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China Mobile

China Mobile – China’s Largest Mobile Network Operator.

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China Mobile is the largest mobile network operator in the world based on capitalization. It was founded in 1999 as a result of the spinning off of China Telecommunications Corporation. Previously, it was known as China Telecom (Hong Kong) Limited, incorporated in 1997. The company is serving over 946.73 million people globally. China Mobile trades on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as SEHK.

CMHK, Zong, and CML ink are some of its subsidiaries, and over 456000 people are working for the company in its global offices. The company recorded revenue of CNY746 billion in 2019, and total assets owned by the company in the same year were CNY1629 billion. The company is operational in countries like China, Hong Kong (as CMHK), Pakistan (as Zong), Japan, Thailand, United Kingdom, Singapore, and Canada.

The Founding of China Mobile

China Mobile Limited is a China state-owned and publically traded company. It was founded as China Telecom (Hong Kong) Limited, on 3 September 1997, in Hong Kong. With the inception of the company, it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange on 22 October 1997, and on the very next day, it was also listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. The company raised a sum of US$4.2 billion in its Initial Public Offering.

In the three years of its beginning, China Mobile made acquisitions of companies like Beijing Mobile, Shanghai Mobile, Tianjin Mobile, Hebei Mobile, Liaoning Mobile, Shandong Mobile, and Guangxi Mobile, to expand its operations as a telecom company. In November 2000, the company partnered with Vodafone Group Plc., where the latter acquired new shares of China Mobile (Hong Kong) Limited. The company name was also changed from China Telecom (Hong Kong) Limited to China Mobile (Hong Kong) Limited in the same year.

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On 23 October 2001, China Mobile listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, issuing an aggregate of  RMB5 billion of corporate bonds in China. The same year, the company also operated its network service on Mount Everest for the first time. In 2004, the company went on to acquire few more telecom companies, including Guizhou Mobile, Yunnan Mobile, Xizang Mobile, and Gansu Mobile. It also bought the shares of China Resources Peoples Telephone Company Limited through its subsidiary company Fit Best Limited in 2005. The next year, the company was renamed China Mobile Limited.

In June 2006, China Mobile partnered with News Corporation and STAR Group Limited to enter the wireless media business. Later, in 2010, the company also stepped into the mobile finance and mobile e-Commerce businesses through a partnership with SPD Bank.

China Mobile obtained the 4G (TD-LTE) license in 2013 and launched a 4G commercial service in 16 cities of China, and also, launched a new brand ‘and!’ in China. In 2014, the company established China Communications Facilities Services Corporation Limited in partnership with China Telecom and China Unicom. It also launched MIGU, a company dedicated to mobile internet, in 2015, which also specialized in digital content services. At the end of 2017, China Mobile launched a free call service for the Chinese people living in the UK with the name CMLink. In 2020, the company valued at HK$965 billion and became the largest red chip company in the world.

Products and Services

China Mobile mainly provides the GSM network service in mainland China and Hong Kong. It also provides data transmission services through GPRS. The company offers the 3G services under the name G3, and for 4G, it uses the trade name and和. Easyown, GoTone, and M-zone are some of its other trade names, providing fixed-line telephony, mobile telephony, broadband internet, digital television as well as internet television services.

The CEO at China Mobile

Li Yue is a renowned Chinese businessman, who is serving as the CEO of China Mobiles since September 2019. Yue is born and brought up in China. He went to the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications to obtain a bachelor’s degree in the telephone exchange and joined Tianjin University to complete a master’s degree in business administration. Later, he joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and earned a doctorate in business administration.

Maxim Integrated

Maxim Integrated – Developers of Innovative Analog ICs

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Maxim Integrated is one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The company is over 38 years old and was established by a nine-member team following a two-page business plan. Today the company trades on Nasdaq as MXIM, NASDAQ-100 component, and S&P 500 component and has its headquarters located in San Jose, California, U.S. Based on the 2020 records, the number of employees working for Maxim is over 7000 people and recorded annual revenue of the company is US$2.191 billion.

