John S. Chen
Chairman, CEO and President
Sybase, Inc. 

Mr. Chen has served as chairman, chief executive officer and president of Sybase, Inc. since November 1998.  He is recognized as a technology industry leader and corporate turnaround specialist. Under his leadership, Sybase has become a highly profitable company that has grown from a leading enterprise-class database provider to the largest publicly traded software company specializing in data management, data integration and enterprise mobility. Through early investment in its Unwired Enterprise strategy, Sybase has succeeded in establishing worldwide leadership positions in the mobile database, mobile middleware, mobile device management and mobile messaging markets.

Mr. Chen is actively involved in international relations, and has testified before Congress on U.S.–China trade. In December 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush appointed him to serve as a member of the President’s Export Council, a bi-partisan committee of prominent business leaders, Cabinet Secretaries, and members of the U.S. House and Senate that provides advice and recommendations to the U.S. government on export and international trade policy. In December 2006, he was appointed as co-chair of the Secure Borders and Open Doors Advisory Committee (also known as the Rice-Chertoff Commission). Mr. Chen also serves on the boards of directors for the Walt Disney Company, Wells Fargo & Co. and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Before joining Sybase, Mr. Chen held positions as the president of the Open Enterprise Computing Division of Siemens Nixdorf, and chairman and CEO of Pyramid Technology Corporation.

Mr. Chen graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, receiving a degree in Electrical Engineering. He also holds a master’s of science from California Institute of Technology, an honorary professorship from Shanghai University, an honorary doctor of Science from the City University of Hong Kong and an honorary doctor of Business Administration from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Mr. Chen is active in the community, serving on the boards of the Committee of 100 and the San Francisco Symphony.

Robert C. Cresanti
Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology and Chief Privacy Officer for the Department of Commerce

Robert C. Cresanti was sworn in as Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology on March 20, 2006 in a private ceremony.  President Bush nominated him on November 10, 2005; the United States Senate confirmed him on March 16, 2006.  Leading the Technology Administration (TA), Cresanti oversees a policy analysis staff, and provides oversight to the National Institute of Standards and Technology and National Technical Information Service.  The primary mission of the Technology Administration (TA) is to maximize the competitiveness and innovation of the U.S. technology industry and its contribution to America’s economic growth and global leadership.

In addition, Commerce Secretary Gutierrez named Robert Cresanti to serve as Chief Privacy Officer for the Department of Commerce on July 13, 2006.  The Under Secretary is involved in overseeing Departmental activities related to the development and implementation of federal privacy laws, policies and practices, and will coordinate with the Department’s Chief Information Officer and other Departmental staff to ensure internal privacy, particularly the integrity of the Department’s information systems.  Cresanti is the highest-ranking official to serve in this capacity in the federal government.

The Under Secretary is focused on carrying forward President Bush’s vision to grow the economy through the American Competitiveness Initiative and related policies and programs.  As a portal between the federal government and the technology community, the Under Secretary’s priorities are to:

• continue the Technology Administration’s work in paving the way for appropriate government support of industry’s rapid advances in technological development;
• foster an environment conducive to private sector investment in innovation, by identifying ways to facilitate knowledge exchange between scientists and investors, which will boost our country's economic performance;
• find efficient ways to promote the mechanisms and capture the data necessary to ensure and measure our return on government R&D investments;
• serve as a one-stop-shop for U.S. industry representatives to discuss and resolve critical issues that challenge their ability to thrive.

The Under Secretary co-chairs the Committee on Technology and chairs the Interagency Working Group on Manufacturing R&D within the President's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).  He also participates in three other NSTC committees:  the Committee on Science; the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources; and the Committee on Homeland and National Security.  He participates in the  President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), an advisory panel consisting of private sector and academic leaders who advise the President on technology, scientific research priorities, and math and science education.   The Under Secretary is a member of the American Health Information Community (AHIC), established in 2005 and chaired by the Health and Human Services Secretary, to help advance efforts to reach President Bush’s call for most Americans to have electronic health records within 10 years.  He also chairs the Commerce Department Radio Frequency ID working group, and co-chairs the federal RFID Intra-governmental Council to ensure that RFID is understood within government, industry, and by consumers during development and deployment.  

Before his confirmation, Cresanti served as Vice President of Public Policy at the Business Software Alliance.  Prior to this, he was Senior Vice President and General Counsel for the Information Technology Association of America. Earlier in his career, he served as Staff Director for the Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem. He was also Staff Director for the Subcommittee on Financial Services and Technology for the Senate Banking Committee. Mr. Cresanti received his B.A. degree from Austin College and his J.D. degree from Baylor University.

