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| Bruce Cameron |
President, CDC Software |
| Matthew S. Lavelle |
Chief Financial Officer, CDC Software |
| Alan MacLamroc |
Chief Product and Technology Officer, CDC Software |
| Monish Bahl |
Senior Vice President, Business Development and Mergers & Acquisitions, CDC Corporation |
| Lee R. Riesterer |
Senior Vice President, Professional Services |
| Mark Sutcliffe |
President, CDC Factory, CDC Software |
| Jason Rushforth |
Senior Vice President, NA Sales, Worldwide Marketing and Strategic Alliances, CDC Software, President of CDC Front Office |
| Niklas Rönnbäck |
Senior Vice President and President, CDC Supply Chain |
| Oscar Pierre |
Senior Vice President, CDC Software, Europe, and Latin America Operations |
| Paul Plaia III |
President, CDC gomembers |
| Paul Elswood |
Managing Director U.K., Ireland and Benelux, President of CDC Respond |
| Nagaraja Prakasam |
Managing Director, South and Southeast Asia and CDC Software India |
| William Green |
President, CDC Software Enterprise |
| Donald L. Novajosky |
Vice President, General Counsel, CDC Software |
| Sean Yu |
Vice President, CDC Software and Chairman, CDC Software (China) |
| Hilton Law |
Managing Director, China and Southeast Asia, CDC Software |
| Edmund Lau |
Vice President, Greater China, CDC Software |
| Anil Dwivedi |
Vice President, Japan and Korea, CDC Software |
| Gary Black |
General Manager, CDC eCommerce |
| David Cahn |
Vice President, Product Strategy |
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CDC Corporation Bios
Dr. Raymond Ch'ien
Chairman
Raymond K.F. Ch'ien has served as chairman of our board since January 1999, and served as executive chairman of our board from April 2001 until August 2005 at which point he became chairman of our board. He served as acting chief executive officer between March 2004 and March 2005, and chief executive officer from March 2005 until August 2005. Dr. Ch'ien is chairman and a member of the executive and remuneration committees of our Hong Kong listed subsidiary, China.com Inc. Dr. Ch'ien is also chairman of MTR Corporation Limited and serves on the boards of HSBC Holdings plc, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Inchcape plc, Convenience Retail Asia Limited, VTech Holdings Limited and The Wharf (Holdings) Limited. Dr. Ch'ien received a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1993 and a Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1994. In 1999, he was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star medal.
Peter Yip
Executive Vice Chairman and CEO
Mr. Yip is a founder and CEO of CDC Corporation. He also is CEO of CDC Software. Under his leadership, CDC Corporation was one of the first successful initial public offerings of an Internet company from Greater China to be listed on NASDAQ in 1999, opening the door for other Chinese entrepreneurs to list their ventures in the U.S. capital markets.
Mr. Yip co-founded Yipkon Business Systems in 1978 with his Indian partner from Bangalore, Kumar Konanur. Yipkon, as one of the first Indian outsourcing companies based in New York, pioneered outsourcing for U.S. companies using Indian resources from Bangalore and successfully grew to (U.S.) $100 million in revenue, securing major federal government contracts with the U.S. Army, U.S. Treasury, DOD Logistics Agency, and financial institutions including Equitable Life, Morgan Guarantee Trust, Bankers Trust, New York Life, and Citibank. Mr. Yip sold Yipkon to MCI Worldcom in 1987, just before the market crash, and returned to Hong Kong to make investments in software and IT companies.
Mr. Yip has made a number of successful co-investments with institutional investors, corporate investors and high net worth individuals. These include investments in Temasek Holdings company, Xinhua News Agency, Bechtel Enterprises Inc., Mitsui & Co. Ltd., America Online, Inc., Merrill Lynch-Fred Adler Technology Fund II, and the New World Group. Mr. Yip previously held management positions at KPMG Consulting and Wharton Applied Research.
Mr. Yip is a frequent speaker at various international conferences and institutions, including the Harvard Business School, Fortune CEO Global Forum, World Economics Forum, Forbes CEO Forum, Businessweek CIO Forum, M.I.T. Enterprise Forum, US/Japan Symposium on Corporate Partnership, United Nations Conference on Science & Technology, Harvard University's Conference on Internet & Society, and the Nikkei International Conference. CDC Corporation's business model was a case study at Harvard Business School in 1996. He has authored research papers published by Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Nanjing University Press, and the National Science Foundation. He recently co-authored a book titled The China's Century with former Chinese Premier Zhu Yongji, amongst others. In 2010, Mr. Yip was awarded the prestigious award: "China's Top 10 Economic Figures," by the Organization Committee of the Top 10 Talents of Chinese Economy.
Mr. Yip received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his MSEE and BSEE from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr Yip also received an associate degree in Engineering and an honorary doctorate degree in Business from Vincennes University, Indiana.
Thomas M. Britt III
Independent Director & Chairman of Audit Committee
Thomas M. Britt, III has served as an independent director of our board of directors since May 2000. Mr. Britt is a partner with the international law firm, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, resident in the firm's Hong Kong office. Prior to joining Debevoise & Plimpton in 2004, Mr. Britt was the Managing Director of IRG Limited, an investment banking boutique he co-founded in 2000. Prior to co-founding IRG, Mr. Britt was the senior partner of the US Securities Group in the Hong Kong office of Clifford Chance LLP, the world's largest law firm, and the founding and managing partner of the Hong Kong office of Rogers & Wells LLP, a leading US law firm. Mr. Britt has a juris doctor and a master's degree in business administration from New York University and a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University.
John Clough
Independent Director & Chairman of Executive Committee
John Clough is chairman of CDC Software Corporation. He also serves as the chairman of the audit committee of the CDC Software board, and as a director and chairman of the executive committee for the board of directors of CDC Corporation. He has served as a member of the CDC Corporation board since 2003. With more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry, Mr. Clough is a leader in the global enterprise software market, and holds a successful and extensive track record as an entrepreneur in Australia. Mr. Clough currently serves as a Special Advisor to General Atlantic Partners, a leading global growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for growth companies, a position he has held for nearly a decade. Mr. Clough was also co-founder and managing director of the CSSL Group, a mid-range software distributor and hardware reseller. Prior to that, he was general manager of JBA, an Australia-based worldwide mid-range software distributor, and served as a consultant in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe.
Simon Wong
Director
Simon Kwong Chi Wong is a member of the board of directors of CDC Corporation and also is CEO of CDC Games and a director on their board. He has served as a member of the boards of directors of CDC Games Corporation since September 2008, Games International, parent of CDC Games, since September 2006, CDC Software Corporation since March 2009 and CDC Corporation since August 2005. Mr. Wong holds more than 30 years experience in investing and assisting successful technology companies, such as Alibaba.com, in China.
