Founder, CEO/President – Dickson
Fang
Born in ChongQing during the Sino-Japanese
war, and later immigrating to the United States after finishing
his college education in Taiwan, Dickson Fang graduated from
Stanford University with a Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
majoring in radio and radar communications. He worked at SRI
(Stanford Research Institute) for 8 years as a radio propagationist.
In 1974, when COMSAT was formed under the sponsorship of more
than 40 countries to launch the global satellite communications
business, Dr. Fang was invited to join as a charter member
to assume responsibility of the satellite-earth wave propagation
program. As such, Dr. Fang was a key member in the historical
Early Bird Satellite-Earth propagation establishment, and
later he was instrumental in coordinating with NASA, GE, AT&T,
MIT Lincoln Laboratories in pioneering the ATS-3, ATS-6 and
other subsequent satellite telecom programs.
As a renowned wireless propagationist, he has been a member
of International Scientific Radio Union (URSI), and has represented
the United States at the ITU (International Telecommunications
Union) meetings in Geneva, Switzerland for more than 10 years
(1979-1992). He was the drafter of specs for international
engineering communities for satellite-earth propagation protocols
through the upper atmosphere, specifically CCIR-IV documents
263 and 266. During the cold war era, Dr. Fang was active
in AGARD, the military telecom advisory group for NATO. Dr.
Fang left COMSAT in 1986 to form Teletronics International,
Inc. (Teletronics) and has been its President and CEO since.
In the early years, the Company was mainly a defense contractor
for design and integration of satellite earth stations for
various components of the DOD, NASA, and the U.S. Department
of Transportation. In addition, Teletronics provided system
integration support for commercial institutions including
COMSAT, INTELSAT, PBS, TRT, Lockheed, and RCA among others.
Today, Teletronics designs, develops, and manufactures a complete
line of products and solutions for high speed wireless broadband
systems, including RF amplifiers, up/down frequency converters,
wireless network bridges and routers.
Over the years Teletronics has been a pioneer in developing
cost-effective products and solutions for the ever-evolving
broadband wireless industry. With its products and services
sold in more than 60 countries around the world, Teletronics
has become a leading total solution equipment supplier of
high capacity broadband wireless data, voice and video solutions
for both private business enterprises and public access providers.
As a leading authority in microwave and broadband communications,
Dr. Fang is also academically productive. Over the years,
he authored more than 50 technical papers, two graduate level
textbooks and one engineering handbook. At the turn of the
century (2000), Dr. Fang was nominated by the International
Radio Science panel as the unanimous choice for authoring
the centennial tutorial and review article to be published
in the authoritative “Review of Radio Science”,
describing, as put forth by Professor John Sahr of University
of Washington, “the modern understanding and models
used to study propagation and degradation of radio waves”.
Because of his reputation and stature beyond Teletronics,
Dr. Fang has frequently been invited to give speeches in areas
which are not pure technical as well. In celebrating the 100th
birthday of General Dwight Eisenhower some years ago, the
9th world-wide Conference of People-to-People International,
chaired by the Senior George Bush, then the President of United
States, invited Dr. Fang to be one of the four key-note speakers
in Washington DC for delivering “An Asian Perspective
on the Advancement of Telecommunications”. in that speech,
Dr. Fang stated:
“It is my view that the advancement of telecommunication
from an Asian perspective must lie in the applications of
telecommunications. For the sake of allowing telecommunications
to become a higher force, telecommunication channels must
be made more available and much easier. Many concrete measures
can be taken. The technology measures that perhaps are the
simplest to formulate, are to make telephones and televisions
more readily available at a lower cost.” Teletronics
is the company that continues to focus on this perspective.
Vice Chairman – Derek M.D. Chen
Derek Ming-Dar Chen is the Founder, Chairman
and the Chief Executive Officer of Chenco Holding Company,
LLC, a firm specializing in real estate asset management and
venture capital investment. He is also a co-Founder and Chairman
of the Bascom Group, a real estate asset management company
specializing in value-added income producing properties located
in California, Hawaii, Arizona, and Washington. The Bascom
Group manages apartments with market value exceeding US$1.2
billion, and its clients and partners include Lehman Brothers,
JP Morgan, GMAC, KeyBank and Dow Chemical Pension Fund. Mr.
Chen is also the President of Sinolinks Investment Corporation,
an asset management company targeting real estate opportunities
in Greater China. He was also the Chairman of Teletronics
International Inc. in 2005, a Maryland-based technology company
specializing in design, development, manufacturing and integration
of high-quality, industry leading, wireless broadband communication
systems.
Mr. Chen served on the Board of Directors for the Asian Chamber
of Commerce in Nevada, on the Advisory Board of Directors
for Cathay Bank, a board member of the Chinese Chamber of
Commerce of Nevada, a member of the Finance Executive Advisory
Board of the College of Business in the University of Nevada
Las Vegas, a trustee of the Center for Real Estate at University
of Wisconsin – Madison, and a board member of National
Asian Pacific Center on Aging. Additionally, he was the Founding
President of the Las Vegas Chinese Cultural Foundation, a
Trustee of Bill Endow Foundation in Las Vegas. In 1998, Mr.
Chen received the "Top 40 under 40" Award in the
City of Las Vegas. In 2003, Mr. Chen was given the Leadership
Award by the International Leadership Foundation.
Mr Chen studied Chemical Engineering in National Taiwan University,
holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management, Summa
Cum Laude, from Eastern Michigan University; and a Master
of Business Administration degree in Real Estate and a Master
of Science degree in Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Advisory Committee Members
Besides the official Board of Directors,
Dr. Dickson Fang seeks advice extensively and regularly from
his two advisors, William Lee and Donald Snyder. The two gentlemen
have been personal friends and confidants of Dr.Fang for more
that 15 years.For technological issues, in which wireless
telecom products/services advance quickly, business scenarios
evolve globally but at a drastically different pace for each
country, Dr. Fang confers most with Dr. William C.Y. Lee.
Dr. C.Y. Lee is recognized as a world-class scholar in wireless
communications. Dr. Lee currently serves as Chairman of the
Board of Directors, of LinkAir Communications, Inc., the developer
of LAS-CDMA -- a new patented technology for wireless telecom
systems that significantly increases network capacity, quality,
and coverage over existing digital standards. For over two
decades, Dr. Lee has been renowned for his leading contributions
in marketing commercially viable analog and CDMA technologies.As
part of this effort, he has published more than 200 articles
and several books on CDMA theory and technology. An expert
in developing marketable communications technologies, Dr.
Lee holds more than 25 U.S. patents, and has several more
pending.
For general legal counsel and financial matters, Dr. Fang
consults with Mr. Donald Snyder, an attorney based in Washington
D.C. with extensive experience in international matters. In
his capacity as Teletronics' General Counsel, Mr. Snyder is
involved in the Company's day-to-day legal affairs. In addition,
as a former banker, Mr. Snyder provides general financial
advice to the Company. His legal, financial and international
business experience over the past twenty years has proved
invaluable to the Company. As a business lawyer he has extensive
experience in structuring and drafting complex business arrangements
and has represented national and international corporate and
governmental clients across the globe. From 1995 - 2000, Mr.
Snyder, fluent in Spanish, represented the Ministry of Finance
of a Latin American country providing advice on various privatization
projects. In 2006, Mr. Snyder was named Director of Strategic
Planning and appointed to the Board of Directors of Teletronics.
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