T A-Lin Hsu

Dr. Ta-lin Hsu is Founder and Chairman of H&Q Asia Pacific and has been investing in Asia for over 23 years. He joined Hambrecht & Quist Group in 1985 as a General Partner and founded H&Q Asia Pacific (“H&QAP”) in 1986. Before H&QAP, Dr. Hsu worked at IBM for 12 years. In his last position in senior management, Dr. Hsu held corporate responsibility for all of IBM’s advanced research in mass storage systems and technology. H&QAP has managed over $2.3 billion in capital and has invested in more than 360 companies. H&Q Asia Pacific is recognized as a pioneer of Asian venture capital and private equity in a number of respects, including being the first firm to bring "Silicon Valley" style venture capital to Taiwan in 1986, the only firm to open four offices in ASEAN countries between 1987 and 1991, one of the first funds to enter China in 1993 (jointly managed with the Bank of China), the first firm to execute a turnaround in Korea following the Asian financial crisis, and the first foreign private equity firm to take a Japanese technology company public in Japan in 2002. Dr. Hsu received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master of Science degree in Electrophysics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from National Taiwan University.