Edwin is a managing partner of a premier financier
for undervalued assets. His responsibilities include
fund management, global strategy,
innovation of financial products and business advisory.
Previously and for five years, Edwin was a partner
at DragonVenture (also known as DFJ Dragon), a Silicon
Valley based venture capital firm, and was the Managing
Director of DragonFund II and DragonFund III (aka VeryFund).
While there, he served as a board director of Erlang
Technology and Covault Corporation. Together with Bobby
Chao, chairman of DragonVenture and founder of Cadence
(NASDAQ: CDN), Edwin led the investment of and served
as a board observer for Mobile365 (formerly known as
InphoMatch) which was recently acquired by Sybase (NYSE:
SY) for $450MM. Together with Bobby, Edwin also served
as investor and board advisors for OSA Technologies
which was acquired by Avocent (NASDAQ: AVCT) for $100MM.
In the community, he actively seeks to participate
in fellowship and worthy volunteering opportunity.
He is a member of Bridges Community Church, participated
in Habitat for Humanity. He is also an angel investor
(recent investment include pre-IPO Alien Technology
(NASDAQ: RFID proposed) and volunteers time to help
Band of Angels pre-screening deals. He is also a founding
investor/partner of a local community bank, Tri-Valley
Bank (OTCBB: TRVB) and a shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway
(NYSE:BRK.A and BRK.B) and has served as advisor to
Stanford University's Asia Technology Initiative (ATI)
Program.
A US resident and a native son of Taiwan, he is a
graduate of Georgia Tech and CASE and has attended
as visiting scholar at Georgetown University in D.C.,
Yonsei University in Korea, and TU Berlin, Germany.
He lives with his wife Patra and daughters Tifa and
Fiana.
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