Tyson Qiu has brought 20 years of professional experience in technology to APAC Research as founder. Tyson set up a development center in China for Avanquest in 2002 saving the company 70% of its R&D budget. During the last two decades, Tyson has held various technology and management roles including developer, manager, CTO, acting CEO and board chairman. In late 90s, Tyson was engineering director for Sina.com. Between 1996 and 1998 Tyson was cofounder and chief technologist at Pictra, a web-based digital photography company of Mayfield VC and NetScape. Pictra was sold to Fuji film. Between 1990 and 1993, was on the founding management team of Electronic for Imaging. The company grew to a hundred million dollar company in only three years. It went public in 1992 (NASDAQ:EFII). Tyson earned his undergraduate from University of Illinois, Urbana. He also has a Masters degree from Stanford.
Harry Yu
China Project Manager
Harry Yu has joined in the APAC Research as China project manager in 2006. Before that, Harry had worked for Xinhua Bookstore Group and HSBC as the role of BD Manager. Xinhua Bookstore Group is one of the most famous enterprises in the wholesale and retail industry in mainland China. During the career there Harry has cooperated with many famous companies, which contained Bertelsmann, Warner, Dangdang, Sanyo and so on. Between 2005 and 2006 Harry was cofounder and chief marketing officer of BBCMart, which is a web company focusing on tour and leisure travel industry in China. During the career there he has also cooperated with some famous companies, which contained Ctrip, China South Airlines, Hilton (Sanya) and so on. Harry majored in Finance, and he has a bachelor degree of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China.
Martin Feng has more than 10 years experience in software development. He is expert in Windows, Linux, C++, COM+, .Net, and J2EE. He shares an US patent with other cooperators. Martin has worked in US, India, France and Japan. He got his bachelor and master degrees at National University of Defense Technology, China.
Mr. Huang has over sixteen years of experience as an investment banker working for both leading domestic and leading global financial institutions. He has participated in numerous advisory assignments for local and foreign strategic and financial investors, and has been instrumental in raising in aggregate more than US$1 billion of capital from both the public and private markets on behalf of Greater China enterprises.He is founder of Seraphin Capital Limited, a merchant banking boutique providing investment banking services to private SMEs and entrepreneurs in Greater China. Recent successful mandates include advising Alibaba.com to acquire Yahoo! China and raising US$50 million for a Taiwan handheld display maker. From July 1999 to September 2000, Mr. Huang was an Executive Director of FB Gemini Limited, a Hong Kong based investment banking boutique majority owned by Taiwan's Fubon Group. Prior to his tenure with FB Gemini, in 1999, Mr. Huang worked as a consultant for Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, a US boutique investment bank, advising the International Finance Corporation with respect to a US$150 million loan to a subsidiary located in Thailand of Tuntex Group. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Huang was with Indosuez W.I. Carr Securities, the wholly-owned Asian regional brokerage arm of France's Credit Agricole Indosuez; at Indosuez W.I. Carr, Mr. Huang was first Head of Corporate Finance and then Managing Director for the overall operation in Taiwan. Between 1991 to 1995, Mr. Huang worked in corporate finance for first China Development Industrial Bank (formerly China Development Corporation) and then Schroders Asia, a leading British merchant bank (later acquired by Citigroup). Mr. Huang received his MBA from Stephen M. Ross School of Business of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in May 1990.
Hong Tan
Technology Advisor
Hong Tan is the founder, CTO and President of China Operations for Fortebio, Inc. He has extensive industrial experience in management and in the development of high tech products including space telescopes, computer disk drives, fiber optic components, and biochemical sensors. Prior to founding Fort¨¦Bio, Hong was the founder, President and CEO of Wave Crossing Corporation, a fiber optic component startup. He was also a key contributor to the creation of several well-known computer products, including the Iomega removable disk drives. His prior experience includes engineering management and product development with Iomega, Maxtor, and NASA. He holds a Ph.D. and an MSEE from Auburn University and a BSEE from Xi'an Jiao Tong University in China.
