRM solution in Asia/Pacific region. Prior to PeopleSoft, he worked for Siebel systems and developed the product strategy for Siebel sales force automation solution. Prior to Siebel, he was the co-founder and CEO of an Internet startup based in Shanghai. Mr. Huang also worked for The Boston Consulting Group where he helped develop the China marketing strategy for a Fortune 100 company. Before B-school, Mr. Huang worked for Hewlett-Packard UNIX division and he developed the distribution channel in eastern China from a scratch to US$ 50 Million business.

Mr. Huang received his MBA from University of Chicago and BSEE from Shanghai JiaoTong University.

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  Dr. Wenge Yang
  Director of Marketing, Timbre Technologies Inc., a Tokyo Electron Company

Dr. Yang is the Director of Marketing at Timbre Technologies Inc., a Tokyo Electron Company. He joined Timbre at its start-up stage as Vice President of Marketing, and provided key contribution to the introduction of an optical device measurement technique to the semiconductor industry and Timbre's acquisition by the world's number two semiconductor equipment company Tokyo Electron Ltd. He worked as a strategic marketing manager in Therma-Wave Inc. before joining Timbre, working on the strategic partner development and IPO activities of Therma-Wave. Dr. Yang also worked at Advanced Micro Devices as a member of technical staff in semiconductor process development. Dr. Yang holds a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering and a MBA degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.

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