David Gao is a member of the Beijing King & Bond law firm where he specializes in providing legal services for multinational corporations. Based in Beijing, David will advise the company in a wide range of corporate, commercial, securities, finance and property rights related legal matters under Chinese laws. David’s business law experience includes mergers and acquisitions, contracts and legal documents for commercial activities, negotiating transactions, joint ventures and private and listed company acquisitions. He is fluent in written English and Chinese. David has an LLB from Hebei University and an LLM from China University of Political Science and Law. He has been admitted to the China National Bar Association and is fully licensed to practice law. While working for a large state-owned corporation, he received training in Western accounting practices.
James Edward Robinette Business Advisor
Mr. Robinette has over 30 years of experience in sales management, marketing, strategic planning, supply chain management, project management and international business development in the wireless communications industry. He was a founding member of the Panasonic Wireless business.
Mr. Robinette has successfully developed sales channels with Tier 2 and Tier 3 cellular carriers and directed many strategy projects for Panasonic Communications and Motorola. He has strong relationships with all levels of management in both GSM & CDMA cellular providers. Ed has P&L experience and was responsible for a $100 million dollar annual budget. Mr. Robinette has also developed and implemented sales and training programs for AT&T.
Mr. Robinette has developed and implemented innovative sales and growth strategies for cellular carrier retail stores, kiosks, and indirect channel agents. This included the coordination of a team of 40 geographically dispersed individuals working to integrate retail sales strategies into Tier 1 carriers, smaller carriers, retailers and distributors.
Sharon Xiong, Ph.D. Business Advisor
Sharon Xiong currently leads and manages system verification of High Density SIP Trunk Gateway at Avaya Communication Inc. Prior to working for Avaya; Sharon worked at Lucent Technologies on 10G optical router (Bandwidth Manager) development and Rhythm Netconnections, Inc., for DSL management software development. She has more than ten years of experience in telecommunication software product development and software testing. She was involved in the development of products including user interface, web services, application interface, call processing, data management applications, reporting application, network optical switch, etc.
Sharon is one of the founders and a former board member of the Chinese American Association (CAA) of Rocky Mountain Region. In addition to CAA, she participated in the founding of the Great Wall Chinese Academy (GWCA) and serves as a board member and current principal. She manages a GWAC Sunday school operation of about 200 students, 10 administrators and 24 teachers.
Sharon is the President of XBC Consulting firm which offers business consulting services to people who intend to expand their business in China’s emerging market. She understands Chinese culture, has a broad Chinese network, many years hands-on experience in US corporate business operation, and corporate management skills.
She received her education in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Denver and holds an EMBA from the University of Colorado, Denver, a Ph.D. from the Medical School at the University of South Dakota, and an M.S and B.S. from Peking University, China.
Daniel Welytok General Counsel
Daniel Welytok is a partner in the Wisconsin-based law firm of von Briesen & Roper, S.C., and acts as outside general counsel to the Company in the United States concerning general business matters. Mr. Welytok’s industry experience is concentrated in technology services, where he has helped management achieve practical results in capital structuring, financing, licensing and intellectual property protection, regulatory issues, acquisitions and divestments, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, employment and benefits matters, officer and director issues, and dispute resolution. He has represented a number of organizations before the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor and other Federal and state regulatory authorities on audits, controversies and compliance issues.
Mr. Welytok assisted with the satellite broadcasting industry’s lobbying efforts pertaining to sales and use tax in connection with the direct-to-home satellite service provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and developed the organizational, contractual, and distribution structure for a nation-wide wireless communications network. Mr. Welytok received his Law Degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School and his Masters of Law in taxation from DePaul Law School. He is “AV” rated by Martindale Hubbell, the highest possible peer-to-peer rating among lawyers.
Eric Hager Business Advisor
Mr. Hager is an Internet entrepreneur and senior telecom executive with over 25 years of proven experience in start-ups and large organizations. He possesses a rare combination of technical acumen, strategic vision, and financial skills. He has serial successes in technology driven ventures and strategic M & A transactions.
Formerly, Mr. Hager was an owner and operator of Expedient Holdings USA, where he architected Expedient’s fixed wireless, fiber, and copper based Ethernet transport services. Expedient won Supercomm’s 2005 Worldwide SuperQuest Award for Network Design and Services and Lightreading’s Leading Lights Award for Best Marketing campaign for Expedient’s “Ethernet Anywhere” service.
Prior, for Livingston Enterprises and Lucent Technologies, he led product strategy for: IP Service Switches, Media Gateways, and Metro Ethernet. For IP Services, he directed technical and financial due diligence for $1.5B of Lucent acquisitions. He led worldwide Service Provider Technical Marketing resulting in over $100M in contract awards throughout US, EMEA, and Asian markets. He developed the strategic relationship with Lucent Technologies subsequently leading to Lucent’s $600M acquisition of Livingston Enterprises. He was also awarded US and European Patents for Internet Call architectures in public networks.
Mr. Hager’s extensive international experience began as a student attending the Universidad de los Americas in Mexico and obtaining a bachelors degree in Philosophy from MERU in Seelisberg, Switzerland.