Founding History of Maxim Integrated

Maxim was founded by a bunch of semiconductors design and sales experts in April 1993. The team included Jack Gifford, Fred Beck, Dave Bingham, Steve Combs, Lee Evans, Dave Fullagar, Roger Fuller, Rich Hood, and Dick Wilenken, Jack Gifford leading the team. All of these members were related to the semiconductor industry in terms of having contributed to the semiconductor industry on a major scale.

The nine-team members of the company represented a two pages plan in front of a local investor and raised a US$9 million capital in the venture to start the company. The company started by developing 24 second-source products, and later in 1985, it launched its first proprietary product MAX600, which won the company an industry award. This was the beginning of the innovative journey for the company.

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In 1987, Maxim had its first IPO, and in the same year, the company introduced its first most successful product, MAX232, leading to the most successful fiscal year. In the second quarter of 1988, Maxim recorded sales worth 28.3 million. In 1989, after it acquired its first wafer fabrication plant from Saratoga Semiconductor, the company started the in-house manufacturing of the IC wafers.

In 1991, Maxim made a policy of working 24 hours a day, skipping all the holidays, leading to a hike in profits, from $7.6 million to $13.7 million, for that year. Maxim also made it to Business Week’s Top 100 Small Companies and Forbes’s Top 200 in both 1991 and 1992 for being a good place for work and having the best customer service. By the beginning of the 90s, Maxim had bagged contracts from companies like International Business Machines, Motorola, and Hitachi and had introduced more than 600 new chips. The acquisition of Tectronix in 1994 helped Maxim to enter the wireless and fiber-optics communications businesses.

The company recorded annual revenue worth $500 million in 1998, and in 2005, it was listed in the Fortune 1000 company. By 2008, the company had registered 50% more patents in its names, whereas in 2010, it built the first analog product on a 300mm wafer. Maxim’s total revenue for the fiscal year 2011 was over $2.47 billion, and as per 2019 records, Maxim Integrated was serving 35,000 global customers.

Acquisitions by Maxim

Maxim is known for the lucrative acquisitions that it made in the past 38 years. The company started off by acquiring the first wafer fabrication (fab) facility in Sunnyvale, California in 1990, The company then acquired the semiconductor division of Tektronix in 1994, followed by acquiring an additional wafer fab from IC Works in 1997 and Dallas Semiconductor in 2001. Later Maxim purchases the CMOS fab from Philips in 2003, a 0.18-micrometer fab from Atmel, and Vitesse Semiconductor’s Storage Products Division in 2007. In 2008 and 2009, Maxim acquired Mobilygen, Innova Card as well as two product lines from Zilog, Inc.

Starting from 2010, the next decade included the acquisitions of Teridian Semiconductor Corporation (2010), Trinity Convergence Limited (2010), Phyworks (2010), SensorDynamics (2011), Cambridge Analog Technologies, Inc. (2011), Genasic Design Systems Ltd. (2012), Volterra Semiconductor (2013), Icron Technologies (2018), and Trinamic (2020).

The CEO at Maxim Integrated

Tunç Doluca has been serving Maxim Integrated as the President and CEO since January 2007. He was born in Ankara, Turkey. He has a BSEE degree from Iowa State University and an MSEE degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Doluca joined Maxim Integrated in 1984 as a member of the technical staff. In 1993, he was appointed as the Vice President of R&D at Maxim, and the next year, he was named leader of the first vertical business unit for portable power-management products at Maxim. At the beginning of the 2000s, Doluca was heading seven business units in the company and became the Group President in 2005. Doluca has 11 patents under his name and has designed 40 products for Maxim. He has also designed the industry’s first high-integration, notebook power-supply IC (the MAX786).

