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Taiwan, the Republic of China
"Industrializing Big Technologies In A Small Economy"
Dr. Jih Chang Yang
Executive Vice President
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
April 1st, Monday, 2002
12 - 1 pm, E51-315
Electronic copy of the PowerPoint presentation is now available on SloanSpace
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Speaker's Biography
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Dr. Yang is an Executive Vice President of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a 6,000-person R&D institution known for its role in spearheading the many high-technology industries of Taiwan. ITRI has an output of over 600 technologies licensed to industry annually, and founded key enterprises as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) through spin-offs. At this position, he directly supervises approximately 40 percent of ITRI's annually $ 500 million operations. His latest projects involve the current development of a nanotechnology industry in Taiwan.
Dr. Yang is also a director of the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) R&D Leaders Forum, a region-wide network consisting of more than 100 public and private sectors R&D executives. He has also founded and is presently serving as Chairman of the Environment and Development Foundation, the issuing body of Taiwan s eco-labels. He is a member of Taiwan s National Energy Committee and National Sustainable Development Committee, and was appointed as a director of the National Information Community Initiative (NICI). He was selected as one of the 100 New Economy Leaders in the Greater China Region by the E-Business Weekly Magazine, and is a frequently invited to speak in the region and around the world on technology and environment related subjects.
Dr. Yang is a graduate of the National Taiwan University, and earned his PhD degree at the University of Washington.
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Asian
Private Equity
"Changing the
Game"
Andrea
O' Toole
Head of International Private
Equity
Cambridge Associates
March 4th, Monday, 2002
12 - 1 pm, E51-149
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Ms.
O'Toole currently
heads Cambridge
Associates' International
Private Equity and Venture
Capital Research. Ms. O'Toole
joined Cambridge
Associates from
the Prudential Private Equity
Group, where she was Senior
Director for the
domestic Private
Equity team. Over the
course of her tenure
with Prudential,
she invested in international
private equity and mezzanine
opportunities, real
estate and leveraged buyouts.
She has served as the CFO of
Hotresponse, a start-up
Silicon Alley media company.
She has also worked for
Gerard Klauer Mattison as an
equity research associate
covering Technology and
Digital Media. Ms.
O'Toole is a graduate of Smith
College and received
her MBA from
the Harvard
University Graduate
School of Business
Administration.
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| About
Cambridge Associates
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Cambridge Associates
was established in the early
1970s when its founders were
asked to conduct a
comprehensive study of
endowment management practices
for Harvard University. The
resulting firm was essentially
an external research arm for
nonprofit institutions. Its
research became a
cost-effective means for
members to keep abreast of the
rapid changes in investment
management and nonprofit
financial management. Although
its initial mandate from
participating institutions was
to provide them with timely,
original investment research,
its focus quickly expanded to
include a broad range of
consulting assignments on both
investment and financial
issues. Today it works with
colleges and universities
representing almost
three-quarters of U.S. higher
education endowment assets as
well as with other endowed
institutions, international
institutions, families, and
corporations. It is an
independent firm that has
placed a special emphasis on
avoiding conflicts of
interest. Its expertise and
coverage of investment and
financial management has
steadily grown since the
firm's inception. For more
information, please check its
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Philip
Rotner
Managing Director
Treasurer
Office at MIT
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Mr. Rotner is a Managing Director in the Office of the
Treasurer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The Office of the Treasurer is
responsible for the management of MIT’s financial assets. He is responsible
for evaluating and investing in private equity opportunities in the United States and Asia for the MIT Endowment and the MIT
Retirement Plan. These responsibilities include representing MIT’s interests on numerous
advisory/valuation committees.
Mr. Rotner is also President of the MIT Private Equity Fund. The MIT Private
Equity Fund has 22 limited partners and invests alongside the MIT private equity program in new relationships.
Mr. Rotner joined MIT in 1992. He was previously employed as a Vice President
in Bank of Boston's Corporate Finance Department and as a Lending Officer with
Bank of Tokyo Trust Company.
Mr. Rotner received a BA in Economics and Asian Studies from Amherst College and an MBA from the University of Chicago in Finance and International Business. |
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| MIT, located in Cambridge, MA, is one of the world’s outstanding universities.
The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and
the world in the 21st century. MIT is independent, coeducational, and privately endowed. It is organized into five schools and 21 academic
departments, as well as many interdepartmental programs, laboratories, and
centers whose work extends beyond traditional departmental boundaries. |
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