Clean-Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China
Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2007
Time: 7:30PM (7:00 networking), Light snacks and drinks provided.
Venue: Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, Ballroom A
Address: 5101 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054
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Cost: $10 w/ RSVP
$20 at the door.
RSVP: Please RSVP online by 9/28
China’s tremendous growth is fueled by a commensurate appetite for energy. At the same time, the country is facing an enormous environmental challenge as it prepares to face the world during the 2008 Olympics. What is the solution that allows China to continue to grow without polluting the air and water? The answer is obvious – clean, renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, biomass.
China has become a major world player in renewable energy, in particular solar energy. (NACSA hosted an event focusing on the solar industry in China last October.) However, the growth has been primarily in manufacturing based on lower costs. What about China as an innovator for clean-tech? How do innovators in China stack up against the high-profile start-ups in the US or Europe? When will China become a major consumer of renewable energy instead of just a supplier? These are exciting questions for technologists and investors to follow.
As a part of a continuing series on solar and clean-tech, NACSA has invited a panel of outstanding speakers to offer different perspectives on answering these questions.
Entrepreneur Perspective – Dr. Zheng Xu, founder and CEO of Sierra Solar, an innovative thin-film startup, will share with us his insight and experiences as an entrepreneur and as an innovator both in the US and in China.
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Investment Perspective – Mr. Richard Lim, Managing Director of GSR Ventures will high-light hot areas that investors are currently focused on and what investors look for when they evaluate an innovative start-up.
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Legal Perspective – Mr. Paul Sieben, Corporate Counsel from O’Melveny will focus on the differences between startups in China versus their US counterparts and share experiences of how his firm has guided startups through the legal minefields.
Innovation Perspective – Prof. Peter Peumans, Stanford University will share with us some of the latest in research and innovation to improve efficiency and drive down costs.
NACSA invites its members and other professionals with interests in solar technology and entrepreneurship to join us for this exciting discussion. To learn more about NACSA and this event, please refer to our website: www.nacsa.com.
Speaker’s Bios:
Dr. Zheng Xu, CEO and Founder, Sierra Solar Power Inc.
Dr. Xu founded Sierra Solar Power Inc with a vision to make solar electricity more affordable through high volume automatic production and improved solar cell conversion efficiency.
Prior to Sierra Solar Power, Dr. Xu was an executive at Applied Materials, Inc. for 15 years. Most recently, he was corporate vice president and general manager of CPI products business group, a metal thin film products group in Applied Materials. In his role, Dr. Xu spearheaded the development, the market penetration, and the manufacturing cost reduction of leading edge thin film products such as Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD), atomic layer deposition (ALD) and Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD). By 2006, the CPI business group significantly improved product differentiation, market momentum, and business performance, and achieved > $1.2B revenue, with 73% market share in metal thin film market and >55% gross margin. Recently, Dr. Xu also initiated the new product development in Xi’an, China, built the team and infrastructure, and developed the first 300mm semiconductor equipment in China.
Dr. Xu joined Applied Materials in 1992 as a process engineer; he was a team member of an internal startup, the PVD products division. During his tenure, he advanced rapidly from technology manager, senior manager, director, managing director, general manager of metal CVD division, general manager of PVD division, and vice president.
Dr. Xu began his career at Toshiba Corporation as a thin film engineer after he received his Ph.D. in materials science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He also owns a doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Osaka University in Japan. He received his B.S. in semiconductor devices from Zhejiang University in China. Author of numerous technical papers, Dr. Xu holds 69 US patents and 13 US patents pending.
Mr. Richard Lim, Managing Director, Mayfield China (GSR Ventures)
One of the founding Managing Directors of Mayfield China (GSR Ventures). Richard is an entrepreneur and focuses on early stage investments in the semiconductor and internet sectors. He is currently on the boards of Baihe, Mobert, Qunar, Sierra Solar, and UiTV. Richard was previously founding CEO of iMarket (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB) and Co-nect (acquired by Pearson (NYSE:PSO)). He was also involved in founding Quickdot and was an executive at Lotus Development Corporation. Richard has an MBA from Stanford University.
