Trung Tri Doan has over 25 years of semiconductor and management experience.

Mr. Doan held various management and executive positions at companies such as Intel, Honeywell, Philips and Micron where he had work from 1988 to 2003 with the last position as Vice President of Process Development. He was responsible for worldwide technology development and Pilot Development Fab, as well as advanced packaging for Micron Technology, the only remaining US based low cost producer of DRAM, SRAM and Flash memory commodity products. He also had served as President and CEO of Jusung Engineering, Inc., a major semiconductor/LCD equipment company in Korea. Prior founding SemiLEDs, Mr. Doan was the Corporate Vice President of Applied Global Services (AGS) Product group at Applied Materials, Inc.

He is an inventor/co-inventor of over 250 patents with many pending. He was named by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as one of the most prolific inventors from 1988 to 1998. He has authored numerous technical papers and has chaired and given keynote addresses at numerous industry’s conferences. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of Advanced Energy Industries, a publicly held manufacturer of power conversion and control systems. He was also a Director of Nutool, a semiconductor technology company (acquired by ASM International), and a director of EMCO, a publicly held manufacturer of advanced flow control devices and systems (acquired by Advanced Energy Industries in 2003).

Mr. Doan graduated with honors from University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1979, and Masters of Science in Chemical Engineering in 1981.

Chuong Tran has extensive educational and professional experience, including nearly fifteen years of working experience, in the field of optoelectronics.

Dr. Tran joined Emcore in 1995 as senior Technical Staff member and became one of the key members of the team that developed the first commercial reactor for InGaN LED. In 1999, he joined Gelcore, then a joint venture between Emcore and GE Lighting, focusing on solid state lighting. In November 2000, Dr. Tran joined Highlink Technology Corp. as Vice President.

Dr. Tran received his B.S. in Physics from Czech Technical University in 1987, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Montreal. He was a recipient of the Quebec Government FCAR excellence Scholarship.”

Prof. Nathan Cheung is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in microfabrication, electronic materials, ion implantation, plasma processing and integrated circuits. He has been a part of the of UC- Berkeley’s faculty since 1980.

Prior to his professorship at UC Berkeley, Prof. Cheung held research positions at Exxon Research Laboratory in Linden, New Jersey and Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He was an Associate Faculty of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and was a Visiting Faculty at the National Research and Resource Facility for Submicron Structures at Cornell University in 1987. He served as Chair of the Applied Science and Technology Graduate Group at the University of California, Berkeley from 2002-2004, and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Microfabrication Laboratory from 2004-2006.

Prof. Cheung is also a respected professional outside the academic field. He co-founded Silicon Genesis Corporation, the Plasma Doping Users Group (PDUG), and Silicon China (Hongkong) Limited.

Prof. Cheung received his BS degree in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1980.

Prof. Clayton M. Christensen is a preeminent expert on disruptive innovation and business strategy, and is world-renowned for his work on managing innovation and its ability to disrupt existing mature markets, creating new commercial enterprises and growth opportunities. He is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups.

Before joining the faculty of Harvard Business School in 1992, Prof. Christensen served as chairman and president of CPS Corporation, an advanced materials manufacturing company that he founded in 1984 with several MIT professors. He also founded Innosight, a consulting and training company, and Innosight Capital. From 1979 to 1984 he worked with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and was named a White House Fellow, working as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole.

Prof. Christensen is author or co-author of five books: The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997), which received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published in 1997; The Innovator's Solution (2003), also a New York Times best seller; and Seeing What’s Next (2004). In addition, he has edited two case books on innovation: Innovation and the General Manager (1999) and Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, 4th edition (2004).

Prof. Christensen's writings have won a number of additional awards, including the Best Dissertation Award from The Institute of Management Sciences; the Production and Operations Management Society's William Abernathy Award for the best paper in the management of technology; the Newcomen Society’s award for the best paper in business history; and the 1995 and 2001 McKinsey Awards for articles published in the Harvard Business Review.

Prof. Christensen holds a B.A. with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University (1975), and an M.Phil. in applied econometrics and the economics of less-developed countries from Oxford University (1977), where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He received an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School in 1979, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar, and was awarded with DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1992.

Prof. Hadis Morkoç is the Founders professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Physics Department at Virginia Commonwealth University, and is a world-renowned authority on semiconductor materials, device physics and technology. According to ISI Essential Science Indicators, Prof. Morkoç is the most-cited materials science researcher in the past decade. He is also one of the most cited researchers in the “Physics”, “Engineering” and “Material Science” categories, according to the Institute of Scientific Information and ISIHighlyCited.com. He was ranked 19th among more than 517,100 physicists world-wide in terms of citations and citation impact (number of citations per paper) between 1981 and 1997.

Prof. Morkoç has been the recipient of many distinguished awards for his research and many publications in the areas of semiconductors and material science. He was the recipient of the 2002 Virginia Commonwealth University Distinguished Scholarship Award, and the 2005 Virginia Outstanding Scientist Award. He is author or co-author of some 1,400 publications, more than 45 book chapters, 50 tutorial and review articles (on wide ranging topics encompassing III-V and group IV semiconductors and electronic and optical devices, magnetic properties of dilute magnetic semiconductors and also complex multifunctional oxides), a two-volume book on MODFETs, a book on Nitride Semiconductors and Devices (with second edition in process), and a three-volume book on Advanced Semiconductor and Organic Nano-Techniques. A three volume handbook on nitride semiconductors and devices is in production and a book on ZnO is slated for publication in 2008.

Prof. Hadis Morkoç is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society, among other professional organizations. He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering in 1968 and 1969 from Istanbul Technical University, respectively. He became a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering at Michigan State University, and completed his PhD at Cornell University in 1975.

Dr. Schiu Sche graduated from National ChengKung University in Physics. He earned his doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) from Technology University in Aachen, Germany and completed his post-doctorate research at Universiteit te Utrecht, the Netherlands.

He came back to Taiwan in 1978 and worked as a professor in a university and within the high-tech industry of Taiwan. He was plant GM, VP & the president of Fine Products Microelectonics Corporation, the very first manufacturer of LED chips, bipolar transistors & JFET in Taiwan. He also served as a senior advisor & board director of Opto Tech Corporation, one of the biggest LED chip manufacture in Taiwan. Dr. Sche was the advisor both in Optoelectronics & Systems Laboratories (OES) & Materials Research Laboratories (MRL) of Industry Technology Research Institution (ITRI), and 8 years as Science & Technology Advisor to the Ministry of Economical Affairs (MOEA), responsible mainly for optoelectronic industry technology development. In between he founded Brilliance Semiconductor Inc., J-Touch Corporation & NeoStones MicroFabrication Corp., all in Taiwan. He also served as the Chairman of Optoeletronic & MEMS committees of TEEMA - Taiwan Electric & Electronic Manufacturer’s Association, Taipei. He was the founding chairman of Taiwan Optoelectronic Semiconductor Technology Development Association.

Dr. Sche is frequently invited in China as speaker to promote LED Lighting & was influential in forming alliances amongst industries & research organizations across the Taiwan Strait.