Hong Yu
Hong Yu
Mr. Hong Yu founded Aboundi Inc. in February 2005 with the mission to enable innovative solutions for the ubiquitous communications networking applications with high quality and cost effective essential networking products.
Prior to Aboundi Inc. Hong founded Lancast in 1990, in 1997 the company was listed in the Inc. 500 fastest growing companies. Lancast innovated the ethernet for the ‘first mile’ application through optical fiber deployment. In 1981, Hong founded his first entrepreneurial venture, CASAT Technology, Inc., a company that developed the first Frequency Agile Video Modulator device for the cable and satellite market.
Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Hong worked for Corning Glass, GTE, and M/A-Com with progressive Engineering responsibilities from R&D, System Applications, to Product Marketing Management.
In 1998, Mr. Yu was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the New Hampshire High Technology Council and was chosen as the “National Minority Small Business Person of the Year” by the US Small Business Administration the same year. He was also elected as the “1998 Model for the Overseas Chinese Young Entrepreneur” by the Government of Taiwan.
Mr. Yu is a Registered Professional Engineer and has five patents issued with other patent applications pending. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA degree from the University of Texas.
Words from Chairman Nanying Yin
Dear Members,
Welcome to NECINA! As we continue to grow our organization, I would like to emphasize our mission of developing entrepreneurship and leadership skills, sharing cutting edge technologies, best business practices and emerging opportunities, and bridging companies between American and Greater China for information exchange and business creations.
From the very early days of NECINA, our founders forged a culture to encourage entrepreneurship. As a result, many NECINA members have created successful startups; and, even with today’s economic downtown, we continue to encourage our members to strive for innovation and to explore new business ventures.
NECINA has brought together diverse professionals, entrepreneurs, investors and corporate executives to share their ideas and opportunities. We will continue to create such forums for exchange and avenues to connect the US and greater China region.
NECINA remains our home for personal and professional growth.
It is a place to build friendship and networks. Since its inception over thirteen years ago, our organization has expanded tremendously.
Thanks to our volunteers and members like you - members who are proud of what we have done and care about what we will do. In these challenging times, I would like to ask everyone to continue to support each other and our organization.
Let us make NECINA the best it can be, and have fun doing so!
Nanying Yin
Chairman of NECINA
Jimmy Wang
Jimmy Wang
Jimmy Wang is the Director of Engineering and a member of the funding team at 8D World, a start-up company building virtual world to the global audience.
Before 8D World, Jimmy was a Principal Investigator and Technical Lead at Verizon Business. He was responsible for architecture design and team management in building online applications for enterprise customers. Prior to Verizon, Jimmy co-founded MissionCalls Corp, which developed multi-channel communication tools. Jimmy worked as Senior Software Engineer at Essential and Summit Technology before that.
Jimmy holds a BS degree from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from Institute of Photographic Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He continued his education at Harvard University in Information Technologies. He has published eight articles in leading international journals. Jimmy was President of NECINA during 2004-2005.
Nanying Yin, Chairman
Dr. Nanying Yin is VP of Technology at Casa Systems. Prior to that, he served as VP of Technology and VP of Engineering at Airvana Inc., a wireless communication equipment provider. Before joining Airvana, Dr. Yin was a Founder and Executive Vice President of Product Development at PhotonEx Corporation, a 40 Gigabit optical networking equipment provider.
From 1997-1999, Dr. Yin was Engineering Director of Internet Core Router Group, Nortel Networks/Bay Networks. From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Yin served as Director of Networking Technology of Bay Architecture Lab, Bay Networks, Inc., a data networking equipment provider. Prior to Bay Networks, he held engineering positions at Wellfleet Communications and Motorola Inc.
Dr. Yin holds 20 U.S. patents and received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York.
Wufu Chen, Honorable Chairman
Wu-Fu Chen, managing member and co-founder of Acorn Campus, Genesis Campus, & iD SoftCapital, is a renowned networking and serial entrepreneur. Mr. Chen has founded numerous high tech companies including Cascade Communications . In 1994 he steered Cascade through its IPO, which created over $10 billion in capitalization. After the acquisition of Arris Networks, he was a VP at Cisco Systems where he led their integrated voice, data, and video access product development.
Mr. Chen has served as chairman and CEO of leading edge start-ups such as Shasta Networks (acquired by Nortel), Ardent Communications (acquired by Cisco Systems), and Arris Networks (acquired by Ascend Communications) . He has been featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and chosen one of the top ten entrepreneurs of 2000 by Red Herring. Light Reading once called Wu-Fu Chen the "most influential person" in optical networking. Mr. Chen is now actively involved in the development of portfolio companies and plays an important role in attracting deals as well as top talent to Acorn Campus and its portfolio companies.