Mayfield China/GSR Ventures is one of the most active early stage investors in the semiconductor industry in China. Investments include companies in consumer products (Mobert, PLM and SMIT), clean technology (LatticePower, Sierra Solar) and logistics (Quantum Radio)
Mr. Paul Sieben, Corporate Counsel, O’Melveny & Myers, LLP
Paul Sieben is a counsel in O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s Silicon Valley office and a member of the Firm’s Transactions Department and Corporate Practice. Paul specializes in corporate and securities law. He has extensive experience with various types of transactions, including representing issuers, investors and underwriters in mergers and acquisitions, spin-off and buyout transactions, venture capital financings, recapitalizations, public equity offerings and private debt offerings.
Paul also counsels both private and public technology and emerging growth companies with respect to securities law and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and other corporate governance matters, and he serves as a member of the Firm’s corporate governance committee. Paul further represents such entities on a variety of other matters, including formation, founders’ agreements, securities offerings, equity restructuring and buybacks and other general corporate matters. He also represents a large number of venture capital firms and investment banks in various securities and transactional matters.
He has served as lead counsel on more than 150 venture capital and private equity financings, over twenty-five merger and acquisition transactions ranging in size from $1 million to over $2 billion and a large number of recapitalizations, public offerings and other transactions.
Paul’s clients include companies in a wide range of technology markets. He has substantial experience with companies in the semiconductor, security, storage, electronic design automation and enterprise software markets, and has significant experience with investments in life science companies. Paul also has significant experience representing Cayman entities doing business in China.
Professor Peter Peumans, Stanford University
Peter Peumans obtained his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2004 and is now an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering conducting research in renewable energy. He is an expert in organic and inorganic device modeling, fabrication and characterization. He has developed several efficient solar cell device architectures and has contributed to today's understanding of the mechanisms that play a role in organic solar cells. Peumans also contributed to the development of vapor phase deposition techniques that lend themselves to reel-to-reel processing of organic and organic/inorganic nanocomposite solar cells. Two of Dr. Peumans' publications are in the top-20 cited papers in the field of solar cells. He holds 10 patents and has 5 or more pending. He is a co- founder and the Chief Scientific Advisor of NetCrystal, a Silicon Valley startup focusing on low-cost microconcentrator solar cells using a technology developed by Peumans' group at Stanford. Dr. Peumans is also on the advisory board of Soltaix. Prof. Peumans is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award.
About NACSA:
Founded in 1996 by a group of semiconductor professionals in the Silicon Valley, North America Chinese Semiconductor Association (NACSA) is a professional organization dedicated to the advancement of exchange and collaboration among Chinese professionals in semiconductor and related high-tech industries.
Riding the tide of globalization, the community of Chinese engineers and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and China has enjoyed a tremendous growth in recent years. Through event hosting, networking, and information sharing, NACSA has been instrumental in helping build a vibrant high-tech professional community serving the needs of these professionals. With over 4,000 members, NACSA is currently one of the largest and most active Chinese professional organizations in the US. NACSA members come from diverse fields in semiconductor and other high-tech related industries, including makers of optional devices, semiconductor chips, and PCs; system manufacturers; equipment manufacturers; design house; software; etc.
Committed to sharing information and resources and serving as a bridge between the US and China high-tech communities, NACSA’s mission is to strengthen networking among professionals, foster entrepreneurship in ethnic Chinese, and promote the exchange in the semiconductor and related high-tech industries. At NACSA, we believe in learning by doing and contributing before receiving.
Past NACSA seminar speakers include prominent CEOs, senior executives, and entrepreneurs from such well-known companies as Intel, Applied Materials, Cadence, MIPS Technology, Spreadtrum, UMC, TSMC, Go2Silicon, ViMicro, Broadcom Inc., Cypress Semiconductor, Keysi International, SH Zhangjiang, HK Science & Technology Parks, Goldman Sachs, and many others. NACSA seminars are well received and well attended with an average audience size of 300. Besides seminars and discussion forums, NACSA also hosts Spring/Summer picnic and forms special task teams. Each year, NACSA organizes delegations to China and hosts meetings with visiting high-tech delegations from China.
