DR. RAFIQ DOSSANI,
Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

Dr. Dossani is a consulting professor at the Asia/Pacific Research Center, responsible for developing and directing the South Asia Initiative. His research interests include financial, technology, and energy-sector reform in India. He is currently undertaking a project on the upgrade of information technology in Indian start-ups, and on the institutional phasing-in of power-sector reform in Andhra Pradesh. He serves as an advisor to India's Securities and Exchange Board in the area of venture-capital reform. Dr. Dossani earlier worked for the Robert Fleming Investment Banking group, first as CEO of its India operations and later as head of its San Francisco operations. He has also been the chairman and CEO of a stockbroking firm on the OCTEI exchange in India, the deputy editor of the Business India Weekly, and a professor of finance at Pennsylvania State University. He holds a B.A. in economics from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi, India; an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India; and a Ph.D. in finance from Northwestern University.

EDWIN YEH,
Partner, Dragon Venture

Edwin's entire career has centered on the intersection of technology, startup, and venture capital. He co-founded two high technology companies and has participated in four additional startups. He was a Technical Account Manager for NetIQ Corporation working with some of the world's largest server environments for companies such as Dell, Arthur Andersen, Shell, Microsoft, and Wal-Mart. Prior to NetIQ, he helped architect and re-engineer Infowave's internet assets such as Asiawired and Silicon Valley Journal while serving as its first IT Manager. At ASAP, Inc., Edwin piloted a design to web-enable the company's industrial automation software. Currently, he is Board Director for Covault Corporation, a provider of billing infrastructure software for wireless data service providers and carriers. Edwin also serves as advisor to three successful Bay Area entrepreneurial associations: Stanford University's Asia Technology Initiative Program, Silicon Valley Chinese Wireless Technology Association, and Monte Jade Association Asian American's Entrepreneur Workshop.
Professionally, Edwin is recognized as a McAfee Certified Security Specialist, Microsoft Certified Partner/System Engineer, and Sun Certified Java Programmer. As a former PhD candidate, he has published over 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has several patents pending. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a MS in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.

RAMESH YADAVA,
Director, Fidelica Microsystems

Ramesh Yadava came to Fidelica Microsystems from Castlewood Systems where he was Director of Program Management. Prior to that, he was founder and President of Omek Flexible Disk Drive, which was acquired by Satya Electronics in India. Shortly thereafter he co-founded Comport Corporation, which designed and manufactured 3.5" hard disk drives. Comport was acquired by Samsung in 1990. He has also held management positions at Quantum, Read-Rite and Iomega. Yadava received a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Bihar Institute of Technology, and holds a Master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Santa Clara. He is also a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneur Group (TIE).

Dr. HONG CHEN,
CEO, GRIC Communications

Dr. Chen is a renowned expert and leader in the field of global telecommunications and Internet infrastructure development. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of GRIC Communications, Inc. since he founded it in 1994, and led its successful IPO on Nasdaq during 1999. Prior to GRIC, he founded as was president and CEO of Aimnet, a successful Northern California Internet service provider that was acquired by Verio in 1997, which was sold to NTT in 2000 for$5.6B. His previous experience was in engineering, working in the networking industry. Dr. Chen is a very respected new economy leader in the Asia Pacific community. He was the Chairman of the Asian American Manufacturers Association (AAMA), the largest Asia Pacific focused, high-tech business and executive association in the Silicon Valley with over 1000 members. He is the President of the Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association, the "Churchill Club" of Mainland Born Chinese business leaders. He is also one of only two Mainland Chinese who brought their public in the U.S. in the 90s. Dr. Chen has spoken numerous times on issues as the global market, Chinese entrepeneurship, and Asia Pacific new economy at Beijing University, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Jiaotong University, and Asia Society. Dr. Chen received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Xian Jiaotong University in 1982 at the age of 19, and a Ph.D. in computer science from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1991.