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Dr. Shu Geng

Dr. Shu Geng is a professor and Dean of the School of Environment and Energy, Peking University in Shenzhen.  Geng received his B.S. from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, and M.S. in Agronomy and Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Kansas State University. He worked for the Upjohn Company for 4 years before joining the University of California at Davis as a faculty member. As the Dean of the School of Environment and Energy, he is deeply involved in developing sustainable energy education and research programs in Peking University. He has recently founded an energy efficiency center and a key laboratory of bi-energy.

Dr. Geng is well known internationally for his research and academic administration work. He has collaborated with colleagues and institutes at Australia, the Netherlands, Japan, China, Mexico, Indonesia, and Philippines and serves as an advisor to many organizations in China including Hebei Provincial Government, National Agricultural Hi-tech Industries Demonstration Zone in Yangling, and Hebei Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He has published more than 126 peer reviewed papers in international scientific journals and has received a number of awards and honors including the election as a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the American Association for the Advancement of Science: the highest academic recognition the academic association can bestow to its members. 

Dr. Ali Al-Mashat

Prof. Dr. Ali Al-Mashat has received world-wide respect and acclaim for his success in creating and leading ARABSAT (starting 1978), one of the great high technology success stories with global impact to emerge from the Middle East. Dr. Al-Mashat inspired the Arab world to match the best in the world in high tech entrepreneurship and was the model for other global successes emerging from the GCC, including Thuraya and Al-Jazeera. Dr. Al-Mashat has degrees in mathematics and electric and electronic engineering from the University of Cairo, and earned his PhD. in telecommunications engineering, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, in the United Kingdom. Dr. Al-Mashat also has been a leader in many areas related to the United Nations Educational and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) for the last few decades. For resume click here

Dr. Steve Chen

Dr. Steve Chen is regarded as a national treasure in the US, China, and Taiwan because of his world-changing accomplishments as the architect of the later model Cray supercomputers and the inventor of blade computing. His designs include the First Parallel Vector CPUs to replace Single Vector CPU for scientific supercomputers in Cray Research, circa 1980 - 1990; commodity CPUs to replace Custom CPUs for large commercial enterprise servers in Sequent Computer Systems, circa 1990 - 2000; and the 128 Blade-based Supercomputers to replace Cluster-based servers, circa 2000 - 2010. Currently he is building the Information Utility Super Grid (Cloud Computing) based on Grid Supercomputers to deliver pervasive, massive, ubiquitous and personalized applications/contents services globally, like an electric utility, circa 2010 - 2020.

Dr. Chan is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also the president of the Third-Brain Research Institute and is recognized throughout the high-performance and high productivity computing industry as a leader, visionary, entrepreneur, and premier system architect. Mr. Chen has also gained a broad experience in R/D collaboration and technology commercialization with many multinational companies and governments in U.S., Europe, Asia and China.

Professor T.P. Ma

Prof. Ma is one of the world's leading experts on semiconductor theory, semiconductor technology, and non-volatile memories including revolutionary Phase Change Memory. He is the Raymond J. Wean Professor and former Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department, Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is an IEEE Fellow and a recipient of IEEE Andy S. Grove Award, as well as a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Professor Ma is also highly regarded in China. He was Chairman of the International Conference on Solid-State Integrated Circuit Technology, and IEEE, the largest conference in China on semiconductors. He is the Co-Chairman, Yale-Peking U. Joint Center for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology. He has assisted China with its drive to become a leading player in semiconductors and was Chief Advisor on microelectronic industry, Suzhou Industrial Park, China. Prof. Ma's honorary and advisory professorships in China include Tsinghua University, Beijing (Peking) University, Tianjin University, Fudan University, and Chinese Academic of Sciences

Dr. Martin Lee - [Chief Financial Officer]

Dr. Martin Lee, CFO of Fortune Nest, received his B.A. and M.A. in economics from Soochow University, Taiwan, an M.S. in agricultural & applied economics from the University of Wisconsin at River Falls, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Iowa. He has 35 years of business management and operation experience in the U.S., Taiwan and China, with skills and expertise in a wide variety of industries, including real estate development, financial service, high technology, education, agri-business, digital arts and project management.  After his graduation, he worked for IBM Corporation as a financial analyst for ten years. Dr. Lee's major areas of interest and key strengths include strategic and operating planning, joint venture and strategic partnership, project evaluation and management, financial planning and analysis, business process and development, investment analysis, M&A and global contract assessment.

