The Eight Entrepreneurial Role Models

In The Eyes of ROC Entrepreneurs

By Bi-fan Chen

TAIPEI, June 8 - Who are the most respected entrepreneurial examples in the eyes of young entrepreneurs in Taiwan? Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, ranks the first. Michael Dell, founder of Dell, Lin Bai-li, Chairman of Quanta Computer, and Kun-yao Lee, General Manager of BenQ, and Father, rank second. Mr. Sayling Wen, Vice Chairman of Inventec Group, Wu-Fu Chen, serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and David Chiou, CTO of Groundhog Technologies, rank the same as the third.

The Global Entrepreneurial Leader Development Project jointly run by the Industrial Development Bureau of Minister of Economic Affairs, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), and Epoch Foundation, held its opening ceremony as a "Garage Party" yesterday. Josephine Chao, host of the ceremony and Vice Executive Director of Epoch Foundation, announced the entrepreneurial examples elected by the hundreds who signed up for the program.

Among all the global celebrities, David Chiou's being listed looks special. He graduated from the MIT Media Lab. Back to 1994 when the web is in its infancy, David Chiou, then a freshman of the Electrical Engineering Department of National Taiwan University, had built the sites of the department as a network guru. Today, Groundhog Technologies founded by him specializes in wireless network optimization technology. He leads the technology development and his father Tiger Chiou helps manage the company.

David Chiou will also act as an Advisor for the Global Entrepreneurial Leader Development Project. He will advice participants of the program through virtual or physical communication, with General Manager R.T. Chiou of INTUMIT, Chairman Su-Lan Chen of BNext, General Manager T.G. Kuo of MosArt Semiconductor, founding CTO Michel Chu of Giga Media, VP S.C. Su of Champion VC, and VP C.S. Wu of AbGenomics. They will hand down their entrepreneurial experience to the young people in the series of events over the following five months.

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