Brian Ann

Brian Ann is a Partner in Beijing Office. He is focusing in the areas of TMT, consumer related channels and industry. Prior to KTB, Brian was the managing director for Hotung Capital Management responsible for all venture investments in US. His investments included AATI (Nasdaq), Airespace (sold to Cisco), Berkana (sold to Qualcomm), Cicada (sold to Vitesse), Infinera (Nasdaq), Polyfuel (London AIM), Resonext (sold to RFMD), Zettacom (sold to IDT) and others. Prior to his venture capital career, he has been an entrepreneur, an executive, and an engineer. He founded Signia Technologies in Silicon Valley and served as its first CEO. Signia develops wireless semiconductor solutions and is now a member company of the Powerchip Semiconductor Corp. in Taiwan. He was also involved in the cellular and PCS system products and technologies with Repeater Technologies (NASDAQ) as its VP of Engineering, and with Lucent Technologies as a technical manager and a member of technical staff. He received his MSEE from the Ohio State University, and BSEE from the National Taiwan University. He also attended the EMBA program at Rutgers University in New Jersey as part of the leadership program sponsored by Lucent Technologies.