Tony Ho
Vice President, North Asia
McAfee Inc.

Tony Ho is Vice President, North Asia of McAfee Inc. In this role, Ho is responsible for sales in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea. Ho joined the company on August 10, 2006.

Ho worked in the IT industry for over 17 years, Tony is well known for his ability to enhance processes to focus on reaching strategic objectives and creating new business. Ho recently served at Apple Computer, Inc as the Vice President, Asia Pacific based in Beijing.

Prior to joining Apple in 2002, he was the Director, Greater China, Personal Systems Group for IBM. He joined IBM in 1989 and worked in multiple positions at IBM in sales and marketing.

Robert W. Holleyman, II
President and CEO
Business Software Alliance

Robert Holleyman is president and chief executive officer of the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the high tech industry’s leading voice for global policies and programs that promote innovation and the continued growth of the digital economy.

Over the past two decades, the high tech industry has expanded to include devices and technologies that powerfully alter how we work and live.  Under Holleyman’s leadership, BSA has anticipated the new challenges associated with these dramatic advances, developing programs around the world that foster innovation, competition, free trade, cyber security and digital copyright protection.

Holleyman has headed the alliance since 1990, overseeing BSA operations in more than 85 countries, including nine foreign offices in Europe and Asia in addition to its headquarters in Washington, D.C.  He is widely known for his work on policy-related issues affecting the technology industry including international copyright laws, cyber security, trade and electronic commerce. 

Holleyman has been named one of the 50 most influential people in the intellectual property world by the international magazine, Managing Intellectual Property.   Before joining BSA, Holleyman spent eight years serving as counsel in the U.S. Senate and was an attorney with a leading law firm in Houston, Texas.  Holleyman earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and his Juris Doctor at Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 

Dr. Yoo Soo Hong

Dr. Yoo Soo Hong, former vice president and chaired research fellow of KIEP (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy),is currently the Director of Institute for Global Innovation Economy (IGIE) and an emeritus research fellow at KIEP. He also serves KOSBI (Korea Institute for Small Business) as a research advisor and is an invited professor at the Graduate School of International Study of Korea University. He is a leading expert on Korean industry and technology policies and strategies. After graduating from Seoul National University in 1969, he served KIST (Korea Institute for Science and Technology) until 1979. Dr. Hong received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 1983 and subsequently taught as a visiting professor of economics at Northwestern University for one year and as an assistant professor of economics at the Oklahoma State University for five years. In 1989, Dr. Hong returned to Korea to rejoin the KIST, then he moved to KIEP in 1990. He has been with KIEP for the last seventeen years. Dr. Hong’s published recent works include but not limited: FTAs and International Competitiveness of SMEs in Korea (To be published), Extended Regional IT Strategies in Korea (2006). IT Development in Korea, China and Japan (2005), The Development of High-Tech Industries in China and Responsive Strategy  of Korea (2003), The Transition Toward Innovation-Driven Economies in East Asia and Korea’s Innovation Strategy (2003), Strategic Alliances of IT Industries in Korea, China and Japan (2002), “Internet Business Cooperation in Northeast Asia and APEC” (2001); “Technology-Related FDI Climate in Korea” (1998); Basic Framework of the North Pacific Technological Community (1995); and, Japan’s Technology Transfer Strategy to Asia and Korea’s Policy Response (1993).

Mr. Martin Hynes
Director, The Embark Initiative

Martin Hynes is Executive Director of The Embark Initiative, a major national research funding initiative operated by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology. Through a range of highly innovative schemes, the Embark Initiative invests in People and Ideas, addressing individual research funding needs at Masters, Doctoral and Postdoctoral level and encouraging the most talented researchers to advance their careers in Ireland. The Irish Research Council has major research funding reserves under the National Development Plan and operates under the auspices of the Department of Education and Science.

Martin was formerly Senior Science Advisor with Science Foundation Ireland and a Senior Policy Analyst with Forfás. He has been instrumental in the formulation of major national funding initiatives supporting research in the ICT and biotechnology sectors. He also contributed to the formulation of first National Framework of Research Needs and won funding for the development of the National Metrology Laboratory. An Engineering and MBA Graduate, he has considerable commercial experience having mentored private sector start-ups during a three year career break. He also worked for several years in product line management with Westinghouse Electric.

