Dr. Chi-Foon Chan is President and Chief Operating Officer

for Synopsys. As such, Dr. Chan exercises full global responsibility for driving the broad range of efforts required to manage the company's internal operations and worldwide field organizations.

He joined Synopsys in 1990 as Vice President of Applications and Services. Dr. Chan has served as Senior Vice President, Design Tools Group, with responsibility for the business group structure that has continued to grow Synopsys' synthesis business into a principal market position. As General Manager, DesignWare Operations, he initiated Synopsys' IP program. He also served as Vice President, Engineering, and as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Organization, where he advaned global expansion into India, Ireland, and China. In January 1997 he was promoted to his current positions of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, adding the title of President in may 1998, at which time he joined the Synopsys Board of Directors.

Previously, at NEC Corporation, Dr. Chan was General Manager of the microprocessor group, responsible for marketing all NEC microprocessor devices in North America. Prior to NEC, Dr. Chan was an engineering manager at Intel Corporation.

Dr. Chan serves on the Board of Directors for NECAM Electronics (a 1b subsidiary of NEC) and the Hong Kong Silicon Valley advisory group HKSV.COM. He is an Industry Fellow of ISQED and serves as a Visiting Professor of Peking University.

Dr. Chan holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers Univesrity and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.                                                                         

Mr. Choi was member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs for three years from 1989 and returned to Korea and worked as a Director of Fiber optic/wireless network, Korea Telecom R&D center. After building his career at Daeyoung Electric as a CTO, and Hanchang Group as Vice President of ICT, he founded Neowave Inc. and became CEO. He received Grand Prize for Korean Venture Award of the Year from Korea Management Association, IR52 JangYoungShil Award from the Maeil Business Newspaper & Korea Industrial Technology Association (KOITA) and more honors through out his career.

He is an expert in the field of optical communication, and was the first to develop Optical Transmission Technology in Korea in 1979 when he was a researcher at ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute). Mr. Choir is an International Council Member of ISSLS and Senior Member of IEEE. He received B.S. and M.S. in EE at Seoul National University and Ph.D. from the Dept. of EE, University of Texas, Austin.

Jean Deleage is Founding Partner and Managing Director of Alta Partners. He began his venture capital career in 1971 in Paris, France with Sofinnova and started its very successful American subsidiary, Sofinnova, Inc. in 1976 in San Francisco. In 1979, he formed Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., with Craig Burr and William Egan. He co-founded Alta Partners in 1996.

Mr. Deleage is an industry leader in biotechnology. He had the vision to start Alta BioPharma family of funds, one of the very first venture capital initiatives to fund later stage life sciences companies. He was an early investor in many of the leading companies in the field today, including Cephalon, Chiron and Genentech.

JMr. Deleage holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the École Supérieure d'Electricité and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Sorbonne. In 1993, Jean was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government in recognition of his career accomplishments.

Prior to joining Disney, Mr. Hsieh was a partner at William Kent International, a strategy consulting firm specialized in developing international businesses for multinationals, where he was responsible for the firm’s practice in Asia.

Mr. Hsieh has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS from Harvard University.

Mr. Ito has been with Fujitsu Ltd. for over thirty-five years and is currently executive vice president. In this capacity, he is in charge of the System Product Business which includes all facets of the server, storage, network, and PC lines of business. Mr. Ito has been a member of the Board since 2004.

Joining Fujitsu in 1970, Mr. Ito has held a number of positions within the company. He has been Group President of both the Platform Business Planning Group and the Personal Systems Business Group. Mr. Ito was also instrumental in developing the mobile strategy for Fujitsu. He served as Chairman and CEO of Fujitsu PC Corporation from 1998 to 2000. Mr. Ito has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Tokyo University.

From June 2001 to May 2003, Mr. Daniel Mao served as Chief Executive Officer of SINA Corporation, the leading Chinese news media and information services company listed on NASDAQ. During his tenure, Mr. Mao was instrumental in the successful turnaround and the strong growth of the company. In early 1999, Mr. Mao started out as Chief Operating Officer of SINA, which is a result of a merger between two Internet companies located in the United States and China. He was responsible for the integration of the merged company, and for building the business operation and strategic alliance teams. Prior to joining SINA, Mr. Mao served as Vice President of Walden International, a renowned venture capital firm, overseeing investments in technology-based companies in the United States, China and Hong Kong. Among a number of successful investments, his investment in Stone Rich Sight Information Technology Company Ltd. (SRD) in 1997 became a famous case of venture investment in China. During his tenure with Walden International, Mr. Mao helped bring about the merger between SRS and SINANET.com, which resulted in the formation of SINA.com at the end of 1998.

Mr. Mao received his M.S. Degree in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University in the U.S.A., and his B.S. Degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiaotong University in China.

Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli holds the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been on the Faculty since 1976. He obtained an electrical engineering and computer science degree ("Dottore in Ingegneria") summa cum laude from the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy in 1971. In 1980-1981, he spent a year as a Visiting Scientist at the Mathematical Sciences Department of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. In 1987, he was Visiting Professor at MIT. He has held a number of visiting professor positions at Italian Universities, including Politecnico di Torino, Universita’ di Roma, La Sapienza, Universita’ di Roma, Tor Vergata, Universita’ di Pavia, Universita’ di Pisa, Scuola di Sant’Anna.

