Officers and Directors
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Corporate Officers:
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Board of Directors:
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Henry T. Cochran
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Lei Xia
President
De Hai Li
Chief Financial Officer
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Henry T. Cochran
Chief Executive Officer
Lei Xia
President
Will Wang Graylin
Director
Charles T. Kimball
Director
Dr. Richard King
Director
Daniel Lui
Director
Afshin Yazdian
Director
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Officers and Directors Biographies
Henry T. Cochran - Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Mr. Cochran is the Chief Executive Officer and a founder of SinoHub. Mr. Cochran has served as Chairman of the Board since inception and as Chief Executive Officer since May 2005. From April 2001 and prior to founding SinoHub, Mr. Cochran was a business consultant. Mr. Cochran was President and CEO of Content Integrity, Inc. until April 2001. Prior to the formation of Content Integrity, Mr. Cochran was President and CEO of Advanced Visual Systems Inc., a leader in data visualization software for developers. Before AVS, he was Vice President of the Advanced Indexing Products department of Sybase, Inc. to which he sold his former company, Expressway Technologies. Mr. Cochran was the founder and CEO of Expressway Technologies, formerly known as Henco Software. Henco was founded in 1975. Mr. Cochran is regarded in the industry as one of the pioneering entrepreneurs in fourth-generation languages for his design of INFO, the product that launched Henco into the front lines of the software industry in the early 1980s. Mr. Cochran holds a M.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in mathematics and economics from Vanderbilt University.
Lei Xia - President
Mr. Xia is the President and a founder of SinoHub. Since May 2005 Mr. Xia has been responsible for SinoHub's strategic business development, sales and marketing. From July 2000 until May 2005, Mr. Xia was the Chief Executive Officer of SinoHub and oversaw all of SinoHub's operations. Prior to founding SinoHub, Mr. Xia founded RGL Beijing, a high-end software distributor and solution provider. Prior to RGL Beijing, Mr. Xia helped to start NEFAB (China). NEFAB is a Swedish manufacturer and packaging solution provider to major OEMs such as Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Nortel. Mr. Xia held the position of China country sales manager for NEFAB and built a nationwide sales and service team from ground up. He started his career in the Chinese electronics industry in 1995 as general manager of Arrow Electronics Shanghai branch, where he built the most successful sales team of Arrow China. To begin his career in electronics, Mr. Xia worked in Arrow Electronics' headquarters under Steve Kaufman, Arrow's CEO, in 1994 as a management trainee for one year. Mr. Xia holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama.
De Hai Li - Chief Financial Officer
Willa Li joined SinoHub as its Chief Financial Officer on March 1, 2005. On September 11, 2008 he resigned as Chief Financial Officer in favor of Tracy Edwards and became Vice President of Finance. Prior to joining SinoHub, Mr. Li was the Chief Financial Officer of Shenzhen Excellence Investment Development Co., Ltd., which provides international logistics management, bonded warehouse, international shipment, international trading, real estate management, and construction services. Mr. Li became the Chief Financial Officer of Shenzhen Excellence in May 2003. While at Shenzhen Excellence, Mr. Li raised capital of RMB 120 million, managed the acquisition of a State-owned company and created an effective financial management system for all seven subsidiaries. Prior to Excellence, Mr. Li was the Chief Financial Officer of Hong Kong B&D Engine Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen) a large scale OEM for Mercedes Benz. Mr. Li began his career in The Fourth Survey and Design Institute of China Railway where he progressed from bookkeeper, accountant, accounting supervisor and financial controller to chief finance officer. Mr. Li holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Management from Hubei University.
