Governance:

Executive Committee of the Board will be constituted by and elected by the Board of Directors to manage the affairs of the Chamber and exercise the powers of the Board in its absence.

Chairman and CEO
David K.G. Chan

BIO:
Mr. Chan was a founder of Texas Asian Chamber of Commerce (TACC) in1996, its first Chairman and recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award.

See: www.txasianchamber.org

He conceived and organized the first Asiatech conference series. The Asiatech events are designed to build bridges between Asian and U.S. technology companies who want to explore synergies and possible partnering opportunities in trade and investment. The second event that was held in conjunction with the national computer show in Tianjin which was is an annual event held for the last six years under the sponsorship of China's Ministry of Information Industry.

In his private business, Mr. Chan is founder and CEO of LifeScience group, manufacturer and distributor of Ondrox, www.ondrox.com, the only antioxidant formulation endorsed by the National Foundation for Cancer Research.

Other past business experience includes: (1) senior positions with Cargill, Inc., the second largest privately held company in the U.S., as its Far East Representative, coordinator for general trading, and manager of diversification programs in the head offices; (2) founder and CEO of Ejura Farms Ghana Ltd that was used by Harvard Business School as a case study; (3) ore trading in partnership with Caemi International, a unit which is part of Dr. Augusto Antunes's conglomerate in Brazil; (4) founder and CEO of Austin Construction Steel, Inc. which was awarded "Manufacturer of the Year, 1992" by the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce.

His public service work has included being a trustee of the Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, Texas; a trustee of the Austin Lyric Opera; member of the board of United Way of Central Texas; and Chair, Blueprint Committee, first (1998) Texas Economic Summit (sponsored by a coalition of state-wide Hispanic, Black, and Women's chambers of commerce). The blueprint was introduced at the 1999 Texas Legislature and used as a working paper for a bill that codified the HUB law.

Mr. Chan was born in Burma of Chinese parents and naturalized U.S. citizen. He was educated in China, Burma, India, University of Virginia and Stanford University. He has an M.A. degree in Foreign Affairs and completed his Ph.D. work in Economics and minor in International Law.

For the past seven years, Ms. Li, a resident of Beijing, China, acted as producer, director and host of TV talk shows for China TV.

In 2000, she interviewed on TV more than 100 CEOs of prominent corporations in China and from outside the country for her talk show called ‘The Challenge in 2000’, a well-known program on China Education TV.

In 2002 she created CRTVU Online Educational Technology Limited, the largest distance learning program in China, enrolling 2.6 million students. This company is a joint venture between TCL Corporation and the Central TV University. She continues to serve on its board.

In 2003 she produced and directed 100 episodes for a talk show on Economic Law for the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China.

In 2006 she was appointed as international ambassador for the World Congress on Information Technology.

Until 2007, Wenying worked with the China Ministry of Education, Basic Education Department, to produce and direct more than 300 episodes of public school ESL education TV shows. This was the biggest MOE project to date, called ‘Synchronization English Classroom’, broadcasting daily over 20 channels in China to help Chinese students improve their English. There are currently about 10 millions students involved in this TV program. In 2002, she received a national award for her English TV program production.

In her previous career, Wenying was a computer systems programmer at the R&D department of Lenovo China Corporation. Wenying has a computer science degree from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.