Stanford ATI Shanghai 2004 Conference
Investment in China and Realizing the Tech Opportunities
Introduction
Stanford Asia Technology Initiative Conference 2004 in Shanghai is a forum to foster international cooperation among current and future entrepreneurs from across the Pacific Rim. It promotes high-tech entrepreneurial endeavors in China and discusses the opportunities and challenges facing venture capitalists as well as local startups.
In the past, the conference has taken place annually in several locations worldwide, from Bangalore to Tokyo to Hong Kong. It has continually attracted prominent speakers due to the high quality and scope of the conference, while maintaining a social and intimatesetting for networking.
This year, thekeynote series and two panels (venture capitalist and startup) will feature corporate luminaries, venture capitalists, universityprofessors, and management consultants.
AsiaTechnology Initiative
ATI is a student organization of StanfordUniversity. Its mission is to promote the exchange of global technology information and entrepreneurship experience. The program is possible thanks to the sponsorship of Vice Provost John C. Bravman of StanfordUniversity, Dean James Plummer of the StanfordEngineeringSchool and several prominent venture capitalists from Silicon Valley. The advising committee composed of many world-renowned scholars and entrepreneurs also contributed greatly to the program’s success.
ATI Shanghai 2004 has selected 5 outstanding students from almost 100 Stanford applicants to work with an equal number of counterparts from Fudan and JiaoTongUniversity, the two best universities in Shanghai. The students have formed teams to work on high-impact projects that require initiative and real-world technical and business solutions. Team members are given the autonomy to structure themselves, while receiving mentorship from their host companies.
Conference Speakers’ Biosketch
Jack Ma
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba.com
Jack Ma and his team of 18 co-founders created Alibaba.com in Hang Zhou, China in March 1999. Since that time, the Alibaba.com marketplace has grown to include 1,000,000 members from over 200 countries. In 1995 Ma founded China Pages, which is widely regarded to be China's first Internet-based company. Ma then accepted an invitation from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC) to head the information department of China International Electronic Commerce Center (CIECC). He left MOFTEC in early 1999 to launch Alibaba.com. Under Ma's leadership, SOFTBANK, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Capital and Investor AB have invested a combined US$25 million in Alibaba.com. Ma has also attracted SOFTBANK's CEO Masayoshi Son and former WTO Director-General Peter Sutherland to the company's Board of Advisors. Ma, is a recognized authority on the Internet and global trade, has been featured in leading media including CNN, CNBC, BBC Forbes, Time, New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal and Business Week. Ma was recently chosen by the World Economic Forum as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow."
Richard B. Dasher
Director of US-AsiaTechnologyManagementCenter
Dr. Dasher has been the Director of US-Asia Technology Management Center and Consulting Associate Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering since 1994; in addition, he has been Executive Director of Stanford's Center for Integrated Systems since 1998. The USATMC investigates topics such as the interrelationships between new technologies and industry structural change, university-industry innovation systems, intellectual property exploitation, and emerging high technologies and markets in Asia. CIS is an industry-supported research center that conducts faculty and Ph.D. research in a broad range of semiconductor and electronics technologies. Dr. Dasher also serves as Advisor to the International Business Incubator and the US-JapanBusinessIncubationCenter, both in San Jose, California. He has recently been named to the International Advisory Committee for the Hon. Koji Omi, Japanese Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, in regard to the creation of a new graduate university for science and technology in Okinawa. Holder of the Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University, Dr. Dasher directed the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute training centers in Japan and Korea from 1986-90. From 1990-93, Dr. Dasher was a board director of two Japanese companies in Tokyo, at which he developed new international business areas.
Hurst Lin
COO of SINA
Hurst Lin is a co-founder of SINANET, one of the two predecessor companies of SINA established in 1995. In 2003, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer overseeing global business development, mergers and acquisitions. During his time in SINA, he has been heavily involved in the Company's major corporate transactions and pre-IPO funding. He received his MBA from StanfordUniversity and holds a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from DartmouthCollege.
Chauncey Shey
Co-Founder of UTStarcom, CEO of SOFTBANK, China
Chauncey is a co-founder and director of UTStarcom, Inc (NASDA: UTSI), and served as UTStarcom’s Executive Vice-President from 1995, until July, 1999. From 1991 to 1995 Mr. Shey was Executive Vice-President of StarCom Network Systems, Inc. a Telecom Equipment provider; and Executive Vice President of StarCom Products, Inc., a consulting business that developed software products and provided expertise in the fields of computers and telecommunications. From 1990 to 1991, Mr. Shey was a consultant to AT&T Bell Labs. From 1986 to 1990, Chauncey was with DGM&S, a telecom software concern. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from ShanghaiJiaoTongUniversity and an M.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York.
Andreas Weigend
Andreas Weigend’s recent work focuses on behavioral modeling in e-business and finance.As Amazon.com's Chief Scientist, he directed research in data mining, statistical learning, and computational marketingHe currently holds academic positions in the US at StanfordUniversity and at the University of Washington, and in Asia at ShanghaiJiaoTongUniversity and at the National University of Singapore. He serves on the advisory boards of several startups and hedge funds. His clients include Acxiom, Bank of America, BVCapital, Eventmonitor, Goldman Sachs, Macrovision, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Nikko Securities, PlanetOut, Siemens, UBS, and Yahoo.