Mr. Chen received an MSEE from the University of Florida and a BSEE from National Taiwan University . From 1976 to 1977 he was in the computer science doctoral program at UC Berkeley.
Cheng Wu, Honorable Chairman
Cheng Wu, a true entrepreneur and founding member of NECINA, is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Acopia Networks. Mr. Wu also held various executive positions at Cisco including VP of Strategy and Group VP and General Manager for Cisco's Content and Multiservice Edge Group. Mr. Wu joined Cisco in June 2000 through Cisco's $5.7B acquisition of ArrowPoint Communications where he was the Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO. Before ArrowPoint, he co-founded Arris Networks, a Massachusetts based company that developed high-density Internet access products. Seven months later Arris was sold to Cascade Communications for $150M.
The highlight of his 20 year career was being named to InteractiveWeek magazine's "Top 25 Unsung Heroes of the Internet" list in 2000. His better half is Shalin Wu.
Boards and Achievements: Key Industry Player award by Massachusetts Telecom Council in 2002; Second largest corporate merger in Massachusetts history (Cisco’s acquisition of ArrowPoint in 2000 for $5.7B); Board member: Massachusetts Telecom Council, Data Power Corporation - www.datapower.com, and Ammasso - www.ammasso.com. Chairman of the Board: Acopia Networks - www.acopia.com. Honorary Chairman of the Board: NECINA.
Jenny Chen
Ms. Jenny Chen is one of NECINA's founding member and has served as NECINA's General Manager from 1998~2006. She has been elected as NECINA board of director since 2000 and President of NECINA 2010-2011 term.
Ms. Chen stared her career in the Boston Area's high tech industry at Wang Laboratories as a visiting scholar with a fellowship from the United Nations.
She has held technical positions in several US Telecommunication companies including Cabletron Systems, Cascade Communications, Ascend Communications, Lucent Technologies, Unisphere Networks, Siemens Networking Converged and Siemens Enterprise. Currently, she is working at Dialogic as a Principle Technical Staff Member.
Ms. Chen holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, a MS degree in Computer Science from Rivier College and Project Management Institute's project manager certification from Boston University.
Jun Wang
Mr. Jun Wang currently serves as Executive Director of Avid China Development and Innovation Center, working through the Agile/Scrum methodology and as an integrated part of Dextrys, a premier US based China outsourcing firm delivering product engineering and application services. Prior to this, He was Director of Outsourced Engineering and oversaw China outsourcing projects at Lumigent Technologies. Mr. Wang was a Corporate Development Strategist at Data Electronic Devices Inc., advising on China-based operations. Prior to Data ED, Mr. Wang was the Vice President at Powerise International, one of four Microsoft Strategic Partnerships in China. Mr. Wang was a founding team member of Arventi. Prior to that, Mr. Wang worked at Vicor Corporation as a Chief Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) engineer, responsible for large-scale Manufacturing Execution System (MES) projects involving entire software life cycle management.
Mr. Wang was born in Shanxi, he holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MS degree in Electronic & Mechanical Engineering both from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MS degree in Computer Information Systems both from Northeastern University in US, and an MBA degree from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Mr. Wang studied at a Ph. D. program in Mechanical Engineering from BIT. He has published thirteen technical papers in international journals.
Mr. Wang served as NECINA's 11th President in 2006 – 2007. Recently he met with Mass High Tech to discuss NECINA and outsourcing to China -- Fostering Chinese-American entrepreneurs. He is thefounder of China Outsourcing Forum.
Daryl Luk
Daryl Luk is co-founder of Red Frogs Technologies that offers interactive consumer entertainment platform and services for people to Wait and Win.
Dary was Software Engineering Manager in SensAble Technologies that offers 3D free form modeling solutions to various industries. He was responsible for product development, release management, process improvement, as well as 3rd party software integration. Prior to that, he was Director of Applications Development in PTC (www.ptc.com), formally known as Parametric Technology Corp, one of the largest software companies in Massachusetts, USA. With more than 18 years of enterprise and engineering software development and management experiences, Daryl had been in charge of building new development team in Shanghai, managed 7 new commercial software products development in PTC‘s product family that generates US$1B in annual revenue.
