Stanford ATI Shanghai 2004 Conference

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 intimate setting for networking.

This year, the keynote series and two panels (venture capitalist and startup) will feature corporate luminaries, venture capitalists, university professors, and management consultants.

Asia Technology Initiative

ATI is a student organization of Stanford University. 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 Stanford University, Dean James Plummer of the Stanford Engineering School 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 JiaoTong University, 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-Asia Technology Management Center 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-Japan Business Incubation Center, 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 Stanford University and holds a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Dartmouth College. 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 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 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 Stanford University and at the University of Washington, and in Asia at Shanghai Jiao Tong University 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 David has 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 National Taiwan University, a M.S. degree in computer science from Indiana University, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

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 Donghua University. Since then, the China Rich List has become an eagerly awaited annual event for China’s private sector. Graduating in Chinese and Japanese from Durham University 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 United State. 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 (www.bocomdigital.com). 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 Harvard Business School, a MA degree from Stanford University and a BA degree from Beijing Foreign Studies University. 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 of InfoTech 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

ATI Shanghai 2004 Team

David has been assisting with the development of a Stanford Directors business plan to guide the launch of a new software Adam Kwok application. This has involved market research, financial Katherine Zhou projections, and strategic analysis. Dennis has conducted Nancy Yu research into the use of embedded processors among Telecom Equipment Manufacturers in China. These TEM’s Shanghai Co-directors include ZTE, Huawei, UTStarcom, and Alcatel-Shanghai Bell. Sun Jun has worked on the software stack to Zheng Jingjing enable to new features of a PC targeting for Internet Zhao Pengzhou café. Wu Kaikai was involved in two projects, marketing research and the design of internal training Stanford Fellows and propaganda material. David Chiu Dennis Kuo Emma Chen John Haller Emma and Sun Jie worked in Mercer HR consulting firm for Shanghai Fellows two months, joining in a project about employee retention Fudan survey focusing on China High-tech industry. After Sun Jun collecting and analyzing the turnover statistics and trends, Wu Kaikai reasons why employees leave, current retention practices, Sun Hongtao we can get informed about industry’s benchmark of current turnover statistics and trends; gain updated information of SJTU the best retention practices in the industry; understand Chen Luyi employee’s real needs, identify the major reasons why key Sun Jie employees leave; design customized retention plan to reduce the turnover rate effectively.

The task that Chen LuYi and John Haller were given at InfoTech Essentials (Based in Menlo Park, with sales offices in Beijing and Shanghai), was to inform the employees South of the Yangtze, all the different ways to sell from the product line of energy saving devices. We gave a talk in Hangzhou, led small office meetings, and presented an entire office discussion for the CEO. The main part of the internship was quite successful, with a new client coming on board and an end the summer conference FORZA scheduled for Beijing.

FORZA was founded by Sun Hongtao and his partners, Liu Rongxin and Gu Xiaosheng, in March 2004 after 2 years’ preparation. The team worked on the alternator regulator of automobile. They went through the whole product exploitation cycle including market survey, requirement analysis, feasibility study, product development, sample production and sales channel establishment. FORZA's business scope mainly covers alternator regulator and front lamp blast of automobile now. FORZA aims to become the professional design company in automobile electricity and lamping system, offering resolution for manufacture companies.