CASPA Career Development Workshop: Mentor Roundtables

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CASPA Career Development Workshop: Mentor Roundtables

Date: August 20, 2014 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Venue: Keypoint Credit Union Community Room,
2805 Bowers Ave, Santa Clara , CA 95051

Parking: free

Registration: Pre-register online for limited seats

Event Program:
6:00p - 6:30p   Registration & Networking
6:30p - 6:45p   Welcome Opening
6:45p - 8:30p   Mentor Roundtable – face to face chat with mentors in a small group. Each mentor will host a roundtable; audiences can shift to another table every 30min.
8:30pm            Adjourn
Mentors:
Charlie Chao, Ph.D. VP of Engineering, Amlogic, Inc.
Yuping Chung, General Manager, Faraday Technology Corporation
Julia Hsiao, J.D., LL.M, LL.B, Financial Adviser, Julia Hsiao Insurance & Financial Services
Rick Lazansky, Co-founder of Silicon Catalyst, Board Member of Sand Hill Angels
Michael Noonen, CEO & Co-Founder, Silicon Catalyst
Liang Peng, Ph.D., Sr. Director of Business Development, HiSilicon, a Huawei company
CASPA is committed to facilitate young professionals to become successful and influential in their career. In this Career Development Workshop series, CASPA invited mentors from various backgrounds, including To help CASPA members to become influential in their respective roles, CASPA executive team has invited several mentors to share their experiences in an intimate setting.  Invited mentors include
- CEO of an incubator, who was most recently EVP of a $4B+ IC foundry company
- Sand Hill Angel who has founded several tech start-ups
- General Manager of N.A. of a midsize Taiwan company
- Senior management of tire-1 China telecom company
- Female successful business owner in financial services industry
- VP of Engineering of IPO company
This career development workshop allows participants to interactively explore topics such as self-development, career ladders, career pitfalls, interpersonal dynamics, group leadership, corporate management, boardroom talks, career transitions, entrepreneurship, etc.
This workshop will be grouped into 6-7 small group roundtables; each roundtable will be hosted by one of the Mentors.  Participants may shift to another roundtable every 30min so participants will have opportunities to talk to 2-3 Mentors.  Individuals from all levels of professional experiences are welcome to attend CASPA’s Career Development Workshop – Mentor Roundtable on Wed. Aug. 20th, 2014. You will enjoy a very interactive evening at the Community Center of Keypoint Credit Union in Santa Clara.

Mentor Profile
Charlie Chao, Ph. D.
VP of Engineering
Amlogic, Inc.
Dr. Charlie Chao, currently, Vice President of Amlogic Inc. from 2008 to now and Vice Chairman of Uniband Electronic, Inc. (UBEC) from 2005 to now, has over 15 years of experience in managing and developing RF/Analog IC products.
Dr. Charlie Chao was Vice President of MediatTek in USA for RF division from 2005 to 2008.  Between 2003 and 2005, Dr. Charlie Chao was CEO of UBEC that he founded in 2003.  He was a senior technical manager in Silicon Image Inc. from 2000 to 2003.
Prior to Silicon Image, he was co-founder and Vice President of Silicon Communication Lab., Inc. (SCL) from 1999 to 2000. In 2000, the start-up company (SCL) was merged into Silicon Image Inc.  Before founding his first start up company (SCL), Dr. Charlie Chao worked in Philips Semiconductor Wireless Group as design manager from 1996 to 1999 on RF related applications mainly on cellular phones.
Dr. Chao received his Ph.D. degree with majors at Microelectronics and Communication in Electrical Engineer from the University of Maryland/Colleague Park in 1995 and M.S. degree in Electronics from Nation Chiao-Tung University at Taiwan in 1987. He published 10 technical papers and own 12 US patents at the area of RF and analog integrated circuit design.

Yuping Chung
General Manager
Faraday Technology Corporation
Yuping Chung is General Manager of Faraday Technology USA, a pioneer in ASIC design services since 1993 with headquarters in Hsinchu Taiwan. Yuping currently serves as the Chairman and President of CASPA, a non-profit semiconductor professional organization in Silicon Valley. As a domain expert in ASIC controller, SERDES IP, SSD, and memory IC products, and with more than 30 years of experience in business and marketing management, Yuping has led several product lines and business units from development to becoming market leaders. He established a leadership position for Arasan Chip System’s data storage IPs by delivering industry first UFS (Universal Flash Storage) validation platform to tier one memory IC suppliers. At SST (acquired by Microchip in 2010), he led the SSD business unit to develop the industry first single-chip SSD in BGA and later achieved tens of million dollars revenue in the first two years. Prior to SST, he held several senior management positions at Marconix, Etron, and Mitsubishi (now Renesas). Yuping also serves as President of CASPA, a non-profit semiconductor professional organization established in 1991 in Silicon Valley with 10 local chapters in US, Taiwan, China, and Singapore. Yuping received his MSEE from Oklahoma State Univ. and BS from National Taiwan University.

Julia Hsiao
J.D., LL.M, LL.B
Financial Adviser
Julia Hsiao Insurance & Financial Services
Council agent in New York Life Insurance Company since 1998. Life member, MDRT (Million Dollar Round Table), including 2001, 2004-2008, 2010 MDRT Court of the Table, 2009 MDRT Top of the Table. Julia Hsiao has involved in the insurance and financial services business in the Silicon Valley, CA area since 1997. As one of the leading producers in the Silicon Valley area, Julia provides insurance to companies and insurance and financial products to individuals to help achieve their financial goals. Julia’s expertise is in assisting high net worth clients in California, with her extensive knowledge in the areas of estate conservation and wealth accumulation. As a socially responsible citizen, Julia has actively involved in community activities and charity sponsorships in the past twenty years

Rick Lazansky
Co-founder of Silicon Catalyst
Board Member of Sand Hill Angels
Rick is the co-founder of Silicon Catalyst. Rick also serves as board member of Sand Hill Angels and i-Gate Nest. He is also vice president of product development for Agilent (through Xpedion Design Systems), designing and building RFIC design and analysis tools for the wireless and highest-speed semiconductor industry. He helpedd Xpedion raise capital from Menlo Ventures and Telesoft, and has led product development out of chaos and into 45 of the top 50 RFIC companies, including Qualcomm, Skyworks, and TI.
Rick assembled the team and led product development at RedSpark (an Autodesk spin-out in which he was the only non-Autodesk executive) where he developed web-based collaborative design chain solutions for the manufacturing industry. Rick was also Chairman and founder of Denali Software (acquired by Cadence), the intellectual property and electronic design automation technology and market leader in memory systems and protocol verification. He was co-founder and vice president of engineering at Vantage Analysis Systems, where he managed the first VHDL simulator development team. He pioneered the use of high-level-design languages, starting in 1982 with the commercial success of the first behavioral simulation system while managing the simulation department at Silvar-Lisco.
Rick has been involved in 8 startup ventures, included color facsimile image compression, hardware, MEMS, and small office/home management software. He holds a MSCE from Stanford University, and a BS in Economics and Information (Computer) Science from UCSC.