Silicon Valley is an undisputed catalyst of entrepreneurship and innovation. Yet, entrepreneurship and innovation is increasingly occurring in other areas of the world, particularly in Asia. In order to leverage these synergies between Asia and Silicon Valley, ASVC was formed as a non-profit corporation in 2000 with a mission to promote the linkage of entrepreneurial initiatives between Asia and Silicon Valley. As a dynamic young community, we are committed to assist and inspire entrepreneurs to propel their visions into reality by providing them with substantive intelligence on cross-border company-building and access to a support network of investors, professional service providers and industry luminaries in Asia and Silicon Valley.
Advisory Board: Alnoor Shivji, General Partner, Global Asset Capital
Mr. Shivji was President of CIENA, Metro Switching Division. Prior to that, he founded Cyras Systems and served as its President and CEO until it was acquired by CIENA for $2.6 billion in March 2001. He also co-founded Fiberlane Communications, which changed the face of the networking communications industry when it split into Cerent (acquired by Cisco for $7 billion) and Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks for $4.3 billion). Mr. Shivji also founded OSIware, a communications software company that was sold to Infonet, a value added service provider. Mr. Shivji currently serves on the Board of Directors for ASVC Wireless, Wafergen, Zytera, One Access and is a Member of TiE.
Alnoor Shivji, Chief Executive Officer and President, Chairman of the Board
Mr. Shivji is a co-founder of WaferGen and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since April 1, 2003, and as Chairman of the Board since October 2002.
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