In Kim
CEO and President of Federation of Korean Information Industries (FKII)

Mr. Kim joined Samsung Group starting his career at Samsung Corporation in 1974 and became President and Chief Executive Officer of Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. in 2003. Mr. Kim’s broad and extensive global work experience has included the management of the areas of advanced technology, sales, service, marketing and human resources, both in Korea and Europe. Mr. Kim earned a BA in business from Korea University, Seoul in 1975, and has worked for Samsung ever since.

He has worked in a number of key positions such as the senior director roles with Samsung Corporation in marketing and also supported Samsung’s group-wide personnel resource management until 1998, where he became well known as a strong leader, honed his international business skills.

His next promotion saw him take the role of Managing Director at Samsung SDI German, the corporation’s electronic display subsidiary, which is a world leader in digital and mobile display technology producing display products ranging from CRT(Cathode Ray Tube), LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) to OELD(Organic Electroluminescent Display). His knowledge of the global marketplace ideally positioned him to then become the leader of SDS world-widely.

Mr. Kim is married with one son and one daughter. Renowned for working all hours, he likes to make the most of his spare time reading, playing golf, going to the gym and occasionally mountaineering. He is in excellent command of four languages including English, Japanese, German as well as Korean.

Jong-Kap Kim
CEO and Chairman of Hynix Semiconductor

Mr. Jong-Kap Kim was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors and President & Chief Executive Officer of Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. on March 30, 2007. Before joining Hynix Semiconductor in March 2007, Chairman Kim has held numerous key positions at the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE) and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), including Deputy Minister and subsequently Vice Minister of MOCIE and Commissioner of KIPO.

During his government career, Chairman Kim has overseen trade talks concerning all types of bilateral, regional and multilateral issues - import restrictions against Korean-made goods such as semiconductors; market liberalization for manufactured goods and services; protection of intellectual property rights, and etc. Also known as a public servant with a firm grasp on issues most relevant to private corporations, Chairman Kim oversaw policies on deregulation, industrial technology, standardization, intellectual properties, informatization, industrial environment, industrial location, and etc.

Chairman Kim holds a B.A. and Ph.D. in public administration from Sung Kyun Kwan University in Korea, M.A. in economics from Indiana University, and MBA at New York University. With a multidisciplinary academic background in public administration, business management, and economics, he taught courses on international business and international business policies at his alma mater, and has delivered lectures at various other academic, industrial, and corporate venues.

The Chairman has received numerous honors, decorations, and awards from the government including a citation from the Minister of Commerce, a Presidential citation, and a Yellow Stripes Order of Service Merit medal. He and his wife, Madam Hwa-Young Park, have two sons, Won-Jae and Won-Young.  

Dr Sangwon Ko
Director, IT Industry Research Division
Korean Information Society Development Institute

Dr Sangwon Ko is the Director of the IT Industry Division and a Research Fellow of the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI). He is also the Korean Delegate and Vice Chair for the Working Party on the Information Economy (WPIE) in OECD, and a member of the Evaluation Committee for Korea’s National R&D Program.

Dr Ko was previously a Research Fellow at the Science and Technology Policy Institute, and a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Hanyang University, as well as the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University.

Dr Ko’s main research interests include ICT human resources development, IT R&D, national innovation system and telecommunication industry. He has published on a range of topics, including the Consequences of Educational Expansion in Less Developed Countries, Issues in Science & Technology Human Resources Development in Korea, Structural Change and Employment in Manufacturing Sector, the Effect of Government R&D Direct Subsidies on Corporate R&D Investment, and the Analysis of IT Labor Market and Policy Directions.

Dr Ko has a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University in 1992, and a B.A. in Economics from Yonsei University in 1987.

Dr Xiaohan Liao
Deputy Director General for Information and Space Technology in the Department of High and New Technology and Industrialization of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China

Dr Xiaohan Liao is the Deputy Director General for Information and Space Technology in the Department of High and New Technology and Industrialization of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China. In MOST, he also previously served as the Deputy Head of Strategy in the Office of National Science and Technology Development Planning.

Before joining MOST, Dr Liao was the Division Director and Deputy Director General of Department of Science and Technology of the Guizhou Provincial Government, and the assistant to the Director General of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of China.

In the early 1990s, Dr Liao also served for a period as a Senior Scientist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at the National Aeronautics and Aerospace Administration (NASA) in the United States, as well as a Visiting Researcher at the Meteorology Office Hadley Centre in the United Kingdom. He was also a researcher at the Research Institute of Geography at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing China.

