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SCMP Reporter

HHP
The handheld device developer has recruited Ynjiun Wang as vice-president of advanced technology development. Focusing on technology, business development and intellectual property, he will work on future technologies, as well as forming partnerships with suppliers and customers.
Mr Wang will be based near San Francisco. He  joins HHP from wireless developer eSignX, where he was founder and president and remains on the wireless solutions platform provider  board as an adviser. 
Before joining eSignX, Mr Wang worked at Trident Microsystems as the director of advanced technology from 1996 to January 2000. He also founded Metanetics in 1993, which was later acquired by information systems manufacturer Telxon.  
Mr Wang earned a PhD in 1989 and an MSc in 1987, both in computer science, from State University of New York. He earned his BSc in information science in 1984 from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan.

We Software 

Former Microsoft and vLink head Jimmy Wong has joined software services firm We Software (WeSoft) as chief executive. 
WeSoft provides software outsourcing services from its headquarters in the Hong Kong Science Park and Shenzhen. He will be supporting the group's operations in Hong Kong, China and the United States.

Mr Wong will head the company and be responsible for the strategic and business development side as well as corporate management.
Before joining WeSoft, Mr Wong worked at Connecticut-based business consultancy the Baron Group as an adviser for firms including Digital Empires, Expert Hong Kong, Infocan Computer. He also co-founded vLink Global in 2001.
Mr Wong is best known for the seven years he spent with Microsoft Hong Kong,  including  two years as country manager. Before joining Microsoft, Mr Wong served as  general manager at Asian Electronics. 

Fairchild

Fairchild Semiconductor has promoted Eric Kuo as president of Asia-Pacific, with a specific focus on Greater China.  He was previously senior vice-president of sales and marketing, Asia-Pacific.

Mr Kuo will be responsible for the firm's regional business plan, while serving as the point person for Asia-Pacific investments, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. He has worked in the semiconductor industry since 1977, working with National Semiconductor, where he was a marketing manager, and has been based in Hong Kong for the company's spin-off firm, Fairchild since 1997.
 Mr Kuo has a BSc in management from National Chung Hsin University in Taiwan and holds an MBA from the Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He  has  18 years' experience in sales in Asia for companies  that include Vishay, Westech Electronics, Dynamic Holding and Seagate Technology International. Mr Kuo holds diplomas from the Singapore Productivity Board in sales and marketing, from Singapore Polytechnic in electronics engineering and a certificate in electrical engineering from the Singapore Technical Institute. 

ATHEROS

Wireless chipset developer Atheros Communications has hired Jack Lazar as vice-president and chief financial officer. 

Mr Lazar will be responsible for all areas of financial accounting and reporting, investor relations, human resources and information technology within the company.   He was previously executive vice-president of corporate development and chief financial officer and secretary of audience measurement firm NetRatings.  
Prior to NetRatings, he was vice-president,  chief financial officer and secretary of Apptitude, a developer and manufacturer of network management solutions, which was acquired by Hifn in 2000.  
Before joining Apptitude, he served as controller, and principal financial and accounting officer for software firm Electronics for  Imaging. Mr Lazar began his career in corporate finance as an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1987.
Mr Lazar is a certified public accountant and received a BSc from Santa Clara University.

Software AG 

Enterprise software services firm Software AG has appointed Karl-Heinz Streibich as its new chief executive and  he took up the post on October 1.   
Born in 1952, Mr Streibich was previously deputy chairman of T-Systems International, the joint venture IT services firm owned by Deutsche Telekom and Daimler-Benz. He has  more than two decades of experience in the international IT services industry.
Mr Streibich began his career after receiving a degree in communications engineering at Dow Chemical. He then joined London-based ITT, later becoming a director of ITT-SEL's German PC business.
 He joined AEG Olympia as head of office systems and deputy member of the board of directors in 1989.
 In 1992, Mr Streibich joined debis Systemhaus as chairman of the directors board of  DCS (Distributed Computing Services). He  became chairman of debis Systemhaus in 2001, and oversaw the merger with T-Systems the following year. At T-Systems,  Mr Streibich was member of the board of management with international responsibility for IT services.

Gigamedia

The technology and entertainment group  has appointed Yichin Lee to its board of directors. The company also announced other board changes  with the appointment of existing members to the board's compensation and audit committees.
Mr Lee is  the vice-president and general manager of the Taiwan branch of PCCW, where he led corporate project teams that built Netvigator Taiwan into one of the country's leading Web portals.
Prior to joining PCCW in 1999, Mr Lee was a principal and chief representative in Taiwan of Monitor Co, a management consultancy. He was a senior associate at McKinsey & Co in Taipei from 1993 to 1996 and a senior consultant at Oracle in California from 1989 to 1992. 
Mr Lee received a BSc in civil engineering from National Taiwan University in 1982, an MSc in civil engineering from Stanford University in 1985 and a PhD in civil engineering from Stanford University in 1989. 
He was a post-doctoral research fellow at National Taiwan University from 1996 to 1997. 
 Daniel Wu, Michael Ding and Andre Koo also will serve on the board's compensation committee.



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