Previously, Mr. Wong was a director and executive vice president of Techno-Ventures, a joint venture with Advent International and TA Associates of the United States. Earlier, he served as a director and executive vice president of Transpac Capital Ltd., one of the oldest and largest funding partner investment firms in Asia, managing a more than $820 million portfolio with investments in approximately 200 companies in China, Asia and the United States. Mr. Wong is an Honorary Citizen of many fast growing cities in China such as Foshan City, Jiangmen City, and Nanhai City, and is an Advisor to the High Tech Zones of Guangdong, Chengdu and Zhuhai in China. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Fred Wang
Independent Director
Fred, Cheung Yu Wang, has served as an independent director of our board of directors since October 2005. The Wang family founded Salon Films (Hong Kong) Limited ("Salon") in 1969. Mr. Wang has been a director of Salon since 1970 and he has worked with various major Hollywood film and television companies in setting up projects in Asia. Since 1985, Mr. Wang has been involved with various investment groups in Asia notably Unifund S.A., a Geneva based investment service company. Mr. Wang's current projects include a multimedia satellite investment business covering the Pacific Asia region as well as high definition technology of film and TV development in Asia. Mr. Wang is the Hon. Vice President of the China Film Foundation, a member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council Entertainment Industry Advisory Committee, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federation of Hong Kong Business Associations Worldwide and Director of the Board of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society Limited. Mr. Wang graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business and Economics from Whittier College, California.
Peter Yip
CEO
Peter Yip is the chief executive officer of the Company and vice chairman of our board of directors. In addition, Mr. Yip serves as executive chairman to the board of directors of CDC Software. Mr. Yip was a founder of the Company and served as chief executive officer between 1999 and February 2005. Under his leadership, the Company was one of the first successful initial public offerings of an internet company from Greater China to be listed on NASDAQ, opening the door for other Chinese entrepreneurs to list their ventures in the U.S. capital markets. Mr. Yip is also a non-executive director of the Company's Hong Kong listed subsidiary China.com Inc., and has served as vice-chairman of the China.com Inc. board since 1999. Mr. Yip is chairman of China Pacific Capital, and has over two decades of entrepreneurial and direct investment experience in the U.S. and the Asia Pacific region in which he has co-founded or provided seed funding to a number of successful start-up entities, including Linkage Online, Gartner Group Asia, YipKon Business Systems and Online Software Asia. In addition, Mr. Yip's family-owned direct investment fund has made a number of successful co-investments with institutional investors, corporate investors and high net worth individuals, including CEF (a prior joint venture between Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited and GE Capital), a Temasek Holdings company, Xinhua News Agency, Bechtel Enterprises Inc., Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Bay Networks Inc., SunMicrosystems Inc., America Online, Inc., Merrill Lynch-Fred Adler Technology Fund II and the New World Group. Mr. Yip previously held management positions at KPMG Consulting and Wharton Applied Research. In 2000, the Wharton Business School presented Mr. Yip with the Asian Alumni Entrepreneur Award. Mr. Yip received a master's degree in business administration from the Wharton School and both a master's degree and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He also received an associate degree in Engineering and an hononary doctorate degree in Business from Vincennes University, Indiana.
Donald L. Novajosky
Vice President, Associate General Counsel, CDC Corporation
Donald L. Novajosky is Associate General Counsel of CDC Corporation. He also serves as General Counsel for CDC Software. Mr. Novajosky joined CDC Corporation as Corporate Counsel in November 2006. From 2005 to 2006, Mr. Novajosky held positions with the law firms of Reed Smith LLP and Hutchison Law Group PLLC, where his practice focused on general corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate matters. From June 2003 to July 2005, Mr. Novajosky was the Director, Legal of Cytogen Corporation, a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company in Princeton, New Jersey. Prior to that, Mr. Novajosky held positions with the law firms of Hale and Dorr LLP (now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr) and Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney PC. Mr. Novajosky received a Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from New York Law School, where he was a member, editor and published author of the New York Law School Law Review. Mr. Novajosky also received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Pennsylvania State University.
Matthew S. Lavelle
Chief Financial Officer, CDC Corporation
Matthew Lavelle is Chief Financial Officer of CDC Corporation and CDC Software. He is responsible for forecasting and budgeting, monthly reporting and analysis, developing and tracking operating performance metrics, and establishing monthly business review processes for the company and its business units. Mr. Lavelle is a results-driven senior professional with a proven track record of success in the finance and accounting field. His expertise ranges from annual strategic planning coordination and the development and implementation of accounting policies and procedures to management of audits and business case financials. For more than 20 years, Mr. Lavelle has worked in the financing and accounting industry and has previously held senior level finance positions with SITA, Inc., UPS Supply Chain Solutions, UPS SCS Canada, UPS Logistics Group Inc, amongst others. Mr. Lavelle holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Monish Bahl
Senior Vice President, Business Development and Mergers & Acquisitions, CDC Corporation
Mr. Bahl is responsible for all the company's mergers and acquisition activities. He has held a variety of management roles at CDC Corporation including Vice President of Investor Relations where he communicated the company's financial and other relevant information to shareholders and the financial community. He has held a variety of management positions with publicly traded companies and has extensive experience with Wall Street.
Prior to joining CDC Software, he served as Vice President, Investor Relations of Verso Technologies, a next generation telecommunications equipment provider in Atlanta. In this role, he communicated the company's strategy to the investment community, was involved in two equity capital raises, as well as mergers and acquisitions activity. Earlier, he was one of the founding members of HarborPayments, an e-commerce financial services company that was later sold to American Express Corporation. Prior to HarborPayments, he worked as Assistant Vice President for Parker/Hunter, a sell-side brokerage house later sold to Janney Montgomery. In that capacity, he served as a senior equity analyst covering technology stocks such as Computer Associates, Ansys and others. He was also involved in five public equity offerings. He holds a MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor of science from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA.
Gregor Morela
Chief Accounting Officer, CDC Corporation
Gregor Morela, CPA, is Chief Accounting Officer for CDC Corporation. Prior to this role, he was Controller of CDC Software, the enterprise software division of CDC Corporation. He joined CDC Corporation in April 2006 as a director of financial reporting. Prior to joining CDC Corporation, Mr. Morela served as a director of financial reporting for Serologicals, a publicly held biotechnology company in Atlanta. Prior to his employment with Serologicals, Mr. Morela was the audit manager with Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Morela has extensive experience in the application of U.S. GAAP including SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Mr. Morela holds a bachelor of science degree in Economics from the University in Ljubljana, Slovenia and is a member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Frank Hung
Managing Director, Australia, CDC Software
Frank Hung has served as CDC Software's managing director of Australia since January 2007 and is responsible for operations activity for Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Hung has more than 25 years of experience in the technology sector and has held various international and senior management positions throughout Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Before joining CDC Software, Mr Hung served as the Managing Director, Australia, and Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific, for Maximizer Software, where he oversaw all customer relationship management (CRM) operations for the company throughout the Asia Pacific region. Prior to Maximizer Software, Mr. Hung served as Chief Operating Officer, Asia for Powerlan Limited. While at Powerlan, he played an instrumental role in the initial merger of CSSL Group and Powerlan and led the integration of the companies' infrastructure, operations and combined services and solutions.
Sammy Cheng
Vice President of Finance, CDC Corporation
Sammy Cheng is Chief Operating Officer and chief financial officer for China.com, a business unit of CDC Corporation, and brings a range of extensive financial and management experience to the organization. He also serves as Vice President of Finance for CDC Corporation and Chief Accounting Officer for CDC Games.
Mr. Cheng has previously held senior management positions in international institutions including Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd, Salomon Smith Barney Ltd, Citibank, Bank of America Trust, Hong Kong and Unisys Corporation Hong Kong and Singapore.
He holds a doctoral degree in Business Administration from University of South Australia and a master's degree in Business Administration from University of Hull, United Kingdom.
He is a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, United Kingdom; and an associate member of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, United Kingdom.