Orange SA

Orange SA – The 10th Largest Telecom Service in the World

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Known as the world’s tenth-largest telecommunication company, Orange SA, does not need any introduction. It has been in the telecom industry for past over hundred years, as first the company was owned by the France government and worked under the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs. In 1998, the company became private and was recognized as a separate entity. The reason behind the success of Orange SA is that it stayed consistent and adapted to all the changes the telecom technology was following. Since telecom is the field Orange works in, mobile, landline, internet, and Internet Protocol television (IPTV) are the major services it provides to its worldwide customers.

A Brief Introduction About Orange SA

Orange SA is a 33 years old company but has its roots related to the times when telegraphs were used as the main communication tool. The company headquarter is based in the 15th arrondissement, Paris, France, and it is the fourth-largest telecom provider in Europe. The company deals in Fixed line telephone, Mobile phone, Broadband, IPTV, and internet services. It is a public company and trades at Euronext (ORA), NYSE (ORA), BIT (ORA), and CAC 40. As per the 2019 records, the company earned annual revenue of €1.238 billion and owns assets worth €106.303 billion.

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Orange SA is a multinational, and around 59,000 works for Orange in its global offices, with 266 million customers worldwide. Orange Marine, Orange Business Services Partner Communications Company, Wanadoo, Deezer, Orange Labs, Dailymotion, Telkom Kenya, Orange UK, Sonatel, Jazztel, Globecast, Cloudwatt, Telekom Romania are some of Orange SA’s major subsidiaries.

The Founding of Orange SA

In the very beginning, the France government started the telegraph service under the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs in 1878, and later, the department also introduced the telephone service in 1923. After the introduction of the telephone, the Department of Posts and Telegraph was nationalized, and in 1941, the department created another branch for the telephone service with the name General Direction of Telecommunications, which remained the major telephone service in France until 1988, when the division was renamed to France Télécom.

After the formation of France Télécom, the French government wanted to open the doors for public services in telecommunication, so on 1 January 1998, it privatized the France Télécom, the government still holding the 27% stake in the company. This privatization also led to the acquisition of multiple international firms as France Télécom wanted to expand internationally. The acquisitions by France Télécom included GlobalOne, Equant, Internet Telecom, Freeserve, EresMas, NTL, Mobilcom.

Side by side, in 1991, Hong Kong’s Hutchison Whampoa acquired the major shares in Microtel Communications Ltd of the UK and renamed it to Microtel to Orange Personal Communications Services Ltd. The acquisition was made to set up the owner company’s hold on the UK’s telecom industry. Hutchison Whampoa launched Orange as a separate brand in the UK in April 1994. The company went public in 1996 on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ and later was acquired by German conglomerate Mannesmann AG in 1999.

Vodafone saw the success of Orange, so it acquired Mannesmann for US$183 billion and obtained the Orange shares along with that. But in August 2000, Vodafone sold Orange to France Télécom for a sum of €39.7 bn. The acquisition of these many international telecom companies helped France Télécom to become the fourth biggest global telecom operator, and France Télécom transformed into a new group named Orange SA

In 2008, Orange also entered the digital streaming industry and acquired the exclusive rights from Warner Bros as well as rights to broadcast Saturday evening Ligue 1 football matches from the French Football Federation. The company also obtained the rights of selling iPhones in various countries from Apple, like Austria, Belgium, Egypt, Jordan, etc. In 2018, Orange partnered with Google to install a transatlantic undersea cable, Dunant, to share fast-speed data between the United States and France. The company also started a satellite-based home broadband service in July 2020, utilizing the Eutelsat Konnect satellite.

The CEO: Stéphane Richard

Stéphane Richard is a French-born businessman and the residing CEO of Orange SA He was born on 24 August 1961 in Caudéran, France. He is an alumns of HEC Paris and École nationale d’administration, Strasbourg. Richard has vast experience in the field of telecom. He held some major roles at companies like Compagnie Générale des Eaux, Compagnie Immobilière Phénix and CGIS.

Richard joined Veolia as Deputy Managing Director of Veolia Environnement and CEO of Veolia Transport in 2003. In 2007, he accepted the post of director of Orange SA, and in 2009, he became the Chief of Staff to the French Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment. In 2011 on March 1st, Richard was appointed as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Orange SA.

