Irene Lee 李俞瑩

Occupational Therapist

Santa Clara County Office of Education

Allen Chang

VP of Business Development

Instant Tek Solution

Luc Yu

Sr. Director

Luc Yu is a native of Chiayi Taiwan and moved over US in 2003. Prior to US, Luc lived in Singapore, Shanghai and Taipei for years. Currently he is leading US office of FocalTech System, a leading IC design house in San Jose. He has extensive experience in strategic business development and execution in OEM, ODM, EMS and Channel business models.
Luc received a B.S. in Physics from National Tsing Hua University, an MBA from NTU and completed an Executive Management Program from Wharton Business School. Via TAITA, he hopes to devote himself more to Taiwanese community.
Luc and his wife, Vanessa, have two boys, Yan and Ron.

Eric Kai-Chieh Chang 張凱傑

Principal Engineer

Dr. Chang, born in Chia-Yi, Taiwan, joined Seagate Technology in 2003 from Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a doctorate in materials science. He has a master’s and bachelor’s degree in materials science from National Taiwan University and National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan, respectively. He holds several U.S. patents and has published various papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is a principal engineer at Seagate Technology focusing on the research and development of next-generation technology for data storage.
​As a son of Taiwan, Eric always finds time and energy to attend Taiwanese activities here in Silicon Valley and holds on any possible opportunities to contribute Taiwan. In 2014, he became one of the original members established “Connecting.TW”, a non-profit organization focuses on soft-skill workshops and connecting Taiwanese professionals. In 2015, he attended one of the TAITA activities and found his principles match well with Missions of TAITA. He then became a member of TAITA since 2016. He now serves as a treasurer in BOD and would like to form alliances between various Taiwanese organizations in Silicon Valley.

Danny Huang

Software Engineer

Hans Wang

Software Engineer

Grace Wen 溫純郁

Financial Advisor

Grace Wen, CPA 溫純郁

SARATOGA HILLS GROUP

Grace Wen is a financial advisor and a partner at Saratoga Hills Group, a family office located in Cupertino. Prior to the financial service industry, Grace has been working in a national top 10 CPA firm, focusing on tax services for high-net-worth individuals, family businesses, as well as start-up companies for more than 15 years. With her solid tax background, Grace prides herself in providing personal advice and solutions to manage and insure her clients’ financial security and business success. Her team comprehensive services include consultation on retirement and estate planning, business succession, tax return and consultation, business setup, real estate investment consultation and management, global asset management and business consulting. Grace has been recognized by her clients as a warm, honest, and intelligent financial advisor/ tax professional.

Chi-Yi Kuan

VP of data science

Chi-Yi Kuan is a vice president of data science at Outdoorsy where he is responsible for all machine learning efforts across the company. Kuan is a seasoned data science leader, mentor and advisor with 20+ years of extensive industry experience in building high performing teams in Silicon Valley and applying big data and technology across various business domains (social network, e-commerce, marketplace, SaaS, and consulting) at both Fortune 500 firms and startups. Kuan is dedicated to helping organizations become more data driven and profitable. He combines deep expertise in analytics and data science with business acumen and dynamic technology leadership. Currently, Chi-Yi is also a chairman of the board for data science association in Taiwan (社團法人資料科學協會,https://datascienceassoc.org/), and a business mentor in the master of science in business analytics program at UC Davis. Previously, he worked at LinkedIn, eBay and DemandTec (an IBM Company). He also advises companies on data science to transform high-throughput data into data-driven business decision-making and is a frequent conference speaker in the U.S. and Asia. He holds an M.S in Statistics and a M.S in Engineering-Economic Systems & Operations Research from Stanford University.

