Information about Microsoft Shanghai

Speaker:        Alex CHAN
                Microsoft Shanghai

Title:          "Information about Microsoft Shanghai"

Date:           Friday, 31 August 2007       

Time:           11:30am - noon

Venue:          Room 3501 (via lift nos. 25/26)
                HKUST

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Alex Chan joined Microsoft in 2005 to help build the Server and Tools 
Business (STB) in China. He currently serves as Director of the Connected 
Systems Division (CSD) in China, responsible for global product 
development and local partnership in the country.

Before coming to Microsoft, Alex Chan helped start a new business venture 
at Cisco Systems. As a founding team member, Mr. Chan played an 
instrumental role in incubating the internal venture to develop networking 
infrastructure for distributed applications and services. In addition, he 
represented Cisco at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to drive the 
development and standardization of XML technologies. Mr. Chan joined Cisco 
in 1998, and had played leadership roles in corporate entrepreneurship, 
engineering, marketing, and industry standards setting around new 
technologies including L4-7 networking, voice over IP, and wireless LAN. 
His efforts resulted in the creation of a few industry-leading product 
lines. Prior to that, Mr. Chan created business process automation 
software at Aspect Communications and Delrina (acquired by Symantec). Mr. 
Chan is an inventor of thirteen US Patents (six issued).

Mr. Chan received his MBA with Honors from the Wharton School of the 
University of Pennsylvania where he was on the Director's List. He also 
holds a Master's degree in computer science from the University of 
Waterloo, and a BSc in computer science from The Chinese University of 
Hong Kong.