Cheng, Co-Founder & Chairman, APL Software, ‍‍‍‍is a successful serial entrepreneur and well-acclaimed industry veteran, having founded and led numerous businesses spanning a range of different industries.
Cheng Wu was CEO and co-founder at Azuki Systems, responsible for the company’s vision, corporate strategy and setting the overall direction in the marketplace.  Azuki was sold to Ericsson in February, 2014.
Before that, Cheng served as Founder and Chairman of Acopia Networks, a leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization solutions in December, 2001.  Acopia was acquired by F5 Networks for $210M in September, 2007.
Cheng  joined Cisco Systems in June 2000 through Cisco’s $5.7B acquisition of ArrowPoint Communications, where he held various executive positions, including Group VP and General Manager of the Content and Multiservice Edge Group (CME).

Dr. Robert Yung, Ph.D., Partner at Walden International; Former Executive Vice Chairman and President of DJI. Dr. Yung served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Vice President of Corporate Development at Analog Devices, Inc. since December 2011 till 2015. Dr. Yung served as an Executive Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development at Analog Devices Inc since December 2011. He served as a Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development at Analog Devices Inc. since January 20, 2012. He served as the Chief Technology Officer of Tessera Technologies Inc., since May 2009 and also served as its Executive Vice President. He served as the Chief Technology Officer of PMC-Sierra Inc., since joining on September 7, 2005 and also served as its Vice President. He co-founded GSR Ventures Management Co. Ltd., and served as its Partner. He served as the Chief Technology Officer of Enterprise Processors of Intel Corporation and also served as its Chief Technology Officer of Intel China and Intel Communication Group. Dr. Yung served as the Chief Technology Officer for Asia at Oracle America, Inc. He was a Lead Architect in Sun Microsystems’ UltraSPARC microprocessor program. He serves as Member of Advisory Board at MobileBest, Inc. He has published over 50 technical articles in journals and at industry conferences. In 2002, Dr. Yung was named to the National Committee of US-China Relation’s Fellow during the inaugural Young Leader Forum. In 2000, he was named to the World Economic Forum’s “Top 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow,“ in Davos, Switzerland. Dr. Yung earned his BA, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley.

Matthew Nordan is a Managing Partner at MNL Partners, which develops energy and environmental projects in China and other high-growth economies. Before MNL, Matthew was a venture capital investor at Venrock – one of the world’s oldest and most successful venture capital firms – where he drove investments in FINsix (power electronics) and Nest Labs (energy efficiency, acquired by Google for $3.2 billion). Earlier, Matthew was President and co-founder of energy tech analyst firm Lux Research and an executive at Forrester Research. He serves on the boards of FINSix, Sense Labs, Quidnet Energy, and Greentown Labs, and is Co-Founder and Chairman of the Investment Committee of the nonprofit PRIME Coalition. He is a graduate of Yale.

Jennifer Lum is the Chief Strategy Officer and Cofounder of Adelphic, a leading mobile advertising platform. Prior to Adelphic, Jennifer played significant roles at Apple, Quattro Wireless and m-Qube, working with Fortune 500 brands and building industry-leading mobile marketing and advertising platforms.
Jennifer has been recognized in Business Insider’s "Most Powerful Women in Mobile Advertising,” Inc.com’s "Women to Watch" and Boston Business Journal's "Top 40 Under 40. Jennifer advises startups at MIT, TechStars and 500 Startups.
Twitter: @lum