Apple

WWDC 2021 – The Highlights from Apple’s BIg Keynote Presentation.

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Apple hosts a Worldwide Developer Conference every year, where it presents new software products and updates to its existing products. Like every year, the company organized its annual Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, but this time ‘digitally’, where it boasted new versions as well as features added to its products, like for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch. The event was typically based on the new updated Apple OS for its different devices. Apple launched the iOS 15 during its virtual conference, which was the biggest highlight of the event.

New Apple iOS 15

Apple announced the latest iOS version, i.e., iOS 15, at the WWDC 2021 event on Monday. The company has made some improvements to the OS and has also introduced new features for it. The new iOS 15 comes with an improved FaceTime app, as it includes features like Spatial Audio and portrait mode. Now the users can have multiple people on FaceTime through a grid view, and they can also schedule FaceTime calls with their friends by sending links for FaceTime to them.

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Apple has also added a new feature named SharePlay, which will allow the users to share their screens as well as listen to music or watch movies together while FaceTiming. Apart from that, Apple has finally launched FaceTime for Android and Windows Users as well. But still, the users do not get a dedicated app for that and need to use a browser to use Facetime on their Android or Windows device.

Apple has also made some updates to the design of its iMessage app. Now the images received on iMessage will be displayed as a gallery through the newly launched feature “Shared with You”. The links and the other content received through iMessage will also go in a separate library under Shared with You for better access. The feature is built to work with Photos, Safari, Apple Music, and the Apple TV app.

The company has also revamped the notifications for the iOS 15, as now the notifications will display on basis of the user’s status, like whether the user is working, driving, or sleeping, through the Focus feature. Also, the notification panel on the lock screen has been redesigned to make it look neater. The images and icons of the apps on the notifications have also been enlarged for the users to see who has sent the messages on which of the apps. The notifications are also displayed in the order of the users’ priority.

Apart from that, the company has also worked on improving the camera (focus on the text in photographs), the maps (the software will make use of 3D data), as well as the memojis used in messages (can be customized in terms of facial features).

 Apple iPadOS 15

For the iPadOS 15 also, Apple has brought some new updates, including the App Library feature that the company had introduced last year. The App Library feature automatically organizes apps on the screen, whereas, now the users can also use widgets to arrange the apps as per their requirements. Apple also introduced the split-screen feature for the iPad to let the users use two apps at a time. The company has also made new changes to the Notes as well as the Translation app.

watchOS 8

Apple introduced the latest OS for the Apple watch, the watchOS 8. The new OS comes with a feature to let the users write messages through their finger. It also include a newly launched breathe tracking app named Mindfulness, which let the users track their respiratory rate during sleep. The company has added new workouts to the Workout app, including martial arts and palates.

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macOS Monterey

After iOS, iPadOS and watchOS 8, Apple also launched a new version of macOS, named MacOS Monterey. The new macOS includes support for the same mouse and keyboard for a Mac or an iPad through the new Universal Control feature. The AirPlay feature announced by the company allows all the iOS devices’ screen to mirror the Mac screen. The company has also made some changes to the Apple browser Safari and has updated the bookmark feature of the same. The redesign of Safari has also brought the new tab grouping feature to it. Apple has also introduced new shortcuts to the Mac interface via the new macOS.

Other Announcements

Other than announcing the all-new Apple OS, Apple has updated the Apple HomePod Mini as the users can now use these as stereo speakers for the Apple TV. The company has also brought new privacy features to its devices, including the tracker-blockers for the Mail app on Apple. This feature is built to hide the location and the IP address of the user. Also, the users will find a new App Tracker Report section in their settings to track the usage of the user information by the apps on the phone in a period of the past seven days. During the WWDC also announced iCloud+, a service that includes features like Private Relay, to provide online privacy to its users.

Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton – The Pioneers of Consulting and Management Services

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Booz Allen Hamilton is an American consulting agency, which provides management and IT consulting services to its clients. The company headquarters is based in McLean, Virginia, U.S., and was founded in 1914, by Edwin G. Booz, James L. Allen, and Carl L. Hamilton. The company name is after the surnames of three founders. Booz Allen is one of the leading consulting firms in America and has also over 80 offices in different parts of the world, including clients from private-public as well as non-profits sectors.

Booz Allen Hamilton has two divisions that provide IT and management services, i.e., Worldwide Commercial Business and Worldwide Technology Business. The former is for providing management services, and the other is to provide technology consulting and system development services to both private as well as government organizations. Booz Allen & Hamilton Health Care Inc and Booz Allen & Hamilton Acquisition Services are the main subsidiary companies of Booz Allen Hamilton.

The Establishment of Booz Allen Hamilton

The company history dates back to over 100 years ago, in 1914, when a company, named Business Research Service, was founded by Edwin G. Booz to provide consulting services to other companies. Booz wanted to build a business model where companies could hire experts for unbiased advice for their businesses, such that to help them grow even better. The business was recognized as one of its kind. Two years later, two other partners, James L. Allen and Carl L. Hamilton joined the company.

Even at the beginning of the company, it was able to grab clients like Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and Canadian Pacific Railway. For the first thirty years of Business Research Service, it was juggling with a lot of name changes, like Edwin G. Booz, Business Engineering Service, and Business Surveys. George Fry joined the company as the first full-time assistant in 1925 and later, became a partner. In 1936, the company headquarters was moved to Field Building in Chicago. The same year, the company was named Booz, Fry, Allen & Hamilton, but as in 1942, Fry left the company, it became Booz Allen Hamilton.

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In 1940, Booz Allen Hamilton bagged a contract from the U.S. Navy such that the company was to assess the preparedness of the Navy for the second world war in terms of the condition of the Navy’s shipyards, telephone systems, and intelligence operations, etc. By the end of the war, the company had established three offices in the major cities like Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, with around 400 clients on board. Though the war was over, the company continued to offer its services to the US military.

In 1955 Booz Allen Hamilton established the Booz Allen Applied Research, Inc. (BAARINC). The company got recognized as ‘the world’s largest, most prestigious management consulting firm’ by Time magazine in 1959. By this time, IBM, Abbott Labs, and the US Department of the Interior had also become its clients, and the company was making annual revenues worth $55 million.

Booz Allen Hamilton went public in January 1970. In the early 70s, NASA hired the company to evaluate a $100 million satellite to orbit the earth for one year. During the same time, the company also started to work in the telecom and IT field. 1980, the recorded annual revenue for the company was $180 million. To get a hold on the technology market, the company entered the commercial systems integration field in 1989.

By the mid-90s, the company’s operations were restructured and divided into two divisions, i.e., technology services & systems development and commercial management consulting. In 2008, with a spin-off, the commercial arm of Booz Allen Hamilton was separated to form Booz & Company, which later was acquired by PwC. The company had another round of IPO in 2010. By 2020, the company also became the SEC’s major cybersecurity services provider.

International Expansion and Acquisitions

In 1953, the company went international after Booz Allen Hamilton bagged a contract from the Philippines and the Egyptian government. During the same time, the company also opened its office in Italy. The company made some acquisitions like Designers for Industry (renamed Design & Development) and Foster D. Snell Laboratory in the early 60s.

By the end of the 60s, the company had also started to work with several European industries, including the British heavy industry and consumer goods manufacturers and West German and Scandinavian steel producers. During the same time, the company was also actively working with the governments of Brazil, Argentina, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia as well as Venezuela.

In 1972, Booz Allen Hamilton entered the Japanese industry. The company acquired Advanced Decision Systems Inc in 1991, and in 2012, it acquired the Defense Systems Engineering & Support division of ARINC, followed by the acquisition of Epidemico in 2014, S.C. technology firm SPARC in 2015, and eGov Holding in 2017.

