Management Team

Lynn Liu
Founder, President & CEO

Lynn founded Aicent in October 2000 with the vision of bridging the IP world and the wireless world through innovative mobile data services. Prior to founding Aicent, Lynn was a co-founder, Chief Operating Officer and President of Asia Pacific region for GRIC Communications (IPO in 1999). In 1994, She co-founded and held senior management positions at Aimnet, a leading Internet service provider in California. Aimnet was acquired by Verio in 1996, now a subsidiary of NTT Communications. Throughout her distinguished career, Lynn has established a long stream of successes in IP data service development, rollout, market penetration, and corporate leadership. Lynn has a B.S. from National Taiwan University, an M.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and attended Executive Programs in the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University.

David Zhang
Co-founder, CTO & VP of Engineering

David co-founded Aicent and brought with him 15 years of global network, service deployment and operations in the field of Internet communications. Prior to Aicent, David was Leading Convergent Network Consultant at Lucent Technologies, where he consulted with ILECs, CLECs, and prominent enterprises such as Cisco. Before that, David was Chief Network Architect and Director of Network Engineering at GRIC Communications, VP of Network Operations at Verio Northern California, and VP of Engineering at Aimnet, where he led IP networks deployment, and network operations. David received his MS/CSEE from Xi'an Jiaotong University in China and MSEE from University of Washington at Seattle.

Kallen Chan
CFO & VP of Finance

Kallen has over 25 years of high technology financial management experience in telecommunication, semiconductor, software, e-commerce and systems companies. Prior to joining Aicent, Kallen was CFO of Atrua Technologies, a wireless user interface technology company. Earlier, Kallen led the financial operations of Healtheon, from its start-up phase through its IPO and then its merger with WebMD. Kallen held CFO or senior financial management positions at various technology companies, including Atrenta, Harmonic Lightwaves, Cirrus Logic, Cinta Networks and Caeco. Kallen started his professional career with Philips (Signetics) Semiconductor. Kallen holds an MBA and a BS in Accounting from Santa Clara University.

Mun-Kein Chang
Vice President, Product Marketing

Mun-Kein has more than 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Before joining Aicent, he was the Regional President of Asia-Pacific of GRIC Communications based in Singapore, responsible for sales, marketing, technical support, and operations for all GRIC customers and partners in the region. Before GRIC, he worked at Tandem Computers, providing consultation and professional services to major banking and telecommunication companies. He has also held management positions at Zenith Data Systems and Hewlett-Packard Asia-Pacific divisions. Mun-Kein holds a B.S. Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Surrey, England, as well as an Electrical Engineering Diploma from Singapore Polytechnic.