David Ai
Davidhas 21 years of IT industry experience in Silicon Valley. While at HP, Mr. Ai started his engineering career in relational database technology, and was a project manager until 1992. Mr. Ai also has experiences at three startup companies: Director of Product Marketing at General Wireless Communications (now Mtone; in IPO registration on NASDAQ), Vice President of Marketing and acting VP of Engineering at Cirque Corporation (acquired by ALPS Electric of Japan), and CEO of WebJK Limited. He joined Hitachi Corporate Venture Catalyst Division as Vice President in 2001.Mr. Ai is a frequent speaker on VC investments, corporate VC structure and strategy, entrepreneurial process, MBA career, managing diversity and cross-cultural communication. Mr. Ai also serves on the board of Chinese Democracy Education Foundation, Strategic Venture Association, and as an advisor to Stanford Asia Technology Initiative as well as Business Association for Stanford Engineering Students.Mr. Ai holds a bachelor degree in psychology from NationalTaiwanUniversity, a M.S. degree in computer science from IndianaUniversity, and an M.B.A. from StanfordUniversity.
Hu run (Rupert Hoogewerf)
Founder of China Rich List
China Rich List was published for the last 5 years running in Forbes Global magazine. Curious to know who was behind China’s fast-growing private sector, Rupert in 1999 founded the China Rich List with two students from Shanghai’s DonghuaUniversity. Since then, the China Rich List has become an eagerly awaited annual event for China’s private sector.Graduating in Chinese and Japanese from DurhamUniversity in 1993, Rupert worked at Arthur Andersen for 7 years (5 in London and 2 in Shanghai) until end 2000. Rupert is based between Shanghai, London and Luxembourg.
Lisa Lo
General Manger of CID
Lisa Lo has extensive experience in direct investment in technology related projects in both Taiwan and North America. At CID, she is responsible for building China portfolio. In her earlier career, Lisa joined China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB) for 6 years. Served in both Direct Investment Department and Overseas Business Department, she was involved in numerous projects which covered PC, Semiconductor, communication, and material industries in both Taiwan and UnitedState. In 1998, she was sent to help setting up CDIB Venture Management (USA) in Silicon Valley, California. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of CDIB and manages $150 million to invest into North America technology projects.
Jing Huang
Jing Huang is Managing Director for China Operations at SOFTBANK Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF), currently serving as board directors at Mobi, MDC, Versa Technology and Bocom ( Prior to SAIF, Jing was Partner at SUNeVision Ventures, the venture capital group at SUNeVision Holdings (8008.HK), where he served as board directors at Silicon Valley-based technology companies such as Cellon and Legend Silicon. Prior to SUNeVision, Jing was Senior Manager of Strategic Investments at Intel Capital, where he led investments in wireless companies such as UTStarcom (NASDAQ: UTSI). His other professional experience includes Director of Asia Pacific Research Operations at Gartner Group. Jing Huang co-founded Mtone Wireless and served as its Vice President of Marketing. Jing Huang has a MBA degree from HarvardBusinessSchool, a MA degree from StanfordUniversity and a BA degree from BeijingForeignStudiesUniversity.
Gopala Krishnan
As COO of contests2win and then COO of Mobile2win, in the last five years, GK has managed the creation and delivery of over 1400 interactive brand marketing campaigns for nearly 300 brands, over 200 of which, are multinational brands. GK is an interactive media and business strategist with a strong technology background. He focuses on Mobile2win’s pan Asian growth and the global content business.
Leo Yang
President, CEO of InfoTech Essentials, Inc.
Since late 1980s, Leo has founded a number of enterprises that turned him into a prominent figure in both Silicon Valley and in China. In 2000, he was the founder and CEO ofInfoTech Energy Efficiency, Inc., Menlo Park, California; merged into InfoTech Essentials, Inc., in 2001.
Gu Xuebin
Gu Xuebin, Founder and GM of JunCai Technology. Held positions of IT manager at IBM in Shenzhen, e-business consultant for several U.S. consulting firms, e-business analyst for Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, and marketing director for an Intel portfolio company in Shanghai.
Honored Guest List
Jiang Hong, Dean of SMD, SJTU
Ge, Weihua, Deputy Chair of Student Office, SJTU
Xu Jian, Assistant to Dean of SMD, SJTU
Ying Zhifeng, Vice Dean, School of Informational Science and Technology, Fudan
Jin Qinyuan, Dean, Department of Optical Science and Technology, Fudan
Zhou Feng, Software Engineer, Platform Architecture& Solutions Division, Intel
Bill Chen, Senior Application Engineer, Intel
Allen Hu, Manager, Intel APAC Tools Marketing and Technical Support Team
Robert Du, Senior Software Engineer and Project Manager, Intel
Iris Ren, Training and Enabling Event Manager, Intel
Raymond Qian, OEM Channel Manager, Philips
Liu Rongxin, Co-founder of FORZA
Gu Xiaosheng, Co-founder of FORZA
Chen Chunli (Kathy) FORZA
Ge Lidan (Winny) FORZA
Lu Qiang, General Manager, Mercer Human Resources Consulting
Christine Tong Senior Consultant, Mercer Human Resources Consulting
Johnson Liu General Manager, Infotech
Marchia Wu Senior Channel Manager, Infotech
Summer Gu, Administration Assistant, Infotech
Rose Shen, Administration Assistant, Infotech
Benson Jian, Senior Manager, CID VC
Sang Lin, Shanghai, CID
Rachel Ji, HR and PR manager of Bertelsmann
Zhou Bo, Business Director, Shenyin & Wanguo Securities Ltd.
Zhao Jiafu, CEO of Style Advertising Co. Ltd.
ATI Shanghai 2004 Team and Intern Programs
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