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Peter Yip
Chief Executive Officer, CDC Software
Mr. Yip is a founder and CEO of CDC Corporation. He also is CEO of CDC Software. Under his leadership, CDC Corporation was one of the first successful initial public offerings of an Internet company from Greater China to be listed on NASDAQ in 1999, opening the door for other Chinese entrepreneurs to list their ventures in the U.S. capital markets.
Mr. Yip co-founded Yipkon Business Systems in 1978 with his Indian partner from Bangalore, Kumar Konanur. Yipkon, as one of the first Indian outsourcing companies based in New York, pioneered outsourcing for U.S. companies using Indian resources from Bangalore and successfully grew to (U.S.) $100 million in revenue, securing major federal government contracts with the U.S. Army, U.S. Treasury, DOD Logistics Agency, and financial institutions including Equitable Life, Morgan Guarantee Trust, Bankers Trust, New York Life, and Citibank. Mr. Yip sold Yipkon to MCI Worldcom in 1987, just before the market crash, and returned to Hong Kong to make investments in software and IT companies.
Mr. Yip has made a number of successful co-investments with institutional investors, corporate investors and high net worth individuals. These include investments in Temasek Holdings company, Xinhua News Agency, Bechtel Enterprises Inc., Mitsui & Co. Ltd., America Online, Inc., Merrill Lynch-Fred Adler Technology Fund II, and the New World Group. Mr. Yip previously held management positions at KPMG Consulting and Wharton Applied Research.
Mr. Yip is a frequent speaker at various international conferences and institutions, including the Harvard Business School, Fortune CEO Global Forum, World Economics Forum, Forbes CEO Forum, Businessweek CIO Forum, M.I.T. Enterprise Forum, US/Japan Symposium on Corporate Partnership, United Nations Conference on Science & Technology, Harvard University's Conference on Internet & Society, and the Nikkei International Conference. CDC Corporation's business model was a case study at Harvard Business School in 1996. He has authored research papers published by Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Nanjing University Press, and the National Science Foundation. He recently co-authored a book titled The China's Century with former Chinese Premier Zhu Yongji, amongst others. In 2010, Mr. Yip was awarded the prestigious award: "China's Top 10 Economic Figures," by the Organization Committee of the Top 10 Talents of Chinese Economy.
Mr. Yip received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his MSEE and BSEE from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr Yip also received an associate degree in Engineering and an honorary doctorate degree in Business from Vincennes University, Indiana.
John Clough
Chairman and Chairman of the Audit Committee, CDC Software
In his role as Vice Chairman of the Board for CDC Software, John Clough helps to guide corporate strategy and company growth, especially in the expansion of global sales channels. Mr. Clough is also a board member and chairman of the executive committee for CDC Corporation and serves as a special advisor to General Atlantic LLC.
Mr. Clough brings significant enterprise software and entrepreneurial experience to CDC Software. He was a Co-founder and Managing Director of the CSSL Group, one of the largest mid-range application software distributors and hardware resellers in Asia and Australasia. Prior to the CSSL Group, Mr. Clough held the position of General Manager of JBA in Asia, an Australia-based worldwide mid-range software distributor.
Raymond K.F. Ch'ien
Independent Director, CDC Software
Raymond K.F. Ch'ien is an independent director on the Board for CDC Software. He also has served as chairman of CDC Corporation's board since January 1999, and served as executive chairman of our board from April 2001 until August 2005 at which point he became chairman of the board. At CDC Corporation, he served as acting chief executive officer between March 2004 and March 2005, and chief executive officer from March 2005 until August 2005. Dr. Ch'ien is chairman and a member of the executive and remuneration committees of our Hong Kong listed subsidiary, China.com Inc. Dr. Ch'ien is also chairman of MTR Corporation Limited and serves on the boards of HSBC Holdings plc, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Inchcape plc, Convenience Retail Asia Limited, VTech Holdings Limited and The Wharf (Holdings) Limited. Dr. Ch'ien received a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1993 and a Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1994. In 1999, he was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star medal.
Simon Wong
Director
Simon Kwong Chi Wong is a member of the board of directors of CDC Software and also is CEO of CDC Games and a director on their board. He has served as a member of the boards of directors of CDC Games Corporation since September 2008, Games International, parent of CDC Games, since September 2006, CDC Software Corporation since March 2009 and CDC Corporation since August 2005. Mr. Wong holds more than 30 years experience in investing and assisting successful technology companies, such as Alibaba.com, in China.
Previously, Mr. Wong was a director and executive vice president of Techno-Ventures, a joint venture with Advent International and TA Associates of the United States. Earlier, he served as a director and executive vice president of Transpac Capital Ltd., one of the oldest and largest funding partner investment firms in Asia, managing a more than $820 million portfolio with investments in approximately 200 companies in China, Asia and the United States. Mr. Wong is an Honorary Citizen of many fast growing cities in China such as Foshan City, Jiangmen City, and Nanhai City, and is an Advisor to the High Tech Zones of Guangdong, Chengdu and Zhuhai in China. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Chung Kiu Wong
Director, CDC Software
Chung Kiu Wong was appointed to the CDC Software board in March 2007. He currently serves as CEO fo CDC Global Services, a business unit of CDC Corporation. Mr. Wong was founder and managing principal of iASPEC, a group of companies that provide information technology consulting services, software products and services in Hong Kong, China and North America. iASPEC was established in 1988 and continues to maintain its headquarters in Hong Kong. Mr. Wong obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California. He served as the principal architect in a State of California government data centre from 1975 to 1981 and received the Distinguished Services Award from the State of California in 1979. Mr. Wong returned to China in 1982 and has held senior positions in international information technology companies in China and in Hong Kong. Mr. Wong is a Distinguished Fellow of the Hong Kong Computer Society. He is also a member of the University Grants Committee and a member of the Advisory Committee on Creative Industry of the Central Policy Unit in the Hong Kong SAR Government. Mr. Wong serves as a member in the Advisory Committees of various engineering faculties and information technology academic departments in the local universities and those in China.
Wong Sin Just
Independent Director, CDC Software
Wong Sin Just was appointed to the CDC Software board in February 2007. He has served as an independent non-executive director of China.com Inc., an affiliated company, since November 1999. Mr. Wong has more than 15 years of investment banking and venture capital experience. He is non-executive Chairman of Westminster Travel Ltd. Previously, he was vice chairman of China Renji Medical Group, Ltd, Executive Co-Chairman of E2-Capital (Holdings) Limited, Managing Director and Head of Asian Equity Capital Markets for BNP Prime Peregrine Securities Ltd. And a Director and Head of Greater China Equity Capital Markets for ABN AMRO Asia Corporate Finance Ltd.
He holds a bachelor of engineering degree from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London and was qualified with the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales.
Frank K. Au
Independent Director, CDC Software
Frank K. Au is an independent board director of CDC Software and CDC Games. Mr. Au is the CEO of Cowen Latitude Asia, the wholly-owned Asia subsidiary of Cowen Group, which has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai . Mr. Au is responsible for leading all aspects of Cowen's businesses in Asia including capital markets, M&A and private placements. Prior to his appointment as CEO of Cowen Latitude Asia, Mr. Au was the President and co-founder of Latitude Capital Group, which was acquired by Cowen Group in 2008. He is based in the Firm's Hong Kong office and currently focuses on covering the alternative energy, consumer, health care, industrial, media and technology sectors in Asia.
