Keynote Speakers

For more than 35 years, Dixon Doll has influenced and guided entrepreneurs, investors and executives in the computer and communications industries. In recognition of his accomplishments in venture capital, Dixon received the 2013 Special Achievement Award from the International Business Forum. Dixon was also named by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 100 venture investors on its Midas List for four consecutive years. In April, 2005, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) in Washington, D.C. He also served as NVCA Chairman from 2008-2009 and as a member of their Executive Committee from 2007-2009. Under Dixon’s leadership and direction as Chairman, the NVCA developed a widely embraced set of recommendations (NVCA 4-Pillar Plan) to help enhance liquidity in the U.S. venture capital industry. This plan led to the JOBS Bill of 2012 which President Obama signed into law earlier this year.

Dixon currently serves on the Board of Directors of DIRECTV (DTV), where he also serves on the Compensation and Nominating/Corporate Governance Committees. He is also the Board Chairman of Network Equipment Technologies (NWK) and the past Board Chairman of Force10 Networks, which was recently acquired by Dell. He also serves on the boards of numerous private DCM companies.

In the mid-1980's, Dixon co-founded the venture capital industry's first fund focused exclusively on telecommunications opportunities. Earlier, Dixon was the founder and CEO of an internationally recognized strategic consulting firm focused on telecommunications and computer networking. From 1972 to 1980, Dixon also served as a faculty member of the IBM Systems Research Institute in New York City. He authored the seminal text Data Communications published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1978. It was adopted as a course text by more than 60 colleges and universities worldwide.

Dixon has traveled extensively to six continents to serve on advisory boards and give highly sought after lectures and conference presentations. Through their family foundation, he and his wife Carol give generously to numerous educational and philanthropic organizations. He also serves on the Executive Committee and Advisory Board for the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), is a member of the Board of Overseers at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and also is a San Francisco City Commissioner.

Dixon received his B.S.E.E. degree (cum laude) from Kansas State University as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he was a National Science Foundation scholar.

Dr. Christopher Fang brings a wealth of experience in both medical device and pharmaceutical industries. He has worked to improve healthcare through innovation in biomedical technology.

Dr. Fang serves as the Worldwide Vice President, Strategic Medical Affairs for Johnson & Johnson, DePuy Synthes. He has been charged with establishing medical sciences, clinical evidence strategy, and product safety for the DePuy Synthes Spine and Synthes Trauma operating companies. He is appointed to a variety of strategic assignments related to technology assessment, licensing and acquisition, and new product development. Dr. Fang serves as the Chair of the Clinical Research Committee responsible for selection and funding of internal and external clinical programs. Representing Johnson & Johnson globally, he maintains an active role in working to influence healthcare policies that will impact the approval and payment of innovative technologies in the future.

Dr. Fang’s career began at Idenix/Novartis Pharmaceuticals where he led global clinical development in the antiviral therapeutic area. He was later appointed Head of Cardiovascular Research and Medical Director at Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation before moving on to Medtronic Vascular. As the Director of Clinical Affairs and Head of Global Clinical Safety at Medtronic, he was responsible for coronary and peripheral device trials and clinical safety surveillance worldwide.

Dr. Fang earned a M.D. from Cornell University Medical College, a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, and a M.B.A from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was trained in general surgery at University of Massachusetts Medical School and Medical Informatics at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Fang was awarded Eisenhower Fellowship in 2011. He is currently an Advisor for Global Health Corps and Harvard SEED Social Innovation Program for overseas Chinese students. He serves as a committee member for AdvaMed Program Committee.

Iqbal Z. Quadir is a long-time champion of the critical role of entrepreneurship and innovations in creating prosperity in low-income countries. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who, 20 years ago, saw the potential of mobile technology to transform low-income countries.

