Qi Zhang
Director General of Department of Electronic & I.T. Products of Ministry of Information Industry, People's Republic of China
Qi Zhang graduated from Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University in 1969, assigned to HeiLongjiang Province for nearly 10 years. Being one of the three founders of Yanshou Electronics Factory, Qi Zhang has taken the position of Deputy Director General, later Director General for 7 year.
Having been shifted back to Beijing, Qi Zhang was involved in preparing the setup of National Bureau of Computer. Qi Zhang has been in the Ministry of Information Industry for 21 years, in the meantime, having worked successively in National Bureau of Computer, Bureau of Computer Industrial Management, Bureau of Computer and Information, and Department of Electronics and I.T. Products. Qi Zhang was appointed deputy Director General in 1993, promoted to Director General in 1997, and now is the Director General of Department of Electronic & I.T. Products of Ministry of Information Industry.
Information Construction was place onto the agenda in 1993. A series of "Gold" projects of  Information Construction were successively launched. Qi Zhang drafted "Overall Frame of Golden Project" for Electronics Ministry in July, 1993, launched "Proposal of  Golden Tax Plan" in January, 1994, and was also one of the two drafters for "National Computer Supervision Internet Plan of Golden Project" in February. Since 1993 Qi Zhang concurrently has hold the positions of Director of Golden Trade Project Office, Director of Golden Bridge Project Office, and Director of Information Office of Electronics Ministry, coordinating the series of "Gold" Projects. State Council instructed the Ministry of Information Industry to coordinate and supervise the Y2K problems. Qi Zhang was assigned to be the leader of Y2K group work group of Ministry of Information Industry, in charge of the coordination and technical services.
Qi Zhang is also the President of China E-commerce, a non-governmental organization being a bridge among government, industry and customers and contributing on the development of modern electrical information industry and acceleration of information construction.

Dr. Jay Tian
Founder and CEO, Digital Ark Information Corporation
Dr. Jay Tian is the founder and CEO of Digital Ark Information Corporation (digiark). digiark licensed by the China National Information and Industry Department, is a hi-tech corporation offering excellent services of Internet/Intranet access and network software development value-added information around nation-wide range. digiark. s services include: Internet access, Commercial online. s information service, www service, publishing e-information, e-business. digiark stresses in providing its users with hi-tech support and service. To cater for the national government departments access Internet project and network culture, it has developed e-Management, and it also provide whole-text translation browser and email translation system free of charge to make the users read easily.
Dr. Jay Tian is one of ISP/ICP pioneers in China, he had established readchina.com in 1996 and are engaged in the development and business of Internet/Intranet. To expand ISP/ICP business and to develop technical support of the readchina.com, he puts forward a wise market strategy: offline supports Online, Online pulls Offline, low cost expansion and combing mediums business. With his strategy direction, readchina.com was listed the 3rd of the top 10 in the election of excellent service quality among China national ISPs by China National Information and Industry Department, and was listed the 2nd of the top 10 among China national ISP/ICP by America AtWeb.
Dr. Jay Tian also is the professor of Institute of Automation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He engaged in the research and application of computer network and multi-mediums. He has published more than 60 papers and 4 books in the international academic magazines and conferences. In 1990, he was invited as the reviewer of Mathematical Review.

Xindong Fang
Chairman and Chief Analysis Officer, ChinaLabs
Xingdong Fang is the Chairman and Chief Analysis Officer of ChinaLabs. Mr. Fang Xingdong received both his Bachelor's and Masters' degree from Xian Jiaotong University. He is a Ph.D. Candidate at Tsinghua University, now on leave of absence. Mr. Fang is a frequent guest speaker on the Internet in China. He is also a regular contributor to leading IT publications and has been interviewed by Wall Street Journal, Times, BBC, Asia Week, Computer World and PC Weekly. He is known as "the most influential and thought-provoking IT analyst in China's IT industry". In September 1999, Mr. Fang initiated and co-founded ChinaLabs.com Ltd.

