AAMA Board of Directors

Dr. Robert P. Lee

Chairman of the Board; Hi-tech Entrepreneur, Investor and Professor

Dr. Lee is a 35-year pioneer of the high-tech industry, spending the first half of his career managing large organizations in Fortune 100 companies, and the second half as a serial entrepreneur.  During this time, he conducted business globally, and in the last 15 years, he was heavily involved with running businesses in China. Since 2010, he is also Adjunct Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School where he also serves as the Associate Director of the MBA Program and an Advisory Board Member of the CUHK Center for Entrepreneurship.  Until late 2012 (when the company was acquired), he was Executive Chairman of Achievo Corporation (one of the largest China IT services companies).  He co-founded Achievo in early 2002 and served as its Chairman and CEO until December 2008, when the company reached over 2500 people in size, more than 2000 of whom were in China.  From 2002 to 2007, he was also CEO of Accela, Inc. (board member from 1999-2013) and led that company to become a dominant government enterprise software firm in the US. Until November 2001, he was president & CEO of Inxight Software, a Xerox-PARC spinout that tripled in revenues and raised venture funding under his leadership (now part of SAP).  Before Inxight, he was chairman, CEO and president of Insignia Solutions, a software company he took public on NASDAQ in 1995.  Previously, he was executive vice president of Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC - software), where among many achievements including rapid growth, he acquired and integrated 6 companies, including Norton Computing, which became a legendary M&A success story in the Silicon Valley.  Dr. Lee was senior vice president of Shared Medical Systems (since acquired by Siemens) and was at IBM for 11 years (responsible for its office systems software, healthcare industry software, overall software engineering and various systems/communications software) and Computer Sciences Corporation for many years.  Dr. Lee is currently on the board of Osel, Inc., a biopharmaceutical startup, and was previously on the boards of S3, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIII - semiconductor) and SONICblue (NASDAQ: SBLU - digital media devices).  He also serves as advisor to various Western and Chinese companies and investment funds, besides being a venture partner, limited partner and angel investor himself.

Dr. Lee participates in high-tech developments all over the world.  During Mr. CH Tung's first official visit to the Silicon Valley as Hong Kong Chief Executive in June 1999, Dr. Lee was the co-host and speaker at a luncheon in Mr. Tung's honor.  At Insignia Solutions, Dr. Lee hosted a luncheon for HM Queen Elizabeth II who paid an extended visit to his company's offices in the UK after the company won multiple Queen's Awards.  In 1996, Dr. Lee was invited to the Philippines to meet President Ramos and other top leaders to help formulate a high-tech initiative for that country.  His business and professional activities in China have put him in frequent contact with senior government officials there.  Dr. Lee has met with many heads-of-state and senior government officials during their visits to the Silicon Valley, particularly those from Asia/China.

As a result of his active professional and community activities, including serving as the Global Chairman of the Board of Trustee of the AAMA (Asia America MultiTechnology Association), Chairman of the AAMA Pearl River Delta Chapter, former vice chairman of HYSTA’s China Global Services Alliance, former board member of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association (West Coast) and Asia Society President’s Circle, Dr. Lee is well known to the Silicon Valley and Asian media. He was featured in several books on Chinese-American successful entrepreneurs, and appeared frequently in print, web, radio and TV media globally. Dr. Lee is an accomplished public speaker.

Dr. Lee grew up in Hong Kong.  He holds Ph.D. and MS degrees from UCLA, and a BA from UC Berkeley, all in computer science.  He resides in the Silicon Valley.  Dr. Lee is fluent in English and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin).

Gordon Ho

Secretary and Legal Counsel; Partner at Cooley LLP 

Gordon Ho is a partner at Cooley, a global law firm with offices throughout the United States, Asia and Europe. Gordon is based in Palo Alto and focuses on corporate and securities law.  He acts as outside general counsel for growth-stage companies, helping founders establish and maintain a corporate and governance structure that will enable rapid growth throughout the life cycle of the business. He advises both private and publicly traded companies on a full range of matters, including equity and debt financings, IPOs, strategic corporate relationships and joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, IP and employment, and securities exchange reporting and compliance.   Gordon counsels companies, as well as venture and corporate strategic investors, in a wide range of industries, including software, consumer electronics, fintech, life sciences and healthcare, energy innovation and digital media. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Prospect Silicon Valley, a nonprofit innovation hub that focuses on advanced mobility and energy solutions for urban communities.