Previously, Mr. Au was the Head of Media investing banking in Greater China for Lehman Brothers Asia. Mr. Au has extensive investment banking experience across all areas of corporate finance including equity and debt capital raising, as well as mergers and acquisition advisory having worked in both Lehman's New York and Hong Kong offices in the Technology, Telecom and Industrial/LBO Groups.
Mr. Au holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics/East Asian Studies from Columbia University.
Lee G. Lam
Independent Director
Lee G. Lam has served as an independent director of our board since May 2007. Mr. Lam is a member of our audit and nominating committees. Mr. Lam currently also serves as Chairman of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association of Hong Kong and as a Senior Advisor to Macquarie Bank in the Asia Pacific region. He also serves on the board of several listed companies in the Asia Pacific region such as Hong Kong-listed Hutchison Harbour Ring Limited and China.com, Singapore-listed Rowsley Limited, Thailand-listed TRUE Corporation PCL and Pakistan-listed Telecard Limited. He has over 25 years of experience with multinational operations and corporate management in the telecommunications, media and technology, consumer/retail, property and financial services sectors. In addition, Mr. Lam has held various positions at major companies, including vice chairman of the Investment Banking Division at Bank of China International Holdings, president, chief executive officer and vice chairman of the board of Chia Tai Enterprises International Limited, vice chairman of Shanghai Kinghill Limited and was a founding chairman of Chia Tai Department Store and Unotel. Mr. Lam holds a bachelor's degree in science and mathematics, a masters degree in systems science and in business administration from the University of Ottawa in Canada, as well as a post-graduate diploma in public administration from Carleton University in Canada, a post-graduate diploma in English and Hong Kong law and a bachelor of laws from the Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. Mr. Lam also received a doctoral degree from the University of Hong Kong.
Bruce Cameron
President, CDC Software
Bruce Cameron is President for Worldwide Sales and Marketing and is responsible for overseeing global sales and marketing for the company's enterprise solutions.
Mr. Cameron was originally hired into Pivotal in 2003 as General Manager. He has overseen license revenue growth of over 20% per year in North America and has had similar success in EMEA. Today he manages the sales and marketing of numerous product lines across multiple geographies for $350M CDC Software.
Previously, Mr. Cameron held executive positions at QAD Inc., Delano Technology, and JBA International. As Vice President of Worldwide Sales for QAD Inc., Mr. Cameron grew revenue in North America from $7 million to $45 million in two years and from $10 million to $100 million on a worldwide basis, while adding major customer accounts, including Gillette, Unilever, and Colgate.
At Delano Technology, Mr. Cameron grew revenue from $6 million to $30 million in a single year while serving as General Manager. From 1992 to 1997, Mr. Cameron held executive roles at JBA International and was responsible for taking the company into four new vertical markets, helping JBA surpass $100 million in sales in these verticals in three years.
Matthew S. Lavelle
Chief Financial Officer, CDC Software
Matthew Lavelle is Chief Financial Officer of CDC Corporation and CDC Software. He is responsible for forecasting and budgeting, monthly reporting and analysis, developing and tracking operating performance metrics, and establishing monthly business review processes for the company and its business units.
Mr. Lavelle is a results-driven senior professional with a proven track record of success in the finance and accounting field. His expertise ranges from annual strategic planning coordination and the development and implementation of accounting policies and procedures to management of audits and business case financials.
For more than 20 years, Mr. Lavelle has worked in the financing and accounting industry and has previously held senior level finance positions with SITA, Inc., UPS Supply Chain Solutions, UPS SCS Canada, UPS Logistics Group Inc, amongst others.
Mr. Lavelle holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Alan MacLamroc
Chief Product and Technology Officer, CDC Software
Mr. MacLamroc is responsible for the definition, development and deployment of all products for the company, including technology strategy, product management, software development, quality assurance, performance and systems integration for CDC Software, as well as global IT.
With more than 20 years of technology management experience, Mr. MacLamroc comes to CDC Software from CompuCredit, where he served as chief technology officer, Valued Services. Previous experience includes serving as chief product and technology officer, Global Product Marketing & Engineering, for MAPICS and chief technology officer, Global Engineering, for CLARUS. He also has served in a variety of technology management positions at System Software Associates (SSA), IBM and Sprint.
Monish Bahl
Senior Vice President, Business Development and Mergers & Acquisitions, CDC Corporation
Mr. Bahl is responsible for all the company's mergers and acquisition activities. He has held a variety of management roles at CDC Corporation including Vice President of Investor Relations where he communicated the company's financial and other relevant information to shareholders and the financial community. He has held a variety of management positions with publicly traded companies and has extensive experience with Wall Street.
Prior to joining CDC Software, he served as Vice President, Investor Relations of Verso Technologies, a next generation telecommunications equipment provider in Atlanta. In this role, he communicated the company's strategy to the investment community, was involved in two equity capital raises, as well as mergers and acquisitions activity. Earlier, he was one of the founding members of HarborPayments, an e-commerce financial services company that was later sold to American Express Corporation. Prior to HarborPayments, he worked as Assistant Vice President for Parker/Hunter, a sell-side brokerage house later sold to Janney Montgomery. In that capacity, he served as a senior equity analyst covering technology stocks such as Computer Associates, Ansys and others. He was also involved in five public equity offerings. He holds a MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor of science from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA.
Lee R. Riesterer
Senior Vice President, Professional Services
Lee R. Riesterer is Senior Vice President of Professional Services for CDC Software Corporation. He joined CDC Software in 2007, where he previously served as Vice President of CRM Professional Services for CDC Software. From June of 2004 to July of 2007, Mr. Riesterer was the President of The Brookhaven Group, LLC, a privately held consulting firm based in Atlanta, Georgia focused on the enterprise applications market including customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, web-based collaboration and training, information security, and governance, risk and compliance solutions. Mr. Riesterer has provided clients with a range of consulting services including business strategy development, go-to-market planning, market and product positioning, and new product and services development and packaging. He began his professional career at Digital Equipment Corporation where he held a number of leadership roles in the Sales and Professional Services organization including management of the North American Solutions Business Practice, providing complex enterprise-wide systems integration and consulting services to Fortune 500 corporate clients. Mr. Riesterer majored in Political Science with a minor in Business Administration at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Mark Sutcliffe
President, CDC Factory, CDC Software
Mark Sutcliffe is president for the company's CDC Factory solution, a packaged manufacturing operations management solution.
Sutcliffe is an acknowledged authority on continuous improvement and change management practices, centered on technology. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences in Europe and the U.S. on the subject of deploying technology to leverage "human capital" and achieve "breakthrough performance" across the whole enterprise.
After an outstanding career in enterprise software sales, Mark formed MVI technology in 1991 to provide leading-edge improvement technology to the food & beverage manufacturing sector. In the fourth quarter of 2006, MVI was acquired by CDC Software and the product line has posted consistent record sales quarters.
Jason Rushforth
Senior Vice President, NA Sales, Worldwide Marketing and Strategic Alliances, CDC Software, President of CDC Front Office
Jason Rushforth is Senior Vice President, North American Sales, worldwide Marketing and Strategic alliance and President of CDC Front Office business for CDC Software. He is responsible for North American CRM Sales, worldwide marketing and its Strategic Alliances channel sales program, as well as the operations for the Front Office product business.. Previously, Mr. Rushforth was CDC Software's Global Vice President of Financial Services, responsible for the long-term global strategy of the financial services vertical of the company's Front Office solutions, which include Pivotal CRM, CDC Respond, CDC MarketFirst, and Saratoga CRM.