Quadir realized in the early 1990s that the ensuing digital revolution could facilitate the introduction of telephone access throughout Bangladesh. To make this vision a reality, he established a New York based company, Gonofone Development Corp (meaning “phones for the masses” in Bengali), which later became Grameenphone. Grameenphone is now Bangladesh’s leading telecommunications operator providing access to over 35 million subscribers irrespective of their geographic location or economic standing.

From 2001-2004, Quadir was a Fellow and Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, focusing on the democratizing effects of technologies in low-income countries. He co-founded the journal Innovations (MIT Press) and, in 2005, moved to MIT where he founded the Legatum Center in 2007. Quadir founded Emergence BioEnergy to produce decentralized energy, and in 2010 co-founded Money in Motion, a start-up company to provide mobile phone-based banking services. He sits on the Advisory Council of the World Wide Web Foundation.

Quadir’s work and thinking has been cited in nearly 30 books and both profiled and published in numerous publications. He was awarded the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Swarthmore College (2011), holds both an MBA and an MA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BS with honors from Swarthmore College.

Hugo Shong has been Founding General Partner of IDG Capital Partners since 1993, also of IDG-Accel China Growth Fund and IDG-Accel Capital Fund since 2005 and 2008 respectively. In 1993, backed by Patrick J. McGovern, founder and chairman of Boston-headquartered International Data Group (IDG), Mr. Shong formed China’s first technology venture capital firm, IDG Capital Partners which was to invest in a string of China's most successful internet companies such as Baidu, Tencent (QQ), Sohu, Ctrip, and Soufun. As an award-winning journalist, Mr. Shong also launched and published over 40 magazines in China and Vietnam, including the Chinese editions of Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, National Geographic, Men’s Health and Robb Report, along with the Vietnamese editions of PC World and CIO magazines.

Mr. Shong completed the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program in the fall of 1996. He conducted graduate studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy 1987-88 and earned his MS degree from Boston University’s College of Communication in 1987. He studied Journalism at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 1984 to 1986 and he received a B.A. degree from Hunan University in 1982. A recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award at College of Communication, Boston University, in 1998, as well as Boston University Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2004. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Boston University since 2005, and also a board Director of WPP plc since 2013.

Victor Wang co-founded Mtone Wireless in 1994 in Silicon Valley and currently is the Chairman of the company. He holds Ph.D. of Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Mtone Wireless developed the world first mobile stock-trading infrastructure in Silicon Valley and commercially deployed in China in 1997. Mtone Wireless pioneered the mobile Internet industry in China by providing the first mobile-phone information and content services nationwide in China since 1999. Mtone developed China’s first location-based mobile commerce services in 2001, developed world first mobile networking game in 2005. Mtone today is one of the innovative mobile phone applications developers and service providers in China.

Victor worked at Pacific Bell in California during 1987-1989. He worked at Cellular Data Inc. in Palo Alto, California during 1989-1991 leading the radio system and wireless network architecture design. From 1991-1994 he worked at Interval Research Corp. in Palo Alto, California as a Senior Research Staff, holding 6 U.S. patents in multimedia mobile communications.

Victor Wang is a co-founder and the third Chairman of 2005 Committee, consisting hundreds of leaders all with overseas-studies background. He was also a By-Law Committee Chairman and Vice Chairman of Society of Entrepreneurs and Ecology (SEE) in China, the largest environmental group founded by over 200 entrepreneurs. Victor is also co-founder and an executive board member of e-China, the largest industrial group in the information industry. He is also a permanent board member of Chinese Entrepreneurs Forum.

Joined Tencent in 2006, Mr. Zheng led the R&D, Product & Planning practice of Tencent Social Network Platform (Qzone). Mr. Zheng is also the founder and leader of Tencent Open Platform & Performance-based Advertisement Platform (Guangdiantong).

Prior to Tencent, Mr. Zheng served in Intel & Boing as technology/management consultant, and led a group of product development in Microsoft.

Mr. Zheng received his M.S. in Computer Science in University of Kentucky, and bachelor degree in Shandong University.