Daryl came from Hong Kong, holds a Mechanical Engineering Bachelor‘s degree from Taiwan National Chung Kung University and a Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University focused on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Daryl has published several robotics technical papers in international journals.
Daryl is a board member of NECINA. He was also the organization's President in 2009-2010 and 2005-2006. Prior to that, he served as Vice President in 2004-2005 and the chair of both NECINA eBusiness Special Interest Group and RFID Action Group.
In 2006, Daryl was appointed by the Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to be a member of the Massachusetts Asian American Commission to advise the Governor on matters related to Asian American affairs. Currently Daryl serves as a member in the Asian American Commission‘s Economic Development Committee.
Daryl serves as advisory member for startup MandarinGlobe.
Chi Kong Shue
Mr. Shue is currently the Chairman and President of SDSC Global Foundation and CentriHall, Inc., both are non-profit 501(c)3 organizations. He has also been involved in hi-tech venture and private equity investments in Taiwan, China and U.S. since 2002.
He had been the Executive Vice President at Sycamore Networks (1998-2003) responsible for the R&D of intelligent optical transport & switching systems and Asia market development. Prior to Sycamore, he was the VP at Ascend Communications and a Co-Founder of Cascade, and the Vice President of Engineering. Both Sycamore and Cascade had very successful IPO’s (SCMR and CSCC on NASDAQ) in 1999 and 1994 respectively.
Mr. Shue had served at Open Software Foundation and Wang Laboratories, Inc. from 1978 to 1989.
Mr. Shue was born in Taiwan. He received a B.S.E.E. from ChiaoTung University in Taiwan in 1974, and a MS Degrees in both Computer Sciences and Operations Research from the Pennsylvania State University in 1978. He also studied in Sloan Graduate School of Management at M.I.T. in 1979.
Mr. Shue received the Asian-American Achievement Award from University of Massachusetts in 1998 for his contributions to the economic and social development of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He served as the President of NECINA in 2000 and as a Board Director since 1998. Mr. Shue currently holds three U.S. data communication patents and is a member of IEEE and OSA.
Jo Tango
Jo Tango founded Kepha Partners. He has invested in the e-commerce, search engine, Internet ad network, wireless, supply chain software, storage, database, security, on-line payments and data center virtualization spaces.
He has been a founding or first institutional investor in AutoVirt, Azuki Systems, Bit9, ExaGrid, StreamBase Systems, Vertica Systems, Virtual Iron (acquired by Oracle) and VoltDB, getting involved nearly always at the company inception phase. Other investments include Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ), Digital Market (acquired by Agile Software), and NextCard (Nasdaq: NXCD).
Jo previously was at Highland Capital Partners for nearly 9 years, where he was a General Partner. He also spent five years with Bain & Company, where he was based in Singapore, Hong Kong and Boston, and focused on technology and start-up projects.
Jo attended Yale University (B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Business School (M.B.A., Baker Scholar). He serves on the board of NECINA (New England Chinese Information and Network Association) and is very active with the MIT Deshpande Center. He has served as Co-Chair of his Harvard Business School class 5th, 10th and 15th reunions and is on the leadership team for his Yale 20th reunion.
Jo is passionate about start-ups and loves working with entrepreneurs who dare to strive. Jo and his family emigrated from Indonesia with a few suitcases, $1,500, and the hope for a better life.
Alex Wang
Alex Wang is the founder and CEO of 8D World – the creator of Wiz World Online (www.wizworldonline.com), the world’s first virtual world dedicated for global English-as-a-foreign-language learners to improve their spoken English in an immersive and highly motivating environment. Prior to 8D World, Alex was a founding team member and Vice President of Business Development at Emptoris, Inc., a leading Enterprise Supply and Contract Management software company. At Emptoris, Alex was responsible for global channel sales and Asia Pacific region, accounting for one-third of Emptoris' total revenue. Alex led Emptoris’ efforts to secure the world’s top two system integration firms, IBM and Accenture, as Emptoris’ sales channels and delivered numerous Global 1000 client wins to Emptoris. Alex also played a key role in several Emptoris' acquisitions and was instrumental to Emptoris raising over $50M venture capital. Prior to joining Emptoris, Alex held various sales, marketing, consulting, and project management positions at Lucent Technologies, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
Alex received BS in Applied Mechanics from Fudan University , PhD in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech where he won the Paul E Torgersen Best PhD Dissertation Award, and MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management where he received the Alumni Leadership Award. In his early engineering days, Alex was named by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to the list of 100 outstanding young engineers.