Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> February 9, 2004
BOBBY CHAO Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, DragonVenture, Inc.
Bobby has been a serial entrepreneur in businesses of various technology
and market. He began his career as one of the five original founders of
Cadence Design Systems. A year after Cadence's successful IPO, Bobby
founded Ocron in 1989, a leader in Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
technology and document management software. Bobby was Chairman and CEO
of Ocron until Umax Technologies, Inc. acquired it in 1993. He then
became part of the Umax team serving as Senior Vice President of
Marketing in charge of corporate marketing and investment until 1998.
Bobby was previously General Partner for Technology Associates
Management Company and has served as Chairman and CEO of VA Linux
Systems. He is currently on the board of several companies and
professional organizations as well. After a BS in Physics in Taiwan,
Bobby arrives U.S. in 1973. He holds an MS in Physics from Georgia
State University and an MS in Aeronautics Engineering from Stanford
University 1977. Profile
Mr. Chao: DragonVenture was legally incorporated in the end of 1999, I
can't remember the exact date, but the operation
