Ron specializes in helping high tech leaders reach their full career potential. He has been a mentor with MJAA since 2010. Prior to this, Ron has recruited and developed hundreds of top performers and leaders while holding senior management, VP, and executive roles at market leaders like Salesforce.com, Oracle, Hyperion as well as startups. Ron continues to serve as a Director for the Alliance of CEOs and is also a Platinum Partner of Financial Executives International – Silicon Valley, a national membership organization for CFOs.

Denise is currently an Executive Advisor to Ascend, the largest nonprofit Pan-Asian organization for business professionals in North America. Denise co-developed and teaches various leadership skills development programs targeted at helping Pan-Asian professionals and managers to succeed in their careers. She continues to provide mentoring and executive coaching services to people at all career stages. Denise is a former executive of Cisco Systems and held a number of VP positions in marketing, operations, engineering services, and IT in San Jose, California and Shanghai, China. Denise was a long time executive sponsor and advocate of Cisco’s diversity initiatives, particularly on behalf of women and Asian employee networks. Prior to Cisco, Denise held senior marketing management positions at Sun Microsystems. Denise has a BA degree in Economics from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University.

Stewart is the epitome of a successful entrepreneur, who throughout his career has successfully founded several successful startups and sold them to large companies.

Early in his career he spent many years designing the baseband communication ICs at Chips & Technologies (acquired by Intel) and later at Cirrus Logic. He also spearheaded the networking department at Quality Semiconductors, Inc. (acquired by IDT).

Stewart would then go on to found Altima Communications Inc, which initially focused on producing Ethernet IC targeting SMB/SOHO markets. As Altima’s President and CEO, he would lead the charge to capture the emerging home router market. After selling Altima to Broadcom, he became the general manager for the SMB/SOHO Networking Business Unit at Broadcom.

Stewart later founded Storlink Semiconductors with the vision of revolutionizing the home networking infrastructure. He is currently VP of Marketing and Business development at Cortina Access. following the acquisition of StorLink Semiconductors Inc.

He holds a MSEE and later a PhD in EE from University of Washington.
 

Faye is a Partner at Mirai Global, a Senior Advisor at Exponential Talent, and a Managing Director at Vinaj Ventures and Telosity Fund investing in digital health startups.  She serves on the Board of Director at Ayogo Health, Ascend Leadership, Berger Research, Claremont McKenna Alumni and as an advisor to UCSF Catalyst, Samsung Emerging Tech, Food System 6, Exponential Talent,  Somnology MD, Asian Foundation Lotus Circle, AI and Healthcare Publication, and Innovation Executive Forum. She is a sought-after speaker and trainer. She has worked with and presented at Consumer Electronic Show (CES), ABIM, Chief Innovation Officer Summit, Venture Beat, Apps World, Watermark, Smart City, UCLA, Monte Jade Science and Technology, Blue Print, ACG Silicon Valley, UIX Global, Women in Tech, Institute for Health Technology Transformation, C200, Alchemist Accelerator, Plug & Play, EY Disruptive Innovation, Worth Conference, Insure Disrupt, CDX and others. Faye earned her MBA from Anderson School of Business, UCLA and BA in Economics & Psychology at Claremont McKenna College.

Robert Fan is the President of Silicon Motion Inc. U.S.A. managing the business in the U.S. and Europe regions for Silicon Motion Inc. (NASDAQ:  SIMO) – a world leader in NAND storage controller solutions.   Robert oversees the largest revenue region which grew at 35% CAGR in the past eight years since he assumed the role.  He is also responsible for corporate Marcom/PR, strategic partnerships and investments, and serves as the General Manager of the burgeoning graphics product line.   Prior to Silicon Motion, Robert served in executive positions at companies such as Spansion, IDT and startups like Berkana Wireless (acquired by Qualcomm) and Resonext (acquired by RF Micro Devices) and spent 9+ years at Intel in sales, marketing, and management positions.  

Robert is currently a board member of Monte Jade Science & Technology Association and volunteers as a mentor in the association’s esteemed executive mentorship program.  Robert advises startup companies and also speaks publicly on subjects ranging from technology, semiconductor market, leadership and sales.  He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the U.C. Berkeley, MSEE from Santa Clara University, and completed the General Management Executive Program at McCombs School of Business, University of Texas.

Wilson currently serves as a consulting CFO with Early Growth Financial Services, working closely with startup founders and entrepreneurs on their finance and business strategies.  He has more than 20 years of Chief Financial Officer experience, including lead to a successful public stock offering for Network Peripheral, as well as leading other venture backed entities, such as Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die, to become strong mid-tier enterprises.  Wilson is a CPA, starting his career in the SF Bay Area at Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC), followed by senior financial analyst positions at Raychem (now Tyco Electronics), and then Sybase (now SAP).  Wilson grew up in San Francisco and is dedicated to working with many local non-profit organizations including Self-help for the Elderly, AchievedKids (children afflicted with autism) and Ascend.

During her 30 years as a strategy consultant and operations executive, Kim benefitted from and learned the value of having mentors.  She developed expertise in cross-functional collaboration and influencing without authority which enabled her to become an advisor to Cisco’s CXOs.  Kim’s leadership was recognized by the Professional Business Women of California, the SF Chamber of Commerce, the National Eagle Leadership Institute and the Silicon Valley YWCA.  She has a deep commitment to assisting Pan-Asians in reaching their career goals and developing the soft skills that are critical in executive leadership.  While at Cisco, Kim was the executive sponsor for the Asian employee network and created a highly successful nine-month training program for the Asian community (25% of participants were promoted within 12 months of completing the program).  Kim graduated magna cum laude in Russian with departmental honors from Bryn Mawr College.  She also earned an MBA from the Haas School of Business.