 | Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman & CEO Dr. Kai-Fu Lee founded Innovation Works in September, 2009. Prior to starting Innovation Works, he was a Google Vice President and the President of Google Greater China. During his tenure at Google, Dr. Lee has doubled market share and built-up a 700-person organization. Prior to joining Google, he spent seven years at Microsoft and his last job was Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. His team developed several server products, and key technologies shipped in Office and Windows. He also founded Microsoft Research Asia, which MIT Technology Review calls this research lab “the hottest computer science laboratory.” From 1996 – 1998, Dr. Lee was Vice President and General Manager at SGI, also the President of Cosmo Software. Before joining SGI, Dr. Lee spent six years at Apple, where he became the Vice President of its Interactive Media Group. Dr. Lee taught as an Assistant Professor from 1988-1990 at Carnegie Mellon, where he received his Ph.D. Dr. Lee is the author of four best-selling books in China, and has given speeches to about half a million students in China. Dr. Lee is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Vice Chairman of the Committee of 100, an elite group of Chinese Americans. |
 | Hua Wang, Founder & Managing Partner Hua is a graduate of Stanford University with a Masters in Business Administration. Previously, Hua served as Google China’s Head of Business Development from 2006 until late 2009, where he built Google China’s premium ad network in the domestic market from scratch into an $80 million annual run-rate business. While at Google China, Hua also managed Google China’s portfolio of investments, including well-established Chinese internet companies such as Dianping, Ganji, Tianya, Xunlei, Maxthon, and others.Prior to Google China, Hua co-founded and managed Shanghai Yinda Technology, an engineering consulting company offering mobile telecom network planning and optimization services. During his tenure the company grew from 1 to 100 employees and to $15 million in sales by 2008. |
 | Tina Tao, Chief Operation Officer & Partner Tina Tao holds a B.A & M.A in Information Management from Peking University and MBA from Yale University. She joins Innovation Works as COO and Partner to lead the daily operations of all the function teams. Prior to IW, Tao Ning has successively worked at the headquarters of Microsoft, IBM, and Google, both in China and the United States. Tao Ning has held leadership roles in product management, marketing, strategy, and operations. Under her leadership, she and her team launched more than 20 new products in China and Asia Pacific, created a new sales model of software and hardware with 100+ sales people, designed a creative software investment model in China for a global company , and operated a sales team with hundreds of millions in revenue. |
 | Chris Evdemon, Partner Mr. Chris Evdemon joined Innovation Works in 2009 as the General Manager of Incubation Programs and Investor Relations. Mr. EVDEMON has 12 years of “hands on” entrepreneurial and angel investments experience, primarily in IT. From 2008 through late 2009 he was a Managing Partner at Eastern Bell Venture Capital. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. EVDEMON served as the CEO of ICDL Asia Pacific Ltd., an organization in the computer skills certification sector with operations in over 25 Asian countries, which he helped turnaround and relocate to Singapore. Prior to coming to Asia, he co-founded and managed ECDL Hellas S.A. in Athens, Greece, which by its third fiscal year had reached $10 million in revenues and $2 million in net profit. Mr. EVDEMON is an active angel investor with a portfolio of angel investments in Mainland China as well as in Singapore, a Director of the Business Angel Network South-East Asia (BANSEA) as well as a Founding Member of the China Business Angels Network (CBAN). He holds a Masters in Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College in London and a Masters in Business Administration from INSEAD.Chris has considerable expertise in start-up environments and operations, as well as in franchising and licensing networks. He is an active angel investor with a portfolio of angel investments in mainland China as well as in Singapore, a Director of the Business Angel Network South-East Asia (BANSEA) as well as a Founding Member of the China Business Angels Network (CBAN). |
 | Christine Lang, Partner Ms. Christine Lang has more than 10 years of investment and industry research experience in the Chinese TMT space. Prior to joining IWDF, she acted as Research Director / Consulting Director and Assistant President at Analysys International, a leading TMT research and consulting firm in the Mainland China market. Ms. LANG has led a number of strategic consulting projects for top-notch investment and TMT companies including Mogan Stanley, MIH, Warburg Pincus, WR Hambrecht, China Mobile, China Telecom, Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Tencent and Baidu. She has also previously worked for UNIDO UK as Head of Projects and earlier on she was Beijing’s Section Manager for Fuhwa Securities. Ms. LANG sits on the Marketing and Sales committee of the Internet Society of China (ISC). She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Beijing University of Technology and a Masters in Business Administration from Peking University. |