Mr. Liu, one of our founders, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since October 2002, and as our Chairman since November 2009, and has served as a member of our Board of Directors since our inception in 1995. Joe also served as our President from October 2002 through May 2008. 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.
Shirley Yin
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Yin has served as Chief Financial Officer since August 2007 and as our Executive Vice President since April 2010. Prior to that, Shirley served as Vice President Finance and Acting CFO and was also Oplink's Controller for five years. Prior to joining Oplink, Shirley spent several years in public accounting with PricewaterhouseCoopers. She received a Bachelor of Economics in Business Management from Zhongshan University in China and an M.S. in Accountancy from the University of Southern California. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
River Gong
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Ms. Gong has served as our Vice President of Sales since February 2003. Ms.
Gong has been with the company since January 1998, previously acting as Sales Manager, Sales Director and Sr. Director of Sales. Before joining Oplink, Ms. Gong spent three years as Division Manager and Sales Manager of MP Fiber Optics (now Global Opticom). Prior to that, she spent five years in China as an architect. Ms. Gong received her B. S. in Architecture from Harbin Institute University and completed graduate studies in Civil Engineering at the University of Iowa.
Peter Lee
Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Lee has served as our Chief Operating Officer since August 2008. Mr.
Lee joined the company in August 2000 and held positions as Production Manager, Product Engineering Manager, Director of Product Engineering and since April 2005, Senior Director of PLM and Operations. In May 2007, Mr.
Lee was promoted to Vice President of Marketing and PLM, responsible of managing activities in PLM, Manufacturing, R&D and Strategic Planning. Mr.
Lee received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.
Jim Li
Vice President of Engineering
Mr. Li has served as our Vice President of Engineering since August 2006. From November 2003 to July 2006, Mr. Li found success in various positions including Director of OMS Engineering and Manager of Subsystem. Mr. Li has more than 16 years of experience in telecom and datacom industries. Prior to joining Oplink, Mr. Li spent six years as Senior System Designer at Riverstone Networks and Anda Networks. Earlier in his career, Mr. Li served as Senior System Architect for SDH transmission system at Fiberhome for six years. Mr. Li received his B.S., from Wuhan University and M. S. in Optical Communication System from Wuhan Research Institute under the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), China.
Shawn Lin
Vice President of Marketing
Dr. Lin has served as our VP of Marketing since August 2008. Dr. Lin joined Oplink in January 2001, and has held the positions of Product Line Manager, Manager of FAE & Technical Support, Senior Customer Engineer and Senior Director of Technical Marketing and Customer Support. Prior to joining Oplink, Dr. Lin was Director of Technology at Liquidmetal Golf in Laguna Niguel, California. Dr. Lin received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, and his M.S. and PhD in Applied Physics from California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Stephen M. Welles
Vice President and General Counsel
Stephen M. Welles has served as Vice President and General Counsel since May 2008. Mr. Welles brings with him more than a decade of technology law experience with leading law firms, most recently with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto. Prior to that he was with Ropes & Gray in Boston. He received his J.D. from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Economics from Boston College.
Yanfeng Yang
Vice President of Supply Chain Management
Dr. Yang has served as our Vice President of Supply Chain Management since August 2008. From January 1999, Dr. Yang found success in various positions including, Corporate Vice President of Operations, General Manager of China Operations, CEO Staff, Vice President of Global Manufacturing/Operations, Senior Director of R&D and Optical Engineer. Prior to joining Oplink, Dr.
Yang spent six years as Director of the Research Institute of Optoelectronics at China Daheng Corporation, a high tech photonic company under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), from March 1993 to January 1999. In addition to authoring several publications, he owns four patents and was twice named Outstanding Researcher by CAS. He is a member of the Optical Society of China as well as the International Society of Optical Engineering. Dr. Yang received his B. S., M. S. and Ph.D. in Optical Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China.
Qin Yuan
General Manager of China
Miss Yuan has served as our General Manager of China since June 2008. Miss
Yuan joined the company in September 2000 as our Deputy General Manager of Engineering & Manufacturing, Zhuhai Oplink. In November 2002, Miss Yuan was promoted to Vice President of Sales and Marketing, China. Before joining Oplink, Miss Yuan was Vice President of ADF Fiber Co., Ltd. Prior to ADF, Miss Yuan spent five years as a Senior Engineer in the Optical Communications Department of Shenzhen Kaifa Technology Inc. Ms. Yuan received her B.S. in Magnetic Physics & Devices from Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST) and her M.S. in Physics from Shanghai University of Science & Technology.
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