Since 2000, Mr. Rushforth has played an instrumental role in the growth of the CDC Software's Front Office products. His deep industry knowledge has guided the company in the development of industry-specific tools for institutional asset management, mutual fund wholesaling, wealth management, capital markets, and commercial banking. As a visionary expert in the application market, especially in the CRM segment, Mr. Rushforth is known for his keynote speaking engagements for such events as the Wealth Management Forum and feature webcasts with Wall Street & Technology and TowerGroup, and he frequently contributes to industry articles in publications such as CRM Magazine, Financial Services Technology, CRM Advocate, Windows in Financial Services, and Commercial Lending Review.
Niklas Rönnbäck
Senior Vice President and President, CDC Supply Chain
Niklas Rönnbäck is Senior Vice President and President of the CDC Supply Chain business at CDC Software. He is responsible for CDC Supply Chain product line throughout EMEA, the company's supply chain management solutions for high volume wholesalers, retail- and manufacturing distribution companies. Mr. Rönnbäck is also responsible for all of CDC Software product lines in the Nordic region.
Since 1997, he has served in a variety of management roles at CDC Software including Vice President, Operations at CDC Supply Chain and Senior Vice President, Services responsible for all customer service, across all product lines in EMEA.
Rönnbäck brings more than 15 years of enterprise software experience, specifically in the implementation of ERP, order management and warehouse management systems. Earlier, he was President at Öhrwall & Rönnbäck, a privately held logistics and supply chain firm.
Oscar Pierre
Senior Vice President, CDC Software, Europe, and Latin America Operations
Oscar Pierre is Senior Vice President of CDC Software. Based in Barcelona, Spain, Mr. Pierre is responsible for CDC Software's product lines in Southern Europe and Latin America.
Prior to joining CDC Software, he was Managing Director of Data-Pack SA and as Divisional Application Software Manager and General Manager of Computer Associates' Spanish branch, Mr. Pierre also was founder and the main shareholder of Software International S.A., the first distributor of Ross Systems software in Spain. Ross Systems purchased all the shares of the company in January 1997 and then appointed Mr. Pierre as Managing Director and later Vice President of European Operations and member of the Operating Committee. Since 1998, he has been responsible for the CDC Ross business in Spain, as well as in Europe and with its Latin America Distributors. Since Ross Systems was acquired by CDC Software in August 2004, Mr. Pierre has also added other CDC products such as CDC Pivotal, CDC Factory and CDC Supply Chain to the operations there. Mr. Pierre graduated in Industrial Engineering at the University Technical School of Barcelona.
Paul Plaia III
President, CDC gomembers
Mr. Plaia is President of CDC gomembers, CDC Software's software-as-a-service (SaaS) enterprise applications business that specializes in the non-profit and government markets.
Plaia holds more than 20 years of management experience in finance, accounting and Information Technology. He's a seasoned entrepreneur who founded gomembers in 1996 where he served as President and CEO of the company. Under his leadership, the company grew dramatically and was eventually sold to CDC Software in 2009. Prior to founding gomembers, Mr. Plaia was Treasurer of Orange Technologies, a software company based in the Washington D.C. area, and was founder and Managing Partner of Plaia & Company, Certified Public Accountants and Consultants. Mr. Plaia began his professional career with Grant Thornton, an international assurance and management consulting firm. His tenure at Grant Thornton lasted six years working in the New York, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. offices.
He is a certified public accountant and holds a bachelor's in Accounting and Information Technology from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta.
Paul Elswood
Managing Director U.K., Ireland and Benelux, President of CDC Respond
Paul Elswood has served as Managing Director, United Kingdom and Ireland for CDC Software International since January 2009 and is President of CDC Respond, the company's enterprise complaint management and feedback management business. Mr. Elswood is responsible for CDC Respond's global business and the operational activities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Prior to this role Mr. Elswood served as Vice President, EMEA, for the CDC Respond business of CDC Software with responsibility for all client facing activities. Mr. Elswood joined CDC Software in February 2007 as Vice President, Services for EMEA, within the CDC Respond business of CDC Software. Mr. Elswood brings more than 17 years of enterprise software experience across many industry verticals including, Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, Retail and Fast Moving Consumer Goods. Prior to joining CDC Software, he worked within Oracle's Retail Global Business Unit from November 2005 to January 2007 and Accenture from November 1992 to October 2004. Mr. Elswood holds a Bachelor degree of engineering from the University of Birmingham, U.K.
Nagaraja Prakasam
Managing Director, South and Southeast Asia and CDC Software India
Nagaraja Prakasam is Managing Director, South and Southeast Asia, as well as for CDC Software India. In these capacities, Mr. Prakasam is responsible for sales in the South and Southeast Asia region, as well as overseeing the company's Bangalore development center. Previously, he was Senior Director of India Operations from June 2006 until December 2006. Mr. Prakasam joined Ross Systems in September 1997, prior to the acquisition of Ross by CDC Software, and has more than 18 years of experience in product development, sales and managing offshore research and development, services, IT and support operations for enterprise software companies. Mr. Prakasam holds a B.E. degree from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India and an MBA degree from Kennesaw State University, USA.
William Green
President, CDC Software Enterprise
William Green is President of CDC Software Enterprise, the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and related applications business of CDC Software, including TradeBeam and Catalyst. In this role, Mr. Green is responsible for managing business relationships, operations, and customer satisfaction activities. Previously, Mr. Green was Vice President of Enterprise Sales, where he was responsible for the sales and operations of the company's ERP applications for Life Sciences, Food & Beverage, Chemicals and other key process manufacturing verticals
Mr. Green has more than 15 years of experience in technology solution selling, sales management, regional general management, and global management. Since joining the company in 2001, Mr. Green has held several other senior leadership positions throughout the organization. He also worked with the Front Office sales team through building and maintaining relationships with large enterprise organizations that use Pivotal CRM, MarketFirst and Saratoga CRM.
Prior to CDC Software, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Cube Route, provider of on demand Logistics Services. He also worked for Delano Technologies which offers supply chain and customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities, as well as i2 Technologies, a supply chain software solutions provider; and, Xerox Corporation.
Donald L. Novajosky
Vice President, General Counsel, CDC Software
Donald L. Novajosky is General Counsel for CDC Software. He also serves as Associate General Counsel of CDC Corporation. Mr. Novajosky joined CDC Corporation as Corporate Counsel in November 2006. From 2005 to 2006, Mr. Novajosky held positions with the law firms of Reed Smith LLP and Hutchison Law Group PLLC, where his practice focused on general corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate matters. From June 2003 to July 2005, Mr. Novajosky was the Director, Legal of Cytogen Corporation, a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company in Princeton, New Jersey. Prior to that, Mr. Novajosky held positions with the law firms of Hale and Dorr LLP (now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr) and Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney PC. Mr. Novajosky received a Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from New York Law School, where he was a member, editor and published author of the New York Law School Law Review. Mr. Novajosky also received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Pennsylvania State University.