Charles Nesson

William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Charles Nesson is the William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard Law in 1963, he clerked for Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court and served as a special assistant to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. In 1966 he joined the Harvard Law School faculty. Professor Nesson also served as a consultant in the Woburn toxic tort litigation Anderson v. Grace (the subject of the novel A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr). He teaches in the areas of torts, evidence and cyberlaw and is the director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Dr. William Lo
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, NETALONE.COM Ltd
Dr. William Lo, J.P. is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NETALONE.COM Ltd, a company listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.  NETALONE.COM (stock code: 336) is an internet investment and operation company whose strategic intent is to manage a series of business-to-business and business-to-consumer vertical content and e-commerce web portals.  NETALONE.COM also act as a venture catalyst to invest in various pre-IPO internet technology and service companies. Before founding NETALONE.COM, Dr. Lo was the Chief Executive Officer of Citibank. s Global Consumer Banking business for Hong Kong, Macau and China from 1998 to 1999.
Prior to his appointment at Citibank, Dr. Lo was the Founder & the first Managing Director of Hongkong Telecom. s wholly-owned interactive multimedia subsidiary, the Hongkong Telecom IMS Ltd (HKTIMS), and is responsible for developing the world. s first commercial broadband Interactive TV (iTV) service and Netvigator . the leading internet access and portal service provider in Hong Kong. Dr. Lo started his business career as a management consultant with McKinsey and Company, specialising in competitive strategy formulation, organisation effectiveness and mergers and acquisitions. Dr. Lo holds a M. Phil. Degree in Molecular Pharmacology and a Ph. D. degree in Genetic Engineering, both from Cambridge University.  He was a Commonwealth Scholar, a Croucher Foundation Fellow (H.K.), and a Bye-Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.  He has published more than 20 scientific papers in various learned journals during his research career. Dr. Lo is a member of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. s Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) Listing Committee.  He is also a Government-appointed member of HK Committee of the Pacific Economic Council (PECC), the Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee (IIAC), the Subventions & Lotteries Fund Advisory Committee (SLFAC) and the Community Involvement Committee.  Dr. Lo is also very active in helping the education sector of which he is a member of the Board of Education as well as holding the Chairmanship of the Advisory Committee on Quality Assurance Inspection for the Education Department.  Dr. Lo is a Council Member of the Open University of Hong Kong and a member of the Board of Directors of the Provisional HK Science Park Company Ltd.  During 1995/1996, Dr. Lo participated as a part-time member of the Government's Think Tank - Central Policy Unit.
Dr. Lo serves as a non-executive director on the board of Smartone Mobile Communications Ltd., a leading mobile operator and a Hang Seng Index. s constituent stock. In 1996, Dr. Lo was selected as a "1996 Global Leader for the Tomorrow" by the renowned global organisation World Economic Forum for his contributions in bringing multimedia technology and services to the people of Asia.
On July 1, 1999 the second anniversary of the Return of Hong Kong's Sovereignty to China, Dr. Lo was appointed as a Justice of the Peace of the HKSAR Government.

Allan Cheung
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer TradeTextile.com
Allan Cheung is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of TradeTextile.com.Prior to TradeTextile.com, he was an associate consultant at A.T. Kearney, Inc., specializing in formulating and executing e-Commerce and information technology strategies.He gained in-depth knowledge in the textile industry from his two-year tenure at Dai Dai, where he assumed major business development, sales and procurement responsibilities in Hong Kong and China, and he improved the revenue and profitability of Dai Dai dramatically.He also worked as an engineer at Lexmark and Amiable Technology.He earned his M.B.A. with High Honors from University of Chicago, and M.S. and B.S. degrees with Highest Distinction in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester.

Juliana Gim Heng Yee
General Manager and Vice President of Marketing, Gongshee.com
Juliana brings over 7 years of classic package goods, marketing and general management experience in both North America and Greater China. While working overseas in brand management at S.C Johnson in Taiwan, she re-positioned over 7 products in 3 major categories delivering double digit growth over the following 3 years. Most recently at Kraft Foods U.S.A, she managed nationally recognized brands such as Miracle Whip and Stove Top  with combined annual revenue of over $500MM. While in New Products at Kraft Foods, where Juliana held a senior marketing post, she demonstrated her ability to create successful new businesses and brands, as she delivered the most successful new product pipeline in Kraft history delivering projected Year 1 revenue of over $400MM. Juliana holds an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor's degree in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she graduated with honors.