Michael Wu, CPA, CGMA

CFO; Partner at Singer Lewak-Silicon Valley Tax Practice

Michael Wu is a Partner at SingerLewak LLP’s Silicon Valley Tax practice.  Michael has over twenty years of experience in accounting and taxation.  Michael assisted US and foreign companies in a full range of accounting and corporate tax matters including mergers and acquisitions and international tax matters.  Michael joined SingerLewak from Ernst & Young LLP in 2009, and his professional experience includes 13 years working at Big 4 accounting firms (PwC & EY) and over 3 years working at a NASDAQ company as the head of its tax department.  Michael is a member of SingerLewak’s International Service group.

Michael’s clients ranged from Global Fortune 500 companies to start-ups in Technology, Life Sciences, Manufacturing & Distribution, Professional Services, Real Estate and Venture Capital industries.

Michael earned an M.B.A. in Taxation and a B.S. in Accounting (Magna Cum Laude) from California State University East Bay in California. Michael is a C.P.A. licensed in the states of California and Washington. Michael is a member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountant and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.  Michael serves as board member for Non-profit organizations including Asia America Multi-technology Association (“AAMA”) and Prospect Silicon Valley (“ProspectSV”).  Michael speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and has been a frequent speaker at various accounting/tax seminars.

Rebecca Chou

Principal, Ridgeway Institute | Partner, Talent Age Associates

Rebecca brings three decades of global executive management, leadership consulting and Fortune 200 executive experience in human resource management and professional development. Rebecca is Principal at Ridgway Institute and Partner of Talent Age Associates where she helps develop potentials of leaders into performance.  She is also President of CXS focusing on Human Resource Management. Her corporate background includes head of Human Resources at SYNNEX where she helped achieved an IPO of $8 billion in 2004, and at Northwest/Delta Airlines, Pillsbury, and Amdahl/Fujitsu Corporations.

In the past decade, she has served on the Board of Directors of Asia America MultiTechnology Association. Rebecca is also on the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). As a painter herself, the creativity, strategic and abstract thinking required in coaching executives and solving organizational challenges are parallels in the realm of art making.

Rebecca has a BA in English from Tamkang University and a MA in Counseling from the University of New Mexico, and an on-going art education from SFAI.

Jay Eum

Jay Eum is a venture capitalist with 20 years of extensive investment experience across both institutional and corporate investment firms. Jay is currently the Managing Partner of GFT Ventures and a Senior Advisor to Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners (DTCP).

Jay co-founded TransLink Capital, a Palo Alto-based early stage venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs develop customer connections and partnerships in Asia. Jay was responsible for leading investments in artificial intelligence, fintech/blockchain, and consumer technology. Noteworthy exits including Carbonite (NASDAQ: CARB), Coin (acquired by Fitbit), Enterprise DB (acquired by Peak Equity), and YuMe (NYSE: YUME). Jay led investments in artificial intelligence company; SoundHound, and in fintech/blockchain companies; Forte, Klaytn, Provenance, Quantstamp, Rally, and Terra. Jay also invested in consumer technology companies; Chartboost, CoolerScreens, Epic, Gamevice, nWay, Peel, Penrose, Singular, and SquareTwo.

Prior to TransLink, Jay was Managing Director of Samsung Ventures where he established and led the US venture capital operations for Samsung, responsible for U.S.-based investments and portfolio management. Jay led investments in AnalogicTech (NASDAQ: AATI), Athena Semiconductor (acquired by BRCM), Continuous Computing (acquired by RadiSys), DivX (NASDAQ: DIVX), GCT Semiconductor, InPhi (NASDAQ: IPHI), Intellon (NASDAQ: ITLN), MontaVista (acquired by Cavium), Pure Digital (acquired by Cisco), Techwell (NASDAQ: TWLL), and Teknovus (acquired by BRCM).

Jay started his venture capital career at Vertex Management, Singapore-based venture capital arm of investment firm Temasek Holdings. Jay managed the firm’s U.S.-based wireless communications, IP-based services, and biomedical portfolio including investments in Aicent (acquired by Syniverse), GRIC Communications (NASDAQ: GRIC), and PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL).

Jay received an MBA from Stanford University and M.S/B.S. in Chemistry from Seoul National University. Jay serves as Chairman and Board Director of the Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA). Jay is also an active angel investor and advisor to several start-ups including Coupang, KiwiCo, Korbit, Merit, Noom, SoFi and Tapas. 

John Huber

National Sales Executive, Technology Banking at Wells Fargo Bank

John is responsible for client origination within Wells Fargo’s Commercial and Technology Banking Groups covering the Silicon Valley region. Strong practice interest and expertise around all aspects of payments and commerce enabling technologies.

David J. Lam

General Partner at Atlantic Bridge

David Lam is the Managing Director of WestSummit Capital. David has more than 15 years of private equity, technology, and investment banking experience in software and technology-enabled services. Prior to WestSummit, David was the Managing Director and Head of US operations for WI Harper, a leading China focused technology venture capital firm. At WI Harper, David was involved in the firm’s investments in Innovation Works and Quixey.

