Technology Panel
The future of technology in Asia

This panel is centered around the global technology industries and its implications for business in Asia.  Panelists will speak on a variety of topics:

• Current trends, threats, challenges and growth areas;
• Key investments being made;
• Sources of future industry growth;
• How developed economies can adapt to shifts in power;
• How technology-related industry developments will change Asia’s commercial equation with the world.

Panelists
 

Bobby Chao, Founding Managing Partner, DFJ Dragonfund China

Mr. Chao was born in China and spent his professional career in the U. S. and Asia.  He is the Founding Managing Director of DFJ DragonFund, an affiliate fund of DFJ that is focused in the early stage investment in China.  Mr. Chao has also been the Chairman of the Board of DragonVenture, Inc. since the inception of the company in 1999. DragonVenture has been one of the first few venture capital investment and incubation firms that advocate the significance of doing businesses in China.

He began his career as one of the original founders of Cadence Design Systems and, was Cadence’s Vice President and GM of Asia, responsible for sales, marketing and operations in Asia and Japan.  After Cadence, he founded and served as chairman and CEO of OCRON, a pioneer in the optical character recognition and document management space, until an acquisition by Umax Group in 1993. During his tenure with Umax , Mr. Chao was responsible for corporate investment and marketing.  He later incubated and served as Chairman and CEO of VA Linux (LNUX).  Subsequently, he was an early investor in AboveNet (ABVT), Oplink (OPLK), Omnivision (OVTI) and NetScreen (JNPR).  Mr. Chao is currently serving as the chairman and board director of several China and U.S.-based companies.  

Mr. Chao received his B.S. in Physics from Chung Yuan University in Taiwan in 1971. After the two-year service as a navy officer, he came to the U.S. and received his M.S. in Physics from Georgia State University in 1975. He then received another M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering at Stanford University in 1977. 
 

Anoop Sinha, Managing Director, Tiger Catalysts

Anoop is a global entrepreneur, and the founder and Managing Director of Tiger Catalysts.  He has nearly a decade of experience in product design and global business development and management. The first company he co-founded, Danoo, is co-located in Silicon Valley and in China and was funded by Kleiner Perkins. Earlier, he was a manager at McKinsey & Company. 

He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a minor in Business from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was awarded the Sevin Rosen Funds Award for Innovation, and a B.S. with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University.
 

Greg Caltabiano, President & CEO, Teknovus

Greg Caltabiano joined Teknovus from his position as President & COO of SOMA Networks. He was responsible for corporate strategy, creation and execution of all business and technical functions, spanning sales, marketing, engineering, and manufacturing. Mr. Caltabiano was instrumental in securing multimillion dollar carrier contracts worldwide. Prior to SOMA, he served as Division Vice President & General Manager for Comverse Asia, building and managing Comverse's 15 sales and support offices and four R&D centers. Mr. Caltabiano also held technical and management positions at IBM Microelectronics and Honeywell/Data Instruments. He accumulated more than 14 years of work in Japan and China.

Mr. Caltabiano received his BSEE/CS Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University's School of Engineering and his MBA from Stanford University, where he received a FLAS Fellowship. Mr. Caltabiano also completed post graduate and executive education at the Inter-University Center in Japan and INSEAD in France.

Dallas Kachan, Managing Director, Cleantech Group LLC

Formerly the Cleantech Venture Network, which defined and introduced cleantech as an investment category in 2002, the Cleantech Group now spans a series of businesses which have helped transform cleantech from a niche category into one of today’s most significant business opportunities.
 
Dallas is responsible for the publishing businesses of the Cleantech Group™, including its flagship property Cleantech.com – the leading integrated media publication focused on business and technology developments in clean technology industries.
 
Dallas was most recently founder, publisher and acting editor of Inside Greentech, acquired by the Cleantech Group in 2007. He has authored hundreds of articles on cleantech sector developments, and is a frequent speaker at industry events.
 
Previously, Dallas was editor, reporter and anchor for Canada's national news service the Canadian Press, with a background covering science, environmental and business issues in print and broadcast. He had a fifteen year career in high tech, including VP marketing jobs at companies as SoftArc (acquired by OpenText), Caspian Networks and Ambient Software, and was a senior consultant to dozens more with Silicon Valley's Regis McKenna and his own practice. He has served on the boards of publicly-traded Centrinity (TSX) and other private companies.
 

Moderator
 

Jim Chapman, Partner, Nixon Peabody LLC

Mr. Chapman has focused on securities law, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and international business transactions for the past twenty years. Jim has been involved in over 175 mergers, acquisitions, and financing transactions. These
transactions have included public offerings, private placements, debt financings, venture capital transactions, stock sales, asset sales, mergers, reorganizations, and recapitalizations.

Mr. Chapman also has a significant background in international transactions, particularly dealing with China and Chinese-related companies. These transactions include both assisting Chinese companies invest and raise capital in the U.S. and
helping U.S. firms make investments and operate in China. From the mining industry to the pharmaceutical industry, Jim has been engaged in working with clients on numerous China-U.S. transactions and matters.


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