Benny Hu
Mr. Hu has recently been appointed by the President of the Republic of China as an Ambassador-at-large representing ROC's international economic interests. Previously, he was the President of China Development Industrial Bank, the largest investment bank in Taiwan. He grew the bank from US$160 million paid in capital to over US$1.86 billion, and the market cap of the bank increased from US$926 million to US$5 billion during tenure. He also expanded business of the bank to the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia, and Philippines. Of the 250 companies invested during tenure, 62 companies had IPOs and 10 were acquired. He was also the Chairman of Chung Hwa Lone Star Assets Management Corp., a joint venture between U.S. based Lone Star Group and China Development Industrial Bank to handle distressed assets in Taiwan, and it is the first asset management company established in Taiwan. Prior to CDIB, Mr. Hu was the Chairman of the Board and the President of China Securities Investment Trust Corp., a joint venture among CDIB, Fidelity Investment, Merrill Lynch, Yamaichi Securities and Bangkok Bank. He also launched Taiwan Fund, the first NYSE-listed single-country fund focusing on Taiwan and Taiwan ROC Fund, the first country fund for foreign investors. Mr. Hu received his MBA degree from Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.

Koh Boon Hwee
Currently Chairman of Development Bank of Singapore (DBS), Koh Boon Hwee joined DBS as a director in June 2005. Mr. Boon Hwee started his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard and rose to becoming its Managing Director in Singapore, a post he held from 1985 to 1990. From 1991 to 2000, he was Executive Chairman of the Wuthelam Group. He was also the Chairman of the Singapore Telecom Group (SingTel) and its predecessor organisations from 1986 to 2001. During his 15-year term as Chairman of SingTel, he successfully led the Singapore telecommunications company through its transformation from a statutory board to a publicly-listed company and from a domestic operator in Singapore to one of Asia Pacific’s leading integrated communication service providers. He was also the Chairman of Singapore Airlines Limited for a period of 5 years.

Mr. Boon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide, and was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003. He serves on the boards of Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd and Agilent Technologies, Inc. in the United States. Mr. Boon Hwee also contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and director of the Singapore Harvard Foundation.

Arjun Malhotra
Mr. Malhotra, winner of the Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Award, has a long string of entrepreneurial successes. He co-founded the HCL group in 1975, taking it from a six-person “garage operation” to one of India’s largest Information Technology corporations. The first leading Indian entrepreneur to relocate to USA, Mr. Malhotra took over HCL’s US operation in 1989 and grew it to nearly $100 million annual revenues. In 1992 he ran the HCL-HP joint venture in India, and in 1996 he set up and ran the joint venture with Deluxe Corporation. He consolidated and grew HCL operations in Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.

Mr. Malhotra studied at The Doon School, Dehradun, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He graduated from IIT with B.Tech. (Hons.) in Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering and received the Dr. B.C. Roy Gold Medal. In 1985, he attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

In “recognition of his outstanding contribution and services to the Institute”, Mr. Malhotra was declared Life Fellow of IIT Kharagpur in February 2003. The Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah awarded Mr. Malhotra the Albert Einstein Technology Medal for 2001. The Award salutes the high tech industry’s vanguard who “with their vision…have revolutionized the perception of time and space, linking mankind with ever growing speed and ingenuity".

Mr. Malhotra currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Headstrong’s Board of Directors. Prior to Headstrong he was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of TechSpan, which merged with Headstrong in October 2003.

Suresh Rajpal
Suresh Rajpal has over 3 decades of management experience in the global IT industry. His 29-year career with Hewlett Packard spanned 3 continents. He founded and presided over Hewlett Packard's India operations leading it to a USD 200 million enterprise. His accomplishments include leading Hewlett-Packard India to achieve the highest award for business excellence in the country - the CII EXIM Award for Business Excellence. This award is equivalent to the Deming prize in Japan, the Malcolm Balridge in the US, and the EFQM award for total quality in Europe.

Mr. Rajpal founded eCapital solutions in 1999, leading it to an enterprise with a turnover of USD 40 million a year through organic growth and acquisitions in 2 years.
He was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, 2000.

Dr. Yee Shyi Chang
Dr. Chang was the Founder/Chairman of GTRAN Wireless and the Founder/Chairman of GBASE and has served as the Chairman of DALIAN Opti-Communication Park. Prior to that, he was a Consultant/Senior Consultant to various organisations like Motorola, Applied Materials and Eastcom Group. Dr. Chang has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Currently, he is engaged with several projects, one of them being collaboration with Qualcomm to roll out a CDMA network in the Philippines.

Dr. D K Ghosh
A well known Telecom Professional, Dr. Ghosh is the Chairman and Managing Director of ZTE Telecom in India. Prior to joining ZTE, he was the Executive Director and a board member of Siemens Public Communications Network Limited. Prior to Siemens, he was with the Modi group, Salora group and also with Philips India for over one and a half decade.

Currently, Dr. Ghosh is the Chairman of the Telecom sub-committee of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry; Sr. Vice President of Telecom Industry and Services Association (TISA) and Vice Chairman of Electronics & Computer Software Export Promotion Council under Ministry of IT, India.
His recent book on ICT: “The Great Digital Transformation – A saga of sustainable Development” was launched by the Vice President of India.

Dr D.K. Ghosh is an Engineering Graduate from IIT Kharagpur. He holds an MBA from the University of Calcutta and a Ph.D from CCS University.

Evia Capital / Broadven Pte Ltd
Broadven Pte Ltd, a Singapore based investment advisory and venture capital firm with US$100M under management, investing globally in technology based companies. Evia is a $50m growth capital fund under Broadven’s management. Some of the previous investments include Biosensors International, which is listed on the stock exchange of Singapore as well as ACR

Raintree Ventures
Raintree targets promising companies with attractive prospects upstream of the IPO process. Operating in the pre-IPO space, Raintree invests ina number of committed funds to help companies strengthen their financials prior to a listing. These funds are used to reduce gearing or provide working capital to enable a company to raise its profile.

Via the investment community, Raintree also facilitates strategic partnerships with other industry principles to help their investee companies open new sales and supply channels. In 2007, participated in new investments in the healthcare, oil & gas, information technology and clean energy sectors.