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Wayne Dai
Chairman, President and CEO
Dr. Wayne Dai founded VeriSilicon in August 2001 and has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer since then. Prior to founding VeriSilicon, Dr. Dai was the Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Celestry Technologies, Inc., an EDA company, which was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2002. Prior to that, he was the founder, chairman of the board of directors, and Chief Executive Officer of Ultima Interconnect Technology, Inc., one of the predecessor companies to Celestry.
Dr. Dai was the founding Chairman of the IEEE Multi-Chip Module Conference and IEEE Symposium on IC/Package Design Integration, Co-Chairman of the Program Committee of the 2010 International Green Energy Forum. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. He has published more than 100 papers in technical journals and conferences and received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award from the President of United States in 1990. He was recognized as top ten venture-backed entrepreneurs and top ten talents of science and technology in China in 2005. He was honored with The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in China in 2007. He won the ACE’s Executive of the Year award in 2013, the Hurun Industry Achievement Award in 2014, the APAC Innovator of the year of WEAA in 2018, and was recognized as a "Leading Pioneer" in 2018 by Shanghai Smart City Construction, 2019 Contributor of the year and 2021 Outstanding Contributor of Industry Progress of WEAA, the 2021 Sci-Tech Innovation Golden Horse Awards Outstanding Leader award, and 2023 Annual Outstanding Person of China IC Industry, and High Tech Contributor of the Year of 2023 Compass Tech Award. He is currently the Vice Chairman of Global Innovation Center, the Executive Vice President of the International Union for Science and Technology Innovation, the Vice President of the China Semiconductor Industry Association IC Design Branch, the President of the China RISC-V Industry Consortium, the Vice President and the Expert Committee Member of the Automotive Electronics Industry Alliance, the Chairman of the Shanghai Open Processor Innovation Center, the Vice President of Shanghai Integrated Circuit Industry Association, the Vice Chairman of the Expert Committee of the Shanghai IC Industry Cluster Development Promotion Institution, and the President of Berkeley Club of Shanghai.
Dr. Dai received his B.A. degree in Computer Science and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a professor in the department of Computer Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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Emma Shi
Board Director
Executive Vice President
Chief Financial Officer
Secretary of the Board of Directors
Emma Shi is currently our Board Director, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Board of Directors. She was successively Financial Controller and Corporate Vice President since joining us in 2006. Before joining us, Ms. Shi was Finance Controller of Essentra PLC, a supplier of plastic and fibre products, from 2004 to 2006. Prior to that, Ms. Shi was a financial manager of Hewlett Packard Shanghai from 2001 to 2004. Ms. Shi worked at Ernst & Young Huaming LLP, a registered public accounting firm, as an auditor from 1998 to 2001.
Ms.Shi received a bachelor’s degree in international accounting from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Ms. Shi is a certified public accountant in the American state of Washington and is a member of the Chinese Institution of Certified Public Accountants.
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Wei-Jin Dai
Board Director
Chief Strategy Officer
Executive Vice President
General Manager of IP Division
Wei-Jin Dai joined VeriSilicon in 2016. He is currently our Board Director, Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President and General Manager of IP Division. Wei-Jin has more than 30 years of experience managing business and product development, including as President & CEO of Vivante Corporation before it merged into VeriSilicon. At Vivante, he oversaw the development of industry-leading GPU IP, VISION Processor IP, and Display IP products used in automotive, IoT platforms, entertainment systems and mobile devices. Before joining Vivante, Wei-Jin was Corporate Vice President at Cadence Design Systems’ leading Digital Implementation System Division for the Encounter product line, which was acquired along with the company Wei-Jin co-founded, Silicon Perspective Corporation. Silicon Perspective Corporation developed the industry-leading First Encounter virtual prototyping systems. Prior to Silicon Perspective, Wei-Jin managed product development at Quickturn Design Systems, a leader in emulation technology, and held engineering and management positions at Hewlett Packard and Lucent Bell Labs.
Wei-Jin holds M.S. and B.S. Degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Leo Wang
Chief Operating Officer
Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Leo Wang has served as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales in VeriSilicon. Mr. Wang was successively Director of Application Engineering, Senior Director of IP Solution, and Vice President of China Sales and Business Development since joining VeriSilicon in 2006, taking charge of a growth technical support team for China semiconductor customers, in addition to his responsibilities of business development for both IP licensing and IC design services in China. Mr. Wang has more than 20 years of experience in business and technical development in semiconductor IP, IC design services, embedded software, and wireless communication, which includes strategic and management positions in R&D, customer support, technical marketing and sales. Before VeriSilicon's acquisition of ZSP (DSP Division) from LSI Logic in June 2006, Mr. Wang established and led the application engineering team, as a manager of DSP solution engineering department of LSI Logic, to support China fabless customers and develop IP licensing markets in various segments including advanced wireless communication, multimedia, high-end audio/voice, industry control, etc. Prior to LSI Logic, Mr. Wang held R&D management position at LinkAir Communications, Ltd.
Mr. Wang received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Tianjin University and his master’s degree in business administration from Peking University of Post and Telecommunications. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Engineering at Tianjin University.
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Wiseway Wang
Executive Vice President
General Manager of Custom Silicon Platform Division
Wiseway Wang is currently our Executive Vice President and General Manager of Custom Silicon Platform Division (CSPD), responsible for the R&D work related to the company's one-stop chip customization business. Wiseway joined VeriSilicon in 2019 with more than 20 years of experience in SoC industry. Before that, Wiseway once served as the senior director of Marvell multimedia BU Great China region, was in charge of the development of SoC software and supporting global multimedia SoC customers and participated in the production definition and architecture design of multiple SoC products and successfully lead the team on delivering industrial leading Google TV, Android Set-Top-Box turnkey solutions. Prior to that, Wiseway worked for Broadcom broadband and AMD DTV division as senior manager and manager etc.
Wiseway received a master's degree in computer science from Zhejiang University and a bachelor’s degree in computer software from Sichuan University.
