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Host: Monte Jade West
Location: ITRI International, 2870 Zanker Road, , Suite 140, , San
Jose, CA , 95134
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2020
Time: 1:30-4:00PM (Registration starts at 1:30PM; Program starts at
2:00PM)
Registration: Online registration is required.
Fees: Free for Monte Jade members; $10 for non members and all on-site
registration.
Description:
Monte Jade is excited to interview our former chair Bob Lin.
MONTE JADE'S BOARD TO BOARD INTERVIEW SERIES is designed to create a
personal connection between our community and great leaders. The
interview focuses on bringing color to the journey of leaders so we
can understand the challenges that they also faced as they advanced in
their careers. We look forward to seeing you at the event.
Example of Bob & his friends' rock concert
List of bestselling books by author Bob Lin
Speaker bio:
Bob Fu-Yuan Lin 林富元 (源)
Bob Lin is the co-founder and previous Chairman of HEALTHINK, the
largest medical emergency service and the largest consumer genomic
testing services company in China. He is the original co-founder of
ACORN CAMPUS AND ACORN VENTURE, a pioneer incubator VC fund in Silicon
. Bob has more than 40 years of angels and venture investment
expertise with multiple IPOs. He also has long history of hands-on
entrepreneurial start-up and international business, marketing, and
management experiences.
Bob is well known for launching 30 successful investment including
AVANTI (IPO ’95), ALTIGEN (IPO ‘97) , LIGHTLOGIC (Sold to Intel
for $400M ’01), VERTEX NETWORK (Sold to Mitel for $200M ’99), MPS
(IPO ’04, now $7B), PINE PHOTONICS (a co-founder, sold to Opnext
’03; IPO ‘07), FORTINET (IPO US ’09, now $8B), MONDAY TECH (sold
to Yahoo ‘08), LUXNET (Founding BOARD MEMBER, IPO Taiwan ’10),
WINNING HEALTH (IPO China, ’11, now $4B), SUMILUX (Acquired ’16),
TECHPOINT (IPO ’17), BASEVENTURE (acquired ’18), CSPA (acquired
’19), FARASIS (BOARD MEMBER 2010 - 2018; scheduled IPO 2020, now
$3.5B), HEALTHLINK (IPO in process, scheduled 2021)… etc.
Bob currently serves on the BOARD OF HEALTHLINK of Beijing, FARASIS
ENERGY of California, R2.AI of Silicon Valley, KNOWING of Taiwan. He
has also served in the past as a BOARD DIRECTOR OR ADVISOR TO PINE
PHOTONICS, MONDAY TECHNOLOGIES (sold ’08), GREATLAND ELECTRONICS
(IPO ’09), and LUXNET of Taiwan, WINNING HEALTH of China. Bob is
also the General Partner of consulting company PHYCOS of Taiwan, as
well as a Senior Partner of boutique investment bank OCEANIQ Partners.
Bob is also the author of 8 top selling books in Asia: “FIND YOUR
WAY TO SUCCESS & HAPPINESS” in 2003 (Top seller of the year);
“CREATING VALUE TO DIFFERENTIATE” in 2004 (Honored with the
National Level Golden Book Award); as well as “BUILD YOUR CAREER
FROM WHERE YOU ARE”, best seller in 2005. His 4th book “IT IS EASY
TO BE SUPER HAPPY” became the top seller in late 2007. His 5th book
“FAMILY EDUCATION OF THE SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE” sold out the first
prints the 3rd week after launch in 2011. His 6th book “ANGEL
INVESTMENT” became the Top 10 best seller on Amazon.com of China and
also #1 on the chart of best selling investment book in Taiwan in
2014. His 7th book “ENTREPRENEURS THINK DIFFERENTLY” was well
received in both Taiwan and China, followed by his 8th book “PLAY
YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS”.
Bob was also the leading columnist for the largest business/investment
newspaper in Taiwan “ECONOMIC DAILY NEWS”, and “COMMERCIAL
TIMES” as well as many leading investment magazines in China. He has
been a long time guitarist and pianist in the popular rock band
“SOUTHERN BREED” in the ‘60s in Asia and “SILICON VALLEY
BAND” present days.
Bob served as Chairman of GLOBAL MONTE JADE ASSOCIATION, considered
one of the most influential Chinese hi-tech executive associations
worldwide. He was the Chairman in Chinese Association of International
Trade (CAIT) twice in a row and a BOARD MEMBER OF TAIWANESE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE twice. He has also served both as the Commissioner and the
Chairman of SANTA CLARA COUNTY – HSINCHU COUNTY COMMISSION. Bob has
a MSEE degree from University of California at Santa Barbara. He has
been very active in community services.
Example of Bob's Speech - On a hurricane day
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