Dr Liao’s areas of research include general circulation modeling experiments of climate change, satellite data process, data gridding and mapping, detection of high-level cloud coverage, water vapor and convection process using satellite data and global statistics, global monitoring of upper atmospheric aerosol extinction and cloud coverage, environmental implication studies using satellite earth, and science policy making, governmental roles, and science and technology development outlook.

Dr Liao holds a PhD from the School of Geography from the University of Oxford from the United Kingdom in the field of General Circulation Modeling of climate change, a Master of Philosophy in the field of climatology from the Institute of Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Bachelor of Science from the Department of Geophysics of Peking University in the field of geophysics.

Toshio Obi
Professor, Graduate School of Global Information & Telecommunication Studies, Waseda University
Director, Institute of e-Government, Waseda University

Professor Obi researches in the fields of competitive policy, e-Government, international information and telecommunication policy, ITU-related issues and IT industry comparisons between Japan, America and Europe.

The position he currently holds at international organizations include Chairman ITU CoE Steering Committee, Director APEC e-Government Research Center, Director ITU-Waseda ICT Center, Director JICA-Net Distance Learning Project, Chairman Asia-Pacific Distance and Multimedia Education Network (APDMEN), Advisor Asian Telecommunications Industry Exchange Forum (ATIE).

He is also a member of Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), an Overseer APEC Project on HRD for e-Government, member of the International Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of Digital Government. He has acted in the position of Advisor to NECTEC, Government of Thailand and the e-Government Practice Group of The World Bank.

Within Japan, he has been Advisor to Communication and Information Network Association of Japan (CIAJ), Chairman, Broadband/Ubiquitous Committee, The Telecommunication Association (TTA), and the Project Director, Research and Policy Institute, Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. He has been an Editorial Member of Monthly Magazine "e-Gov", Researcher, Research Institute of IT & Management, Waseda University, Advisory Member of AIESEC Japan Committee and the President, International Academy of CIO.

Professor Obi graduated from Faculty of Economics, and the Graduate School of Economics, Keio University. He is the Japan Representative and Research Associate, Center for Japanese Economy and Business, at Columbia University. He has published widely in many Japanese publications.

Dr Myung Oh
President of Konkuk University
Korea

Dr Myung Oh is presently the President of Konkuk University, Korea. He was formerly the Minister of Science and Technology from 2003-2006, and from 2004-2006, he was concurrently the Deputy Prime Minister of Korea. Other government posts that Dr Oh has held in the past include the Minister of Construction and Transportation, and the Minister of Communications. Dr Oh has also held a number of other top academic and industry posts, including President of Ajou University, as well as Chairman and President of Dong-A Daily Newspaper. In his early career, he was a Professor of Electronic Engineering in the Korea Military Academy, as well as the Presidential Secretary for Economy and Science.

Dr Oh graduated from the Korea Military Academy, and has a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from the Seoul National University College of Engineering, and a Ph.D in Electronic Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Has a long history of analyzing Asia in both the public and private sectors. Most recently conducted research on financial reform in Asia as a joint senior fellow with the Center for Business and Government and the Asia Center at Harvard University. Is the author of five books including, The Rise of China, winner of the Mainichi News/Asian Affairs Research Center Special Book Prize. Has spent 21 years managing research units for investment banks, mostly based in Hong Kong. Was managing director and head of Asia Research for Bankers Trust and spent three years as chief of Asia strategist and economist for the largest Japanese investment bank, Nomura. Prior to that, spent eight years at Hudson Institute managing studies for the NSC, DoD, Department of State, ACDA, NASA, and various corporations.

Man Gi Paik
Senior Partner, Kim & Chang
Former Director General for Industrial Technology Policy, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, Korea

Man-Gi Paik became one of Senior Professionals in Kim & Chang as of September 1, 1999.  Man-Gi Paik has occupied a number of key government positions within KIPO, as well as in the Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Energy (MOCIE).  At MOCIE, in addition to his successful terms of service as the Director of the Information Industry Promotion Division and the Director of the Semiconductor Industry Division, MAN-GI PAIK also served as the Director General of Industrial Technology Policy, which oversaw Korean industrial and technological policy. His term as the Director General of Industrial Technology Policy could fairly be described as one of the highlights of his illustrious government service career, being responsible for the comprehensive design and coordination of the Korean innovation system, including projects such as the drafting of numerous innovation policy-related legislation such as the Technology Infrastructure Promotion Law and the Basic Electronic Commerce Law.