In 1990, Dr. Lee was appointed as the project manager of T&C Tower, Taiwan. He successfully managed the most popular high-rise and mixed-used real estate development project in Taiwan history at that time, the $200 million, 85-story T&C Tower. In 1996, Dr. Lee became the Vice President of New Asia Financial Consulting Co., Ltd.  He provided financial service and business planning to the project of Promise Land – Resort & Lagoon, a $300 million US dollar project. In 1998, Dr. Lee founded the Asia Venture Capital and was appointed the CEO of the Asia Venture Capital Investment Co., Ltd. He achieved an outstanding performance record and established a very good reputation in the Hsinchu Science Park and high-tech business community in Taiwan. 

Dr. Ding-yuan Yang

Dr. Ding-yuan Yang is one of the technology visionaries responsible for Taiwan's leadership in desktop, notebook, and net book PC manufacturing. He has over 35 years engineering and business experience in IC design, semiconductor, computer, networking (LAN, Control, Internet), management, and investment, Under his leadership in various capacities of government and private institutions, Dr. Ding-yuan Yang played a pivotal role and contributed significantly to the paradigm establishment of Taiwan's semiconductor, PC, and networking industries.

Dr. Ding-yuan Yang graduated summa cum laude from the Electrical Engineering department at National Taiwan University in 1969, earned his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton in 1975. While in Princeton, he also worked at Harris Semiconductor and designed the first production-worthy 1Kb CMOS SRAM in less than a year.  In 1976, Dr. Ding-yuan Yang joined ERSO (Electronics Research and Systems Organization) at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), as the technical manager. ITRI was founded in 1973 as a national research organization that serves to strengthen the technological competitiveness of Taiwan. When RCA and ITRI inked an agreement of 5-micron CMOS  technology transfer, he was designated to lead a team of over 30 engineers and managerial personnel to accept the rigorous training of RCA's CMOS process technology and management. The success of this task was soon proved to be a corner stone to the establishment and spectacular growth of Taiwan's semiconductor industry. Dr. Yang then moved on to lead Taiwan's development of legally-certified IBM-compatible PC and set the invaluable paradigm for the growth and leadership of Taiwan's PC industry.

Dr. Ming Shih

Dr. Ming Shih earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from a National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University. Dr. Ming Shih has 30 years of experience in science and technology, as a research scientist and on composite materials at NASA Ames Research Center, a process engineer and integration technologist in semiconductor front-end process and microelectronic packaging at Amdahl and Saratoga Semiconductor. He was also a visionary entrepreneur and company CEO in areas of Field Programmable Gate Arrays and Application Specific Integrated Circuits, control networking, networked services, and photo-catalytic materials. He conducted business mostly in US, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and China, and established solid worldwide people networks.

Dr. Ming Shih has engaged in technology licensing of Japanese Photo-catalytic material processing technology to Taiwan and extended this business into thin-film solar cell area. As an optimistic entrepreneur with vision and endurance, Dr. Ming Shih partnered with Dr. Yang, Ding-yuan (also on FNC's board of directors) and is currently working together to enable knowledge-based networked services with an integrated, flexible, intelligent, and distributed network platform for new successful business endeavours.  


Dr. Peter Liaw

Prof. Peter Liaw is a world class expert in minerals, metals and materials. He obtained his B.S. in Physics from the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, USA. Since 1993 he has been Professor and Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee (UT). Prior to this he worked at the Westinghouse Research and Development (R&D) Center for 13 years.

He has published over 350 papers, edited 16 books, and presented numerous invited talks at various national and international conferences. He was awarded the Royal E. Cabell Fellowship at Northwestern University, and is a recipient of numerous "Outstanding Performance" awards from the Westinghouse R&D Center.  He was the Chairman of the TMS (The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society) "Mechanical Metallurgy" Committee, and the Chairman of the ASM (American Society for Metals) "Flow and Fracture" Committee.  He has been the Chairman and Member of the TMS Award Committee on "Application to Practice, Educator, and Leadership Awards" and is a fellow of ASM. 

Mr. George S. Sheng

George S. Sheng graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in biology and chemistry. He did post-graduate work and research at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Retina Foundation (now Eye Research Foundation). Mr. Sheng has over 25 years experience as a high technology venture capital professional and entrepreneur with broad experience in international high technology initiatives including venture formation, investments, consulting and management. George S. Sheng has broad contacts in global digital media industry with extensive connections in both Silicon Valley and digital Hollywood.

