China Strategy for Companies and for Individuals
Abstract:
While
the last two years have been very difficult to the world and
Silicon
Valley, in particular to photonics industries, there continued to be people
to
excel and succeeded. What's the difference between us and the truly
successful and the truly happy people? (Bob has talked about this subject in
USA and in Asia, often draw packed house, and moved some audience to tears.)
Speaker Bio:
Bob (林富元)
is the co-founder and General Partner of Acorn Campus and Acorn Angels. A In
addition to having extensive angels and corporate investment expertise with
multiple IPOs, he also has more than 20 years of international business
start-up, marketing, and management experiences. He is very well known for
being the first launching investor of Avanti (IPO ‘95), AltiGen (IPO
‘97). As well as being one of the earliest investor in LightLogic (Sold
for $400M ’01) and Vertex Network (Sold for $200M ’99).
Bob is the
founder and co-owner of a group of 6 international marketing companies. He
is most well known for building global marketing, distribution, &
procurement channels from ground-up. In Asia, Bob is the co-owner and board
director of several medium-size manufacturing companies with a combined
number of employees near 4,000. Bob also serves as the Chairman of
Mobile Radius, a wireless platform company in California, and on the board
of Pine Photonics and Luxnet in Fremont, California, as well as Atonics, a
SoC Semiconductor company in Taiwan.
Bob
has a MSEE degree from University of California at Santa Barbara. He has
been very active in community services. He has previously served as Chairman
of Chinese Association of International Trade, board director of Taiwanese
Chamber of Commerce, and a commissioner for Silicon Valley’s Santa Clara
County Government.
Speaker Photo (to be added)
