Andrew
Lee, Chairman and CEO
A pioneer in the computer science and information technology, Mr. Lee has substantial
manufacturing and marketing experience in Asia and global markets. Early in his career, he
was a staff research member at The David Sarnoff Solid State Technology Center, RCA
Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey. They were responsible for the design of the Super
Ultra Modular Computer and a 10 chip metal gate LSI computer for the NASA Apollo project.
Mr. Lee was
co-founder of Q1 Corporation that was sold to Nixdorf Computer AG and the National
Enterprise Board of the UK, and was instrumental in founding Internal Data Systems a
company that went public in 1996 as Consygen. His business experience also includes the
fashion/apparel business working with companies such as The Limited Inc. and Federated
Department Stores in developing their quick turnaround time private label business lines.
Mr. Lee is
an American citizen of Chinese origin with strong ties to greater China. He earned a BS in
Electrical Engineering (Honors) from California State Polytechnic University at San Luis
Obispo and a MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. Mr. Lee also studied
electrical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a lifetime
member of IEEE, Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu (the Honorary Electrical Engineering
Society).
Stephen
M. Soble, Deputy Chairman
Mr. Soble has had three decades of experience in international law and business. He began
his legal career at Surrey & Morse, in Washington DC, became the head of the
International Department in the Washington Office of Morgan, Lewis and Bockius and served
as the managing partner of an international law firm which he co-founded and which
operated offices in Beijing and Harare, Zimbabwe from its Washington Headquarters. He also
co-founded, in 1978, International Executive Reports, a respected publishing company.
As a
successful international legal counselor for Fortune 500 companies, governments, and
numerous start-up corporations, he has advised on market penetration and business
operations in more than 45 countries and on every continent. Mr. Soble received a
Bachelors Degree in History and Political Science (Honors) from Syracuse University and
earned a JD from Harvard Law School.
Hon.
Robert J. L. Hawke, AC, Director and Chair, Industrial Relations &
Compensation Committee
After obtaining his law degree, Mr. Hawke won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford
University. In 1958, Mr. Hawke became a research officer and negotiator for the Australian
Council of Trade Unions ("ACTU"). He became president of ACTU in 1969.
In 1980,
Mr. Hawke was elected to the Federal Parliament, became Leader of the Opposition in 1983
and Prime Minister of Australia in the same year. Mr. Hawke was well known for his
conciliatory, non-confrontational approach. Strike action was halved between 1983-86, in
comparison with the previous 25 years. In addition, Medicare was introduced as part of the
Accord Agreement (the government's agreement with the unions on prices and incomes).
Mr. Hawke's
tenure as Prime Minister ended in 1991 and he resigned from the Parliament in 1992. Since
leaving political life, he has held visiting professorial positions in several academic
institutions and has been active in a wide range of community projects.
Cyril H.
C. Fung, Director and Chair, Finance Committee
After completing his education in Harvard College and earning his MBA in the Harvard
Business School in 1965, Mr. Fung worked for several years for the Bank of East Asia when
his father, Sir Kenneth Fung, was Chief Manager. The Bank of East Asia had been founded by
his maternal grandfather, the late Mr. Kan Tong Po and his paternal grandfather, the late
Mr. Fung Ping Shan. Mr. Fung also worked for Morgan Guaranty Trust in New York in the late
sixties.
In 1970,
Mr. Fung returned to Hong Kong and assumed a career in the investment and trading field.
He was co-founder and Chairman of the first venture capital fund in Asia, Inter-Asia
Management Co., Ltd. in the early seventies. Mr. Fung left the Fung family group in the
late eighties to set up his consulting practice in the area of business advisory and
strategic consultation.
Mr. Fung
has served in as a director in various companies encompassing a broad range of industries
such as trading and investment (the Fung Ping Fan Group of Companies, Inter-Asia
Management Company Ltd.), real estate (Palibury International), banking (CTB Australia
Ltd., Thomas Cook H.K. Ltd.), international fund management (GT Management), publishing
(Asia Week Limited), social and business clubs (Nautilus Ltd.), moving and transportation
(Pan Pacific Services Ltd.), hotel and estate management (GF International Services),
distribution of wine and spirits (IDV-Dransfield & Co., Ltd.), food services
(McDonald's Restaurants (H.K.) Ltd.), and many more successful businesses.
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