Bobbie Carlton is an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional who is also the founder of Innovation Women, an online speaker’s bureau for entrepreneurial, technical and innovative women and  Mass Innovation Nights, a free monthly product launch party and networking event powered entirely by social media.   The events help companies as large as IBM and as small as a 1 or 2 man start-up get visibility for their new products in the social networking community.
She speaks and teaches classes regularly, consults with small businesses and individuals on social networking and social media marketing, and works with companies who are looking to access the Boston region entrepreneurial and innovation community.
Previously, in addition to working with a number of Boston-area PR and marketing firms, she headed global public relations at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) and Cognos (now IBM), and overall marketing at companies as varied as the Beacon Street Girls, a social network and book series for preteen girls, and Accounting Management Solutions, a firm that provides part-time and interim placement of finance executives.  In 2010 she was named one of the ten Bostonians who have done the most for the startup community, in 2011 she was a recipient of a Mass High Tech All-star award and in 2015 she was named one of Boston’s Women to Watch.  She is a popular speaker on a wide variety of topics.  She has mentored at MassChallenge, a startup incubator and competition; is an advisory board member of Startup MA, part of Startup America, and advises a number of startups in the Boston area.  Follow Bobbie on Twitter as @BobbieC@WomenInno@CarltonPRM@MassInno

Dr. Quan Zhou, Ph.D. is the Founder of IDG-Accel China Growth Fund LP and serves as its Managing Director and General Partner. Dr. Zhou founded IDG Capital Partners in 1993 and has been its Managing Director since 1995 and serves as its General Partner. Dr. Zhou was a fiber optics researcher for NASA before he joined IDG Capital. He serves as a Non-executive Director of Superdata Software Holdings Limited. He has been a Director at Xunlei Limited since November 2006. He has been a Director of SouFun Holdings Ltd. (also known as Soufun.com Ltd.) since 1999. He serves as a Director of LinkAir Communications, Inc. and Circle Internet Financial Limited. He has been a Director of Memsic, Inc., since March 16, 2011 and Yirendai Ltd since January 2015. He served as Non-Executive Director of Northeast Electric Development Co., Ltd. He has won awards from NASA and holds two U.S. patents in fiber optic devices. Benefiting from more than 20 years of successful business and operation experience, he has established close connections with many IT companies and entrepreneurial communities in both China and the United States. Dr. Zhou was ranked 44 in the Forbes Midas List of 2016. He holds a Ph.D. in Fiber Optics from America's Rutgers University in 1989, a Master's Degree in Chemical Physics from the Chinese Academy of Science in 1984, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Science from China Science and Technology University in 1981.

In June 2010, Dr. Jun Chang founded Eventdove.com (HyZing LLC) in Nanjing, China. In just a year and half, she built an incredibly strong team with its own culture and style, and a great product with innovations in both its technology and business model. In this event, she will share her personal experiences and knowledge on start-ups and doing business in China, as well as her professional relationship with the Chinese government. In 2015 EventDove completed a successful acquisition by Hui Tang. Jun is a long time NECINA member and officer. NECINA is also one of the earliest customers for EventDove.

Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at NetBrain. Lingping Gao founded NetBrain Technologies in 2004 with a mission to simplify network management. Prior to founding NetBrain, Mr. Gao was the Chief Network Architect at Thomson Financial, where he managed the complexities of large enterprise networks and experienced the challenges of maintaining network performance. Mr. Gao has experience within multiple areas of business, including management, engineering and international business within the networking, software and automotive industries. Mr. Gao holds a BS and a BA in Automotive Engineering from Tsinghua University and an MS in Engineering from Yale University.

John is an automotive design expert and entrepreneur. John has started a few companies since 2008. He founded Dreamech developing connected car product/service for car owner and service providers. His team won several major awards including NEW 1.0 top prize. He is the cofounder/CTO of Wiselink Technology, where he built a team of 30 engineers and technicians developing pioneered telematics product in China for customers including China Mobile, Volkswagen China Joint Venture.
Before 2008, he worked for General Motors and Johnson Controls, and his designs and patents have been widely applied to GM, Ford and Chrysler automobiles.
John also serves as 2015-2016 President of NECINA. His education includes MBA (Michigan), MSME and BSME.