Brian Hodgson
President, Asia4Sale.com
Brian Hodgson is President of Asia4Sale.com. Mr Hodgson has 15 years experience in advertising sales. In Asia he was the Sales Director for Forbes (Chinese edition) and Travel News Asia. Before that he worked for News Ltd in Sydney, Australia and for The Guardian in London, England. In 1997 Mr Hodgson founded Pacific Barter, and Asian barter exchange company. Pacific Barter was acquired by ZiaSun Technologies. Inc in March 1999, and is now BarterAsia, a part of Asia4Sale. Mr Hodgson holds a Diploma in Marketing from the Institute of Marketing (UK) and a Business Studies (Marketing) qualification from Northumbria University (UK).

Walter Kuemmerle
Assistant Professor, Novartis Fellow, Harvard Business School
Walter Kuemmerle is an assistant professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Entrepreneurial Management and Technology & Operations Management faculty groups.
Professor Kuemmerle's research and teaching interests fall within the domain of knowledge and capital management in a global economy. More specifically, he is interested in venture capital, foreign direct investment and technology strategy. Presently, he studies venture capital systems and entrepreneurship in different countries. He also studies the factors that induce firms to establish R&D sites in foreign countries. In a related study he examines how new technologies influence the value of strategic assets in the pharmaceutical industry.
Professor Kuemmerle holds a Master's degree in Industrial Economics from the Koblenz School of Corporate Management in Germany where he graduated best in his class in 1992. In 1996 he earned a Doctorate in Business Administration with a specialization in strategy and business policy at the Harvard Business School. His thesis, "Home Base and Foreign Direct Investment in R&D," was awarded the George S. Dively Award for the best thesis research proposed in 1995 at the Harvard Business School. Kuemmerle also holds a degree in Commerce from Ecole Superieure de Commerce in Lyon/France and has studied both at Kobe University and Keio University in Japan.
Professor Kuemmerle's research has appeared in academic journals, and several bookchapters. Kuemmerle has worked as a consultant to a number of companies. His work experience prior to joining the Harvard Business School was in banking (Deutsche Bank AG, Goldman Sachs), consulting (McKinsey & Company), chemicals (Hoechst Group) and pharmaceuticals (Eisai Co. Ltd.).
In 1999, Professor Kuemmerle was named one of two Novartis Fellows at the Harvard Business School. Kuemmerle has taught in Harvard Business School's MBA, doctoral and executive education programs. He is currently teaching a new MBA elective course "International Entrepreneurial Finance," which he developed. He has served as a consultant to financial institutions, large and small corporations and governments around the world.
He serves on the board of several start-up companies.

Steve Lai
President and CEO of Dell(Mainland China and HongKong), Vice President of Dell Headquarters
Education
B.S., Electrical Technology Department, Pratt College
M.S., Industrial Management Dept, Columbia University
Experience
1974-1984 Working in the fields of manufacturing, developing, marketing and managing in banks and telecommunication businesses in U.S.A.
1984-1985 Strategic manager, Information Products Department, IBM, responsible for productions and development of high-technology products.
1985-1988 General Manager of Development Department of IBM(Taiwan). Directly reporting to Information Industry Department of IBM headquarters, launching the development of hardware and software in Asia Pacific.
1988-1991 Consultant of vice president of IBM headquarters, giving proposals and opinions on production, development and investment of high-tech products.
1991-1995 General Manager of Healthcare Department of IBM (Asia Pacific) and General Manager of IBM (South Korea), responsible for planning, developing healthcare market in Asia Pacific, especially China.
1995-1996 General Manager of Printing System Inc. of IBM(Great China), in charge of the investment and development of printing systems in Great China.
1997-April, 2000 Vice President and General Manager of XEROX (China), responsible for managing Printing System Department and Business Service Department, and developing the business of printing, publishing and marketing.
May, 2000 President and CEO of Dell(Mainland China and HongKong), Vice President of Dell Headquarters.