Sean Yu
Vice President, CDC Software and Chairman, CDC Software (China)
Sean Yu, Vice President for Development of CDC Software and Chairman of CDC Software (China), is responsible for establishing, expanding and managing the company's China offshore operations. Under his leadership, CDC Software's offshore capability in China has grown from scratch to account for more than one-third of the global product workforce within three years. To ensure CDC Software's rapid growth in China, he also identifies and examines acquisition targets, conducts due diligence analysis, and serves as board members on the company's joint ventures to ensure their continuing success.
Before joining CDC Software, Mr. Yu held senior positions in the field of supply chain management. Creative solutions developed under his guidance are still supporting a number of globally-known companies today in optimizing their supply chain and transportation networks.
Earlier in his career, he worked at the Harvard Institute for International Development conducting economic and investment analysis for international and government institutions such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Mr. Yu received his M.S. in operations research and M.A. in urban planning from Harvard University.
Hilton Law
Managing Director, China and Southeast Asia, CDC Software
Hilton Law is Managing Director of China and Asia/Pacific for CDC Software. He is responsible for channel partner development, strategic planning, corporate development and management of the company in Greater China and its Southeast Asia operations. Mr. Law also is CEO of Integrated Solutions Ltd., a business unit of CDC Software.
With more than 20 years of experience in the information technology industry, Mr. Law has served in a variety of senior management roles throughout China and Asia/Pacific. Previously, he was General Manager of SOLAR Inc. Limited, the joint venture of PCCW Limited and Computer Associates International, Inc. At, SOLAR, Hilton successfully developed and brought into the market a series of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, which included Finance Solution, Human Resources and MPF Solution for the small and medium-size enterprise (SME) market that resulted in a solid customer base being formed immediately. Mr. Law serves as a Council member of the Information and Software Industry Association.
Edmund Lau
Vice President, Greater China, CDC Software
Edmund Lau is vice president, Greater China. He is responsible for sales, services and business development in Greater China (Hong Kong, Taiwan and China).
With more than 20 years of senior management experience, Lau has earned a formidable reputation for his track record in transforming and growing established and start-up businesses while building solid relationships with customers. Most recently, he served as president of Viador, Inc., a leading provider of web-based Business Intelligence (BI) solutions based in Northern Califiornia, U.S. There, he also served in senior sales positions that included vice president of worldwide sales and vice president of international sales, where he expanded company sales in Europe and Asia Pacific, especially the Greater China area. Under the leadership of Lau, Viador sales increased dramatically in Greater China through direct sales and strategic OEM partnerships with China-based vertical market-focused ISVs (Independent Software Vendors). Lau also established Viador's new outsourcing operation in that country. Earlier, Lau served as general manager of China/Hong Kong region for Hamilton/Brighton Technology Ltd., a U.S.-based IT company. Prior to that, he served in a variety of technical management positions for California-based IT companies.
Anil Dwivedi
Vice President, Japan and Korea, CDC Software
Mr. Dwivedi is CDC Software's Vice President, Country Manager, Japan and Korea. In this role, Mr. Dwivedi is responsible for expanding reseller channels in those countries, and identifying and evaluating merger and acquisition opportunities, including the expansion of the CDC Software franchise partner program to Japan and Korea. Prior to joining CDC Software, Mr. Dwivedi served in various executive leadership positions in the enterprise software industry in China and Japan including senior business development management roles at Wipro Japan KK in Yokohama, Japan where his responsibilities included consulting large Japanese corporations on their IT and off-shoring strategies and selling services related to web technologies, Infrastructure, security and ERP. At HCL in Japan and India his role was focused on sales of SAP services and alliances with SAP. Mr. Dwivedi is a graduate of the premier Institutes IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) and Management Graduate of IIM (Indian Institute of Management).
Gary Black
General Manager, CDC eCommerce
Gary Black is General Manager of CDC eCommerce, CDC Software's cloud-based on-demand ecommerce platform product business. He is responsible for the sales and marketing, product development and account management operations of CDC eCommerce. Since 2006, he held a variety of leadership roles at privately held Truition which was acquired by CDC Software in 2009.
Mr. Black is a pioneer in SaaS application product management and an ecommerce veteran that helped launch some of the first SaaS marketing automation products on the market. Prior to joining Truition, he was Vice President of Product Management and Engineering for the Marketing Automation business unit of DoubleClick Inc. At DoubleClick, he led the product development of the company's email marketing platform, DARTmail. During Mr. Black's tenure there, DARTmail became the world's largest email marketing SaaS platform and was consistently the top-ranked email marketing platform by industry analysts. Mr. Black holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.
David Cahn
Vice President, Product Strategy
David is a veteran of the software industry with strong business development, practice management skills and deep domain expertise across multiple industry verticals. As VP Product Strategy CDC Software, he is responsible for setting direction and vision for the company product lines and collaborating on the go-to-market strategies. Prior to CDC Software, David was CEO of Y2G Associates, working with ISVs performing business and corporate development activities including product strategy, M&A, capital raising, and channel and alliances development. Cahn previously was a former research director at AMR Research, held managing director positions at KPMG LLP and Answerthink, and performed executive roles at Computer Associates. Cahn is a hands-on leader who is well known to press, analysts, software organizations and consortiums. He has actively participated on software industry panels and conference key notes, relating to directions in distributed computing architectures and enterprise-wide supply-chain management.
David has a B.S. in Business Administration and a strong minor in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University.
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Chung Kiu Wong
CEO, CDC Global Services
Chung Kiu Wong is CEO of CDC Global Services. Wong, who has served on the boards of directors of CDC Software International since 2007 and CDC Software Corporation since 2009, has more than 30 years experience in the technology industry in the U.S. and China. Most recently, he was founder and managing principal of Hong Kong-based iASPEC, a group of companies that provide information technology consulting services, software products and services in Hong Kong, mainland China and North America.
Earlier in his career, Wong served as the principal architect in the State of California government data center and received the Distinguished Services Award from the state for his work. Since 1982, he has held senior positions in international information technology companies in Hong Kong and mainland China.
Wong, who holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, is a Distinguished Fellow of the Hong Kong Computer Society, and also serves as chairman and member of the Advisory Committees of various engineering faculties and information technology academic departments in Hong Kong and mainland China universities. He has also served, until recently, as a member of the University Grants Committee and as a member of the Advisory Committee on Creative Industry of the Central Policy Unit, in the Hong Kong SAR Government.
Frank Hung
Managing Director, Australia, CDC Software
Frank Hung has served as CDC Software's managing director of Australia since January 2007 and is responsible for operations activity for Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Hung has more than 25 years of experience in the technology sector and has held various international and senior management positions throughout Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Before joining CDC Software, Mr Hung served as the Managing Director, Australia, and Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific, for Maximizer Software, where he oversaw all customer relationship management (CRM) operations for the company throughout the Asia Pacific region. Prior to Maximizer Software, Mr. Hung served as Chief Operating Officer, Asia for Powerlan Limited. While at Powerlan, he played an instrumental role in the initial merger of CSSL Group and Powerlan and led the integration of the companies' infrastructure, operations and combined services and solutions.