Prior to joining WI Harper, David was a Vice President at The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm, where he led and managed investments in telecommunications and technology-enabled business services sectors for its U.S. venture and growth capital fund. While at Carlyle, Mr. Lam served on the Board of Directors and as the Audit Committee Chair of Actelis Networks, and as a Board Observer of Air2Web (acquired by Velti), eScreen (acquired by Alere), Ingenio (acquired by AT&T) and Panasas. Previously, David served as Director of Business Development at Panasas, a leading provider of scale-out parallel data storage systems and a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group.

Nader Fathi

CEO, Kiana Analytics

Nader Fathi is a serial entrepreneur and veteran of the Big Data industry.  He is currently the CEO of Kiana Analytics, a Big Data company that helps brick-and-mortar businesses convert visitors to customers.  He was CEO of SigmaQuest, a Big Data for Supply Chain solution, which he co-founded in 2002.  Camstar Systems successfully acquired SigmaQuest in 2010 and Nader lead its Supply Chain Quality practice until 2012.  Nader mentors and advises startups as the Executive-in-Residence (EIR) at the University of Southern California Stevens Institute for Innovations and the Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley.  He is currently on the advisory board of Glassbeam, Machine-to-Machine analytics.  He has coached Big Data companies in various vertical markets including sports, retail, finance, health/fitness, and environmental analytics. Previously, Nader held executive positions at IntraStage, IKOS, Cadence, and Daisy systems.  He started his career as software and chip designer at Xerox Microelectronics.Nader holds a bachelor and masters in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California and completed his coursework toward a PhD.  He has also completed numerous programs in marketing, business and Gamification at UCLA, The Wharton School, and UC Santa Cruz.

Dr. Huijun Ring

Professor at Stanford University & Hi-tech Entrepreneur

Dr. Huijun Ring received her PhD in molecular biology and genetics from Cornell University and completed her post-doctoral medical genetics training at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is a clinical molecular geneticist and board-certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics.

Dr. Ring is an experienced biotech entrepreneur and executive. Previously she worked at Incyte Pharmaceuticals and DNA Direct in Silicon Valley. She was the founder and CEO of iDNA Inc, a precision medicine company. iDNA Inc. was named as one of the fastest growing technology companies in China by Deloitte and was acquired by a public company. She has also cofounded and advised several biotech startups in Silicon Valley and mentored many first-time entrepreneurs.

Currently, Dr. Ring is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University, specializing in genomic medicine, AI health and longevity research. She mentors students from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and junior women faculty in science and medicine through the Stanford University Faculty Development Office. Additionally, Dr. Ring teaches the course "Science and History of Traditional Chinese Medicine" and serves as a faculty advisor for the Stanford iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) team. Dr. Ring is co-founder of Stanford Hub for AI Wellbeing and Longevity.

Canice Wu

Head of Insurance Practice, Velocity

Canice Wu has over 20 years of experience in developing and scaling successful businesses from concept to market leader. Previously, he was President of Plug and Play Tech Center, a high tech business accelerator working with over 300 startups and a network of over 180 VC’s and 300 corporations. Prior to joining Plug and Play Tech Center, he was CEO of Insights OnDemand, providing cloud based Business Intelligence Solutions. Prior to Insights OnDemand, he was VicePresident, General Manager and COO of CRM and Industry Solutions at Siebel Systems. He came to Siebel from Booz, Allen & Hamilton where he was a management consultant specializing in forming business strategies and market penetration plans for Fortune 500 companies. Canice is also on the board of AAMA as well as a member of Sand Hill Angels. Canice has a BS and MS in Computer Science from MIT, and an MBA from University of California at Berkeley.

Ken Wong

Proprietor, Investor and Board Member

Ken Wong is actively engaged in the Livermore winegrowing and winemaking community, serving on the Board of Directors for the Livermore Valley Winegrowers Association and co-chairing its Quality Enhancement and Education Committee.  Prior to joining the wine industry, he held senior leadership positions in technology and entrepreneurship, including Engineering Director at Cisco Systems, Vice President of Data Center Operations at a start-up, and Venture Partner evaluating early-stage technology companies.  Ken began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a Member of the Technical Staff.  He holds a Master’s in electrical engineering from New York University Tandon School of Engineering, along with certificates in Personal Financial Planning from UC Santa Cruz Extension, and Winemaking from UC Davis Extension.

Ken Wong, owns the HLW Vineyard in Livermore and the HLW Winery in Fremont. 

Chairman of Shenzhen Yuanzheng Investment Development. President of Shenzhen Yuanxing Biomedical Technology.