Tse On Kin, John
Managing Director, TCL International Holdings
Mr. Tse On Kin, John, aged 38, is the managing director of TCL International Holdings Limited, and is responsible for overseeing the finance, corporate planning, overseas markets development and marketing of the company.  He joined the company in 1996.  He was previously a director of a Hong Kong listed company.  He has over 12 years of experience in corporate planning, operation, human resources and new markets development.  Mr. Tse graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Policy and Administration Studies from the York University in Canada.

Nicholas Lee
President and CEO, Pacific Internet
Nicholas Lee Meng Tuck has served as Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Surf since March 1996 and has served as a director since September 1998. From August 1995 until March 1996, Mr. Lee served as General Manager of Thakral Technology, the research and development arm of Thakral Corporation Ltd., an SES-listed company with significant consumer electronics manufacturing and distribution business interests in China and India. From May 1993 until July 1995, Mr. Lee served as General Manager and in a number of other capacities with Wearnes-Thakral Pte Ltd., a personal computer manufacturing and distribution company. Between 1989 and April 1993, Mr. Lee was with Abacus Distribution Systems Pte Ltd in Singapore and served in managerial positions in both technical and marketing areas. Mr. Lee is also a director of Pacific Supernet, one of our subsidiaries, and of 1-Net Singapore Pte Ltd., Sembawang Pacmann Pte Ltd., Information Frontiers and Pacific Internet Philippines, which are our affiliates. Mr. Lee received an undergraduate degree, with honors, in electrical engineering from Monash University (Australia) in 1979, which he attended as a Singapore Government scholar. He received a master of engineering science in 1984 under a research scholarship from Melbourne University (Australia), and a master of business administration in 1991 from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia).

Joe Zhang
Head of China Research at UBS Warburg Dillon Read
He was a manager at China's central bank between 1983-89. He then went on to get a Master of Economics degree from the Australian National University.
He taught economics at The University of Canberra for three years (1991-94).
Many of his articles have appeared in Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune and Far Easter Economic Review.
He has been working for international investment banks since 1994 in Hong Kong.
 

Michael E. Lobsinger
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Zi Corporation
Mr. Lobsinger has been Zi's chairman and chief executive officer since 1993, when he acquired a control block in the company.  He has guided Zi through a number of industries, divesting of companies that were not related to Zi's intended core business and acquiring companies that were in similar spaces. In 1997, Mr. Lobsinger focused Zi's business on the embedded space for language input technology and Internet distance education and has subsequently managed the growth of the company.  Mr. Lobsinger has sat on the board of directors for numerous public and private companies.
 

Charles Edelman
Founder, President and Owner of International High-Technologies Consulting
Mr. Edelman is Founder, President and Owner of International High-Technologies Consulting - IHTCservices.com - a leading International Business Development Consulting Firm for Information Technology Vendors and IT Service Providers.  IHTC has helped many Internet, Telecom and LAN/WAN Vendors and Service Providers with Market Research, Market Penetration and Business Development in the Hong Kong and (Mainland) China Markets, as well as other parts of Asia, Pacific Rim, Europe and Latin America.
As part of its Market Research and Business Development Services, IHTC contacts - meets with, presents to, and closes business with the Managing Directors, Technical Director, and the Business Development/Marketing Directors of Major Telecoms, CLECs, ILECs, ISPs and System/Network
Integrators around the world.
On behalf of U.S. Telecommunication Vendors and Service Providers looking to develop the Chinese Market, as well as other Foreign Markets, IHTC is recommended by and appears on the website of The Office of Telecommunications of the International Trade Administration (ITA), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC).
Mr. Edelman holds an MBA in International Business and Marketing from the University of San Francisco, a BS in International Business and Economics from Utica College of Syracuse University, and a Certificate in International Strategic Management as part of the European Business Seminar from the London Business School.  Mr. Edelman has also earned a Diploma in Management from McGill University in Montreal. Previously to IHTC, he was European Sales Director for North Hills GmbH, founder of the Network Solutions Department at Control Data GmbH, and Sales Manager at The Wollongong Group (one of the original TCP/IP Vendors).  Mr. Edelman is also serves as the Editor for International Business Consulting, for the Dmoz.org Search Engine, and is a memeber of the Association of International Business.

