Time: Sunday, March 9, 2008, 10:05 am - 11:20 am

Harvard Asia Business Conference 2008 will examine Asia's role in reshaping the world. Specifically, it will focus on the economic, political and social impact that Asia has on its neighbors. In the technology and telecommunication panel, we plan to invite panelist from Asia tech/telecom companies which have presence and successful stories both inside and outside of Asia. It is no surprise that Asia has experienced enormous economic growth in the past decade and now stands in the forefront of several leading technology and telecommunication fields, but what are the implications on other countries? Will this create a collaborative environment across the globe? What will be the Asia tech/telecom companies' role in the future? Is there any limit? How their expansion can be sustainable from a longer-term perspective?

Chen-Fu Chien

Deputy Director of Industrial Engineering, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

Dr. Chen-Fu Chien is the Deputy Director of Industrial Engineering in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and an on-leave Professor of Industrial Engineering and EMBA from National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) since 2005. He received double-major B.S. in IE and EE (Phi Tao Phi Honor) from NTHU in 1990 and M.S. and Ph.D. in Decision Sciences and Operations Research from UW Madison in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Dr. Chien was Fulbright Scholar in UC Berkeley 2002-2003 and attended PCMPCL V in Harvard Business School. He is a Steering Committee in NSC and Board Member of CIIE, CIDS and Associate Editor of IEEE TASE. He received many awards including Distinguished University-Industry Collaborative Research Award from Ministry of Education, Best Research Awards, and Tier 1 Principal Investigator (Top 3%) and Outstanding Research Award of NSC. His research and development efforts center on manufacturing strategy, decision analysis, modeling and analysis for semiconductor manufacturing.

Jason Hsu

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Chinese Founders Fund

Mr. Jason Hsu serves as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Chinese Founders Fund and facilities CFF business globally. He is also a founder and advocator of CFF Angel Forum featured as a platform for early startup entrepreneurs to interact with angel investors and VCs in major cities of China. Previously working as a VP in Chinbid.com(1999) merged with Eachnet.com - later acquired by eBay (2003). He co-founded Jovan Ventures, a T.M.T.-dedicated angel investment company in China, and HSU Partners, a strategic global investment firm involving resource partnership around the world. Various investment exposure include some of the early startups in the areas of DNS, C-C auction, Social Networking, online payment, search engine, digital publishing, entertainment, mobile services in China as well as e-commerce in Taiwan, green technology in Vietnam, and high-technology and solution companies in the US. He holds a MBA degree from the US.

Masaaki Maeda

Senior Vice President of the Service and Technology Division, NTT DoCoMo USA

Masaaki Maeda is currently the Senior Vice President of the Service and Technology Division at NTT DoCoMo USA's New York headquarters, responsible for developing new Mobile Multimedia Services and forming alliances with American companies. DoCoMo USA is a wholly owned subsidiary established in November 1999 of Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc.

Mr. Maeda began his career in the Japanese telecommunications industry in May 1983 at NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) in the Technical Development Department. In March 1994, he moved to NTT DoCoMo Inc., the mobile arm of NTT which was spun off from its parent company in 1992. He held a variety of managerial positions in Corporate Planning, Personnel, General Affairs, and Mobile Multimedia Planning during his career with DoCoMo in Japan. Mr. Maeda joined the New York Office of DoCoMo USA in July 2002.

Mr. Maeda holds both a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He also completed a MBA at MIT's Sloan School of Management in June 2002.

About NTT DoCoMo: NTT DoCoMo is the world's leading mobile communications company. DoCoMo serves over 53 million customers, including 42 million people subscribing to FOMA, launched as the world's first 3G mobile service based on W-CDMA in 2001. DoCoMo also offers a wide variety of leading-edge mobile multimedia services, including i-mode™, the world's most popular mobile e-mail/Internet service, used by more than 47 million people. With the addition of credit-card and other e-wallet functions, DoCoMo mobile phones have become highly versatile tools for daily life. NTT DoCoMo is listed on the Tokyo (9437), London (NDCM) and New York (DCM) stock exchanges. For more information, visit www.nttdocomo.com. i-mode and FOMA are trademarks or registered trademarks of NTT DoCoMo, Inc. in Japan and other countries. NTT DoCoMo's FOMA service is only available to subscribers in Japan.

Willy C. Shih (Moderator)

Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School

Dr. Shih is currently a senior lecturer for the Harvard Business School, a role he has held since January 2007. Dr. Shih's broad industry career experience includes significant accomplishments for globally-recognized organizations such as Kodak, IBM, Silicon Graphics and Thomson. While at Kodak, Dr. Shih led the organization to leadership market positions in the United States in consumer digital cameras, photo printing consumables and online photofinishing services. He also managed key intellectual property projects at Thomson and at Kodak. Dr. Shih holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and S.B. degrees in both Chemistry and Life Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ravi Vijayaraghavan

Partner, Bain & Company

Ravi Vijayaraghavan is a Partner in the North American practice of Bain & Company, based in Boston. Prior to relocating to Boston in January 2007, Ravi was a Partner in the Asian practice of Bain and was the head of Bain's Asian technology practice based out of Singapore.

Ravi has been with Bain for 12 years and has accumulated experience across a wide range of industry segments and geographies. Recent assignments include pan-Asian growth strategy assignment for a world-leading computer systems company, strategy and operations improvement for a major telecommunications equipment vendor, and a 'full potential' program for one of the regional largest telecom operators. During his career at Bain he has worked across the United States and Asia, leading teams in China, Australia, India, Japan, Korea, and Singapore.

Ravi has an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated as class valedictorian. He also has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and completed graduate work in EE at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. Prior to joining Bain he held marketing and product management positions at Oracle Corporation and at Centigram Communications, both in Silicon Valley.