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Management Team
Gang Wu
Founder, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Gang Wu brings over 20 years of management and technical experience to Paragon Wireless. Prior to joining Paragon, he was with DoCoMo USA Labs as Senior VP and Research Fellow, leading the R&D activities of WLAN and 3G/4G mobile systems. Gang has extensively established relationships with overseas customers. Before joining DoCoMo, he was with Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications, Japan, focusing on broadband wireless access systems. He led a Japanese national project (MIRAI) to integrate heterogeneous wireless networks. Gang is the 1st Vice Chair of IEEE 802.20 WG. He holds over 20 patents and has 80 published professional papers. Gang received a B.S. from Xian Jiaotong University, China, MSEE from Xidian University, China, and a Ph.D. from Shizuoka University, Japan.

 
Hongqing Yang
Founder, President

Hongqing Yang brings over 20 years of management and business experience to Paragon Wireless. Before joining Paragon, Hongqing founded China DigiPro Inc.—a $10-million-asset joint venture of TI and Great Wall Group with over 100 employees, and served as the CEO. Hongqing was also a General Manager of Business Development of TI-Asia. Prior to joining TI, Hongqing was with Motorola as a global VP and chief representative in China. She helped Motorola secured a spectrum license for their products in China. Before Motorola, Hongqing was a VP of Hewlett-Packard-China responsible for product services. Hongqing holds a B.S. from the Beijing Institute of Science and Technology, China and an M.S. from the University of Notre Dame.


 
Jie Liang
Founder, CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER & VICE PRESIDENT, Engineering

Jie Liang brings over 15 years of technical experience to Paragon Wireless. Prior to joining Paragon, Jie was a senior system architect with the WLAN product department of TI where he worked on a project to develop low-power WLAN chipsets for VoWLAN solutions. Jie was the project leader of TI Bluetooth/WLAN dual-mode chip project which is currently adopted by Motorola’s new generation of cell phones and iPAQ. Jie holds more than 20 patents and patent applications and has 20 published journal and conference papers. Jie received a B.S. from Tsinghua University, China, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

 
Prince Wang (Yunhua)
VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS

Prince Wang brings over 15 years of supply chain, technical and quality experience to Paragon Wireless. Prior to joining Paragon, Prince was Director of Quality Management in NEC, leading quality activities in design, NPI, manufacturing and overall quality management system. Before joining NEC, he was quality manager of a design house. Prince has worked for Motorola around 10 years in production, NPI, quality control, reliability, HW & critical components development. He initiated quite a few new technical and process innovations. He established and certified the 1st overseas ALT lab in Motorola. He led the TFE/TCS team received the highest award in Motorola global. Once was elected as Tianjin Excellent Engineer twice in 1997 and 1998. Two patents were filed in USA, holds other 3 patent applications. He was certified Six Sigma BlackBelt in 2002. Prince received a B.S. from Tsinghua University.


Wayne Millsap
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Wayne Millsap has over 25 years of financial and general management experience and currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of Paragon Wireless. Mr. Millsap has substantial expertise in strategic planning, capital formation through venture capital and debt financing and corporate governance. Prior to joining the Paragon Wireless Team, Mr. Millsap served as the CFO for early stage companies in the software and telecom sectors. Previous experience also includes CFO of a real estate development, management and leasing company; financial and operational management services, and audit and tax services as a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Partner in a regional accounting and consulting firm.  Mr. Millsap earned B.B.A. degrees in Finance and Accounting from Texas A & M University and is a Certified Public Accountant.


Xiaoning He
Founder & VICE PRESIDENT, Business Development

Xiaoning He brings over 10 years of technical experience to Paragon Wireless. Before joining Paragon, Xiaoning was a research engineer with DoCoMo USA Labs focusing on 3rd and 4th generation wireless system research and is a voting member of IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.20 working groups. Xiaoning has been leading the FMIPv6 and Inter-technology handover demo system development in DoCoMo USA Labs. Xiaoning holds more than 6 patents and patent applications and has 20 published journal and conference papers. Xiaoning received a B.S. from Tsinghua University, China and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.


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