Board of Directors

Dr. Ronald Chwang, Chairman and President, iD Ventures America
iD SoftCapital Group

Ronald Chwang is the Chairman and President of iD Ventures America. Dr. Chwang initiated the Acer venture investment activities in North America with the launch of a $40 million "Acer Technology Venture Fund" in 1997. Subsequently, iDVA's investment scope was further expanded after the successful formation of the second fund, a $260 million "IP Fund One", in May, 2000 together with new investment activities in key regions of Asia Pacific.

Dr. Chwang currently serves actively on the board of a number of iDVA's portfolio companies such as Centrality Communications, CHiL Semiconductor, and CoAdna Photonics, etc. He also serves on the board of the following public companies: iRobot in Burlington, Ma, and Silicon Storage Technology Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA.

From 1992 to 1997, Dr. Chwang was president and CEO of Acer America Corporation. Under his leadership, Acer America's revenue grew from $200 million to $1.44 billion. Dr. Chwang has been with Acer since 1986, serving in various executive positions leading business unit engaged in ASIC products, computer peripherals, and Acer-Altos server system. Before joining Acer, Dr. Chwang worked for several years in development and management positions at Intel in Oregon and Bell Northern Research in Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Chwang received his B. Eng. Degree in Honors Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada and his Ph.D. in EE from University of Southern California.

Brian Hinman                          
Oak Investment Partners

Brian L. Hinman joined Oak as a Venture Partner in 2006. Mr. Hinman is the co-founder, and formerly the President and CEO, of 2Wire, a provider of broadband service platforms for the DSL market. Mr. Hinman is also the co-founder, and formerly the CEO, of Polycom, Inc., (NASDAQ: PLCM) the world's leading teleconferencing company. Mr. Hinman was the co-founder of PictureTel Corporation (formerly NASDAQ: PCTL) at the age of 22, pioneering the video compression technology that has endured into the standards of today. Mr. Hinman is an engineer by training, a specialist in digital signal processing, and holds twelve U.S. patents. He has received several awards for entrepreneurship, including being named an Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2005. To catalyze entrepreneurship at his alma mater, he sponsors the Hinman CEO (Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities) Program at the University of Maryland. Mr. Hinman currently serves on the board of directors of two Oak portfolio companies, Qpixel Technology and 2Wire. He has previously served on the national board of the American Electronic Association, and was co-founder and director of the International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium (IMTC). Mr. Hinman holds a B.S.E.E. Summa Cum Laude from the University of Maryland, and an S.M.E.E. from M.I.T.

Dr. Tom Shao, General Partner, TAMC

Dr. Shao is a General Partner of Technology Associates Management Co. (TAMC), Ltd., a venture fund management company registered in BVI and has offices in Texas, California and Taiwan. He is also an angel investor seeding many companies over the past 20 years.

He has had a diverse career background at Bell Labs., AT&T and IBM in business information systems, network planning/operations, computer architecture, telecomm systems, computer hardeware/software, supercomputing, cellular telephone network, High-Definition TV (HDTV) with over thirty years of technical management experience. He also has over 18 years of Venture Capital Investment experience since the mid-1980s.

He has served as a board member of many publicly and privately held high-tech companies.

Dr. Shao received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science and M.S. in Engineering from the University of Illinois and B.S. from the National Taiwan University.

David Tsang, Chairman & Co-Founder
Acorn Campus Ventures

David Tsang, managing member and co-founder, has since the 1960s been a veteran of the semiconductor industry, widely regarded as an industry expert and a visionary. Mr. Tsang recently served as chairman of Oak Technology, which he founded and brought to IPO in 1995 (NASDAQ:OAKT). He also founded Data Technology Corporation, manufacturer of disk controllers and high-density disk drives. From 1979 to 1987 he filled a number of key roles at Data Technology Corporation, including president, chief executive officer, and chairman. He additionally co-founded Xebec, another manufacturer of disk controllers. He remained with Xebec from 1974 to 1979.
Mr. Tsang holds an MSEE from Santa Clara University and an honorary PhD from International Technical University. He brings to Acorn Campus the experience and skills necessary to build the company into a premier technology incubator and fund. Mr. Tsang has an impressive track record in attracting, evaluating, and advising portfolio companies, drawing on his considerable experience in communications, marketing, business development, product-planning, program management, and general operations management.

Wen C. Hsu, Ph.D, President and Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder

Wen Hsu brings to Qpixel more than 20 years of semiconductor industry experience, specializing in MPEG encoder and decoder chips. Educated as an engineer, Hsu has dedicated his career to developing advancements and innovations in video compression technologies for such applications as video CD, DVD players, and video conferencing systems. This video industry veteran has successfully managed business strategy, engineering and business development for companies including Pulsent, Polycom, Oak Technology, C-Cube Microsystems, Cypress Semiconductors and General Electric.

Hsu has repeatedly demonstrated his ability to turn technical innovation and fresh ideas into revenue-generating products in the market. After joining Pulsent as vice president of engineering, he successfully reinforced the Series C funding efforts with R&D and product development divisions of major Japanese consumer electronics companies in business and development collaboration relationships. He proceeded to build the R&D and chip design team for product development of the world’s first working object based compression technology. As vice president of IC business at Polycom, Hsu was responsible for integrating Polycom’s audio and video products to conform to IP-based broadband business and residential customers’ requirements, forging a major market opportunity for the company.  

Starting at Oak Technology as the director of engineering, Hsu led the development of all imaging products, and went on to become general manager and vice president of the CD/DVD business unit, developing video CD and DVD player turnkey solutions that generated substantial product revenue growth.

At C-Cube he managed the architecture and product definition group. At Cypress Semiconductors he was the lead engineer of the Cypress and Sun Microsystems joint development team of CY601 SPARC Integer Chip. His initial chip development position was with General Electric where he worked on the floating point processor and connection machine router chips.

Hsu served as assistant professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma, in Norman, Oklahoma from 1982 to 1984. He obtained both a Ph.D. and master’s degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University.