The Founder: Edwin George Booz

Edwin George Booz is recognized as the founder of Booz Allen Hamilton as he was the first one to start the company. He was born on 2 September 1887 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He completed a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in psychology from Kellogg School at Northwestern University. As soon he completed his education, he started Business Research Service in 1914.

Supermicro

Supermicro – The Company Seeking Innovation for its Customers.

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The arrival of personal computers helped IT technology grow at a faster pace. With having computers at home, people were more interested in learning about IT and upcoming related technologies. It also helped many budding entrepreneurs to try their hands on business apart from the traditional trades and grow along with the IT industry. Supermicro ( aka Super Micro Computer Inc) is one such company that started when the personal computer was becoming a thing, and today, after 28 years long journey, the company is one of the largest IT company in the world.

Supermicro as the Market Leader

Supermicro is a 28 years old American information technology company founded by Charles Liang, Wally Liaw, and Sara Liu in 1993. The company headquarter is located in San Jose, California. Supermicro is a public company and trades on Nasdaq as SMCI. Charles Liang, the founder of Supermicro is heading the company as the president and the CEO.

As per 2017 records, Supermicro made revenues worth $2.53 billion and has been listed among the world’s 100 largest US publicly traded companies by Fortune Magazine. Supermicro is known for its services in computer servers, storage, networking devices, server management software as well as a high-end workstation for enterprise IT and embedded markets.

The Founding of Supermicro

Supermicro was founded by Charles Liang, Wally Liaw, and Sara Liu in 1993, at a time when companies like Oracle, Dell, and IBM were already dominating the market. The founders established the company intending to bring innovative technology to the customers at lower prices, and it still follows the same goal. According to CEO Liang, the company has a strong engineering background that makes it bring the newest and advanced technology before its rivals.

The company has a history of gradual growth since its inception. The company introduced the Pentium® Pro-based products in 1994, which immediately became popular among most North American companies. The next year, Supermicro introduced the world’s first x86 DP server boards based on Orion chipset. The success and increased demand for Supermicro’s products helped it establish a new manufacturing facility in Taiwan in 1996. It also developed the world’s first 20 ready server board named COMDEX in the same year.

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Few of the next first in the industry from Supermicro includes the server boards supporting both Intel® Pentium® Pro and Pentium® II processors, Xeon® Pentium® II server solution, 533MHz FSB rackmount server system, 64-bit 1U Itanium2 platform, and first 1U server with 1 Terabyte of SATA storage and patent for industry’s first redundant cooling power supply, etc.

In 1998, Supermicro went on to establish its European subsidiary in the Netherlands. The company had its first IPO in 2007 and went public on NASDAQ under the symbol SMCI. Supermicro won the Blade Systems Insight 2010 Award for Best Blade-Based Solution in 2010. With exceeding $1B in revenues in 2012, Supermicro became a unicorn company, and in September 2014, Supermicro moved its headquarters to the former Mercury News headquarters in North San Jose, California, and named the campus Supermicro Green Computing Park. The revenues were double in 2016, and Fortune Magazine named Supermicro the World’s Fastest Growing IT Infrastructure Company. In 2018, Supermicro was the 3rd largest server systems supplier in the world.

Today, Supermicro is actively offering its services to major IT companies in the world and specializes mainly in AI and HPC, Enterprise Applications and Data Analytics, Data Management, Cloud and Virtualization, 5G, Edge Computing and IoT as well as Hyperscale Infrastructure.

The CEO, Charles Liang

Charles Liang belongs to the Taiwanese ethnicity. He was born and brought up in Taiwan and completed B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science & Technology. Later, he moved to to the US and earned a master’s degree in the same subject from the University of Texas at Arlington.

After completing his higher education, Liang joined the Suntek Information International Group, and in January 1988, moved to Chips & Technologies, where he worked as Senior Design Engineer and Project Leader. He also worked as the President and Chief Design Engineer of Micro Center Computer Inc. for two years, before he founded Supermicro in 1993. He has been serving the company as the president and the CEO since the inception of the company.