FALL 2004 SEMINAR SERIES
Topics in International Technology Management

Cross-border partnering in Asia:
Globalization challenges for high-tech industries

Lee S. Ting

Lee is a former Corporate Vice President of Hewlett Packard Co. (HP) where he worked for more than thirty years. He started as an R & D engineer and was the founder and General Manager of HP Taiwan, General Manager of Far East Region, Managing Director of Southeast Asia Operations, Director of Business Development, and Vice President and Managing Director of Asia Pacific. His last position was Corporate Vice President and Managing Director of Worldwide Geographic Operations where he was responsible for HP’s customer facing organizations in all the countries in which the company had a business presence.

During a two year absence from HP in the late eighties, Lee was a Senior Vice President of Hambrecht & Quist where he played a key role in the expansion of the firm’s venture capital business into Asia.

Lee is currently a Managing Director of WR Hambrecht+Co, the investment bank based in San Francisco. He is an independent Board Member of the Lenovo Group, the leading IT company in China, and  MTI, a global supplier of satellite/microwave communications components and subsystems based in Taiwan. Lee is also an advisor to WK Technologies, a leading venture capital company with operations in Taiwan and US and other private companies.

Lee is a member of the Committee of 100 and a member of the Advisory Council to the Dean of Engineering at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Lee received his BSEE from the Oregon State University and has completed the Stanford Executive Program. He is fluent in English, Chinese, and Portuguese.

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