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Board of Directors
Arasor’s Board of Directors have long and distinguished scientific and commercial backgrounds in the optoelectronics industry.
They have a successful track record in creating and developing listed technology companies.
Dr Simon Cao is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arasor and has more than 20 years experience in optics, communications and signal processing.
Prior to co-founding Arasor, Dr Cao was a founder of Avanex Corporation and Oplink Communications Inc and is directly responsible for the invention and commercialisation of fibre-optic products such as the fiber amplifier, WDM transmission and >10Gb/s high-speed optical transmission.
In 1999, Forbes named Dr Cao the “Godfather” of WDM technology. Dr Cao holds PhD and M.S. degrees in both electrical engineering and physics from the University of Southern California. He also chairs the research committee on the board of USC’s engineering school and holds 38 U.S. and international patents with an additional 64 patents pending.
Arasor’s Board of Directors have long and distinguished scientific and commercial backgrounds in the optoelectronics industry.
They have a successful track record in creating and developing listed technology companies.
Mr Simon Eckersley is a co-founder and general partner of Hao Capital, a China focused private equity firm, which was also an early stage investor in Arasor. “I am excited about Arasor’s rapid growth and strategy and intend to support the company’s efforts to expand its global presence,” he said.
Mr Eckersley has over 16 years experience in the financial services industry and previously worked for Goldman Sachs International in London, where he was an Executive Director in the Investment Management Division. Prior to that he worked for Charterhouse Development Capital and Morgan Grenfell. Mr. Eckersley holds an LLB from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Diplome d’Etudes Juridiques from L’Universite de Strasbourg. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales and earned an MBA from The Tuck School at Dartmouth College.
Dr Larry R Marshall is Chairman of AOC Technologies Inc. and has founded 6 successful companies over the past 18 years in the biotechnology, photonics and semiconductors industries; several of which were acquired and one of which completed a NASDAQ IPO.
Dr Marshall previously served as Chairman of Intersymbol Communications Inc., an Intel Capital company, which was acquired by Kodeos Communications Inc., and prior to that, founded a number of successful optical development companies including Translucent Photonics Inc., Lightbit Corporation, Light Solutions and also served as Vice President of Iridex Corporation which completed an IPO on Nasdaq in February 1996.
Dr Marshall holds 19 patents protecting numerous commercial products, and has over 100 publications and presentations. He has been offered a prestigious Federation Fellowship, chaired Advanced Solid State Photonics, sits on the Advisory Board of Laser Focus World and holds Board positions at Arasor, AOC Technologies Inc. and Kodeos Communications Inc. Dr Marshall was born in Sydney, Australia and received his BS Honours from Macquarie University (Sydney), and PhD from the Commonwealth Centre of Excellence.
George SyCip is President of Halanna Management Corporation and a founder and principal in Galaxaco China Group LLC. Mr SyCip advises a variety of companies in their cross-border endeavours between the US/Europe and Asia. He also sits on several corporate boards including: Bank of the Orient in San Francisco; Beneficial-PNB Life Insurance Company in the Philippines; MacroAsia Corporation; Arasor International Group Ltd and Medtecs International Corporation Limited.
Prior to setting up his own offices, Mr SyCip had a career in banking and currently serves as a board member of the Stanford Institute for International Studies, Give2Asia and the California Asia Business Council. He has also served as Commissioner for the City and County of San Francisco’s Social Services Department. Mr SyCip was born in the Philippines and received his A.B. in International Relations/Economics in 1978 from Stanford University and his M.B.A. from Harvard.
Anthony Surtees is a Director and Principal of the Santa Clara Group Pty Ltd, a Silicon Valley and Australian based consulting and investment firm. Prior to the joining the Santa Clara Group Pty Ltd, Tony was CEO of emaimai.com and the US Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo Inc.’s Commerce Group in Santa Clara, CA.
Prior to this he was the principal of a privately held telecommunications group and a marketing manager with Citibank Australia & AGC a division of Westpac Limited. Tony has also been the past NSW State President of the Australian Marketing Institute and is a regular professional and guest public speaker in the United States, Asia and Australia addressing numerous investment and industry forums and has co-authored an e-commerce marketing text with Seth Godin.
Tony holds a B.Comm from UNSW and a M.S. from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He was a research scientist at University of Technology Sydney on the Australasian Building Construction Database project. Tony is also an active committee member of Stanford Australia Alumni, a guest lecturer for The Australian Film Radio and Television School, Laboratory of Advanced Media Production and an occasional speaker at Macquarie University Graduate School of Management.
Ian Neal is a principal of Management Abroad Pty Limited. Prior to Management Abroad Pty Limited, Ian was a co–founder and Managing Director of Nanyang Ventures Pty Limited, which had a total of $140 million under management, invested in 27 high growth private companies across a range of industries from high technology to advanced manufacturing.
Ian was also a fund director of Advanced Data Integration Pty Ltd, Australian Aluminium Finishing Pty Limited, Amber Technology Limited, In Totality Pty Limited and Pacsoft Limited. Ian commenced his career as an equities analyst at John Sweeney Pty Ltd and has held various positions at The First National Bank of Chicago, Australian Bank Limited and McClintock Associates Pty Limited.
Ian is a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and is a past National President of the former Securities Institute. He has been Chairman of the SIA’s National Training Advisory Committee, and also of both its National and NSW Education committees as well as having been Chairman of the task force for Marketing in the Institutes’ Masters of Applied Finance. He has been intimately involved in the continuing evolution of the Institutes strategic planning initiatives and in particular the recent merger of the SIA with the AIBF to form Finsia. Mr Neal holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Merit from the University of NSW (double major in Business Finance and Accountancy) and the Diploma of the Securities Institute of Australia.
Laurie Kan is a principal of ON Capital. In 1991, Laurie established Microsoft Corporation’s Hong Kong office and built up the company’s Southern China operations. He went on to become Founder and lead investor of PointCast Asia in 1997, thus introducing news casting services to Asia, and was Chief Operating Officer of CDC Corporation (previously Chinadotcom).
Laurie established Sina Corporation (previously sina.com) in Hong Kong, and served as President and Executive Director of Timeless Software Ltd which became the first company listed on Hong Kong's Growth Enterprise Market (GEM).
In 2000, he co-invested with H&Q Asia Pacific Limited to establish i100 Corporation, which created Hong Kong’s first content-focused mobile telecommunications network - noodle. Mr. Kan graduated in business from Hong Kong Baptist College and from the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Executive Program for Smaller Companies.
Zhu Xin Kun is a general manager of Shanghai Venture Capital Management Co. Ltd. Prior to joining such firm in 2001, he served as a senior investment manager for Shenzhen Capital Group Co. Ltd. and prior to that, as a manager in the corporate finance division of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Shanghai Branch. Mr. Kun previously served as a representative of Nikko Securities Shanghai Representative Office and as a research fellow of Japanese Studies, Shanghai Institute for International Studies. Mr. Kun holds a BA of Law from Fudan University and an MA of Economics from China East Normal University.
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