Please refer to our website for more information: www.nacsa.com
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( 2.9 / 686 )You are invited to CAAEN 2007 Annual Executive Panel Discussion
Forefront of Globalism: Advantage of Multi-Cultural Leadership
Please register for the event using the following link: http://www.lingeasy.com/web/user/home/book_schedule/36
We are making caaen.org into a web community for CAAEN members to share information. Some features such as user registration and event registration are shared with lingeasy, the hosting platform for the caaen community.
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( 3 / 476 )A group of top business leaders (about 30 people) from major
companies in Shandong Province will visit bay area, and they will
host an interactive seminar with bay area friends to discuss various
opportunities.
They would like to chat with friends on:
1. Investment opportunities in US, to set branch in US
2. To seek US partnership
3. Import from US to Shandong
4. Export from Shandong to US
5. Career opportunities: Top positions in major Shandong
companies
6. Recent development in Shandong
These business leaders have very broad background, from high tech,
software, to traditional industries, such as: machinery, banking,
oil, chemical, biotech, etc.
Many opportunities will be presented, and this is a good time to get
close to Shandong.
When: Aug 3, 2pm - 4pm
Where: 2953 Bunker Hill Lane, #400, Santa Clara, CA, 95054 (4th
floor)
Seats are limited, if you can join the event, please reply to:
bin2lee @ yahoo.com
Phone: 408-499-4251
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( 3 / 645 )7/28 - CINA 2007 Summer Symposium
The Secrets of Start-up Success! by Michelle Messina and Lee Raney
EBiz Express: What Every Business Should Know About Internet Marketing by Jon Leland
Date / Time: Saturday, July 28, 2007 - 9:00am to 12:30pm
Distinguished Speakers:
Mr. Jon Leland, Founder and President,, ComBridges
Ms. Lee S. Raney, President, Pivot Point Strategies
Ms. Michelle E. Messina, President of Explora International, LLC.
Venue: Fenwick & West LLP, 801 California St., Mountain View, CA
For details, please visit http://www.cina.org/viewevent.php?eventid=186
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Globalization of China – Emerging Trends in Semiconductor Industry
Date/Time: 9:30 AM~6:30 PM, Saturday, July 14, 2007
Venue:
Fairmont Hotel
170 South Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
Free Parking near the venue
Event:
Featuring many great talents and leaders as guest speakers, the NACSA Annual Conference serves as a gathering place for busy professionals from the semiconductor industry in US and China. The forum focuses on the future of China’s semiconductor industry and its impact to the world, with topics covering a wide range of areas including manufacturing, testing, assembly, white goods OEMs, IC system, fabless design houses as well as the policy making of the Chinese government. For this year’s event, we have invited a prominent group of high profile IC industry executives from China and the US to share their experiences and perspectives. Our goal is to bring people together and work towards building a strong Chinese IC industry. Feature topics include: Intel’s new fab in China, solar industry trend, and Lenovo’s new vision. You are cordially invited to join us for this wonderful event.
Founded in 1996, NACSA is one of the largest professional organizations for Asian American in the US with local chapters in Boston, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Totaling over 4000, NACSA members include technical and business professionals from major areas of the semiconductor IC industry ranging from design, processing, manufacturing, testing, packaging, and EDA (Electronic Design Automation). NACSA is recognized as a most important source of talents for the burgeoning semiconductor industry in China.