Man-Gi Paik obtained a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania during his stay in the U.S. between 1982 and 1984.  Man-Gi Paik is also a board member of the Korea Electronics Engineers Association and Law & Technology Institute, a semi-public research organization. 

Brad Smith
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, Legal & Corporate Affairs

Brad Smith is Microsoft's Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. He leads the company's Department of Legal and Corporate Affairs, which is responsible for all legal work and for government, industry, and community affairs activities.

Smith has played a leading role at Microsoft on intellectual property, competition law, and other Internet legal and public policy issues. He is the company's chief compliance officer and is responsible for Microsoft's work to implement the antitrust consent decree established in 2001 with the Department of Justice and state Attorneys General. He led negotiations that resulted in nine state Attorneys General dropping their antitrust appeal against Microsoft in 2002. He was also responsible for the negotiation of agreements in 2002 with the Federal Trade Commission and European Commission covering privacy and security requirements for the company's Passport online-authentication service. He oversaw the company's 2003-2005 negotiations that resolved Microsoft's differences with AOL Time Warner, Sun Microsystems, Intertrust, Novell and CCIA, and IBM.

Smith has helped spearhead Microsoft's global campaigns to bring enforcement actions against those engaged in illegal spamming, virus creation, and software counterfeiting. He has led efforts to revise the company's contracts to make them more customer-friendly, and he has strengthened Microsoft's legal compliance programs, issuing new Standards of Business Conduct for all Microsoft employees and creating a new Office of Legal Compliance.

Smith previously worked for five years as Deputy General Counsel for Worldwide Sales, and before that, he spent three years managing the company's European Law and Corporate Affairs group, based in Paris. Before joining Microsoft, Smith was a partner at Covington & Burling, having worked in the firms Washington, D.C. and London offices and represented a number of companies in the computing industry.

Smith graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he received the Class of 1901 Medal, the Dewitt Clinton Poole Memorial Prize, and the Harold Willis Dodds Achievement Award, the highest award given to a graduating senior at commencement. He was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at the Columbia University School of Law, where he received the David M. Berger Memorial Award. He also studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has written numerous articles regarding international intellectual property and electronic commerce issues, and has served as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law.

Frank Xiong
Corporate Vice President and General Manager, BEA Systems

Frank Xiong is corporate VP and General Manager in BEA Systems, which is the leading global software company based in the Silicon Valley in US, and providing enterprise application and service infrastructure software worldwide.  It major products include Tuxedo, Weblogic and AquaLogic.   Mr. Xiong is responsible for managing BEA flagship Tuxedo product family worldwide as well as establishing and managing BEA China R&D Center. 

Xiong is a seasoned engineering executive with over 20 years of experience at large enterprise software companies as well as start-ups in the U.S. and recently in China.  He has extensive experience in managing software product development based on a wide range of technologies and system environments. He has hands-on technical strength in product and project management, software architecture and design, Internet/network communications, client-server technology, object-oriented software development, data modeling, graphics, and image.

From 1982 to 1994, Xiong worked at IBM in the U.S. in various technical and management positions, including Project Manager, Product Manager and Senior Development Manager. He was responsible for the full life-cycle development of multiple commercially marketed software application products in the areas of CAD/CAM/CIM, graphics, image, and publishing.

From 1994 to 2001, Xiong served in executive and leadership positions in Candle Corp. in California, U.S., a $400 million software company specializing in enterprise software products and tools that monitor, analyze and manage Internet/network, e-Business, systems, databases and applications for more than 5,000 enterprise customers worldwide. Before leaving Candle, Xiong was the VP of R&D.

From 2001 to 2003 before joining BEA, Xiong was the VP of Engineering in Entropia Inc, based in San Diego, California, U.S., and then VP of Engineering in Luna Imaging, based in Los Angeles, California.  Entropia is the leading start-up software company in the GRID computing space. Its software products enable customers to execute applications using thousands of computers connected via Intranet and Internet in parallel, therefore expand the computing powers tremendously.  Luna Imaging, is a leader in content management software industry.  Its software products are specialized in producing, accessing and managing high quality images along with their rich content information in distributed systems.

Xiong received his B.S. in computer science from San Francisco State University, and M.S. in computer science from UCLA. Xiong is the member of the UCLA Computer Science Advisory Board as well as the UCLA Extension Advisory Board.