Spencer Loh
President and CEO, Shanghai Huateng Software (SCUBE)
Spencer Loh is a 17-year veteran of Tandem Computers and is a 25-year veteran of the information technology industry in both the United States and the Greater China region. In 1989, he sold the first Tandem mainframe in China and in 1993, founded Huateng SCUBE as a Tandem joint venture. Under his supervision, Huateng SCUBE has become a leader in providing products and services to the finance industry and holds a leading market position in key national projects involving financial systems and networks. In late 1997, he formed the e-commerce department to produce industry standard payment products and which offers consulting and professional services for the unique business environment in China. Mr. Loh is a frequent speaker and consultant to the government and local financial institutions.
 

Eric Silberstein
Chairman, Idiom Technologies
Eric founded Idiom in 1998 and is Idiom's visionary, focusing on globalization practices and product direction. He takes personal responsibility for customer relations and for maintaining a company culture that is committed to customer success and team enrichment. While completing his BA in computer science at Harvard University, Eric served on the founding team of Chipshot.com as vice president of technology. During summer positions at Microsoft, first in the Redmond office and then in their Beijing office, Eric worked on the localization of Microsoft Word. Eric has founded and directed several volunteer youth programs, has traveled extensively in Europe and Asia, and speaks Chinese and Russian.

Kenneth J. Dewoskin
Senior Consultant PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Ken Dewoskin presently is a partner in PriceWaterCoopers LLP, responsible for China strategy and China business development. He is currently active with e-business initiatives,telecommunications equipment makers and operators, and technology companies.
A former Proferssor of International Business and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Former Chair of his department and former Associate and Interim Director of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies, Dr. Dewoskein has been invloved with China for over 35 years. He has lived and worked for several years in China and Japan. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1974. He has also studied at National Taiwan University and Kyoto Unversity, and he is a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese and Japnanese.
Dr. Dewoskein's experience with mainland China goes back to 1977, when he first traveled there. He worked with government, public sector, and private sector projects in China, developing parntership relationships with a variety of Chinese companies and governmental ogranizations.

Chen Chi Kiong
Executive Director, AsiaCommerce and Asiacontent.com
Executive Director and Co-Founder, AsiaCommerce and Asiacontent.com. Chi Chen is a co-founder of AsiaCommerce and Asiacontent.com Media, where he serves as the Director of North American Business Development and board director since May, 1999. Mr. Chen has extensive experience in funding and building technology companies both in North America and Asia. He has co-founded two leading Internet management companies: ad management applications provider for media planning server specialist, AdKnowledge, Inc. (now a CMGI company), and Web development tool vendor, Interwoven, Inc. which had a successful NASDAQ offering in October 1999. Mr. Chen received a Master Degree in engineering and operations research from the University of Cambridge, in 1976, and earned a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in 1984.

Erik Brynjolfsson
Co-director of the Center for eBusiness@MIT
Erik Brynjolfsson is the Co-director of the Center for eBusiness@MIT, the major new research and teaching initiative based at the MIT Sloan School (http://ebusiness.mit.edu).  His award-winning research focuses on the effects of Internet and related technologies on business strategy, organization and performance.
Professor Brynjolfsson serves as a member of numerous corporate boards, as well as Time Magazine's Board of Economists.  He has served on the faculty of Stanford University and Harvard University and is currently a tenured professor at the MIT Sloan School and an associate member of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.  He graduated from Harvard University, Magna cum Laude with A.B. and S.M. degrees in Applied Mathematics and Decision Science. His Ph.D. is in Managerial Economics from MIT.

Bob Jing
CEO, Media999 Networks
Bob Jing first dreamed of an Internet Advertising Company while pursuing his Business degree at Indiana University.  As a Native Chinese he was interested in the Chinese Market and the impact that Internet Advertising would have on his home country. Three years later, while pursuing his MBA at Oklahoma City University, all of his research and planning came together to form SoftMedia Consulting Group, LLC.  The young entrepreneur harnessed established contacts in China and the Asian Pacific to secure capital and the Media999 Network was born.  Teaming up with Graduate school classmates and other Advertising Industry contacts, Mr. Jing was able to assemble a talented group of young, committed and ambitious professionals to complete his dream. With over 6 million Unique Internet users in the Asian Pacific reached monthly, Mr. Jing has accomplished the first leg of his goal.  Since then Mr. Jing has completed his MBA while running one of the most successful Internet Advertising Networks in China and the Asian Pacific.