He was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in the area of Electronic Design Automation. He is the Chief Technology Adviser of Cadence. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Cadence, UPEK, Sonics, Gradient and Accent, an ST Microelectronics-Cadence joint venture he helped founding. He is a member of the HP Strategic Technology Advisory Board and of the Science and Technology Advisory Board of General Motors. He consulted for a number of US companies including IBM, Intel, ATT, GE, Harris, Nynex, HP, United Technology, Japanese companies including Kawasaki Steel, where he held the title of Chief Technology Advisor, Fujitsu, Sony and Hitachi, and European companies including ST Microelectronics, Alcatel, Daimler-Chrysler, Ericsson, Magneti-Marelli, BMW, Bull, and COMAU. He is on the Advisory Board of the Foundation Tronchetti Provera. He was an advisor to the Singapore Government for microelectronics and new ventures. He is the founder and Scientific Director of PARADES, a European Group of Economic Interest supported by Cadence, Magneti-Marelli and ST Microelectronics. He is the Chairman of the Industrial Advisory Board of Project Elettra, Trieste. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Lester Center for Innovation of the Haas School of Business and of the Center for Western European Studies, and a member of the Berkeley Roundtable of the International Economy (BRIE). He is a member of the High-Level Group of the EU Artemis Platform.

In 1981, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award of the University of California. He received the worldwide 1995 Graduate Teaching Award of the IEEE (a Technical Field award for “inspirational teaching of graduate students”). In 2002, he was the recipient of the Aristotle Award of the Semiconductor Research Corporation. He has received numerous research awards including the Guillemin-Cauer Award (1982-1983), the Darlington Award (1987-1988) of the IEEE for the best paper bridging theory and applications, and two awards for the best paper published in the Transactions on CAS and CAD, three best paper awards and one best presentation awards at the Design Automation Conference. In 2001, he was given the prestigious Kaufman Award of the Electronic Design Automation Council for pioneering contributions to EDA.

He is an author of over 650 papers and 15 books in the area of design tools and methodologies, large-scale systems, embedded controllers, hybrid systems and innovation.

Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 1982 and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, since 1998. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli was the Technical Program Chairperson of the International Conference on CAD and his General Chair. He was the Executive Vice-President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. In 1999, he was awarded the CASS Golden Jubilee Medal.

Dr. Semmoto founded eAccess Ltd in 1999. eAccess is Japan’s first true entrepreneurial and global IP/telecom company that provides high-speed broadband telecommunication services using xDSL technology. After 5 years of operation, eAccess grew to a leading broadband IP operator in Japan, and it expects to enter into the mobile broadband market in 2006. eAccess completed its Initial Public Offering at the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers in October 2003 and moved to the Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section (TSE1) in November 2004. This is considered to be the fastest listing in the TSE1 whose market capitalization is approximately US$1.5 billion.

Prior to eAccess, Dr. Sachio Semmoto spent 30 years in senior management positions including Nippon Telephone & Telegraph (NTT), Kyocera, and DDI Corporation (DDI) which he co-founded as an Executive Vice President in 1984. At NTT, he developed the first optical fiber system in Japan and led the development of the Information Network System, the world’s first digital service which embodied the ISDN concept. He was Japan’s official representative to the ITU on optical fiber and ISDN (1974-1980). He left NTT as a General Manager to join Kyocera Corporation as a Managing Director to co-found DDI, the first private inter-exchange carrier. He played a major role in bringing DDI up to $5 billion in sales and $630 million in profit after 7 years of operation. In 1984, Dr. Semmoto left DDI to become a professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University to teach in the areas of entrepreneurial management and information technology.

Although he spent most of his career in the telecommunication industry, he has also had a long history of academic involvement through extensive lecturing engagements at the world’s leading universities, including Harvard, Stanford, and Northwestern in the U.S. and the UK. He was a visiting professor at the Carnegie Mellon University and at the Haas School of Business at University of California Berkeley in 1992-1993 and 2000-2001 respectively, and he was a Visiting Research Fellow at Stanford University in 1997.

He serves the boards of high technology companies outside Japan, including Network Appliance Inc. in Silicon Valley and SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd. in Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is a trustee of the Tokyo Foundation and the Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs, JASVE. Dr. Semmoto published numerous papers and books on both telecommunication technologies and high technology management.

He is a graduate of Kyoto University, Japan and received his MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Florida.

Larry Minoru Yoshida founded Innotech Corporation in 1987 and served as the president, CEO of Innotech Corp. for 14 years and the chairman, CEO for 4years. Innotech became a public company in 1991 which was the record fastest case in Japan. I am going to retire from the chairman, CEO position at the end of March, 2005 and sit on the Corporate Advisor of Innotech Corporation. Innotech Corporation is doing business with number of U.S. based high technology companies in the Japanese semiconductor and electronics industries as a distributor. Revenue in the last year was $400M.

Before Innotech, Larry Yoshida was working for Tokyo Electron Limited for 18years and retired from the president, CEO of Tokyo Electron Limited in 1986. He had sat on the Board Member of Tokyo Electron Limited in 1975 and invented the world first fully automated wafer prober in 1976.

Jeffrey joined Walden International in 2001. Prior to WI, Jeffrey was assistant to the Chairman at CITIC Pacific Ltd. in Hong Kong. Earlier in his career, he was Manager, Motor Vehicle Department at the Mitsubishi Corporation in Tokyo, an International Business Consultant at APTI (IBM Japan Group), in Fujisawa, Japan, and Assistant to the President of Stone Group in Beijing, China.

Jeffrey holds a Civil Engineering Certificate from the China Social University, a B.S. in Economics from the University of Nagasaki, Japan, and an M.M. from Stanford University.