Tony Tian, General Partner at Kendall Venture, President Elect @ NECINA, is enterprise business veteran and very involved with startups. He is general partner at Kendall Venture (previously MiTi Venture) focusing on Intelligent devices and Healthcare space. He is also involved with various startups to help them at early to growth stages. He is cofounder at Soteria Networks, a cloud security company that is already serving some of the largest clients in the world. Tony is passionate about delivering values and building successful enterprises. He is involved with various companies as board advisors and partners including SEASBUSINESS, EnGauge, ParenJoy, Perfetch.
Previously Tony was a seasoned Enterprise product veteran and was involved with various high volume high impact Telecomm devices such as Intel IXP4xx Network Processor families, 23xx families. He was leading multiple product lines at Intel that involved some of the largest players in Telecomm.

At NECINA Tony is passionate about helping community especially new business incubation. In 2016 Tony will step in as the next President for NECINA.

Mr. Chen is an established entrepreneur and investor. He has started more than a dozen companies and is the co-founder of many successful entrepreneurial ventures. He is perhaps best known as co-founder and VP of Engineering of Cascade Communications, where he was instrumental in building the company. Cascade went public in 1994 with market cap reached $10B. Mr. Chen also co-founded and acted as chairman and CEO of Cameo Communications (IPO in Taiwan), GaoHong (IPO in China), Xinwei Telecom (IPO in China, market capitalization near USD 30B), Arris Networks (acquired by Cascade), Ardent Communications, Navini Networks (acquired by Cisco) and Shasta Networks (acquired by Nortel). He was also previously Vice President of Technologies at Cisco Systems. The industry has recognized Mr. Chen’s operational and entrepreneurial excellence with numerous awards; such as quoted as “The Germinator” on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, the top ten entrepreneurs of 2000 by Red Herring magazine, Life Time achievement award by Optix, and Heavy Weights in Optical Networks by Light Reading.

Mr. Chen is also an established investor as co-founder of Acorn Campus, Genesis Campus, & iD SoftCapital. Forbes Magazine ranked him as one of the top 100 venture investors in the U.S in 2002. Mr. Chen has a proven track record in identifying key niches, commercializing new technologies, attracting experienced management teams, securing key customers, accessing financing, and executing successful exits. He has early access to a proprietary deal flow based on his long-standing and established industry relationships and reputation.

Mr. Chen is a Partner of the Dragon Investment Fund, recently co-founded with Mr. Stan Shih, Chairman and founder of the Acer Group. Dragon Investment aims to become the leading technologies transfer facilitator, business accelerator and funding source in Taiwan by leveraging its world-class expertise in management, market vision, and technologies. Mr. Chen enrolled in CS PhD program at UC Berkeley, received MSEE from the University of Florida at Gainesville, and BSEE degree from National Taiwan University.

Cheng, Co-Founder & Chairman, APL Software, ‍‍‍‍is a successful serial entrepreneur and well-acclaimed industry veteran, having founded and led numerous businesses spanning a range of different industries.

Cheng Wu was CEO and co-founder at Azuki Systems, responsible for the company’s vision, corporate strategy and setting the overall direction in the marketplace.  Azuki was sold to Ericsson in February, 2014.

Before that, Cheng served as Founder and Chairman of Acopia Networks, a leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization solutions in December, 2001.  Acopia was acquired by F5 Networks for $210M in September, 2007.

Cheng  joined Cisco Systems in June 2000 through Cisco’s $5.7B acquisition of ArrowPoint Communications, where he held various executive positions, including Group VP and General Manager of the Content and Multiservice Edge Group (CME).

Picard is the founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, co-founder, chief scientist, chairman of Empatica, providing wearable sensors and analytics to improve health, and co-founder of Affectiva, delivering software to help measure and communicate emotion.   Picard's book Affective Computing helped launch a new field by that name, which today has its own international journal, conference, and professional society.  Her inventions were recognized by the New York Times Magazine Best Ideas List in 2006 and in 2011’s Popular Science Top Ten Inventions. CNN named her one of seven "Tech SuperHeros to Watch in 2015."Practical applications of Picard’s work include helping people manage stress, improving seizure detection, and enhancing customer experience.  Her most recent research involves quantifying emotion in service of forecasting happiness and enabling behavior change to improve wellbeing.