Christopher Justice
President and CEO, Asiacontent.com
Mr Justice is a co-founder of Asiacontent.com and has served as a Director, and our President and Chief Executive Officer since May 1999. Prior to joining Asiacontent.com, Mr. Justice served as the General Manager of the South China Morning Post's Internet businesses. He joined the South China Morning Post in 1995 and was responsible for developing and managing its electronic publishing
strategy and services, including the creation of more than a dozen Web sites. In 1998, Editor & Publisher named the South China Morning Post's Internet Edition as the world's best non-U.S. newspaper online service (www.scmp.com ). Prior to joining the South China Morning Post, Mr. Justice founded a multimedia travel information company and spent eight years in the direct investment industry in Asia, first with ChinaVest and then with Morningside Asia.
Mr. Justice began his career in finance at Bankers Trust Company in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Lee Ligang Zhang
Co-founder and CEO, eLong.com (Beijing), Ltd.
Lee Ligang Zhang is a co-founder and CEO of eLong.com (Beijing), Ltd., an Internet startup founded in July 1999. eLong.com is the largest local content provider and one of the most recognized Internet brands in China. Previously, Mr. Zhang worked as Director for Product Development at Sohu.com, a major Chinese portal based in Beijing. Mr. Zhang was responsible for its overall product development from September 1998 to May 1999. Prior to Sohu.com, Mr. Zhang was a graduate student at Harvard University. During his years at Harvard, Mr. Zhang founded Harvard China Review, Inc., a non-profit organization based at Harvard University that produces journal publication and organizes conference series that dedicating to China issues. As its co-president and publisher, Mr. Zhang oversaw the strategic planning, financing, marketing and sales. Mr. Zhang was an undergraduate student at Fudan University in Shanghai, worked and studied at Columbia University and published several papers on academic journals.

Frederick Demopoulos
CEO, Shawei.com
Frederick "Fritz" Demopoulos is one of the three Founders and CEO of www.shawei.com .  He has been involved in the Internet for over five years, spending three of those years in the PRC.  Fritz first came to China in 1997 as an employee of The News Corporation Limited where he was actively involved in a number of the company. s digital, Internet and media-related initiatives including those with ChinaByte, STAR TV, News Digital Systems and Twentieth Century Fox.
Prior to coming to China, Fritz was based in Los Angeles and at the forefront of the digital revolution where he had a number of roles within the Internet and media industries, including senior positions at Universal Studios. International Television Group, The Walt Disney Company. s Disney Online, UCLA. s Center for Digital Innovation, Global MediaNet (a start-up multimedia content provider) and McAndrews & Forbes where he was stationed in both Europe and the United States.
A native of California, Fritz was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California State University at Fullerton, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Karls-Ruprecht Universitaet in Germany.  In his spare time, Fritz is an active traveler, literature fan, and an avid supporter of the Los Angeles Lakers and UCLA Bruins.  He would rather like to see Arsenal replace Manchester United at the top of the English Premier League.

Eric J. Gerritsen
Vice President of International Business Development
Eric J. Gerritsen serves as Lycos Vice president of international business development, managing overseas business development.
Prior to joining Lycos, Gerritsen had successfully started pan-Asian multimedia business units for both Longman Asia Multimedia, a division of Addison-Wesley Longman, and Philips Interactive Media Asia Pacific Ltd. Gerritsen also was founder and managing director of Multimedia Asia Ltd., a company that provided interactive multimedia product design and production services to publishers,
industry and government in the Asia/Pacific region. Gerritsen has over fifteen years. experience in the media/software industries.  He holds a bachelor of arts degree with honors in philosophy from  Queen. s University.

Hurst Lin
Co-Founder, U.S. General Manager, VP-Business Development, SINA.com
Hurst Lin is the U.S. General Manager and Vice President of Business Development for SINA.com.  He is also the co-founder of SINANET, a corporate predecessor of SINA.com, which merged with SRS, a major China software developer and Internet services company, to form SINA.com in 1999. 
Prior to working with SINA, Hurst served as a consultant with Ernst & Young Management Consulting Group, focusing on marketing and operations in telecommunications and technology companies. He has also held marketing, engineering and management positions at Octel Communication, Inc. and NYNEX.   He received his MBA from Stanford University and holds a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Dartmouth College.