Registration:
- Programs: Free
- Special luncheon event (limited seats): $30 (includes annual membership renewal)
- Cocktail reception (limited space): free
- Annual Membership Renewal: $25
Please click here to RSVP Online
Agenda:
- Registration + Social: 9:30am-10:00am (outside of Imperial Ballroom)
- Morning Session: 10:00am-12:15pm
- 10:00-10:15 Bo Jin, President, NACSA
"NACSA Annual Program Review" - 10:15-10:45 Brian Fuller, Editor-in-Chief, EE Times
"Global Semiconductor Industry Trend" - 10:45-11:15 Dr. Charles Gay, VP, GM, Solar Business Group, Applied Materials
"The Globalization of the Emerging Solar Cell Industry" - 11:15-11:45 Richard Lim, Managing Director, GSR Ventures (Mayfield China)
"Opportunities of semiconductor start-ups in China" - 11:45-12:15 Dr. Yuning Sun, VP, Lenovo
"Lenovo's New Vision"
- 10:00-10:15 Bo Jin, President, NACSA
- Lunch reception: 12:15pm-1:45pm (Gold Room)
Co-hosted by Hangzhou Xiaoshan Economic Development Zone, with special guest Mr. Zhenfeng Zhang, and Mr. Min Zhu (WebEx co-founder) - Afternoon Session: 1:45pm–5:00pm (Imperial Ballroom)
- 1:45-2:15 Shahin Sharifzadeh, EVP of manufacturing and R&D, Cypress
"IDM strategy in a Global environment: Flex Fab" - 2:15-2:45 Dr. George Chu, President, Conexant China
"Chip design opportunities and challenges for multinationals in China" - 2:45-3:15 Q.T. Jiang, VP of Technology, HHNEC
"New Trends in Chinese Foundry" - 3:15-3:30 Election for new board of directors
- 3:30-3:45 Break
- 3:45-4:15 Len Mei, EVP, ProMOS
"Introduction of ProQ, a new fab in Chongqing" - 4:15-4:45 Kirby Jefferson, GM, Intel Dalian Fab
"First Intel Fab in Asia" - 4:45-5:00 Raffles: prize includes wii, and iPod
- 1:45-2:15 Shahin Sharifzadeh, EVP of manufacturing and R&D, Cypress
- Cocktail Reception: 5:00pm-6:00pm, free, RSVP needed due to limited space
Event sponsors:
- Hangzhou Xiaoshan Economic Development Zone (杭州萧山经济技术开发区)
- GSR Ventures (Mayfield China)
- Conexant
Speaker’s Bios:
Brian Fuller:
A 24-year veteran journalist, Brian Fuller joined EE Times as business editor and was named editor-in-chief in 2001. He has been instrumental in transforming EE Times into the newsweekly for the creators of technology and has been key in introducing new ideas to the brand, from print features to video and audio online. Mr. Fuller was also named as the publisher of EE Times in Nov. 2005.
Richard Lim:
One of the founding Managing Directors of Mayfield China/GSR Ventures. Richard is an entrepreneur and focuses on early stage investments in the semiconductor and internet sectors. He is currently on the boards of Baihe, Mobert, Qunar, Sierra Solar, and UiTV. Richard was previously founding CEO of iMarket (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB) and Co-nect (acquired by Pearson (NYSE:PSO)). He was also involved in founding Quickdot and was an executive at Lotus Development Corporation. Richard has an MBA from Stanford University. Mayfield China/GSR Ventures is one of the most active early stage investors in the semiconductor industry in China. Investments include companies in consumer products (Mobert, PLM and SMIT), clean technology (LatticePower, Sierra Solar) and logistics (Quantum Radio)
Shahin Sharifzadeh:
Executive vice president of manufacturing and R&D. Sharifzadeh directs Cypress's process technology R&D and wafer manufacturing operations worldwide since 2005. Prior to his current position, Sharifzadeh served as Cypress's vice president of R&D, where he was responsible for all aspects of technology development. Sharifzadeh received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1984, his MSEE and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1986 and 1989 respectively. He joined Cypress in 1989 and is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the Technology Program Committee for the VSLI Symposium.
Len Mei:
EVP New Business Development - responsible for the development of non-DRAM business for ProMOS, including Flash, CIS and others since1997. He was Senior VP Manufacturing (1997 –2006), responsible for all aspects of ProMOS manufacturing operations including front end fab and back end operation, product engineering, strategic planning, manufacturing system, manufacturing technology development. He has total of 27 years of academic and industrial experience in semiconductors. He was director of Readrite fab 1 (California), managing fab operation including production, engineering, equipment, new technology development, planning manager at Fairchild Semiconductor for memory product development and Data General for microprocessor development and pilot line. He was a visiting Research Associate Professor at Department of EE – Stanford Electronics Lab - Stanford University. He received Ph.D. in Metallurgy from University of Illinois, USA.
Sun Yuning:
Vice President of Lenovo Group. President of IGRS Engineering Lab Ltd., Chairman of IGRS (Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing) Workgroup, and assistant researcher.