James Ferencik
Vice President, CDC Global Services
Jim Ferencik comes to CDC Global Services with more than 25 years of consulting and industry experience. Prior to joining CDC Global Services, Mr. Ferencik was Vice President Business Development with Satyam Computer Services, Ltd. an India based Outsourcing Company. In this role, he was focused on new business development for U.S. Fortune 500 manufacturing companies. Previous experience includes consulting practice leadership at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Director - Global PeopleSoft Supply Chain and Operational Systems (SCOS) Consulting Practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Vice President at Technology Solutions Company (TSC) and Sextant Corporation, an ERP vendor focused on the Process Manufacturing Industry, where he was a founder and Vice President of Consulting Services.
Richard Anderson
Vice President, General Manager, CDC Global Services
Mr. Anderson is Vice President and General Manager of CDC Global Services. Mr. Anderson manages DB Professionals (DBPI) and OST International (OSTI), business units of CDC Global Services. DBPI provides a full range of integrated business solutions and a portfolio of services including IT staffing, support, project-based resources and IT Services. OST International provides premium IT staff augmentation services in a wide range of industries such as retail, technology, automotive, financial services and manufacturing.
Prior to joining CDC Global Services, Mr. Anderson was Project Director at Wausau Financial Services. Previously, he also held variety of senior management roles at Fidelity National Financial, Keane Inc., and FiServ Integration Services. He holds a number of industry certifications including ISO 9001, CMMI and Project Management.
Rajan Vaz
Managing Director, SGI Horizon
Rajan Vaz, brings over 25 years of broad experience in the Information Technology (IT) industry initially as a practitioner and subsequently as a founder manager. Prior to his role as Managing Director, Mr. Vaz has been a serial entrepreneur and founded several successful technology firms including Integral Information Systems whose products are now part of larger enterprises such as AspenTech (Nasdaq: AZPN).
Mr. Vaz's last venture was Software Galeria, Inc. an IT services company based in New Jersey, focused on project and process outsourcing. In 2000 Software Galeria was purchased by CDC Corporation, a leading public IT and software services firm (Nasdaq: CHINA). He has extensive consulting experience with several technology firms including ABB Lummus, AspenTech and Air Products and Chemicals. In addition to IT, Mr. Vaz has contributed to the field of Chemical Engineering through extensive research and development activities and has several publications to his credit.
Mr. Vaz earned his doctorate in Engineering from Oklahoma State University after receiving his B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Shirish Nadkarni
President, SGI Horizon
Shirish Nadkarni spent over 20 years in the Information Technology industry most of them in the role of a serial Entrepreneur. He provides overall strategic direction, marketing insight, and directs technical sales along-with assisting in forging important technology partnerships both in the USA and abroad. He founded Horizon Companies, Inc. in 1989 and built it from a one-person company into a stable project-based consulting firm specializing in ERP/CRM and high-tech consulting before merging it with CDC Corporation (Nasdaq: CHINA) in February 2006. He has performed strategic, operating and finance roles while growing the firm.
In the initial stages of Horizon Companies, Mr. Nadkarni consulted for AT&T Bell Laboratories. He performed market research and Analysis of long-distance communications data, to design products and strategies to prevent the erosion of AT&T's market share. He continues to work on major technology initiatives in the areas of wireless and broadband, with companies like AT&T and Lucent Technologies.
Mr. Nadkarni created the Horizon Incubator model by spearheading Horizon's investment initiatives in companies such as Mobiliti, Inc., Domaingo, Inc., Kirusa, Inc. and Communication Experts, Inc. He was a Board member of all four companies. Mobiliti was sold to Tacit Networks which in turn was acquired by Packeteer, Inc. in 2006. He currently serves on the Boards of Kirusa, Inc. and Communication Experts, Inc.
Mr. Nadkarni, along with his brother and partner, Girish Nadkarni, envisioned the need of offshore outsourcing and setup a wholly owned subsidiary of Horizon in India (Trans Horizon Private Ltd.) around September 1999.
Mr. Nadkarni has a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, a Master's degree in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and an MBA in Finance and International Business from the Stern Business School of the New York University. He has been inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor society of collegiate business schools, in recognition of high scholastic achievement.
Girish Nadkarni
Executive Vice President, SGI Horizon
Girish Nadkarni is responsible for various corporate activities which include but are not limited to technical sales, strategic initiatives, ERP practices, and operations. He co-founded Horizon Companies along with his brother and partner, Shirish Nadkarni, over 18 years ago. In February 2006, Horizon merged with CDC Global Services, a wholly owned division of CDC Corporation. Mr. Nadkarni has helped build Horizon into a financially stable and truly global organization. He possesses hands-on IT experience and has performed various technology activities at such clients like AT&T, Lucent, and Verizon.
Mr. Nadkarni manages all the sales and marketing for the ERP practices from SGI Horizon's Edison headquarters. His focus is on the expansion of our onsite-offshore project-based consulting engagements, where we think we add the most value. He was instrumental in founding a wholly owned offshore company of Horizon in India (Trans Horizon Pvt. Ltd) in 1999.
Mr. Nadkarni manages SGI Horizon's Staffing services, assisting sales directors to find creative methods to increase margins while giving the best value to customers.
Mr. Nadkarni played a vital role in building Mobiliti, Inc. one of the incubator companies of Horizon Companies into a strong global player in the Mobile Computing field. He served as a board member of this company which was sold to Tacit Networks which was later acquired by Packeteer, Inc. in 2006.
Mr. Nadkarni holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India, a Master's degree in Computer and Information Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and an MBA in Finance from Pace University's Lubin School of Business. He has been inducted into Omicron Delta Epsilon—the International Honor Society in Economics.
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Fred Wang
Director and Chairman of the Board
Fred Wang has served as an independent director and chairman of our board since September 2006 and is a member of our compensation and executive committees. Mr. Wang serves as the chairman of our nominating committee. In addition, Mr. Wang has served as an independent director of our parent company, CDC Corporation, since October 2005, and an independent non-executive director of China.com Inc., an affiliated company, since February 2002 Mr. Wang has been a director of Salon Films (Hong Kong) Limited, a company founded by the Wang family, since 1969. Mr. Wang is the honorary vice president of the China Film Foundation, director of the board of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society Limited, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federation of Hong Kong Business Associations Worldwide. Mr. Wang graduated with a bachelor's degree in Business and Economics from Whittier College in the United States.
Peter Yip
Director , Vice Chairman of Board
Mr. Yip is a founder and CEO of CDC Corporation. He also is CEO of CDC Software. Under his leadership, CDC Corporation was one of the first successful initial public offerings of an Internet company from Greater China to be listed on NASDAQ in 1999, opening the door for other Chinese entrepreneurs to list their ventures in the U.S. capital markets.
Mr. Yip co-founded Yipkon Business Systems in 1978 with his Indian partner from Bangalore, Kumar Konanur. Yipkon, as one of the first Indian outsourcing companies based in New York, pioneered outsourcing for U.S. companies using Indian resources from Bangalore and successfully grew to (U.S.) $100 million in revenue, securing major federal government contracts with the U.S. Army, U.S. Treasury, DOD Logistics Agency, and financial institutions including Equitable Life, Morgan Guarantee Trust, Bankers Trust, New York Life, and Citibank. Mr. Yip sold Yipkon to MCI Worldcom in 1987, just before the market crash, and returned to Hong Kong to make investments in software and IT companies.
Mr. Yip has made a number of successful co-investments with institutional investors, corporate investors and high net worth individuals. These include investments in Temasek Holdings company, Xinhua News Agency, Bechtel Enterprises Inc., Mitsui & Co. Ltd., America Online, Inc., Merrill Lynch-Fred Adler Technology Fund II, and the New World Group. Mr. Yip previously held management positions at KPMG Consulting and Wharton Applied Research.