Ronald Suleski
Associate, Fairbank Center for Aisian Studies
Ronald Suleski has spent nearly two decades living and working in Asia and he has visited virtually every major city in the region to conduct business. He has made regular visits to China since 1976.
He served as Managing Director for Asia with several US/UK educational publishers and has seen the information industry in China evolve from the days of a weak infrastructure where gaining access to quality paper for printing was difficult, to the present day where the Internet and the World Wide Web are truly revolutionizing all geographic areas of China.
He is a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard. He received his Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History from the University of Michigan.

Joseph Chen
Co-founder, Chairman and CEO ChinaRen, Inc .
Mr. Joseph Chen, aged 30, is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of ChinaRen, Inc.
In his work experience, Mr. Chen was associated with Altec Industries, a manufacturing company with global presence.  Started as technical support manager for Asia, Mr. Chen was later promoted to the position of area manager for Northeast Asia with P&L responsibilities.
Mr. Chen founded ChinaRen.com with two co-founders in 1999 after he obtained his Master degree in Business Administration from Stanford University.
Trained as a physicist and an engineer, Mr. Chen had been very active in participating in technology projects at Stanford.  He was involved in organizing China Internet Forum at Stanford and actively managed and participated in various hi-tech activities in Silicon Valley.  Joseph Chen also spent an internship with Bain & Company, where he consulted with a regional wireless communications company.
In addition to his MBA, Mr. Chen also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the University of Delaware and a Master degree in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Yat Siu
CEO, Outblaze
Yat Siu is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Outblaze. He is responsible for managing the delivery of projects and rolling out of products and services for the company. Yat entered the I.T. industry working with Atari Germany in 1990. By the end of 1992, he was a shareholder, director, and head of East Coast operations in Boston for Lexicor, a professional graphics software company based in Silicon Valley. By 1994, he was a co-founder, shareholder, and vice president of Radiance Software, a US software development company that was later sold to Silicon Graphics Inc. to become part of the SGI WebForce. In 1996, in Hong Kong, he founded Hong Kong Cybercity (later renamed Freenation), the first free web page and e-mail provider in Asia. Cybercity/Freenation rapidly grew to over 320,000 members and was acquired in 1998 by a US based investment group. In 1997, Yat worked at AT&T Solutions in their Systems Integration Practice as a Senior Architect where he managed networking and development projects for VPN and other Internet related applications for major Banking Institutions and ISPs. In 1998, he left AT&T to start Outblaze. Yat holds a degree in music from the University of Vienna. He is also a certified Project Manager from AT&T.
 

Joseph Tzeng
Managing Director, Crystal Internet Ventures

David Saunders
General Manager, Jump Start Incubator, chinadotcom Corporation
David Saunders is General Manager of chinadotcom corporation. s new incubator, Jump Start.  He will take the programme, focusing on growing ideas into successful dot-coms, right across Asia-Pacific.
David is accountable for identifying and implementing start-up investments.  He oversees the day-to-day operations of Jump Start and generate revenue models from these investments for the corporation.  Working closely with the incubatees, he gives strategic advice to fast-track them into a viable, sustainable business.
David has his management and finance roots out of Canada and Wall Street.  He started Jump Start for chinadotcom in July, 1999, and has since consolidated a portfolio of incubatees that immediately enhances the content of the chinadotcom portals.  With his vision and knowledge, David is destined to lead Jump Start to become the leading incubator across the region.

Xinhua Howard Zhang
Attorney at Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP
Xinhua Howard Zhang, an attorney at Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP, practices in the firm's business department, with an emphasis on international transactions, venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions,  and public offerings of securities.  Mr. Zhang has been involved in many of China's Internet companies, including Sohu.com, 8848.Net, eLong.com, MeetChina.com, Eachnet.com, CPCW.com, among many others, representing either the investors or the companies.  He is the principal lawyer for IDG (China) Ventures and E.M. Warburg, Pincus Asia Ltd.
Mr. Zhang received his B.A. from Shanghai University of International Studies, a post-graduate certificate from Beijing University of International Studies, United Nations Training Program, and his J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where he was the topics editor of the Boston University International Law Review and a recipient of the Am Jurisprudence Award.