Chun Chiu 邱俊邦

TAITA-SV Founding President

Mr. Chun Chiu is a Senior Advisor at AsiaTech Management LLC. He has over 30 years of experience in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley. His current interests include assisting entrepreneurs and investors in starting and building successful businesses. One of his most significant successes was to incubate NetScreen Technologies Inc. by forming and shaping the company, raising funds, and building the management team. Mr. Chiu was an angel investor who sat on the Board from the early days of the company and leaving the Board after NetScreen’s initial public offering in late 2001. He started his career as an IC Design Engineer, with involvement in developing the industry’s first single chip calculator and watch in the early 1970s. Subsequently, Mr. Chiu led a team to develop and introduce EPROM products. In 1976, he joined Hewlett-Packard and engaged in the development of personal computer chips. In 1980, Mr. Chiu Co-founded Integrated Device Technology, Inc., where he developed hi-speed, low-power CMOS static RAM, as well as hi-speed DSP chips such as the 16-bit multiplier or accumulator. In 1986, while still at IDT, Mr. Chiu switched tracks from engineering to business and successfully established the Asia-Pacific market, as well as penetrating a tough Japanese market. In 1988, he left IDT and founded Quality Semiconductor Inc. (QSI), where he served as the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman. Mr. Chiu brought QSI to its IPO in 1994 and eventually merged QSI into IDT in 1999. He is a Member of Advisory Board at Protego Networks Inc. Mr. Chiu is also on the Boards or Advisory Boards at Global Alliance, Inc.; Technology Associates Management Corporation; SOHOWARE, Inc.; SOLUS Networks, Inc.; and Ortega InforSystems, Inc. He received a B.S.E.E. from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan and a M.S.E.E. from Oregon State University.

Jerry Chiu-Hsien Chan, PhD 詹久賢

Principal Electrical Design Engineer

Jerry (Chiu-Hsien) Chan works as an IC staff design engineer in Western Digital corporation. He has extensive industy experience in medical devices, image sensors and camera, memory and storage, display, semiconductor devices and processes, power electronics and general IT system. He also has deep interests in the latest technology commercialization, global economic trends, and business development. Via TAITA, he hopes to make some contributions to Taiwanese Community in the bay area. He received a Ph.D in Electrical engineering from USC.

Jane Ho 何淑貞

Senior VP/Manager of High-Tech lending Division

Jane Ho, SVP & Manager of High-Tech Division in Cathay Bank, specializes on customized commerical loans to small to medium size businesses. Her portfolio are widely ranged from technology companies (i.e. semiconductor, bio-medical, optical, renewable energy (solar/wind turbine), technolgoy service companies), to traditional businesses include importer, manufacturers, and commercial real estate investors/developers. Jane started her banking career in year 1995 and has always enjoyed working with entrepreneurs to support their businesses growth. Her representative cases include Marvell Technology (Nasdaq: MRVL), Oplink Communication (Nasdaq: OPLK), plus many acquired by public traded companies. She earned her Bachelors degree from National Chung-Hsing University and an MBA in Finance from San Francisco State University. Jane is actively participated on community services.

Huang Lee, Ph.D.

Managing Partner

Dr. Huang Lee received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He served as the President and the Board of Directors of Taiwanese American Industrial Technology Association (TAITA) and the Board of Directors of North America Taiwanese Engineering & Science Association (NATEA). He leads strategy planning and has organized numerous technology and business conferences in Silicon Valley.

Jimmy Li, Ph.D.

Jimmy Li, Ph.D.
A retired executive in IoT, software development and enterprise systems related fields. Formal President, NATEA HQ
Jimmy Li co-founded or worked in startups in USA in the fields of factory automations, Internet on TV, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), and wireless device for human networking. He also worked in technology market development for Sun Microsystems and as a R&D Director for Java Enterprise Middleware product development in Borland. Jimmy also worked extensively in Taiwan as the Program Director of The Initiative Office for RFID Applications in Government Project, funded by Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan. In this capacity, he established in depth working relationships with many government organizations, universities, research institutes, and Companies in all size and sectors. While working in Taiwan, Jimmy also use his spare time to teach in a number of university as Adjunct Associate professor, in IT, ME and EE Departments.
Jimmy received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Simon Lai 賴文毅

Executive Director

Sean Wang, Ph.D. 王韶華

President

Dr.Sean Wang is the President of ITRI International Inc. (San Jose, California), which is ITRI’s presence in North America since June 2005. ITRI International engages in incubation of startups; facilitates R&D collaboration, contract research, technology transfer, and IP business; and high-level training and recruiting. Sean joined ITRI as the General Director of IEK in July 2004. IEK, a business unit of ITRI, conducts market research and business consulting and also functions as a government think tank. Before joining ITRI, Sean was with SRI International/SRI Consulting (Menlo Park, California). Earlier, Sean was associated with M.W. Kellogg (now KBR) in Houston and Morgantown Energy Technology Center (now a part of the National Energy Technology Laboratory) of U.S. Department of Energy.