Mr. Yip is a frequent speaker at various international conferences and institutions, including the Harvard Business School, Fortune CEO Global Forum, World Economics Forum, Forbes CEO Forum, Businessweek CIO Forum, M.I.T. Enterprise Forum, US/Japan Symposium on Corporate Partnership, United Nations Conference on Science & Technology, Harvard University's Conference on Internet & Society, and the Nikkei International Conference. CDC Corporation's business model was a case study at Harvard Business School in 1996. He has authored research papers published by Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Nanjing University Press, and the National Science Foundation. He recently co-authored a book titled The China's Century with former Chinese Premier Zhu Yongji, amongst others. In 2010, Mr. Yip was awarded the prestigious award: "China's Top 10 Economic Figures," by the Organization Committee of the Top 10 Talents of Chinese Economy.
Mr. Yip received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his MSEE and BSEE from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr Yip also received an associate degree in Engineering and an honorary doctorate degree in Business from Vincennes University, Indiana.
Simon Wong
CEO, Director, CDC Games
Simon Kwong Chi Wong is CEO and a director for CDC Games. He has served as a member of the boards of directors of CDC Games Corporation since September 2008, Games International, parent of CDC Games, since September 2006, CDC Software Corporation since March 2009 and CDC Corporation since August 2005. Mr. Wong holds more than 30 years experience in investing and assisting successful technology companies, such as Alibaba.com, in China.
Previously, Mr. Wong was a director and executive vice president of Techno-Ventures, a joint venture with Advent International and TA Associates of the United States. Earlier, he served as a director and executive vice president of Transpac Capital Ltd., one of the oldest and largest funding partner investment firms in Asia, managing a more than $820 million portfolio with investments in approximately 200 companies in China, Asia and the United States. Mr. Wong is an Honorary Citizen of many fast growing cities in China such as Foshan City, Jiangmen City, and Nanhai City, and is an Advisor to the High Tech Zones of Guangdong, Chengdu and Zhuhai in China. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Lee G. Lam
Director
Lee G. Lam has served as an independent director of our board since May 2007. Mr. Lam is a member of our audit and nominating committees. Mr. Lam currently also serves as Chairman of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association of Hong Kong and as a Senior Advisor to Macquarie Bank in the Asia Pacific region. He also serves on the board of several listed companies in the Asia Pacific region such as Hong Kong-listed Hutchison Harbour Ring Limited and China.com, Singapore-listed Rowsley Limited, Thailand-listed TRUE Corporation PCL and Pakistan-listed Telecard Limited. He has over 25 years of experience with multinational operations and corporate management in the telecommunications, media and technology, consumer/retail, property and financial services sectors. In addition, Mr. Lam has held various positions at major companies, including vice chairman of the Investment Banking Division at Bank of China International Holdings, president, chief executive officer and vice chairman of the board of Chia Tai Enterprises International Limited, vice chairman of Shanghai Kinghill Limited and was a founding chairman of Chia Tai Department Store and Unotel. Mr. Lam holds a bachelor's degree in science and mathematics, a masters degree in systems science and in business administration from the University of Ottawa in Canada, as well as a post-graduate diploma in public administration from Carleton University in Canada, a post-graduate diploma in English and Hong Kong law and a bachelor of laws from the Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. Mr. Lam also received a doctoral degree from the University of Hong Kong.
Frank K. Au
Independent Board Director, CDC Games
Frank K. Au is an independent board director of CDC Software and CDC Games. Mr. Au is the CEO of Cowen Latitude Asia, the wholly-owned Asia subsidiary of Cowen Group, which has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai . Mr. Au is responsible for leading all aspects of Cowen's businesses in Asia including capital markets, M&A and private placements. Prior to his appointment as CEO of Cowen Latitude Asia, Mr. Au was the President and co-founder of Latitude Capital Group, which was acquired by Cowen Group in 2008. He is based in the Firm's Hong Kong office and currently focuses on covering the alternative energy, consumer, health care, industrial, media and technology sectors in Asia.
Previously, Mr. Au was the Head of Media investing banking in Greater China for Lehman Brothers Asia. Mr. Au has extensive investment banking experience across all areas of corporate finance including equity and debt capital raising, as well as mergers and acquisition advisory having worked in both Lehman's New York and Hong Kong offices in the Technology, Telecom and Industrial/LBO Groups.
Mr. Au holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics/East Asian Studies from Columbia University.
Jingqing Sun
General Manager of CDC Games
Jingqing Sun is General Manager of CDC Games. He entered the Chinese online game industry in 2000. During this time, Jingqing successfully worked in several high-level positions at game companies such as Beijing Wayi, Hongxiang and 17GAME which was acquired by CDC Games. He became the general manager of 17GAME in November 2007. Under his direction, 17GAME continuously improved its growth and efficiency.
Monish Bahl
Chief Financial Officer, CDC Games
Mr. Bahl is responsible for all the company's mergers and acquisition activities. He has held a variety of management roles at CDC Corporation including Vice President of Investor Relations where he communicated the company's financial and other relevant information to shareholders and the financial community. He has held a variety of management positions with publicly traded companies and has extensive experience with Wall Street.
Prior to joining CDC Software, he served as Vice President, Investor Relations of Verso Technologies, a next generation telecommunications equipment provider in Atlanta. In this role, he communicated the company's strategy to the investment community, was involved in two equity capital raises, as well as mergers and acquisitions activity. Earlier, he was one of the founding members of HarborPayments, an e-commerce financial services company that was later sold to American Express Corporation. Prior to HarborPayments, he worked as Assistant Vice President for Parker/Hunter, a sell-side brokerage house later sold to Janney Montgomery. In that capacity, he served as a senior equity analyst covering technology stocks such as Computer Associates, Ansys and others. He was also involved in five public equity offerings. He holds a MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor of science from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA.
Sammy Cheng
Chief Accounting Officer, CDC Games
Sammy Cheng is Chief Operating Officer and chief financial officer for China.com, a business unit of CDC Corporation, and brings a range of extensive financial and management experience to the organization. He also serves as Vice President of Finance for CDC Corporation and Chief Accounting Officer for CDC Games.
Mr. Cheng has previously held senior management positions in international institutions including Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd, Salomon Smith Barney Ltd, Citibank, Bank of America Trust, Hong Kong and Unisys Corporation Hong Kong and Singapore.
He holds a doctoral degree in Business Administration from University of South Australia and a master's degree in Business Administration from University of Hull, United Kingdom.
He is a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, United Kingdom; and an associate member of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, United Kingdom.
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Sammy Cheng
COO, CFO, China.com
Sammy Cheng is Chief Operating Officer and chief financial officer for China.com, a business unit of CDC Corporation, and brings a range of extensive financial and management experience to the organization. He also serves as Vice President of Finance for CDC Corporation and Chief Accounting Officer for CDC Games.
Mr. Cheng has previously held senior management positions in international institutions including Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd, Salomon Smith Barney Ltd, Citibank, Bank of America Trust, Hong Kong and Unisys Corporation Hong Kong and Singapore.
He holds a doctoral degree in Business Administration from University of South Australia and a master's degree in Business Administration from University of Hull, United Kingdom.
He is a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, United Kingdom; and an associate member of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, United Kingdom.
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