Mr. Sun devotes himself into the research on the application of computer science and software engineering. He received the doctor’s degree in computer engineering from the Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences in July 1994, and continued his post-doctoral study in software engineering in the Department of Computer Science at Peking University in August. He was the director of the 12th lab of the Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997. In 1999, he was the assistant of the director of ICT. He worked as the executive deputy director of Lenovo Corporate Research & Development (Legend at that time) in March 2000. He was the Vice President of Lenovo Group since 2005. He is also Chairman of IGRS Workgroup, deputy director of IEEE Computer Society (Beijing), deputy director of the International Commission of China Computer Federation, and a standing member of Chinese Electronics Standardization Association.
Charles Gay:
Corporate Vice President, General Manager Solar Business Group Applied Materials, Inc.
Charlie Gay was named corporate vice president and general manager of the Solar Business Group at Applied Materials in 2006. An industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in the solar industry, Dr.Gay is responsible for establishing and building Applied Materials' solar business. Dr. Gay is also a co-founder of the Greenstar Foundation, an organization that delivers solar power and internet access for health, education and microenterprise projects to small villages in the developing world. Greenstar has been recognized for its innovation by the World Bank, the Stockholm Challenge, the Technology Empowerment Network and the Tech Museum Awards.
Dr. Gay began his career in 1975 designing solar power system components for communications satellites at Spectrolab, Inc. and later joined ARCO Solar, where he established the research and development program and led the commercialization of single crystal silicon and thin film technologies. In 1990, Dr. Gay became president and chief operating officer of Siemens Solar Industries and from 1994 to 1997, he served as Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the world's leading laboratory for energy efficiency and renewable energy research and technology. In 1997, Dr.Gay served as president and chief executive officer of ASE Americas, Inc., and in 2001 became chairman of the advisory board at SunPower Corporation. Dr. Gay has a doctorate degree in physical chemistry from the University of California, Riverside. He holds numerous patents for solar cell and module construction and is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Achievement from the World Renewable Energy Congress.
Kirby Jefferson:
General Manager for Intel’s newest chip set factory that is being planned for Dalian China. He is responsible for the overall management of the factory including approvals, construction, staffing, training, commissioning, startup and ongoing production operations. He will be relocating to Dalian China as the construction activity nears completion. Kirby joined Intel in 1980 and has held a wide variety of jobs in Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Human Resources, Factory Startup Project Management and most recently as Capacity/Capital Management for all of Intel’s semiconductor factories world wide. During his time at Intel, Kirby has been involved in different roles in 8 factory startups, and has a published article in “Future Fab International”. Kirby has a BS and MBA from the University of New Mexico. He has been married for 31 years and has 2 adult children and one grandchild. He is an instrument and commercial rated licensed Pilot and enjoys outdoor activities including sailing and skiing.
QT Jiang:
Dr. Qingtang Jiang joined Hua Hong NEC as VP of Technology in August 2005. Previously, he had worked for 4 years in Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), and was Senior Director before his departure. He was in charge of fab operations in Fab 3 and later Fab 1 of SMIC. Prior to his return to China, Jiang worked for several major semiconductor companies in the US including National Semiconductor and Texas Instruments in both technology development and manufacturing environments. After Jiang received his B.S. degree from Beijing University in 1985, he went to the US to pursue a graduate degree through the CUSPEA program. Jiang received his M.S. and Ph.D from Rutgers University in 1989 and 1992 respectively.
George Chu:
George Chu has more than 20 years of experiences in the systems and semiconductor industries span across the regions in the U.S., Taiwan and China. Mr. Chu is currently serving as the senior vice president and president of Conexant China operations since Feb 2007.
Previously, Mr. Chu served as Broadcom’s senior director and general manager of Shanghai design center in China. Prior to that, Mr. Chu held senior engineering and business management positions at Broadcom in the U.S. Before that, Mr. Chu served as vice president, Engineering for Altima Communications, a startup which was subsequently acquired by Broadcom in 2000. Mr. Chu also held various engineering positions with 3COM, Stratus, and Raytheon. Mr. Chu has a BS EE from the University of Rochester and a MS CE from Boston University.
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