David Weng 翁嘉盛

Managing Partner

Jane Ho, SVP & Manager of High-Tech Division in Cathay Bank, specializes on customized commerical loans to small to medium size businesses. Her portfolio are widely ranged from technology companies (i.e. semiconductor, bio-medical, optical, renewable energy (solar/wind turbine), technolgoy service companies), to traditional businesses include importer, manufacturers, and commercial real estate investors/developers. Jane started her banking career in year 1995 and has always enjoyed working with entrepreneurs to support their businesses growth. Her representative cases include Marvell Technology (Nasdaq: MRVL), Oplink Communication (Nasdaq: OPLK), plus many acquired by public traded companies. She earned her Bachelors degree from National Chung-Hsing University and an MBA in Finance from San Francisco State University. Jane is actively participated on community services.

Chen-Ho Wu 吳振和

Retired

Chen Wu has been developing technical and market solutions for LED-based applications since 1973. As Founder and President of Leotek Electronics Corp. (光林電子), he was responsible for identifying and developing emerging LED-based applications and the market for Leotek. He founded Leotek in 1993 and led his team through the design and development of many innovative and successful products. Leotek became one of the top three LED-based application companies in North America with a 35% market share both in LED traffic signal light and also in LED street light.

After Leotek was acquired in 2014, Chen became the President of LuxNet Corp. (華星光通), one of the top three leading fiber-optics communication companies in Taiwan. Chen officially retired in early 2016.

Biography

Prior to founding Leotek, Chen Wu was Vice President of Advanced Technology (Taiwan) Corporation and Executive Vice President of Compound Semiconductors, Inc. in California. He began his career at Hewlett-Packard’s Optoelectronics Division in various roles including New LED Material Development Engineer, Project Leader and Project Manager.

Chen obtained his Ph.D. degree in electronic materials from Stanford University, his M.S. degree in Physics from New Mexico Tech, and his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University.

Chen was a member of the American Physical Society, the Northern California Crystal Grower Society, a member of IMSA (International Municipal Signal Association) and ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers). He has authored numerous technical publications in the area of opto-electronics and holds 26 patents related to LED applications. In 2008, The Academia Historica in Taiwan (台灣國史館) published a book “The Reminiscences of Chen-ho Wu” for Chen in Taiwan Top People Series 07, describing his contributions as “LED 紅綠燈的傳奇 人物”.

Chih-Cheng Yeh 葉至誠

Director

Eugene Yeh,Ph.D. 葉俊雄

Retired

Sandra Lee 李珊瑩

Santa Clara County - Manager

Sandra Lee is a manager in a hospital system with three main medical centers and twelve clinics. She is experienced in hospital administration, clinical operation, data analysis, strategy planning and medical supply chain. She manages all fixed assets in the hospital system from requisition, approval, procurement, purchasing, inventory to retirement. She also provides data analysis for the hospital supply chain operation.

Prior to her current role, she provided ongoing performance evaluations to support hospital operation needs and to meet changing regulatory agencies standards. She maintained budgeting and staffing portfolio for over 1,400 staffs. She was a liaison between clinics, county, state and federal agencies. Prior to relocating to Bay Area, Sandra was a Senior Analyst at Adventist Health corporate office, which owns 20 acute care hospitals across four states in the U.S. She provided analytical and clinical quality improvement decision supports to various departments across the health system.

Sandra is a licensed and registered pharmacist in Taiwan. She practiced in Taipei Veterans General Hospital and a retail pharmacy as a front line pharmacist. She has solid backgrounds and professional skills in pharmacy, hospital management, operation performance evaluations, clinical quality initiative implementation and medical equipment control. Sandra has a M.S. in Clinical Pharmacy from National Cheng Kung University, a M.P.H from Loma Linda University, and a B.S. in Pharmacy from Taipei Medical University. She is certified in Public Health in U.S.

Tom Chang 張鴻德

President

Jeff Chuang

Director