Will Wang Graylin - Director
Mr. Graylin is the founder and CEO of ROAM Data, a premier Mobile Application and Payment Services company, helping enterprises extend valuable data and transactions to the call phones of their mobile professionals. He has started five companies focused on mobile computing, security and payments since his graduate thesis on ˇ°Addressing the Complexity of Mobile Computingˇ± at MIT nearly a decade ago. Before ROAM, he was founder and CEO of WAY Systems, a mobile Point of Sales (POS) services company. He grew WAY from no revenues to the number two mobile POS provider in the U.S. and was honored with the 2005 ˇ°Movers & Shakers Awardˇ± by Transaction World magazine. Prior to WAY, he was founder and CEO of EntitleNet, a security software company, sold to BEA Systems in 2001. Before that he was founding President of Marbles, later Skyfire Technologies, the first mobile thin client software company focused on enterprise applications for mobile workforces. Mr. Graylin earned two Masters degrees from MIT (MBA & MSEECS) through the Leaders for Manufacturing program, after serving as a US Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer for nearly 6 years, the first naturalized China born immigrant to serve in this program. He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Charles T. Kimball - Director
Mr. Kimball is the chief research consultant for Bosera Fund Management Co., Ltd., one of the first mutual fund companies established in China, where he advises senior management on best practices in asset management and investment research. He held a near 30-year career with JP Morgan and related entities, where among his roles, he served as head of international investments for the Multi-Markets Funds Group at JP Morgan Asset Management; head of investment research at Morgan Trust Bank in Tokyo; and equity analyst at Morgan Guaranty Trust, covering the electrical equipment and electronics industries, including electronic component distribution companies. Mr. Kimball received a bachelor's degree with honors in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He recently received a certificate in environmental economics, management and finance from the Center for Environment Research and Conservation (CERC) at Columbia University.
Dr. Richard King - Director
Dr. Richard King brings more than three decades of experience across various sectors of finance, specializing in the technology arena, to SinoHub's board. He has been a venture partner at Los Angeles-based GRP, which manages more than $600 million in assets, since May 2001. He also serves on the science advisory board at New York University. Dr. King began his career in finance as an electronics analyst, applying his advanced sciences education at leading Wall Street firms and initiating investment banking relationships with such companies as National Semiconductor, Mostek and Unitrode. Dr. King moved on to become an investment banker, and then a venture capitalist concentrating exclusively in high technology ventures. Born in Shanghai, Dr. King is a grandson of two of the original founders of the Bank of China. He is a member and former director of the Committee of 100, an organization of prominent Chinese Americans founded to encourage stronger relations between the U.S. and Greater China, and a member of the World Affairs Council of San Francisco. He has lectured in Taiwan on the venture capital industry at the invitation of the Minister of Finance. Dr. King received his Doctorate in Physics from New York University and attended Stern Graduate School of Business at New York University.
Daniel Lui - Director
Mr. Lui, who speaks native Mandarin, brings to SinoHub more than thirty years experience in banking and investments, accounting and finance, information technology and business strategy. Currently Mr. Lui is the Chief Executive Officer of Porcheers Consultants Limited, a strategic management consulting company focused on internal systems and controls, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate planning and investments. Previously, Mr. Lui was the director and Chief Financial Officer of China Digital Media Corporation, where he assisted in taking the company public in the U.S., and in establishing and implementing the accounting and financial systems and internal controls necessary to comply with the U.S. listing requirements. Earlier, Mr. Lui was the Founder and Managing Director of Beth Group, which built ERP systems. He also served as Director and General Manager of Tomson Pacific, a Hong Kong listed company, and worked in the merchant banking field advising companies on Hong Kong listings, and potential merger and acquisition opportunities. Mr. Lui graduated from Baptist University, with degrees in Business Management and Accounting. Mr. Lui obtained his MBA degree from the University of East Asia in Macau.
Afshin Yazdian - Director
Afshin Yazdian has served as the executive vice president and general counsel for iPayment, Inc. since 2001. He previously was general counsel and vice president of mergers and acquisitions for eConception, a technology venture fund. Mr. Yazdian also has previously practiced in the corporate and mergers and acquisitions groups at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, PLLC, a Nashville, Tennessee-based law firm. Mr. Yazdian received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Emory University in Atlanta, and graduated with honors from the University of Miami School of Law.