Mr. Sheng founded digital media companies and directed the VSLI development that resulted in the Video Explorer ASIC chip-set which was the de facto standard for computer-video applications with prestigious clients ( ILM. Lucasfilms, Disney, NHK, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, BBC, ITV) in the film, broadcast, cable and advertising industries worldwide. He also designed and marketed broadcast quality (including HDTV) computer video systems based on proprietary and patented Market Specific Integrated Circuits (MSIC) chip-set. His system applications include media creation (authoring), virtual studio, and media distribution (broadcast and Internet webcasting ).

Dr. Clarence Teng

Dr. Clarence Teng entered Yale University in the US with full scholarship and received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1983. He has worked for the US Department of Defense, which gave him an award for best project, as well Texas Instruments. He co-founded Worldwide Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in Taiwan Dr. Teng is a world respected expert on the business of semiconductors, and has been involved at the leading technology edge of the semiconductor industry for over 25 years. He has extensive financial expertise and ran H & Q Asia, when it was the largest venture capital firm in Asia. His expertise includes the strategies and tactics used by Japanese and Korean semiconductor industry to emerge in the 80's and 90's, respectively, during world-wide economic downturns, by focusing on the right technology for memory chips as the stepping stones to broader semiconductor industry leadership.

In the last few years, Dr. Teng has been working with Prof. Ma to prepare for  another paradigm shift in the semiconductor industry. This time, he believes a memory chip called phase change memory (PCM) will be the stepping stone. In 2008, Dr. Teng and several world-leaders in this field co-founded Being Advanced Memory Corp. He is the Chief Executive Officer of the company. He is confident that PCM will become the largest semiconductor sector in the near future and expert have started to voice their agreement with Dr. Teng. In an article by MSNBC in December, 2008, the PCM family product was nominated as one of the ten products that will shape the world in the 21st century.

Dr. Jim Wang, Ph.D.

Dr. Wang is a seasoned investment banker with 20 years of international financial experience with leading firms, specialized in asset management, direct investment, corporate finance, equity and fixed income sales/ trading with particular focus on the US and Greater China markets. He has also served at the board of director level of several successful listed and unlisted Chinese private enterprises; in which he advises the top management on business strategies and development in their respective industries in the fast changing China market.

Dr. Wang earned his Ph.D. in Finance from Columbia University in New York in 1992. Currently, he is the Managing Director and CEO of Shanghai International Asset Management (HK) Company Limited, an offshore subsidiary of Shanghai International Group, an investment arm of Shanghai Municipal Government in China. SIAM has been managing a Hong Kong listed closed end fund since 1993 with an investment portfolio of listed and unlisted companies in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. From 1996 to 1998, Dr. Wang worked for Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong as Director of Investment Banking responsible for originating debt and equity financing and other investment banking businesses. From 1992 to 1996, he worked for Bear Stearns in New York and Hong Kong as Associate Director responsible for fixed income and related product sales to Asian clients. 

Mr. Steve Sun

Steve Sun earned a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Beijing University of Science & Engineering, an M.S. in Telecommunications from Beijing University, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and a post-graduate diploma in International Business Law from the Beijing University of Foreign Economics & Trade.

Mr. Sun has been a project manager for China International Trust & Investment Corp., where he negotiated and implemented overseas investment agreements and import/export contracts with an annually average value of US$ 2 billion. Mr. Sun served as Deputy Director of Foreign Trade & Investment Department, Beijing Municipal Government, where he played a key role in proposing and implementation of the Government's reform plans in its foreign investment policy. He also assisted the Mayor and the Department Director in strategic analysis, decision making and major negotiations by providing effective investment strategies and tactical solutions in various fields of industries e.g. wireless communication, GPS, fiber-optics, hotels, water-proof building materials, automobile, gold mining and woolen/textiles in USA, Japan, Canada, Puerto Rico, Bolivia and China (Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, Shandong), and Hong Kong.

Mr. Thomas Yang

Thomas Yang is the general manager, China, for Information SuperGrid Technology, Inc., a company founded by Dr. Stephen Chen (also on Fortune Nest board). He has 20 years of management and marketing experience as a serial entrepreneur, with focus on wireless and networking.  Mr. Yang cofounded Lonpan Communication Inc., a China based mobile mesh network equipment company and was COO of Allway Communication Inc., a China Ministry of Railway Joint Venture in Beijing, which deployed the first Chinese mobile mesh network.

