LEONARD J. LEBLANC has been a member of our board of directors since July 2000. Mr. LeBlanc was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Vantive Corporation, a customer relationship management software and solution company, from August 1998 to January 2000. From March 1996 to July 1997, Mr. LeBlanc was the Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer at Infoseek Corporation, an Internet search and navigation company. From September 1993 to December 1994, Mr. LeBlanc served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration of GTECH Corporation, a manufacturer of lottery equipment and systems. From May 1987 to December 1992, Mr. LeBlanc served as Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., an electronic design automation software company. Mr. LeBlanc received his B.S. and M.S. from the College of Holy Cross, and his master degree in finance from George Washington University.
CHIEH CHANG has been a member of our board of directors since September 1995. From February 2000 to February 2003, Mr. Chang served as Chief Executive Officer of Programmable Microelectronics Company, Inc., a fabless semiconductor design company. From April 1992 to August 1996, Mr. Chang was the Director of Technology at Cirrus Logic, Inc., a semiconductor company. Mr. Chang received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.
Jesse W. Jack has been a member of our Board of Directors since 2002. Mr. Jack received a B.S. degree in business management from San Jose State University in 1960, a J.D. Degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1963 and was admitted to practice law in the State of California in 1964. Mr. Jack is a member of the American Bar Association, California State Bar Association and the Bar Association of Santa Clara County where he has served on numerous committees. Mr. Jack chaired the legal ethics committee and attorney fee arbitration committee. Mr. Jack has been in the private practice of law since 1964. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of several privately held companies, and is the Vice President and General Counsel for I-Bus Corporation Mr. Jack was one of the founding directors of the Parkinson's Institute a non-profit corporation.
HUA LEE has been a member of our board of directors since February 2006. Dr. Lee is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He served as Department Vice Chair from 1993 to 1995 and Department Chairman from 1998 to 2002. Prior to his tenure at UC Santa Barbara, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Lee received the Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, Professor of the Year Award in 1992, Pattern Recognition Society Award in 1993, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in 1998, and the College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award in 2000. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and IEEE. Professor Lee received his BS degree from the National Taiwan University, and MS and PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Mr. Liu, one of our founders, has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President since October 2002, and has served as a member of our Board of Directors since our inception in 1995. Previously, Mr. Liu served as our Chief Executive Officer from September 1999 to November 2001, and served as our Chairman of the Board of Directors from inception in 1995 through May 2000 and again from November 2001 to August 2002. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Liu was the General Partner of Techlink Technology Ventures. Prior to 1994, Mr. Liu spent ten years as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Techlink Semiconductor and Equipment Corp., a semiconductor equipment and technology company. Mr. Liu also serves as a director of several privately held companies involved in semiconductor integrated circuit design and manufacturing. Mr. Liu received his B. S. from Chinese Cultural University, Taiwan and his M. S. from California State University, Chico.