Peter Chu
Managing Director of AsiaTech Ventures
Peter Chu is Managing Director of AsiaTech Ventures U.S. in Silicon Valley. Peter brings with him valuable large and small company management experience. Most recently he was President and Executive Producer at Channel A, an Internet content and commerce start-up focused on delivering Asia-related content and products to western consumers on the Internet. As a member of the founding team he helped shape the strategy, build the team and deliver content and commerce to consumers on the Internet.
Prior to Channel A, Mr. Chu was a founding member and Marketing Director at Envive Corp., a client/server software company in the ERP market. Mr. Chu helped develop the product strategy and business plan of the company. Mr. Chu was Product Manager for the flagship Topic product line at Verity Corp., a leading provider of search engine and information management systems. Mr. Chu also spent many years at Oracle Corporation where he participated in the growth of company from $50M to over $2Bn in revenues. He had held a variety of marketing and management positions at Oracle, and he was an early teammember in building Oracle's international division.
Mr. Chu has been advising Internet content and commerce start-ups and Asia-based businesses. He has been active in the Silicon Valley community organizations such as Stanford University, Monte Jade Association, CSPA, and HBSA/NC. Mr. Chu is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. James Ho-chien Liao
General Partner of DynaFund Ventures
Dr. James Ho-chien Liao is a General Partner of DynaFund Ventures, a Los Angeles-based venture capital fund that was launched in August 1997 with commitments of $63 million. The fund. s primary focus is on early stage information technology, microelectronics and telecommunications firms in the United States, but it also will consider later stage opportunities if they fit within the overall scope of the fund. DynaFund provides promising technology companies with the investment capital and management support they need to grow their business. In addition, DynaFund also provides a critical competitive advantage to its portfolio companies by offering access to key engineering, manufacturing, and marketing resources in the U.S. and Asia through its own business networks and the complementary networks of its U.S. and Asian Limited Partners.
On May 20, 1999 DynaFund successfully brought its portfolio company eToys to a successful IPO with current market valuations of over US$7 billion.  Dr. Liao is also involved with the board of directors of several of DynaFund portfolio companies, including Single Chip Systems, Aetas Technology Inc., DynaChip, and Troika Systems, and Duality Semiconductors.
In addition to his duties with DynaFund, Dr. Liao is also the senior Vice President of Dynamics Technology, Inc. (DTI), a business established in 1976 to engage in theoretical and experimental studies, primarily serving the U.S. Government R&D sectors as well as venture investments in commercial Hi-Tech start ups.  Recent success of DTI includes a successful IPO on July 20, 1999 for its portfolio company, Gadzoox Networks with current market valuation of  US$1.5 billion.  Within DTI, Dr. Liao has served as directors for several portfolio companies, including Sonic Desktop Software, Dynatech Taiwan Corporation, Visionetics International.
Dr. Liao was a Senior Program Manager at Xerox Corporation prior to his joining DTI in 1992.  His career at Xerox includes senior management responsibilities at Xerox Microelectronic Center, a division of designing, developing and manufacturing VLSI chips for Xerox products.  Prior to Xerox, Dr. Liao was with Burroughs Corporation, now Unisys.

Francis Bassolino
Senior Manager, Chinese Business Services
As a Senior Manager for Deloitte & Touche's Chinese Business Services, Francis is responsible for inbound and outbound China-related business.  He specializes in cross border investing evaluating joint venture partners, devising entry and expansion strategies, conducting financial due diligence reviews and raising capital.  He works closely with government agencies, state-owned enterprises and multinational companies on engagements involving mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic planning.  Fluent in Mandarin, Francis lived in China for seven years.  He holds an advanced degree from the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, sits on the Board of the Asian Financial Society, and is a member of the United States of America-China Chamber of Commerce. A frequent speaker at China business conferences, he is published and quoted in the press regularly.


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