Prior to Allway, Tom cofounded WireGate Technology at Silicon Valley, a network acceleration equipment company. Tom was VP of Product Management of Accelerate Mobile at Silicon Valley, a mobile Internet equipment company and director of Product Marketing at Lucent, deploying the first Lucent softswitch technology. Mr. Yang also held a management position in RAM Mobile Data and senior technical positions in Motorola and AT&T Bell Labs. Mr. Yang was a PhD EE candidate, Polytechnic University of New York. He received an MS in Management, Polytechnic University of New York. MSEE, Polytechnic University of New York and BSEE, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Dr. Yury Lebedev

Dr. Yury Lebedev is the President of Russian Innovation Consortium CHIEF GROUP and CEO of BHT Pioneer of Innovation, Co. Ltd. He is a Ph.D., graduate mining engineer cum laude and patent lawyer with over 30 years experience in the management of science, technology, and innovation management. In 1989 under his initiative the first Innovation Centre SILEN under the Machine-Building Bureau of the USSR Council of Ministers was founded on the basis of the scientific research branch for implementing his high-pressure hydraulics inventions.

Dr. Lebedev was Director General of SILEN Open Society, later "SILEN" Joint-Stock Company.  In 1990 – 1992 was a member of Russian Parliament and a Chairman of Innovation Council under the Prime Minister of Russia (ranked as minister), President of Innovation Committee of Russian Federation Supreme Council. He is the author of over 300 publications, monographs, patents. His inventions were marked with WIPO Gold Medal-the highest awards of various international exhibitions. Dr. Lebedev sold his first license for hydro-splitting equipment in 1983 in Italy.

Mr. Sergey Abramov

Sergey Abramov is the first Vice-President of Russian Innovation Consortium Chief Group, Director General of SILEN JSC Sergey Abramov and winner of the government awards, including the medals 300 year of the Russian medal and Century of Underwater Forces of Russia. Mr. Abramov has a wealth of industrial and management experience, gained in part from bringing together over 20 companies with over 3,000 employees. He was General Manager and Director General of the Soviet-American joint venture Sovtek.

Within Sovtek, Mr. Abramov organized its center of science and technology and its design office engaging in high technology R & D. At Sovtek Mr. Abramov launched several innovative programs, including the Sovtek Scientific Image Processing (SSIMP) program for image analysis, and GEMOSCAN automated system for clinical blood test, expert automated systems for police and criminal investigation, gold and diamond mining, and oil and gas prospecting. He also launched an x-ray television double camera for double scanning luggage. Mr. Abramov is an inventor with over 20 patents.

Mr. Alex Lightman

Alex Lightman (MIT '83) is an executive with 25 years of management experience and 15 years of chairman and chief executive experience. He created companies that were the first movers and pioneers in multiple technology sectors, including wearable computers and augmented reality, Internet Protocol version 6, and 2D and 3D websites and syndicated advertising for large Hollywood studios. He is an award-winning inventor with multiple utility and design patents issued or pending (including "Method and system for data transmission between wearable devices or from wearable devices to portal" and "Wearable computing device capable of responding intelligently to surroundings").

Lightman is a respected writer on technology, and is the author of over 750,000 published words, including over 130 articles in major publications. He wrote Brave New Unwired World: The Digital Big Bang and the Infinite Internet (John Wiley, 2002) the first book from a major publisher on 4G wireless broadband, which was translated into Japanese and provided with an introduction by Prof. Jun Murai, Japan's "father of the Internet" and telecom strategy advisor to Japan's last four heads of state.

Lightman has been an influential advocate of more rapid adoption of advanced technologies to increase the rate of economic growth. He has been the chairman and organizer of over a dozen conferences on technologies including 4G wireless broadband, IPv6, strategic application of expert systems, and the future of wearable computers and augmented reality, in the US, Europe, and Asia. He has traveled widely to advise government and industry groups on IPv6 and 4G, including to Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, India, and the Philippines. His testimony and advocacy to the Government Reform Committee of the US House of Representatives in 2005 led to the mandate from the federal government that year to require IPv6 to be part of all future federal IT contracts. He was trained as an engineer at MIT and policy analyst at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and currently serves with two boards of directors of US public companies involved in networks and technology and a private privacy company. Part time, he is the executive director of H+, a futurist think tank that spun off hplusmagazine.com, which attracts approximately 800,000 readers a month to its website. The H+ Summit he chaired Dec. 5/6 2009 attracted over 412,000 webcast viewers.


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