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Date
Day 1 - 24
th
November 2015 (Tuesday)
Session
Session 3: ‘Perspective of the Technology Investors’
Time
17:05-18:05
Format
Panel Discussion (Panelist)
Topic
Perspective of the Technology Investors
Speaker
Mr Ian Huang
Adviser to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Club,
Hong Kong Computer Society
Ian has multi-dimensional experience, including but not limited to IPO, merger &
acquisition of technology business, general management, innovation management and
entrepreneurship. Currently, he is Chairman of Excel Capital Strategy limited, which
was founded almost 6 years ago to invest in the growth stage of the information
communication technologies industry in the Greater China.
His contributions to the information communication technologies are (i) he was the co-
inventor of SCSI, the industry standard for peripheral interconnect (ii) he was the Chief
Engineer for the Titan RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) project at Digital
Equipment Corporation (iii) he, as the group engineering manager for the next
generation interconnect at DEC, delivered the world first fibre optical data local area
network (FDDI) and (iv) he, while at Hughes Network Systems as the Vice President of
Local Area Network Engineering responsible for the worldwide product strategy and
engineering, has produced the MONET network management software and the
Asynchronous Transfer Mode Switching Hub which were voted as product of the year
consecutively by his engineering peers in the networking industry recorded in the Data
Communications magazine.
Ian founded his first start-up company, XNET Technology, in Silicon Valley as
Chairman, President & CEO. The equity investors of XNET Technology were JP
Morgan (San Francisco), Citibank New York, Citibank Singapore, Citibank Luxemburg,
DBS Bank, Jardine Fleming (Hong Kong), Hong Leong Malaysia, and Malaysia
Technology Development Corporation. He also setup up worldwide distribution
channel: USA (California, Texas, New York, Florida, Michigan), Canada, England,
France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia,
Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Brazil. XNET went listed
as FIBR in NASDAQ by merging with Fiber Communications.
He founded another company called China e-Law as Chief Executive Officer, which
was joint-ventured with Tsinghua University in Beijing for web-publishing the laws of
China in English and Chinese focus in the legal professionals and SME markets in the
US and Europe with investment from Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. China
e-Law eventually became LexisNexis China.
He was the Visiting Chief Architect for the Singapore National Science & Technology
Board (NSTB, now called A*STAR). He was Chairman of the ACM Silicon Valley
Chapter. He was a member of the Computing Futures Committee of IEEE Computer
Society. He was a co-founder of the Asian Business League of Silicon Valley. Ian was
listed in Who’s Who in Technology in 1986 and Who’s who of Outstanding American in
1995. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Computer Society.
Ian holds a BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering and a MS in Computer Science
from Carnegie-Mellon University, a MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Portland. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard
University.